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Season_Finale_(book) | Season_Finale_(book) 2011-03-23T05:12:52Z Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of The WB and UPN is a book written by Suzanne Daniels, former executive President of Entertainment for The WB, and Cynthia Littleton, reporter of Variety and published by HarperCollins. This book explains the details of the history of The WB and UPN. This article about a non-fiction book is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Season_Finale_(book) 2013-03-21T20:25:14Z Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of The WB and UPN is a book written by Suzanne Daniels, former executive President of Entertainment for The WB, and Cynthia Littleton, reporter of Variety and published by HarperCollins. This book explains the details of the history of The WB and UPN. Season Finale suggests many reasons for the demise of The WB, including founder Jamie Kellner's departure, the lack of owned and operated stations, a failure to develop many new hits after 2002, Time Warner's decision to merge with America Online and allowing Buffy the Vampire Slayer to move from The WB to UPN for its last two seasons. This article about a book on business is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
West_(short_story) | West_(short_story) 2013-10-25T00:08:44Z "West" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection The Folk of the Fringe. Card originally published a shorter version of this story in the short story collection Free Lancers: Alien Stars IV (1987). In a post-apocalyptic America Jamie Teague is traveling from the east coast to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Along the way he comes across a group of people traveling on the highway and headed straight for a group of Bushwhackers that kills anyone who tries to pass. After warning them Jamie starts to follow them and when the Winston highway patrol refuses to let them take an alternate route he decides to help them get past the Bushwhackers. As they travel together Jamie finds out that the people are Mormons and that they are headed for Utah to avoid being massacred. Knowing that they will die without his help he agrees to take them as far as his cabin. He also agrees to let them stay with him during the winter. In the spring Jamie tells the group about how when he was a child his mother made him keep his younger brother and sister locked in a closet until they went insane. After making this confession Jamie gets baptized as a Mormon and decides to lead the group to Utah. When they finally arrive in Utah they all settle down into their own homes but remain close friends. During the trip from Jamie Teague’s home in the Great Smoky Mountains to Utah the group finds a little mute boy whose parents had been killed by mobbers. They take him along with them and he is placed in foster care when they reach Utah. The short story "Salvage" by Orson Scott Card takes place about fifteen years after the events in "West". The little mute boy has grown up and been named Deaver Teague after Jamie Teague and Brother Deaver. In this story Deaver is a young man who goes diving in a Mormon temple to try and find hidden gold. Deaver is also the main character of the story "Pageant Wagon". It takes place when he is in his late twenties and is the story of how he meets up with and joins a group of traveling actors. At the end of "West" Deaver Teague and his group meets with Sam Monson, the governor of Deseret. In the story "America" Sam met and had a baby with a American Indian woman when he was a teenager. As with many of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this story. , West_(short_story) 2016-01-14T11:17:23Z "West" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection The Folk of the Fringe. Card originally published a shorter version of this story in the short story collection Free Lancers: Alien Stars IV (1987). In a post-apocalyptic America, Jamie Teague is traveling from the east coast to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Along the way, he comes across a group of people traveling on the highway and headed straight for a group of Bushwhackers that kills anyone who tries to pass. After warning them, Jamie starts to follow them and, when the Winston highway patrol refuses to let them take an alternate route, he decides to help them get past the Bushwhackers. As they travel together, Jamie finds out that the people are Mormons and that they are headed for Utah to avoid being massacred. Knowing that they will die without his help, he agrees to take them as far as his cabin. He also agrees to let them stay with him during the winter. In the spring, Jamie tells the group about how when he was a child his mother made him keep his younger brother and sister locked in a closet until they went insane. After making this confession, Jamie gets baptized as a Mormon and decides to lead the group to Utah. When they finally arrive in Utah, they all settle down into their own homes but remain close friends. During the trip from Jamie Teague’s home in the Great Smoky Mountains to Utah, the group finds a little mute boy whose parents had been killed by mobbers. They take him along with them and he is placed in foster care when they reach Utah. The short story "Salvage" by Orson Scott Card takes place about fifteen years after the events in "West". The little mute boy has grown up and been named Deaver Teague after Jamie Teague and Brother Deaver. In this story, Deaver is a young man who goes diving in a Mormon temple to try and find hidden gold. Deaver is also the main character of the story "Pageant Wagon". It takes place when he is in his late twenties and is the story of how he meets up with and joins a group of traveling actors. At the end of "West", Deaver Teague and his group meets with Sam Monson, the governor of Deseret. In the story "America", Sam met and had a baby with a American Indian woman when he was a teenager. As with many of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this story. | 0 |
Keeley Hawes | Keeley Hawes 2004-08-28T00:54:37Z Keeley Hawes (b. 1977) is a British actress best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks. She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke and Tipping the Velvet. Hawes has also appeared in films The Avengers (1998) and Complicity (2000). She married cartoonist Spencer McCallum in December 2001, but they have since separated. They have a son, Myles. She has since been seeing actor Matthew Macfayden, and they are expecting their first child later in 2004., Keeley Hawes 2005-12-20T01:40:38Z Keeley Hawes (born January 1, 1977 in London, England) is a British actress best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series Spooks (2002-2004). She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One / Channel 4, 1995), and Othello (ITV, 2001). Her track record in adaptations of classic novels is also strong and includes Tipping the Velvet (BBC Two, 2002), Wives and Daughters, Our Mutual Friend and Under the Greenwood Tree. Hawes has also appeared in films such as The Avengers (1998) and Complicity (2000) and two music videos, for the singles Saturday Night by Suede and She's a Star by James. She married cartoonist Spencer McCallum in December 2001, but they have since been divorced. They have a son, Myles. She married Matthew Macfadyen in November of 2004. Their first child was born soon afterward. | 1 |
José Ron | José Ron 2010-01-31T07:15:41Z ] de actor Archivo:Joseron.jpg José Ron es un actor mexicano, originario de Guadalajara, Jalisco, que nace un 6 de agosto de 1981. El ingresa al C.E.A. (Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa) en el 2001. Una vez terminados sus estudios, es llamado para participar en la telenovela "Mujer de Madera", producción del señor Emilio Larrosa. Posteriormente se integra al elenco de "Bajo el mismo techo", serie protagonizada por Laura Flores y José Elías Moreno. Más tarde, el productor Pedro Damián lo invita a realizar una participación especial dentro de la telenovela "Rebelde", donde dio vida al capitán de un equipo de fútbol soccer. Un año más tarde recibe una gran oportunidad en la telenovela "Código Postal", donde interpretó a uno de los personajes esteleras: Patricio de la Vega, un joven millonario con buenos sentimientos. La producción de dicha telenovela corrió a cargo de José Alberto Castro y sirvió como punta de lanza para impulsar a varios actores que iniciaban su carrera, como Altair Jarabo y Eugenio Siller. Al concluir su participación en dicha novela, se suma al elenco de "Muchachitas como tú", donde realizó el personaje de Jorge Vega, quien era el novio de una de las protagonistas de la historia. A los pocos meses, la productora de Televisa, Mapat le brinda su primer protagónico en la telenovela "Juro que te amo", en la cual se despojo del glamour de sus otros personajes para dar vida a un humilde, pero muy noble joven, de nombre José María. Al terminar dicho proyecto, es convocado nuevamente por José Alberto Castro, para participar en la versión mexicana de la telenovela argentina "Los exitosos Pells", historia donde se arriesga al interpretar un polémico personaje: Tomás Arana. rol que le ha valido ganarse la credibilidad como actor y donde ha podido demostrar el inmenso talento que tiene. Ahí comparte créditos a lado de Jaime Camil, Ludwika Paleta y los primeros actores: Verónica Castro y Rogelio Geuerra. También ha participado en las series: "Locas de Amor" y "Tiempo Final 3". Los exitosos Pérez (Tomás Arana) Juro que te amo (José María Aldama) Muchachitas como tú (Jorge Vega) Código postal(Patricio de la Vega) Rebelde (Enzo) Mujer de madera Tiempo final 3 Locas de amor Bajo el mismo techo Please use a more specific IMDb template. See the documentation for available templates. Categoría:Actores de televisión de México Categoría:Jaliscienses en:José Ron, José Ron 2011-10-21T20:24:06Z Édgar José Ron Vázquez (born August 8, 1981 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican actor known for his performances in telenovelas. He began his acting career in 2004 on the soap opera Mujer de Madera and after several more of this in the television and Rebel, Código Postal and Muchachitas como tú. In 2008-2009, he earned his first starring role in Juro que te amo, in which shared roles with Ana Brenda Contreras Marcelo Córdoba, Patricia Navidad and Alejandro Avila. In 2009/2010, he starred in Los Exitosos Perez, under the hand of José Alberto Castro, Argentina version of the series Los exitosos Pells. In 2010, he worked in Cuando me enamoro with Silvia Navarro and Juan Soler. In 2011, he starred as the main leading heroine of Ing. Gustavo Duran in the telenovela La que no podia amar reunited with Ana Brenda Contreras. | 1 |
Sean Shields | Sean Shields 2018-05-09T12:01:55Z Sean Patrick Shields (born 20 January 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ebbsfleet United. Shields started his career in the youth system at Tottenham Hotpsur, spending eight years with the club between 2000–2008. He then joined Isthmian League side Potters Bar Town, where he was spotted by Football Conference side Rushden & Diamonds as a 16-year-old and was offered a trial at Nene Park. He was offered apprentice terms at the club, scoring 18 goals in his first season with the youth side. He made his first team debut on 12 October 2009 as a 17-year-old, against Daventry United in the Northamptonshire Senior Cup. In March 2010, he decided to leave the Diamonds and re-joined Potters Bar Town for a very brief spell until the end of the season. In October 2010, he joined Conference South side St Albans City on a one-year contract after a trial period with the club. Shields broke into the first team during the 2010–11 season after a string of impressive performances in the reserve side. However, he could not stop the club from relegation to the Southern Football League Premier Division in the summer of 2011. He rose to prominence during an FA Cup second qualifying round match against Ashford Town, scoring a first half hat-trick in a 6–2 victory, which resulted in Shields being nominated for the player of the round. Shields went on to make a total of 92 appearances for the Saints, scoring 21 goals, in all competitions. On 9 January 2013, he joined Football League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge on a three-and-a-half-year contract until June 2016, after impressing during a short trial with the club. He made his debut on 26 January 2013, in the 2–1 league defeat to Morecambe, replacing Medy Elito as a second-half substitute. It proved to be his only appearance of the campaign for the Daggers. Shields, started the 2013–14 season as a back-up player, making his first league start for Dagenham in a 1–1 draw with Chesterfield. In his first full season with the club he made thirteen appearances. In August 2014, he re-joined his former club Conference South side St Albans City on a two-month loan, having failed to break into the first team after missing the majority of the 2014 pre season through injury. In October 2014 his loan was extended for a further month after an anonymous St Albans fan funded the deal, having been impressed with his form. In November 2014, he returned to Dagenham having scored five goals in sixteen appearances in all competitions, 13 of which were starts. In December 2014 he moved out on loan again to the Conference South, signing for Ebbsfleet United on a one-month loan deal. It didn't take him long to get off the mark, as On Boxing Day 2014, Shields scored his first goal for Ebbsfleet United on only his second appearance for the club. It came in an impressive 5–1 away victory over Chelmsford City and came by means of a delicate 20 yard lob over the goalkeeper and opposition defender on the goal-line. In January 2015, his contract at Dagenham was cancelled by mutual consent, having made fourteen appearances for the club in all competitions. He immediately returned to Ebbsfleet on a permanent deal, signing an eighteen-month contract. After suffering an ankle injury during the final week of pre season in July 2015, Shields missed the first 2 months of the 2015/16 season. Consequently, on 2 October 2015, Shields joined Chelmsford City on a one-month loan deal from Ebbsfleet United. On 3 December 2015 Shields signed a one-month loan deal at Margate under Terry Brown. He enjoyed a very successful loan spell, helping the team climb the table with a positive run of results over the Christmas period. He became an instant hit with the Margate fans with his trickery and exciting style of play. His first goal came by means of a free kick against Maidenhead United on his final game on loan for the club on 9th Jan 2016. Shields later joined Hemel Hempstead on loan, before returning to his parent club in time to play a part in the backend of the Fleet's campaign. Despite scoring against Hemel Hempstead, and getting the equaliser in a 3–1 win over Chelmsford in which he was voted man of the match, he did not feature in the subsequent playoffs which was believed to be due to suffering a hamstring strain in training before the final game of the season against Eastbourne Borough. However his performances while on loan and when recalled back to play for the Fleet were impressive enough to earn him a new deal with the club, which he signed in June 2016. Shields began the 16/17 season in fine form, scoring a superb individual goal, again against Hemel Hempstead in a 2–2 draw at Stonebridge Road. Shortly after this game and after a change in team shape, Shields adopted a left wing back role which saw him and the team flourish during a positive run of results. This position saw the tricky wing back pop up with regular assists for teammates and 2 more goals followed before the end of November against Truro City and Maidenhead United respectively. Shields was born in the London Borough of Enfield, but qualifies to play for Northern Ireland through his father, who was brought up in the country. In May 2013, the Irish Football Association got in touch with Dagenham & Redbridge about a possible call-up for Shields to the under-21 squad. In May 2013, Shields was called up for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Cyprus in Nicosia, after impressing in a three-day training camp. Shields made his debut in the 3–0 defeat, replacing Jude Winchester as a substitute. His second appearance came in September 2013, a 1–0 defeat to Belgium, where he again featured, this time replacing Kirk Millar as a half time substitute. , Sean Shields 2019-12-29T01:01:05Z Sean Patrick Shields (born 20 January 1992) is a British professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Notts County on loan from Ebbsfleet United. Shields started his career in the youth system at Tottenham Hotpsur, spending eight years with the club between 2000 and 2008. He then joined Isthmian League side Potters Bar Town, where he was spotted by Football Conference side Rushden & Diamonds as a 16-year-old and was offered a trial at Nene Park. He was offered apprentice terms at the club, scoring 18 goals in his first season with the youth side. He made his first team debut on 12 October 2009 as a 17-year-old, against Daventry United in the Northamptonshire Senior Cup. In March 2010, he decided to leave the Diamonds and re-joined Potters Bar Town for a very brief spell until the end of the season. In October 2010, he joined Conference South side St Albans City on a one-year contract after a trial period with the club. Shields broke into the first team during the 2010–11 season after a string of impressive performances in the reserve side. However, he could not stop the club from relegation to the Southern Football League Premier Division in the summer of 2011. He rose to prominence during an FA Cup second qualifying-round match against Ashford Town, scoring a first-half hat-trick in a 6–2 victory, which resulted in Shields being nominated for the player of the round. Shields went on to make a total of 92 appearances for the Saints, scoring 21 goals, in all competitions. On 9 January 2013, he joined Football League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge on a three-and-a-half-year contract until June 2016, after impressing during a short trial with the club. He made his debut on 26 January 2013, in the 2–1 league defeat to Morecambe, replacing Medy Elito as a second-half substitute. It proved to be his only appearance of the campaign for the Daggers. Shields, started the 2013–14 season as a back-up player, making his first league start for Dagenham in a 1–1 draw with Chesterfield. In his first full season with the club he made thirteen appearances. In August 2014, he re-joined his former club Conference South side St Albans City on a two-month loan, having failed to break into the first team after missing the majority of the 2014 pre-season through injury. In October 2014 his loan was extended for a further month after an anonymous St Albans fan funded the deal, having been impressed with his form. In November 2014, he returned to Dagenham having scored five goals in sixteen appearances in all competitions, 13 of which were starts. In December 2014 he moved out on loan again to the Conference South, signing for Ebbsfleet United on a one-month loan deal. It didn't take him long to get off the mark, as on Boxing Day 2014, Shields scored his first goal for Ebbsfleet United on only his second appearance for the club. It came in an impressive 5–1 away victory over Chelmsford City and came by means of a delicate 20-yard lob over the goalkeeper and opposition defender on the goal-line. In January 2015, his contract at Dagenham was cancelled by mutual consent, having made fourteen appearances for the club in all competitions. He immediately returned to Ebbsfleet on a permanent deal, signing an 18-month contract. After suffering an ankle injury during the final week of pre season in July 2015, Shields missed the first two months of the 2015/16 season. Consequently, on 2 October 2015, Shields joined Chelmsford City on a one-month loan deal from Ebbsfleet United. On 3 December 2015 Shields signed a one-month loan deal at Margate under Terry Brown. He enjoyed a very successful loan spell, helping the team climb the table with a positive run of results over the Christmas period. He became an instant hit with the Margate fans with his trickery and exciting style of play. His first goal came by means of a free kick against Maidenhead United on his final game on loan for the club on 9 January 2016. Shields later joined Hemel Hempstead on loan, before returning to his parent club in time to play a part in the backend of the Fleet's campaign. Despite scoring against Hemel Hempstead, and getting the equaliser in a 3–1 win over Chelmsford in which he was voted man of the match, he did not feature in the subsequent playoffs which was believed to be due to suffering a hamstring strain in training before the final game of the season against Eastbourne Borough. However, his performances while on loan and when recalled back to play for the Fleet were impressive enough to earn him a new deal with the club, which he signed in June 2016. Shields began the 16/17 season in fine form, scoring a superb individual goal, again against Hemel Hempstead in a 2–2 draw at Stonebridge Road. Shortly after this game and after a change in team shape, Shields adopted a left wing-back role which saw him and the team flourish during a positive run of results. This position saw the tricky wing-back pop up with regular assists for teammates and 2 more goals followed before the end of November against Truro City and Maidenhead United, respectively. Shields was born in the London Borough of Enfield, but qualifies to play for Northern Ireland through his father, who was brought up in the country. In May 2013, the Irish Football Association got in touch with Dagenham & Redbridge about a possible call-up for Shields to the under-21 squad. In May 2013, Shields was called up for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Cyprus in Nicosia, after impressing in a three-day training camp. Shields made his debut in the 3–0 defeat, replacing Jude Winchester as a substitute. His second appearance came in September 2013, a 1–0 defeat to Belgium, where he again featured, this time replacing Kirk Millar as a half-time substitute. | 1 |
Soslan Dzhanayev | Soslan Dzhanayev 2009-02-08T14:15:12Z Soslan Totrazovich Dzhanayev (Russian: Сослан Тотразович Джанаев) (born March 13, 1987 in Ordzhonikidze) is a Russian footballer currently playing for FC Spartak Moscow and Russia national under-21 football team. , Soslan Dzhanayev 2010-12-25T22:13:56Z Soslan Totrazovich Dzhanayev (Russian: Сослан Тотразович Джанаев) (born 13 March 1987 in Ordzhonikidze) is a Russian footballer who plays for FC Terek Grozny on long-term loan from FC Spartak Moscow and Russia national under-21 football team. | 1 |
Mark Mothersbaugh | Mark Mothersbaugh 2003-02-05T01:57:57Z Mark Mothersbaugh, musician, composer, singer, was born in Akron, Ohio on May 18, 1950. Mothersbaugh was lead singer of the New Wave rock group Devo. After Devo dissolved in the 1980s, Mothersbaugh went on to a successful career as a writer of music for TV and movies. His credits include the soundtracks for the television show Pee Wee's Playhouse, Rugrats (both the TV series and the movies), MTV's Liquid Television, and many movies including Happy Gilmore, The Big Squeeze, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Birdcage, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. He has also written music for video games, including Crash Bandicoot. Mothersbaugh also paints, in a style influenced by Surrealism and Andy Warhol. , Mark Mothersbaugh 2004-12-30T08:02:29Z Mark Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He was born in Akron, Ohio. Mothersbaugh was lead singer of the New Wave rock group Devo. After Devo dissolved in the 1980s, Mothersbaugh went on to a successful career as a writer of music for TV and movies. His credits include the soundtracks for the television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, Rugrats (both the TV series and the movies), MTV's Liquid Television, and many movies including Happy Gilmore, The Big Squeeze, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Birdcage, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He has also written music for video games, including Crash Bandicoot. He was the composer for the third season of Dawson's Creek. Mothersbaugh also paints, in a style influenced by surrealism and Andy Warhol. | 1 |
Johny Placide | Johny Placide 2013-01-02T12:16:24Z Johnny Placide (born January 29, 1988 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a Haitian goalkeeper with French nationality currently playing for French club Le Havre AC. Placide began his career on youthside with Le Havre AC and was promoted to the first team in July 2008 and played in his first season four games, he played his debut on 26 April 2009 against Grenoble Foot. He also plays for the Haiti national football team, and played for Haiti at the 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Placide has been recently called to the French U21 side playing at the Toulon Tournament. He earned his first French U21 cap in a 1-0 victory over Portugal, Placide played his first game for the French U21 squad on 11 February 2009 against Tunisia national football team. , Johny Placide 2014-11-19T11:19:15Z Johnny Placide (born January 29, 1988 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a Haitian goalkeeper with French nationality currently playing for French club Stade de Reims. Placide began his career on youthside with Le Havre AC and was promoted to the first team in July 2008 and played in his first season four games, he played his debut on 26 April 2009 against Grenoble Foot. He joined Stade de Reims in January 2013. He also plays for the Haiti national football team, and played for Haiti at the 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Placide has been recently called to the French U21 side playing at the Toulon Tournament. He earned his first French U21 cap in a 1-0 victory over Portugal, Placide played his first game for the French U21 squad on 11 February 2009 against Tunisia national football team. | 1 |
Mark Beevers | Mark Beevers 2015-05-07T13:54:50Z Mark Geoffrey Beevers (born 21 November 1989) is an English footballer who plays for Millwall as a defender. Beevers was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. He was called up to the senior squad for the FA Cup third round tie with Manchester City on 7 January 2007 after impressing for the reserve team, although he was never brought off the bench. He eventually made his senior debut against Southampton on 31 January 2007 when Wednesday lost 2–1. Beevers made his first start of the 2007–08 season in a 2–0 defeat to Leicester City on 6 October 2007. Beevers replaced the injured Michael Johnson at half time, and his excellent performance earned him the man of the match award. Beevers gained another chance in the first team on 6 November 2007 in an away game at West Bromwich Albion, who were flying high in the league and the highest scorers in the league. Beevers lined up alongside Richard Hinds in an inexperienced centre back pairing, however Beevers played with the temperament and quality of a player far beyond his years and helped to earn the Owls a 1–1 draw. On 28 December 2007, the Daily Mail reported that David Moyes was planning a bid for Beevers to prepare a long term replacement for David Weir and Alan Stubbs. Beevers scored his first senior goal on 6 January 2008 in an FA Cup 3rd round match against Premier League side Derby County which sparked more rumours he would be leaving for a bigger club. On 17 January 2008 he was placed on standby for England under-19s upcoming game against Croatia on 5 February 2008. On 28 January 2008, Sheffield Wednesday announced that Beevers had signed an improved contract keeping him at the club until 2012. On 3 March 2008 Beevers was announced as the winner of the third annual Wickes Young Apprentice Trophy. On 23 March 2008, Beevers was called up to the England under-19s squad replacing Chelsea's Sam Hutchinson. He went on to make his debut as a second-half substitute in the 3–1 win against Russia on 25 March 2008. Beevers was voted as the club's player of the year at the end of the season by fans. On 31 August 2011, he was loaned to League One side Milton Keynes Dons. The loan ended on 31 December 2011. On 5 October 2012, he was loaned to Championship side Millwall and made his debut the day after against Bolton Wanderers in a 2–1 win. He scored a goal in Millwall's next game, a 2–2 draw with Crystal Palace on 6 October 2012, and on 6 December 2012 it was confirmed that Millwall would confirm the permanent singing of Mark Beevers on 1 January when the transfer window opens. Before the 2014–15 season it was announced that Millwall had rejected a £100,000 bid for Beevers from newly promoted Rotherham United League Championship Apprentice of the Year, Mark Beevers 2016-12-15T09:32:16Z Mark Geoffrey Beevers (born 21 November 1989) is an English footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers. Beevers was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. He was called up to the senior squad for the FA Cup third round tie with Manchester City on 7 January 2007 after impressing for the reserve team, although he was never brought off the bench. He eventually made his senior debut against Southampton on 31 January 2007 when Wednesday lost 2–1. Beevers made his first start of the 2007–08 season in a 2–0 defeat to Leicester City on 6 October 2007. Beevers replaced the injured Michael Johnson at half time, and his excellent performance earned him the man of the match award. Beevers gained another chance in the first team on 6 November 2007 in an away game at West Bromwich Albion, who were flying high in the league and the highest scorers in the league. Beevers lined up alongside Richard Hinds in an inexperienced centre back pairing, however Beevers played with the temperament and quality of a player far beyond his years and helped to earn the Owls a 1–1 draw. On 28 December 2007, the Daily Mail reported that David Moyes was planning a bid for Beevers to prepare a long term replacement for David Weir and Alan Stubbs. Beevers scored his first senior goal on 6 January 2008 in an FA Cup 3rd round match against Premier League side Derby County which sparked more rumours he would be leaving for a bigger club. On 17 January 2008 he was placed on standby for England under-19s upcoming game against Croatia on 5 February 2008. On 28 January 2008, Sheffield Wednesday announced that Beevers had signed an improved contract keeping him at the club until 2012. On 3 March 2008 Beevers was announced as the winner of the third annual Wickes Young Apprentice Trophy. On 23 March 2008, Beevers was called up to the England under-19s squad replacing Chelsea's Sam Hutchinson. He went on to make his debut as a second-half substitute in the 3–1 win against Russia on 25 March 2008. Beevers was voted as the club's player of the year at the end of the season by fans. On 31 August 2011, he was loaned to League One side Milton Keynes Dons. The loan ended on 31 December 2011. On 5 October 2012, he was loaned to Championship side Millwall and made his debut the day after against Bolton Wanderers in a 2–1 win. He scored a goal in Millwall's next game, a 2–2 draw with Crystal Palace on 6 October 2012, and on 6 December 2012 it was confirmed that Millwall would confirm the permanent signing of Mark Beevers on 1 January when the transfer window opens. Before the 2014–15 season it was announced that Millwall had rejected a £100,000 bid for Beevers from newly promoted Rotherham United On 3 July 2016, he completed a move to Bolton Wanderers on a two-year contract after expressing a desire to leave Millwall and return to the North of England. | 1 |
1985_Copa_Libertadores | 1985_Copa_Libertadores 2009-12-03T05:30:37Z The 1985 edition of Copa Libertadores was won by Argentinos Juniors, of Argentina for the first time, after defeating América de Cali of Colombia in a penalty shootout, following a playoff game after the two legged final finished level. Club Atlético Independiente were given a bye to the second round as holders. First Place playoff Both teams used 16 players over the three legs of the final. Template:Penshootoutbox Template:Fb start Template:Fb end, 1985_Copa_Libertadores 2011-02-26T22:52:42Z The 1985 edition of Copa Libertadores was won by Argentinos Juniors, of Argentina for the first time, after defeating América de Cali of Colombia in a penalty shootout, following a playoff game after the two legged final finished level. Club Atlético Independiente were given a bye to the second round as holders. First Place playoff Both teams used 16 players over the three legs of the final. Soto Herrera Cabañas Batista Pavoni Borghi | 0 |
United States congressional delegations from Kansas | United States congressional delegations from Kansas 2021-01-04T01:15:37Z These are tables of congressional delegations from Kansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Starting with statehood in 1859, Kansas elected a member of the House. , United States congressional delegations from Kansas 2022-12-10T15:34:30Z Since Kansas became a U.S. state in 1861, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Kansas Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1854 to 1861. These are tables of congressional delegations from Kansas to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Kansas's current congressional delegation in the 117th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Republicans, and its four representatives: three Republicans and one Democrat. The current dean of the Kansas delegation is Senator Jerry Moran, having served in the Senate since 2011 and in Congress since 1997. Starting on December 20, 1854, Kansas Territory sent a non-voting delegate to the House. Following statehood on January 29, 1961, Kansas had one seat in the House. Following the 1870 census, Kansas was apportioned 3 seats, all of which were elected at-large statewide until 1875, when it redistricted into 3 districts. Following the 1880 census, Kansas was apportioned 7 seats. Until 1885, 3 seats were elected from single member districts and 4 were elected at-large statewide on a general ticket. In 1885, all 7 seats were redistricted. Following the 1890 census, Kansas was apportioned 8 seats. Until 1907, 7 seats were elected from single member districts and 1 was elected at-large statewide. In 1907, all 8 seats were redistricted. Following the 1930 census, Kansas was apportioned 7 seats, all of which were elected from single member districts. Following the 1940 census, Kansas was apportioned 6 seats, all of which were elected from single member districts. Following the 1960 census, Kansas was apportioned 5 seats, all of which were elected from single member districts. Following the 1990 census, Kansas was apportioned 4 seats, all of which were elected from single member districts. | 1 |
Zaquan Adha | Zaquan Adha 2016-01-04T00:49:02Z Mohd Zaquan Adha Abdul Radzak (born 3 August 1987 in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan) is a Malaysian footballer who is currently a Striker for Selangor FA. He also a member of Malaysia national, Malaysia U-23 and former Malaysia U-20 squad. He is the younger of his twin, Mohd Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak. Zaquan start representing Negeri Sembilan since the 2004 SUKMA Games. He with his twin brother help the team to win gold medal in 2004 SUKMA Games. In 2005–06 season, he along with Aidil promoted into the senior team. In that year Negeri Sembilan also won their first Malaysia Super League title. His contract with Negeri Sembilan was scheduled to end at the end of the 2008 season. Zaquan along with his twin brother Mohd Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak had been recently attracting interest from several Slovakian top league club. He had confirmed that he along with his younger brother would sign a contract with an unnamed Slovak Corgoň Liga side after the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup. However the speculation denied by them as he along with Aidil remain with Negeri Sembilan. Zaquan start representing ATM in 2012 Premier League. He won the league title with the team and reach the 2012 Malaysia Cup final. ATM lost the final match 3–2 against Kelantan. Zaquan along with his twin brother, joined the rebrand Johor FC for the 2013 seasons. Zaquan has been representing Malaysia since he was 14 years old with his twin brother Mohd Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak. He was part of the Malaysia youth squad for 2004 AFC Youth Championship. He then called up by coach K. Rajagopal in 2006 AFC Youth Championship qualifier against Myanmar. He score 2 goals in the qualifier to took Malaysia into their second appearance in a row to the 2006 AFC Youth Championship held in India. He however did not make it into the tournament after receive an injury. Zaquan has been called up by U-23 national coach B. Sathianathan during 2008 Olympic games qualifier fourth group match against Hong Kong after recovered from injury. During the 2007 Merdeka Tournament, Zaquan scored 3 goals and one of them came from the final against Myanmar. Malaysia beat Myanmar 3–1 and took the trophy for the first time since last winning it in 1993. He was then chosen for the 2007 South East Asian Games. Malaysia however failed to advanced after a draw against rivals Singapore. Zaquan made his senior debut against Bahrain in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Malaysia lost their first match of the qualifier 4–1 before draw 0–0 at Shah Alam. Zaquan also represent the Malaysia XI (also known as Malaysia B that represent Malaysia for B match) squad against Chelsea at Shah Alam Stadium on 29 July 2008. He was one of Malaysia impressive player on the match. He had the chances to score but was denied by Petr Čech. The Malaysia XI eventually lost 0–2., Zaquan Adha 2017-12-16T18:29:15Z Mohamad Zaquan Adha Bin Abd Radzak (born 3 August 1987 in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Malaysia Super League side Kuala Lumpur. He is the younger of his twin who also a footballer Aidil Zafuan. Zaquan started representing Negeri Sembilan since the 2004 SUKMA Games. He with his twin brother helped the team to win gold medal in 2004 SUKMA Games. In 2005–06 season, he along with Aidil promoted into the senior team. In that year Negeri Sembilan also won their first Malaysia Super League title. His contract with Negeri Sembilan was scheduled to end at the end of the 2008 season. Zaquan along with his twin brother Mohd Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak had been recently attracting interest from several Slovakian top league club. He had confirmed that he along with his younger brother would sign a contract with an unnamed Slovak Corgoň Liga side after the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup. However the speculation denied by them as he along with Aidil remain with Negeri Sembilan. In December 2011, it was announced that Zaquan signed a contract with Malaysia Premier League side Malaysian Armed Forces football club. He has helped the club won the 2012 Malaysia Premier League title and reached the 2012 Malaysia Cup final before lost to Kelantan 3–2. For 2013 season, Zaquan joined the rebranded club Darul Takzim FC along with his twin brother. On 9 November 2013, it was announced that Zaquan were demoted to Johor Darul Ta'zim II in Malaysia Premier League after one season playing for Johor Darul Ta'zim for 2013 season. On 21 December 2016, Zaquan signed a one-year contract with Malaysia Super League club Perak. On 5 December 2017, Zaquan signed a contract with newly promoted side Kuala Lumpur. Zaquan has been representing Malaysia since he was 14 years old with his twin brother Mohd Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak. He was part of the Malaysia youth squad for 2004 AFC Youth Championship. He was then called up by coach K. Rajagopal in the 2006 AFC Youth Championship qualifier against Myanmar. He scored 2 goals in the qualifier to take Malaysia into their second appearance in a row to the 2006 AFC Youth Championship held in India. He however did not make it into the tournament after he received an injury. Zaquan has been called up by Malaysia U23 national coach B. Sathianathan during 2008 Olympic games qualifier fourth group match against Hong Kong after recovered from injury. During the 2007 Merdeka Tournament, Zaquan scored 3 goals and one of them came from the final against Myanmar. Malaysia beat Myanmar 3–1 and took the trophy for the first time since last winning it in 1993. He was then chosen for the 2007 Southeast Asian Games. Malaysia however failed to advanced after a draw against rivals Singapore. Zaquan made his senior debut against Bahrain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Malaysia lost their first match of the qualifier 4–1 before draw 0–0 at Shah Alam. Zaquan also represent the Malaysia XI (also known as Malaysia B that represent Malaysia for B match) squad against Chelsea at Shah Alam Stadium on 29 July 2008. He was one of Malaysia impressive player on the match. He had the chances to score but was denied by Petr Čech. The Malaysia XI eventually lost 0–2. Negeri Sembilan ATM | 1 |
Keep_On_Running_(The_Real_Milli_Vanilli_song) | Keep_On_Running_(The_Real_Milli_Vanilli_song) 2009-12-28T02:16:15Z "Keep on Running" is a song recorded by The Real Milli Vanilli. It was released in 1990 and peaked at #2 in Austria, #4 in Germany and #8 in Switzerland. The song was also released in France, but failed to enter the singles chart. , Keep_On_Running_(The_Real_Milli_Vanilli_song) 2011-04-15T21:46:28Z "Keep on Running" is a song recorded by Milli Vanilli and After the scandal by The Real Milli Vanilli . It was released in 1990 and peaked at #2 in Austria, #4 in Germany and #8 in Switzerland. The song was also released in France, but failed to enter the singles chart, as did "Too Late (True Love). | 0 |
Sarvodaya_Nagar | Sarvodaya_Nagar 2008-02-08T08:42:24Z Sarvodaya Nagar is an area in North Indian city of Lucknow consisting of both residential and commercial settlements. Tributry of river Gomti Kukarail flows towards north and western boundaries of Sarvodaya Nagar. Sarvodaya Nagar is located at 26°52′58″N 80°58′16″E / 26. 8829°N 80. 9712°E / 26. 8829; 80. 9712. It has an average elevation of 122. 6 metres (402 feet). Nearest railway station from Sarvodaya Nagar is Badshah Nagar, which is situated on Lucknow - Barabanki railway line maintained by North-East Railway. The transportation is mainly road based. It is connected with the city through City Bus, auto rickshaw etc. Most of the residents have their own conveyances. Sarvodaya Nagar has Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial Senior Secondary School, Government School and few others convent school. Template:Neighborhoods of Lucknow, Sarvodaya_Nagar 2009-01-24T22:50:25Z Sarvodaya Nagar is an area in North Indian city of Lucknow consisting of both residential and commercial settlements. It is a part of Mahona Nagar Panchayat in Lucknow district. Sarvodaya Nagar is located at 26°52′58″N 80°58′16″E / 26. 8829°N 80. 9712°E / 26. 8829; 80. 9712. Kukarail which is Tributary of Gomti River flows through north and western boundaries of Sarvodaya Nagar. It has an average elevation of 122. 6 metres (402 feet). Most of the peoples of Sarvidaya Nagar follow Hindu and Muslim religion and show a good example of religious integrity. It is reflected by presence of two mosques (Chhoti Masjid and Bari Masjid) and one temple and a big graveyard for Muslims and one cremation place for Hindus in Sarvodaya Nagar. . Nearest railway station from Sarvodaya Nagar is Badshah Nagar, which is situated on Lucknow - Barabanki railway line maintained by North-East Railway. The transportation is mainly road based. It is connected with the city through City Bus, auto rickshaw etc. Most of the residents have their own conveyances. Sarvodaya Nagar has Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial Senior Secondary School, Government School and a few convent schools. Sarvodaya Nagar is well connected and one can access almost all the prominent places like Indira Nagar, Aliganj, Gomti Nagar, Hazratganj, Mahanagar easily. Template:Neighborhoods of Lucknow | 0 |
Charly_Coombes | Charly_Coombes 2008-05-23T14:19:57Z Charly Coombes (Born 27 December 1980, Mountain View, California, USA) is an English multi instrumentalist and vocalist. Currently living in Brighton,England, he is youngest sibling of the Supergrass members Gaz and Rob Coombes. He was keyboard player of the band 22-20s, active from 2003-2006, that released one self-titled album and supported Oasis during their 2005 tour. The band broke-up in early 2006, while recording but never finishing second album. Charly was also a member of the bands, Tumbleweed (Who signed a deal with Polydor Records in 1998), Four Way Trauma and most recently Missing Pieces with Richard Walters. Charly is releasing new music through his own MySpace. He also filled for Supergrass' bassist Mick Quinn during latter's injury in September 2007. He is currently on tour with Supergrass playing second guitar & backing vocals. Charly has also directed the rockumentary 'Glange Fever' to be released sometime this year (2008). The film follows the Diamond Hoo Ha Men, Duke Diamond and Randy Hoo Ha as they tour the country. Tumbleweed - Third Degree Burns (Turquoise Records/1998) 1) Third degree burns 2) Fatal flaw 3) Third degree burns (97 demo version) Four Way Trauma - Stolen E. P. (Sandman Records/2001) 1) Let it out 2) All in the mind 3) Fumes 4) I 22-20s - Such A Fool / Baby, You're Not In Love (April 2003) Why Don't You Do It For Me? (April 2004) #41 UK Shoot Your Gun (June 2004) #30 UK 22 Days (September 2004) #34 UK Such A Fool (January 2005) #29 UK 22-20s (Album) (September 10, 2004) #40 UK This article on a keyboardist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Charly_Coombes 2009-11-30T19:27:28Z Charly Coombes (born John Charles Coombes on 27 December 1980, Mountain View, California, USA) is an English multi instrumentalist and vocalist. Coombes grew up in the Oxfordshire village of Wheatley but lived with his family in San Francisco, USA until the age of four. He was keyboard player of the band 22-20s, active from 2003-2006, that released one self-titled album and supported Oasis during their 2005 tour. The band broke-up in early 2006, while recording but never finishing a second album. He is the youngest sibling of the Supergrass members Gaz and Rob Coombes. He was also a member of the bands, Tumbleweed (who signed a deal with Polydor Records in 1998), Four Way Trauma and most recently Missing Pieces with Richard Walters. Charly is releasing new music through his own MySpace with tracks being made available to download from 1 April 2008. He also filled for Supergrass' bassist Mick Quinn during latter's injury in September 2007 and for Rob Coombes during the Road to Rouen European and North American tours. He has just finished touring with Supergrass playing second guitar, backing vocals and percussion. Coombes is also a member of Lazare where he provides vocals and plays piano & organ and have recently released their debut EP 'When The Night Comes'. Coombes (under the name Chas Harrison) has also directed & starred in the rockumentary Glange Fever released in August 2008. The film follows the Diamond Hoo Ha Men, Duke Diamond and Randy Hoo Ha as they tour the country. Charly is currently putting together a short film about life behind the curtain on the Supergrass American Tour, July 2008. where he combines music, laughter and 'Special Sauce' in a brief rockumentary. Charly features on German Dance/Electronic DJ Ronski Speed's debut album Pure Devotion, he appears on the track "Out of Order". In March 2009 Charly married his girlfriend Rayana in Brazil. | 0 |
Tony_Rampling | Tony_Rampling 2010-06-04T04:12:04Z Tony Rampling is a former professional rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League. During his career he played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs (twice), Eastern Suburbs, Gold Coast Chargers, Salford City Reds and the Western Suburbs Magpies. In 1982, Rampling was selected to represent New South Wales as a second-rower for games I and II of the 1982 State of Origin series and again in 1985, for game III as a reserve. This Australian rugby league football biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Tony_Rampling 2012-02-12T13:25:43Z Tony Rampling is a former professional rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League. During his career he played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs (twice), Eastern Suburbs, Gold Coast Chargers, Salford City Reds and the Western Suburbs Magpies. In 1982, Rampling was selected to represent New South Wales as a second-rower for games I and II of the 1982 State of Origin series and again in 1985, for game III as a reserve. Template:Persondata This Australian rugby league football biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
List_of_fish_in_Pakistan | List_of_fish_in_Pakistan 2009-05-28T18:44:59Z There are 531 species of Fishes in Pakistan. 233 of them are of fresh water. Here is a list of these fishes:, List_of_fish_in_Pakistan 2010-06-12T16:38:38Z International There are 531 species of Fish in Pakistan. 233 of them are of fresh water. Here is a list of these fishes: | 0 |
Splitrock_Reservoir | Splitrock_Reservoir 2008-02-15T18:59:20Z Splitrock Reservoir is 625 acres (2. 53 km2) of wilderness located in northern New Jersey on the borders of Rockaway Township and Kinnelon. The reservoir is nestled deep in the woods where it can be reached by traveling a mile on a dirt road known as Split Rock Road. The reservoir consists of several large lakes interconnected with many large islands. There is a large man made dam on the South West end. The reservoir was opened to the Public on November 10, 2003. Splitrock offers various outdoor activities. The townships allows people to explore the large lakes with kayaks, canoes, and boats with electrical motors. There are many hiking trails varying with difficulty with beautiful scenes. These hiking trails are part of the Farny Highlands Trail Network. A trail map is available on-line at the Morris Trails Partnership web site . The New Jesrey Walk Book, published by the New York New Jesey Trail Conference has a detailed verbal description of the Four Birds and the Splitrock Loop trails. Hikers should look for signs of white-tailed deer, black bear and wild turkey along the trail, as well as waterfowl and neotropical birds during the spring and fall migrations. Splitrock is very attractive area for fisherman as well. The reservoir has a population of smallmouth and largemouth bass and there may even be some trout prowling the waters. Anglers can expect good fishing for bass, crappie and chain pickerel in the reservoir. A 25-vehicle parking area for visitors was developed on November 23, 2003. The new parking area provides reservoir access for people who want to launch a car top boat for fishing, kayaking or canoeing. The parking area also provides a trailhead for hiking the 13. 8-mile (22. 2 km) loop trail. This new parking area will provide generations of anglers, hikers and wildlife watchers with countless opportunities to explore all that Split Rock Reservoir has to offer. , Splitrock_Reservoir 2009-02-12T16:53:17Z Splitrock Reservoir is 625 acres (2. 53 km2) of wilderness located in northern New Jersey on the borders of Rockaway Township and Kinnelon. The reservoir is nestled deep in the woods where it can be reached by traveling a mile on a dirt road known as Split Rock Road. The reservoir consists of several large lakes interconnected with many large islands. There is a large man-made dam on the southwest end of the reservoir. The reservoir and surrounding natural area were opened to the Public on November 21, 2003. Splitrock offers various outdoor activities. At the parking area (see below), there is an interpretive kiosk with three panels. One provides an overview for the fisherman, one provides an overview for the hiker and the third provides an overview on the Splitrock/Cobb furnace for the historian. Splitrock is a very attractive area for fishermen with small watercraft. The reservoir has a population of smallmouth and largemouth bass, as well as catfish, crappie, sunfish, perch, pickerel and bait fish. Anglers can expect decent fishing for bass, crappie and chain pickerel in the reservoir. Splitrock is categorized as a Lunker Lake by the state of NJ so there is a 3 bass limit and they must be over 15 inches. From April 15th through June 15th it is catch and release only. There is no shoreline fishing at Splitrock. There are many scenic hiking trails of varying difficulty. The hiking trails are part of the Farny Highlands Trail Network. A trail map is available on-line at the Morris Trails Partnership web site . The "New Jersey Walk Book", published by the New York New Jersey Trail Conference has a detailed verbal description of the Four Birds and the Splitrock Loop trails. Hikers should look for signs of white-tailed deer, black bear and wild turkey along the trail, as well as waterfowl and neotropical birds during the spring and fall migrations. A 25-vehicle parking area for visitors was developed on November 23, 2003. The new parking area provides reservoir access for people who want to launch a car top boat for fishing, kayaking or canoeing. It is the only launch the public is permitted to use. The parking area also provides a trailhead for hiking the 13. 8-mile (22. 2 km) loop trail. This hike and another loop hike are described in "Hiking the Jersey Highlands", an illustrated guide to 35 hikes in the Highlands of New Jersey, with a trail map for each hike, introductory chapters on Highlands history and preservation, geology, plants, and wildlife, and a special 16-page insert of color photos of wildflowers seen along the trails. This book is published by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference and is available from their on-line store. This new parking area will provide generations of anglers, hikers and wildlife watchers with countless opportunities to explore all that Splitrock Reservoir has to offer. There is also a Clivus toilet at the parking area but no public telephone, and cell phone reception is generally poor unless you are out on the water. | 0 |
Per Anger | Per Anger 2009-01-05T16:01:02Z Per Johan Valentin Anger (December 7, 1913 - August 26, 2002) was a Swedish diplomat who participated in numerous efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews from arrest and deportation by the Nazis during World War II. Born in Göteborg, Anger studied law at the University of Stockholm and later at the University of Uppsala. After graduating in November 1939, he was drafted into the army. Soon afterwards, the Swedish foreign ministry offered him a trainee position at the Swedish legation in Berlin, which he began in January 1940. Anger was assigned to the trade department, but after the legation received information about an impending Nazi attack on Norway and Denmark, he became involved in relaying intelligence to Stockholm. In June 1941 he returned to Stockholm, where he worked on trade relations between Sweden and Hungary. In November 1942 he was sent to Budapest as second secretary at the Swedish legation. After Germany invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, Anger became involved in efforts to aid Hungarian Jews. Anger originated the idea of issuing Swedish provisional passports and special certificates to protect Jews from internment and deportation. Seven hundred of these documents were issued initially. Although the legality of the documents was doubtful, the Hungarian government agreed to recognize their bearers as Swedish citizens. On July 9, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest. He immediately extended Anger's initiative, introducing colorful protective passes (Schutzpasse) and creating "safe houses" throughout the city. Anger and Wallenberg worked together, often literally snatching people from transports and death marches. After the Soviets invaded in January 1945, both Anger and Wallenberg were taken into custody. Anger was released three months later, but Wallenberg never emerged again, becoming one of the 20th Century's most famous missing persons. After the war, Anger served in numerous diplomatic posts in Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Austria and the United States. He later became head of Sweden's international aid program and served as ambassador to Australia, Canada and the Bahamas. Throughout his post-war career, Anger led efforts to learn what happened to Wallenberg, even meeting personally with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s. In 2000, the Russian government finally acknowledged that Wallenberg and his driver died in Soviet custody in 1947, although the exact circumstances of their deaths remain unclear. In 1982 Anger was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, and in 1995 he was honored with the Hungarian Republic's Order of Merit. In 2000 he was awarded honorary Israeli citizenship. In 2001, the American Swedish Historical Museum presented him the "Spirit of Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award," and in April 2002 Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson awarded Anger the "Illis Quorum Meruere Labores" for his actions during and after the war. Anger died in Stockholm after suffering a stroke. , Per Anger 2010-12-06T17:22:41Z Per Johan Valentin Anger (December 7, 1913 – August 26, 2002) was a Swedish diplomat who participated in numerous efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews from arrest and deportation by the Nazis during World War II. Born in Göteborg, Anger studied law at the University of Stockholm and later at the University of Uppsala. After graduating in November 1939, he was drafted into the Army. Soon afterwards, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs offered him a trainee position at the Swedish legation in Berlin, which he began in January 1940. Anger was assigned to the trade department, but after the legation received information about an impending Nazi attack on Norway and Denmark, he became involved in relaying intelligence to Stockholm. In June 1941 he returned to Stockholm, where he worked on trade relations between Sweden and Hungary. In November 1942 he was sent to Budapest as second secretary at the Swedish legation. After Germany invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, Anger became involved in efforts to aid Hungarian Jews. Anger originated the idea of issuing Swedish provisional passports and special certificates to protect Jews from internment and deportation. Seven hundred of these documents were issued initially. Although the legality of the documents was doubtful, the Hungarian government agreed to recognize their bearers as Swedish citizens. On July 9, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest. He immediately extended Anger's initiative, introducing colorful protective passes (Schutzpasse) and creating "safe houses" throughout the city. Anger and Wallenberg worked together, often literally snatching people from transports and death marches. After the Soviets invaded in January 1945, both Anger and Wallenberg were taken into custody. Anger was released three months later, but Wallenberg never emerged again, becoming one of the 20th Century's most famous missing persons. After the war, Anger served in numerous diplomatic posts in Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Austria and the United States. He later became head of Sweden's international aid program and served as ambassador to Australia, Canada and the Bahamas. Throughout his post-war career, Anger led efforts to learn what happened to Wallenberg, even meeting personally with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s. In 2000, the Russian government finally acknowledged that Wallenberg and his driver died in Soviet custody in 1947, although the exact circumstances of their deaths remain unclear. In 1982, Anger was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations and in 1995 he was honored with the Hungarian Republic's Order of Merit. In 1995, Anger was awarded the Wallenberg Medal by the University of Michigan in recognition of his extraordinary courage and humanitarian commitment. In 2000, he was awarded honorary Israeli citizenship. In 2001, the American Swedish Historical Museum presented him with the Spirit of Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award. In April, 2002 Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson awarded Anger the Illis Quorum Meruere Labores for his actions during and after the war. Illis Quorum (For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It) is the highest award that can be conferred upon an individual Swedish citizen by the Government of Sweden. Anger died in Stockholm after suffering a stroke. The Per Anger Prize was instituted by the Swedish Government to honor the memory of ambassador Per Anger and is awarded for humanitarian work and initiatives in the name of Democracy. The prize is awarded to individuals or groups who have distinguished themselves either in the past or in more recent times. | 1 |
Priyamvada Kant | Priyamvada Kant 2014-05-18T18:12:37Z Priyamvada Kant. (born January 1, 1989) is an actor and dancer. Priyamvada debuted with Bairi Piya on television and then she played a lead in Battyaab Dil Ki Tamanna Hai. Priyamvada is the daughter of renowned Indian artist Ratnabali Kant. , Priyamvada Kant 2015-10-04T17:52:11Z Priyamvada Kant (born January 1) is an Indian actress and dancer. She currently stars as Simran in the drama series Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera that airs on Star Plus. Priyamvada also did a special appearance in 2014 film Heropanti. In August 2013, she joined the cast of Channel V's The Buddy Project playing the cameo role of Kamna. In October 2014, she was cast as a replacement of Nisha Nagpal on Star Plus's Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera. She is currently playing the role of Kanika Jamwal in the show Swim Team aired on Channel V India. She has also appeared in an episode of And TV's Tujhse Naaraz Nahin Zindagi. Priyamvada Kant is currently running a dance academy called Dancamaze. | 1 |
Grays Athletic F.C. | Grays Athletic F.C. 2006-01-13T19:35:51Z Grays Athletic Football Club are a football team from the south east of England, representing the small town of Grays in Thurrock, Essex. They currently play in the National division of the Football Conference. Grays Athletic were the founder members of Athenian League, in which they briefly played before World War I (1912–1914, and again since 1958). In 1945 they were one of the nine founder members of the Corinthian League, which they won that first season. After playing in the Isthmian League between 1983 and 2004, they were founder members of the new Football Conference South. They were divisional champions at the first attempt, and also won the FA Trophy. In the 2005-06 season, they took an early lead in the Conference National division, remaining unbeaten as of September 2005., Grays Athletic F.C. 2007-12-29T22:07:25Z Grays Athletic Football Club are a football team from the south east of England, representing the town of Grays, Thurrock, Essex. They currently play in the National division of the Football Conference. Grays United was the predecessor of the modern Grays and was considered one of the oldest clubs in the world. Grays Athletic were established in 1890 and became founder members of the Athenian League, in which they briefly played before World War I (1912–1914, and again since 1958). In 1945 they were one of the nine founder members of the Corinthian League, which they won that first season. After playing in the Isthmian League between 1983 and 2004, they were founder members of the new Conference South. They were divisional champions at the first attempt, and also won the FA Trophy. In the 2005-06 season, they took an early lead in the Conference National division, remaining unbeaten for a record equalling 15 games, but eventually finished in third place and were beaten in the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs by Halifax Town. They did, however, successfully retain the FA Trophy with a 2-0 win over Woking After the 2005-06 season Mark Stimson left the club (joined Stevenage Borough) and Frank Gray was appointed as the new manager. However after just 14 games, his last being a disappointing 0-1 home defeat to Bromley, he was sacked (over the phone as Woodward was on holiday at the time). Micky Woodward appointed himself as manager for a short while and Player/Coach Jamie Stuart took charge of an Essex Senior Cup match with Woodward assisting but then appointed Andy King as manager. On 5 January 2007, Andy King handed in his resignation to the surprise of chairman Micky Woodward. He was replaced by Justin Edinburgh, his assistant at the time, who became the fourth manager of Grays during the season. Grays eventually finished 19th in the league, just avoiding relegation. In total Grays fielded over 50 players in all competitions. The furthest the club has reached in the FA Cup was the 2nd Round Proper in 2005/06. They lost 2-0 away at Mansfield Town on December 2, 2005. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. For a complete list of former Grays Athletic players with Wikipedia articles, see Category:Grays Athletic F.C. players. Grays Athletic have a number of rivals mainly steming back to their days in the lower divisions of non-league such as Isthmian League Premier Division and Conference South. In recent years Grays have seen their derby days severely reduced due to relegations and promotions of their rivals. Essex rivals, Dagenham & Redbridge were promoted into League Two for the first time in their history whilst Canvey Island dropped down to avoid financial problems. The derby match between Grays Athletic and Canvey Island held on boxing day, 2005 attracted the highest attendance of 2,910 spectators since the renovation of The New Rec. There are a number of sides around the borough of Thurrock, including Tilbury, Aveley, East Thurrock United and Thurrock formerly known as Purfleet until 2003. Grays' main rival within the borough is Thurrock due to the Isthmian League days when Grays and Purfleet were battling to become the highest placed side within Thurrock. During the Blues short stint in the Conference South, the club struck up a rivalry with Upminster based side Hornchurch F.C., who were fighting for the top spot. The Urchins main investor pulled out and Hornchurch were forced to sell key players to Grays. The players were Ashley Bayes, Jamie Stuart, Johnny Martin, Lee Matthews and Steve West. Hornchurch was reformed into A.F.C. Hornchurch and the rivalry still remains. Southend United are also seen as a rival, this maybe due to it being the closet Football League club to Grays in Essex. It may have also stemmed from many players moving up the leagues from Grays to the Shrimpers, in recent years these transfers include Freddy Eastwood, Gary Hooper and Mitchell Cole. However Southend United do not see Grays as a rival. Geographically, Ebbsfleet United is the closest Conference side to Grays, however they are separated by the River Thames and therefore the journey from ground to ground is considerably longer. The rivalry between the two clubs is more of a friendly atmosphere rather than a fierce rivalry. In recent years, Stevenage Borough have been viewed as a rival to Grays, mainly due to former manager Mark Stimson departing Grays and eventually joining the Hertfordshire outfit. In his first season, Stimson took left-back John Nutter with him and the following season midfielder Johnny Martin also followed. Grays Athletic's chairman Micky Woodward has also been criticised by Stevenage fans due to the poor handling of travelling fans at a game at The New Recreation Ground in 2007. start end | 1 |
Max Gradel | Max Gradel 2009-01-14T22:03:40Z Mark-Alain "Max" Gradel (born 30 November 1987 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian footballer currently playing for League One side Leicester City. A product of the youth academy, the winger was given a squad number for the 2007-2008 season. On 5 May 2007, he signed his first professional contract with Leicester along with 7 other players, including Eric Odhiambo and Andy King. On 6 August, then manager Martin Allen made Gradel and Conrad Logan available for loan for the forthcoming season. And on August 9 2007 Max joined A.F.C. Bournemouth on an initial one-month loan, which was extended for the season on transfer deadline day (31 August). Unfortunately he wasn't able to play as many games with the Cherries as he had hoped due to the death of his mother in early October. As a result, he was told by Bournemouth manager Kevin Bond that he could take all the time he needed to return to England. He returned to Leicester early on 3 January 2008, although Bond stated he wanted to take him back to Bournemouth on loan again, a move which was completed for the rest of the season on 11 January. Gradel's form at Bournemouth earned him a new three-year deal at Leicester which he signed on 6 February. He made his league debut against Milton Keynes Dons on 9 August, setting up a goal as Leicester won 2-0 at the Walkers Stadium. On 14 August, Gradel signed a new contract at Leicester that will last until 2012. He scored his first senior goal in a 2-1 away defeat to Crystal Palace in an FA Cup match on 14 January, 2009., Max Gradel 2010-12-30T18:54:05Z Max-Alain "Max" Gradel (born 30 November 1987) is an Ivorian footballer who plays for Leeds United. He is comfortable playing on either side on the wing or as a second striker. Gradel was a product of the academy at Leicester City. He receieved his first call up to the Côte d'Ivoire national team in November 2010. A product of the Leicester City youth academy, the winger was given a squad number for the 2007–08 season. On 5 May 2007, he signed his first professional contract with Leicester along with seven other players, including Eric Odhiambo, Andy King and Carl Pentney. On 6 August, manager Martin Allen made Gradel and Conrad Logan available for loan for the forthcoming season. On 9 August 2007 Gradel joined Bournemouth on an initial one-month loan, which was extended for the season on transfer deadline day (31 August). However, he was unable to play as many games with the Cherries as he had hoped due to the death of his mother in early October. As a result, he was told by Bournemouth manager Kevin Bond that he could take all the time he needed to return to England. He returned to Leicester early on 3 January 2008, although Bond stated he wanted to take him back to Bournemouth on loan again, a move which was completed for the rest of the season on 11 January. Gradel's form at Bournemouth earned him a new three-year deal at Leicester, which he signed on 6 February. He made his league debut for Leicester against Milton Keynes Dons (MK Dons) on 9 August 2008, setting up a goal as Leicester won 2–0 at the Walkers Stadium. On 14 August, Gradel signed a new contract that would last until June 2012. He scored his first senior goal in a 2–1 FA Cup defeat to Crystal Palace on 14 January 2009, and his first league goal in a 2–2 draw against MK Dons on February 28, scoring an equalising free-kick at injury time. His free kick away at MK Dons won the Goal of the Season award at the Leicester City Supporters Club Awards on 23 April. Gradel made 32 appearances in all competitions as Leicester secured their promotion as league champions. Since Leicester won promotion to the Championship, Gradel was limited to just one appearance in the League Cup. Summer signings Dany N'Guessan and Paul Gallagher were given the nod ahead of Gradel at the start of the 2009–10 season and he was unable to displace them. On 19 October 2009, Gradel joined Leeds United on loan for a month. He made his debut as a substitute in a 2–1 win over Norwich City that same evening. Gradel scored his first goal for Leeds on 31 October against Yeovil Town within minutes after coming on as a substitute, which prompted chants from the crowd of "Grayson sign him up". Leeds manager Simon Grayson said he wanted to extend Gradel's loan move beyond the initial month. Gradel himself stated he would like to extend the loan deal at Leeds and even hinted he would be happy to move to Leeds on a permanent deal. Leicester refused Leeds permission to play Gradel in their FA Cup game against Oldham Athletic. Gradel started his first game for Leeds in the 3–1 win against Grimsby Town, contributing to Leeds' first goal as his cross was diverted by Oliver Lancashire into his own net. The game would have been the last of Gradel's initial one month loan. The loan was extended to 2 January 2010 on 13 November. Gradel scored the winning goal for Leeds in the 89th minute against Leyton Orient after coming off the bench for Leeds. He made his first start in the league for Leeds against Oldham. He provided two assists in the same game for Neil Kilkenny's and Luciano Becchio's goals. Gradel scored three minutes after coming on for Leeds as a substitute in the West Yorkshire derby against Huddersfield Town. He made his second league start for Leeds in the game against Brentford, due to the suspension of Robert Snodgrass. Gradel replaced Jermaine Beckford as a substitute against Southampton, and he made an immediate impact in the same game, minutes after coming on Snodgrass curled a shot into the top right corner to seal Leeds' win. Grayson said he would like to extend Gradel's loan spell at Leeds. Gradel came off the bench against Stockport County in the second half with Leeds 2–1 down, with Leeds winning 4–2 victors following Gradel's introduction, and after the game Grayson confirmed he was talking to the parents clubs of all loan players. Leeds United signed him on a two-and-a-half-year contact on 25 January 2010 for an undisclosed fee. His first appearance as an under contract Leeds player came as a second half substitute in the 3–0 defeat to Swindon Town. After being unavailable for Leeds' FA Cup loss against Tottenham Hotspur, Gradel came back into the Leeds squad and the starting lineup against Hartlepool United in Leeds' 2–2 draw. He retained his place in the starting 11 for the next game against Carlisle United in the Trophy second leg game, which Leeds won 3–2 but were knocked out 6–5 on a penalty shootout, with Gradel converting his penalty for Leeds. After Jermaine Beckford returned from injury Gradel dropped back to Leeds' bench. Gradel received the man of the match award against Yeovil Town in Leeds' 2–1 win. In the following game Gradel kept his place up front and scored for Leeds against Southend United in a 2–0 win. Then, he followed it up in the next match scoring in a 3–1 away win against Carlisle United, with Gradel opening up the scoring and Luciano Becchio scoring a brace. Gradel's sixth goal for Leeds came in Leeds' 4–1 win against MK Dons. Gradel was sent off for violent conduct in Leeds United's final match of the 2009–10 season against Bristol Rovers, but Leeds won the game and were promoted to The Championship. Gradel played his first game back at Elland Road since his red card against Bristol Rovers, with him putting in an impressive performance when Leeds completed their pre-season campaign on 31 July with a 3–1 win over Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers at Elland Road. Gradel scored a goal in the game by scoring a long range effort. Due to Gradel's red card the previous season and his refusal to leave the pitch he missed the first four games of the season through suspension. Gradel returned from his four match suspension in the second round of the League Cup when he made his first start of the season against his former club Leicester. He managed to gain an assist in the game, providing a cross for Davide Somma's goal. His first league appearance came in the following game, when he came on as a second half substitute in the 1–0 win away to Watford. Gradel made his first league start of the season, when Lloyd Sam was dropped for the game against Swansea City on 11 September. Gradel scored his first goal of the Championship season against Scunthorpe United. Gradel scored his second goal of the season against Coventry City after scoring a penalty. Gradel's third goal of the season came against Norwich City. Gradel scored his fourth goal of the season against Burnley which started Leeds's comeback to win 3–2 after being 2–0 down. On 18 December, Gradel scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season when he scored both goals in Leeds' 2–0 win over league leaders Queens Park Rangers. Gradel scored his 7th goal of the season against his former club Leicester City with a header Gradel's form for Leeds has seen him attract interest from Premiership clubs Gradel scored his 8th goal of the season against Portsmouth. Newcastle United showed an interest in Gradel and manager Simon Grayson confirmed that he wasnt looking to sell the inform Gradel. Gradel revealed that by moving to Leeds he was hoping to increase his international prospects to play for the Côte d'Ivoire national team and maybe earn a place in their 2010 FIFA World Cup squad. He was called up to the Côte d'Ivoire squad for the first time on 11 November 2010 for the fixture against Poland. | 1 |
Meridian_High_School_(Daykin,_Nebraska) | Meridian_High_School_(Daykin,_Nebraska) 2008-08-28T04:08:44Z Meridian High School is a high school located one mile west of Daykin, Nebraska. It is a consolidated school with kindergarten through twelfth grade serving the nearby towns of Daykin, Tobias, Western, and Alexandria. Along with the high school for the Meridian Public School District, the Meridian building includes an elementary and middle school. The Meridian building was completed in spring 1976, with classes starting there the following fall. Before the school building was built the towns of Daykin, Tobias, and Alexandria had already combined their schools for nearly 20 years inside Meridian. In that scheme the town of Daykin provided a building for students in elementary school; Alexandria, middle school, and; Tobias, high school. At the time of consolidation Meridian was a class C-2 Nebraska school. At the present time Meridian is a class D-1 school. Meridian has several sports teams. Female students compete in volleyball, basketball, and track. They are also allowed to participated in wrestling; however, to date there have been no female wrestlers. Male students compete in football, basketball, wrestling and track. Students play baseball and softball in the summer. The teams are not formally a part of the school although the teams play under the names Meridian in the SFS Baseball League, Fun4All Softball league, and American Legion Baseball. Students also have the options of participating in a variety of extracurricular activities, including student council, Future Business Leaders of America, drama, yearbook staff, enrichment, National Honor Society, Quiz Bowl, show choir and speech. Several also belong to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is not formal school organization. , Meridian_High_School_(Daykin,_Nebraska) 2010-03-29T15:35:34Z Meridian High School is a high school located one mile west of Daykin, Nebraska. It is a consolidated school with kindergarten through twelfth grade serving the nearby towns of Daykin, Tobias, Western, and Alexandria. Along with the high school for the Meridian Public School District, the Meridian building includes an elementary and middle school. The Meridian building was completed in spring 1976, with classes starting there the following fall. Before the school building was built the towns of Daykin, Tobias, and Alexandria had already combined their schools for nearly 20 years inside Meridian. In that scheme the town of Daykin provided a building for students in elementary school; Alexandria, middle school, and; Tobias, high school. At the time of consolidation Meridian was a class C-2 Nebraska school. At the present time Meridian is a class D-1 school. Meridian has several sports teams. Female students compete in volleyball, basketball, and track. They are also allowed to participated in wrestling; however, to date there have been no female wrestlers. Male students compete in football, basketball, wrestling and track. Students play baseball and softball in the summer. The teams are not formally a part of the school although the teams play under the names Meridian in the SFS Baseball League, Fun4All Softball league, and American Legion Baseball. Students also have the options of participating in a variety of extracurricular activities, including student council, Future Business Leaders of America, drama, International Thespian Society, yearbook staff, Enrichment, National Honor Society, Quiz Bowl, show choir, band and pep band, cheer leading, and competitive speech. Several also belong to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is not a formal school organization. | 0 |
Mitch Evans | Mitch Evans 2011-01-03T02:30:27Z Mitchell Evans (born June 24, 1994), is a motor racing driver from New Zealand who won the 2010 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and was runner up in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship despite missing three races. Born in Auckland, Evans was a champion karter in both restricted 100cc karts, and also won the CIK Trophy of New Zealand at JICA level. He moved to Formula First for the 2007 season, competing in three races of the Winter Series at Manfeild Autocourse, and ending the season eighteenth in the championship. He contested the full New Zealand championship in 2007–08, finishing ninth overall and recording a fastest lap. He returned to Manfield for the 2008 Winter Series, but in Formula Ford, winning seven of 12 races he contested to take the championship. In his national Formula Ford campaign in 2008–09, Evans battled with Tauranga's Richie Stanaway who came out on top by just over 100 points. Evans won six races during the season, including doubles at Taupo and Manfeild. For 2009, Evans moved to the Australian Formula Ford Championship, and competed in the Victorian state championship. Evans was runner-up in the standings, losing out to CAMS Rising Star Luke Ellery in the state championship, and in the national championship to his team-mate at Sonic Motor Racing Services, Nick Percat. During the season, Evans became the youngest round winner in the championship's history, when he won at Sandown Raceway in August. As well as that win, he won five other races including a weekend sweep at Queensland Raceway, and a double win at Surfers Paradise. Evans was drafted in by Australian Formula 3 entrant Team BRM to compete for them at the final round of the season, at Sandown. BRM acquired Evans' services to help with Joey Foster's championship bid. Evans was quickly on the pace, setting the fastest time in the official practice session, and third in qualifying. In the first race, he ended up fourth overall and third in the Gold Star class, edging out Kristian Lindbom by just over a tenth of a second. However in the second race, Evans led home his team-mate Foster to become the youngest winner of the Formula 3 Superprix, but Foster won the Australian Drivers' Championship. For the 2010 season, Evans raced in New Zealand's Toyota Racing Series with the Giles Motorsport team. At the first round, Evans took pole position and won the race, a feat that had not been achieved since Brendon Hartley made his debut in the 2005 Toyota Racing Series. He added a second win at Timaru, and won the first contemporary formulae race at the new Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. He claimed the title at Taupo by three points, holding off New Zealander Earl Bamber who won all three races at the circuit. Evans returned to Australian Formula 3 for the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, and won the first three races of the season at Wakefield Park. He skipped the second round at Symmons Plains to test a Formula Abarth car at Misano in Italy. But quickly resumed winning at Phillip Island. Evans attended Saint Kentigern College in Pakuranga, Auckland, but left at the end of 2010 to pursue his career overseas. Evans' career has been backed financially by entrepreneur Colin Giltrap, who helped establish careers for fellow Kiwi racing drivers Scott Dixon, Chris van der Drift and Brendon Hartley. , Mitch Evans 2012-11-27T15:17:45Z Mitchell Evans (born 24 June 1994), is a motor racing driver from New Zealand who won the 2012 GP3 Series. He previously won the 2010 and 2011 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and was runner up in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship despite missing three races. When he won the New Zealand Grand Prix in February 2011, it is believed he became the youngest driver to win an international grand prix anywhere in the world at only 16. Born in Auckland, Evans was a champion karter in both restricted 100cc karts, and also won the CIK Trophy of New Zealand at JICA level. He moved to Formula First for the 2007 season, competing in three races of the Winter Series at Manfeild Autocourse, and ending the season eighteenth in the championship. He contested the full New Zealand championship in 2007–08, finishing ninth overall and recording a fastest lap. He returned to Manfield for the 2008 Winter Series, but in Formula Ford, winning seven of 12 races he contested to take the championship. In his national Formula Ford campaign in 2008–09, Evans battled with Tauranga's Richie Stanaway who came out on top by just over 100 points. Evans won six races during the season, including doubles at Taupo and Manfeild. For 2009, Evans moved to the Australian Formula Ford Championship, and competed in the Victorian state championship. Evans was runner-up in the standings, losing out to CAMS Rising Star Luke Ellery in the state championship, and in the national championship to his team-mate at Sonic Motor Racing Services, Nick Percat. During the season, Evans became the youngest round winner in the championship's history, when he won at Sandown Raceway in August. As well as that win, he won five other races including a weekend sweep at Queensland Raceway, and a double win at Surfers Paradise. Evans was drafted in by Australian Formula 3 entrant Team BRM to compete for them at the final round of the season, at Sandown. BRM acquired Evans' services to help with Joey Foster's championship bid. Evans was quickly on the pace, setting the fastest time in the official practice session, and third in qualifying. In the first race, he ended up fourth overall and third in the Gold Star class, edging out Kristian Lindbom by just over a tenth of a second. However in the second race, Evans led home his team-mate Foster to become the youngest winner of the Formula 3 Superprix, but Foster won the Australian Drivers' Championship. For the 2010 season, Evans raced in New Zealand's Toyota Racing Series with the Giles Motorsport team. At the first round, Evans took pole position and won the race, a feat that had not been achieved since Brendon Hartley made his debut in the 2005 Toyota Racing Series. He added a second win at Timaru, and won the first contemporary formulae race at the new Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. He claimed the title at Taupo by three points, holding off New Zealander Earl Bamber who won all three races at the circuit. Evans returned to Australian Formula 3 for the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, and won the first three races of the season at Wakefield Park. He skipped the second round at Symmons Plains to test a Formula Abarth car at Misano in Italy. But quickly resumed winning at Phillip Island. Evans was signed to race in the 2011 GP3 Series in Europe by the MW Arden team which is co-owned by Christian Horner (principal of F1's Red Bull Racing), and Red Bull driver Mark Webber (Evans' manager). The series features identical new design Dallara-Renaults, and is considered to be the feeder to GP2 and then F1. Evans won the feature race at Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, having finishing sixth and seventh in the first two races at the first round which was staged at Istanbul Park in Turkey . He then went into the Valencia Grand Prix in third place in the championship, and emerged leading the championship after a third in the feature and fourth in the sprint. He held a four point lead over second placed Nigel Melker for the GP3 drivers' championship and MW Arden was leading the constructors championship too. However, his performance dropped off for the rest of the season, and he only achieved another point scoring round when eighth in the feature race of the final round of the championship in Italy. He eventually finished ninth in the championship with 29 points. Retained by MW Arden for the 2012 GP3 Season, Evans began with a win in the feature race at the opening round of the championship in Spain. He also had wins at Valencia in Spain and on the Hockenheimring in Germany, and a second and two thirds. He took his fourth pole position of the season at the final venue, Monza in Italy, but did not complete the feature race, requiring him to start from the back of the grid in race two. Evans worked his way through the field to seventh, but a puncture effectively ended his race, and the points for the fastest lap he recorded could not be claimed because he finished outside the top 10. Daniel Abt of Germany finished second in the race and was runner up to Evans in the championship by only two points. Mark Webber told the media he was very proud of his protege, and he predicted Evans would move to GP2 in 2013. "There are a lot of good drivers in it (GP3),” he said, “yet it was Mitch who had the most poles and the most wins of anyone. He's learning all the time and I look forward to him moving up to another category next year and showing everyone what an exceptional talent he is." * Season in progress. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) * Season in progress. Evans attended Saint Kentigern College in Pakuranga, Auckland, but left at the end of 2010 to pursue his career overseas. Evans' career has been backed financially by entrepreneur Colin Giltrap, who helped establish careers for fellow New Zealand racing drivers Scott Dixon, Chris van der Drift and Brendon Hartley. | 1 |
Tolapai | Tolapai 2009-01-14T15:56:01Z Template:Future chip Tolapai is the code name of Intel's system-on-a-chip (SoC) embedded processor which combines an x86 processor core, DDR2 memory controllers and I/O controllers, and a QuickAssist Integrated Accelerator unit for security functions. The Tolapai Embedded processor will have 148 million transistors, 1088-ball FCBGA with a 1. 092mm pitch, and come in a 37. 5mm x 37. 5mm package. , Tolapai 2010-04-08T05:46:26Z Tolapai is the code name of Intel's system-on-a-chip (SoC) embedded processor which combines an x86 processor core, DDR2 memory controllers and I/O controllers, and a QuickAssist Integrated Accelerator unit for security functions. The Tolapai Embedded processor has 148 million transistors, 1088-ball FCBGA with a 1. 092mm pitch, and comes in a 37. 5mm x 37. 5mm package. It is also Intel's first integrated x86 processor, chipset and memory controller since 1994's 80386EX. Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor for Embedded Computing | 0 |
Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem | Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem 2007-11-09T17:53:17Z Roman–Sasanian wars Byzantine–Sasanian wars The Siege of Jerusalem (614) was part of the Roman-Persian Wars, conducted during Khosrau II early seventh-century push into Byzantine established territories. Following the Persian advances into Syria in the previous year, General Shahrbaraz's next target happened to be the famous Byzantine-controlled city of Jerusalem. Providing direct access to the Mediterranean Sea, the city would provide a strategic location for the Persian Empire to begin constructing a naval fleet and its capture would undoubtedly weaken the Byzantine-Empire's overseas strength. After 21 days of relentless siege warfare, Jerusalem's walls yielded and and the conclusive Persian victory resulted in the territorial annexation of Jerusalem, and all of Palestine. Customary to military tradition, when the Persian force arrived outside Jerusalem, Shahrbaraz offered a peaceful transition of power should the city surrender without resistance. The Sassanid general's offer was however rebuffed, and he consequently prepared his troops for a blockade. Shahrbaraz, alongside fellow general Shahin prepared for what would they believed would be a long and fierce siege; given Jerusalem's powerful fortifications. For twenty non-stop days, the Persians army continually blasted the walls of Jerusalem with ballistas and other military engines. While the Byzantine city was composed primarily of civilians and priesthood, there is mention of a formidable Greek force, which was gathered by monk Abba Modestus to assist Jerusalem. However, once the Greek troops caught eye of the overwhelming Persian army encamped outside the city's walls, they fled fearing a suicidal battle proceeding the siege. After the twenty-first day of bombardment, the city's walls finally broke, and due notably to the Jewish allies' assistance to the Persian army, the interior was quickly overran. The Jews whom had long been marginalized and oppressed in their Roman-controlled homeland, thus had more favorable views toward the Persian invaders. Some 26,000 Jews betrayed the Byzantine Christian population and fought against them. Once the Sassanid army had breached the city's fortifications, the Jewish rebels joined the Persians, and Shahrbaraz ordered a swift razing and looting of Jerusalem. Having recognized the assistance of the Jews in the significant capture, he even gave them the opportunity to personally massacre their Christian enemies. Shortly after the Persian army entered Jerusalem, unprecedented looting and sacrilege took place. Church after church was burned down alongside the innumerable Christian artifacts, which were stolen or damaged, by the ensuing arson. But Persia's most devastating crime (as regarded by Heraclius and the Byzantine Empire) was stealing the True Cross and carrying it back to their capital as a battle-captured holy relic. The human toll of Jerusalem's razing was also catastrophic, some 90,000 Christian citizens are said to have perished in the sacking, as a result of both the Persian army's actions, but also the commissioned attacking opportunity given to the Jews by Shahrbaraz. Given that Khosrau II generally practiced religious tolerance and did deem Christians respectfully, it is not known why Shahrbaraz ordered such a massacre on the population. One reason could simply have been Shahrbaraz's rage at the resistance that had been offered by Jerusalem's Christian populace. The conquered city and the Holy Cross would remain in Sassanid hands for some fifteen years until Heraclius recovered them in 629., Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem 2009-02-11T04:31:23Z Roman–Sasanian wars Byzantine–Sasanian wars The Siege of Jerusalem in 614 AD was part of the final phase of the Roman-Persian Wars, as the Persian shah Khosrau II and his general Shahrbaraz conquered the Byzantine Middle East. Following the Persian advances into Syria in the previous year, Shahrbaraz's next target was Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine and the Christian Empire's most holy city. Providing direct access to the Mediterranean Sea, the city would also provide a strategic location for the Persian Empire to begin constructing a naval fleet, thereby threatening Byzantine hegemony in the Mediterranean. After 21 days of relentless siege warfare, Jerusalem's walls yielded and the conclusive Persian victory resulted in the territorial annexation of Jerusalem, and all of Palestine. Customary to military tradition, when the Persian force arrived outside Jerusalem, Shahrbaraz offered a peaceful transition of power should the city surrender without resistance. The Sassanid general's offer was however rebuffed, and he consequently prepared his troops for a blockade. Shahrbaraz, alongside fellow general Shahin, prepared for what would they believed would be a long and fierce siege, given Jerusalem's powerful fortifications. For twenty non-stop days, the Persians army continually blasted the walls of Jerusalem with ballistas and other military engines. While the Byzantine city was composed primarily of civilians and priesthood, there is mention of a formidable Greek force, which was gathered by monk Abba Modestus to assist Jerusalem. However, once the Greek troops caught eye of the overwhelming Persian army encamped outside the city's walls, they fled, fearing a suicidal battle preceding the siege. After the twenty-first day of bombardment, the city's walls finally broke, and due notably to the Jewish allies' assistance to the Persian army, the interior was quickly overrun. The Jews, who had long been marginalized and oppressed in their Roman-controlled homeland, viewed the Persian invaders favourably. Some 26,000 Jews betrayed the Byzantine Christian population and fought against them. Once the Sassanid army had breached the city's fortifications, the Jewish rebels joined the Persians, and Shahrbaraz ordered a swift razing and looting of Jerusalem. Having recognized the assistance of the Jews in the significant capture, he even gave them the opportunity to massacre personally their Christian enemies. Shortly after the Persian army entered Jerusalem, unprecedented looting and sacrilege took place. Church after church was burned down alongside the innumerable Christian artifacts, which were stolen or damaged by the ensuing arson. But Persia's most devastating crime in the eyes of the Byzantines was the capture of the True Cross and its removal to Ctesiphon as a battle-captured holy relic. The human toll of Jerusalem's razing was also catastrophic, some 90,000 Christian citizens are said to have perished in the sacking, as a result not only of the Persian army's actions, but also of the free hand given to the Jews by Shahrbaraz. Given that Khosrau II generally practiced religious tolerance and did deem Christians respectfully, it is not known why Shahrbaraz ordered such a massacre. One reason could simply have been Shahrbaraz's rage at the resistance that had been offered by Jerusalem's Christian populace. The conquered city and the Holy Cross would remain in Sassanid hands for some fifteen years until Heraclius recovered them in 629. | 0 |
Capturing_Mary | Capturing_Mary 2008-04-21T01:19:47Z Capturing Mary is a BBC television drama (co-produced by HBO), written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. It was aired on BBC Two on 12 November 2007. It is linked, by the central character of Joe, to another Poliakoff drama, Joe's Palace, which was first aired on 4 November 2007. The drama saw a repeat of Danny Lee Wynter's caretaker character of Joe, who encounters former socialite Mary (played by Dame Maggie Smith in the present and Ruth Wilson in her youth) when she visits the house featured in Joe's Palace. We see flashbacks to her past links with the house. This present-day meeting between Joe and Mary overlaps with the events of Joe's Palace. The programme also starred David Walliams as the character Greville White. We first meet the character of Mary as an old woman (Dame Maggie Smith) in the present. The “old” Mary, a former journalist and socialite, arrives at the house of Elliot Graham’s late father. Joe, the caretaker of the house, takes pity on her and invites her in. She begins to recount to Joe the significance of the house to her. Moving from room to room, she tells Joe of the 1950s high society soirees she was invited to in the house. She recalls how Mr Graham’s soirees were attended by the great and the good – the aristocracy, the noveaux riche, industrialists, newspaper barons, editors, actors, directors, and so forth. She tells Joe that she has been haunted by the memory of a sinister man named Greville White who she met one evening in the house. Greville White turns out to be a social climber whose influence reached into high society. Mary recalls that he was supremely charming, but utterly evil. We see Greville and the “young” Mary (Ruth Wilson) in Mr Graham’s cellar selecting fine wines for a salad that he has prepared. In the cellar, Greville tells Mary of dark secrets involving members of the British Establishment who are enjoying Mr Graham’s soiree in the rooms above them. The secrets involve child abuse, sexual perversion, anti-semitism, and racism amongst the great and the good. He feigns friendship with Mary, but she rejects him because of his malevolent powers. The audience encounters “subsequent” meetings between the two in the 1950s and 1960s at Mr Graham’s soirees and other social events. We begin to see the sinister destruction of Mary’s life by Greville White and her slide into despair and alcoholism. The end of the drama sees Greville White re-appear in Kensington Gardens in the present. Mary is now an old woman (Dame Maggie Smith) but the sinister Greville White has not aged since they first met in the 1950s. The audience is left questioning whether Greville White and Mary ever met again after his dark revelations to her in Mr Graham's wine cellar. Poliakoff leaves us wondering whether their "subsequent meetings" were a figment of Mary's imagination - regret at her wasted youth and talent, embodiment of her struggle to succeed against the back drop of the class-based British Establishment, representation of her alcoholism, or merely that Greville's sinister revelations have remained with her into old age. Capturing Mary at the BBC website. , Capturing_Mary 2010-07-08T17:31:53Z Please do not use {{Infobox television film}} directly. See the documentation for available templates. Capturing Mary is a BBC television drama (co-produced by HBO), written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. It was aired on BBC Two on 12 November 2007. It is linked, by the central character of Joe, to another Poliakoff drama, Joe's Palace, which was first aired on 4 November 2007. The drama saw a repeat of Danny Lee Wynter's caretaker character of Joe, who encounters former socialite Mary (played by Dame Maggie Smith in the present and Ruth Wilson in her youth) when she visits the house featured in Joe's Palace. We see flashbacks to her past links with the house. This present-day meeting between Joe and Mary overlaps with the events of Joe's Palace. The programme also starred David Walliams as the character Greville White and Gemma Arterton as Greville White's young date, Liza. We first meet the character of Mary as an old woman (Dame Maggie Smith) in the present. The “old” Mary, a former journalist and socialite, arrives at the house of Elliot Graham’s late father. Joe, the caretaker of the house, takes pity on her and invites her in. She begins to recount to Joe the significance of the house to her. Moving from room to room, she tells Joe of the 1950s high society soirees she was invited to in the house. She recalls how Mr Graham’s soirees were attended by the great and the good – the aristocracy, the nouveaux riche, industrialists, newspaper barons, editors, actors, directors, and so forth. She tells Joe that she has been haunted by the memory of a sinister man named Greville White who she met one evening in the house. Greville White turns out to be a social climber whose influence reached into high society. Mary recalls that he was supremely charming, but utterly evil. We see Greville and the “young” Mary (Ruth Wilson) in Mr Graham’s cellar selecting fine wines for a salad that he has prepared. In the cellar, Greville tells Mary of dark secrets involving members of the British Establishment who are enjoying Mr Graham’s soiree in the rooms above them. The secrets involve child abuse, sexual perversion, anti-semitism, and racism amongst the great and the good. He feigns friendship with Mary, but she rejects him because of his malevolent powers. The audience encounters “subsequent” meetings between the two in the 1950s and 1960s at Mr Graham’s soirees and other social events. We begin to see the sinister destruction of Mary’s life by Greville White and her slide into despair and alcoholism. The end of the drama sees Greville White re-appear in Kensington Gardens in the present. Mary is now an old woman (Dame Maggie Smith) but the sinister Greville White has not aged since they first met in the 1950s. The audience is left questioning whether Greville White and Mary ever met again after his dark revelations to her in Mr Graham's wine cellar. Poliakoff leaves us wondering whether their "subsequent meetings" were a figment of Mary's imagination - regret at her wasted youth and talent, embodiment of her struggle to succeed against the back drop of the class-based British Establishment, representation of her alcoholism, or merely that Greville's sinister revelations have remained with her into old age. | 0 |
Miss United States | Miss United States 2011-01-12T16:06:13Z The Miss United States pageant is a beauty contest held in the United States for young women between the ages of 19-28 and has been held every year since 2001. Many delegates and winners in these pageants have either competed at or later went on to compete in other state and national pageants, particularly the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA systems. One of the most famous winners is Chelsea Cooley, who won the 2001 title after being Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2000, and later went on to become Miss North Carolina USA and Miss USA 2005. Unlike many other pageants, the United States pageant has been contested among at-large delegates and delegates who won their state competitions. , Miss United States 2012-12-17T00:09:41Z Not to be confused with Miss America or Miss USA. The Miss United States pageant is a beauty contest held in the United States for young women between the ages of 20-29 and has been held every year. The pageant started in 1937 but changed ownership and management numerous times. The federal trademark and and management is held by Mrs. United States Inc. of New York, owner: Isabella Ilaqua. The primary goal of the Miss United States Organization is to provide a lifechanging experience for young, vibrant women across the country. The organization strives to empower all delegates to become active participants in her community while nurturing and promoting a cause meaningful to her. The Miss United States Organization is based on a solid commitment to uphold the standards of fairness and integrity. It prides itself in providing an avenue for each young woman to give a voice to those needing to be heard, lend a hand to those less fortunate, and be a compass for those daring to dream. At the local, state, and national level the Miss United States Organization gives women the opportunity to promote a platform of community service. The pageant system allows young women all over the country to interact and discuss their achievements in service and volunteerism. It promotes the intellect, moral character and personal engagement of its outstanding participants as they pursue success in achievement. The United States pageant has been contested among at-large delegates and delegates who won their state competitions. The competition was held for several years in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2011, however, the pageant was moved to the Nation's Capital, Washington, D.C.. The current Miss United States is Whitney Miller, from , who won the title on July 8, 2012. Contestants are judged on the following phases of competition: Sarasota Herald Tribune- September 10, 1937- http://news.google.com/newspapers? nid=1787&dat=19370910&id=eHYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VWQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5522,4987182 Source: Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana; September 8, 1937 Miss United States Biloxi, Miss, Sept 8 - (UP) Pretty Margaret J. Smith, 17-year old willowly blonde of Clnton, Tenn., today holds the title of 'Miss United States' and is preparing to receive a Hollywood film tryout. U.S. Senator Pat Harrison placed the crown on Miss Smith as the climax of a national bathing beauty contest here. Second place went to Jackie White, 17, of Birmingham, Ala., brunettte, and Barbara Hodnett, 17, of Chatham, Va., was awarded third place honors. | 1 |
Sokrat_Mojsov | Sokrat_Mojsov 2010-06-08T09:14:24Z Sokrat Mojsov (born March 1, 1942 in Yugoslavia) is a former Macedonian football player. He capped 3 times for Yugoslavia. He was considered one of the best Macedonian players from the pre 1992-Yugoslavia era. He was noted for his individual skills with the ball. He started his career with Vardar as a youth player, and quickly moved up the ranks to the senior team. He played 155 times and scored 55 goals for them. He played 2 years in France for Stade Rennais, in Ligue 1 and retired in 1973. This biographical article relating to association football in North Macedonia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Sokrat_Mojsov 2011-04-29T17:45:06Z Sokrat Mojsov (born March 1, 1942 in Yugoslavia) is a former Macedonian football player. He capped 3 times for Yugoslavia. He was considered one of the best Macedonian players from the pre 1992-Yugoslavia era. He was noted for his individual skills with the ball. He started his career with Vardar as a youth player, and quickly moved up the ranks to the senior team. He played 155 times and scored 55 goals for them. He played 2 years in France for Stade Rennais, in Ligue 1 and retired in 1973. Template:Persondata This biographical article relating to association football in North Macedonia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Melilla_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency) | Melilla_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency) 2008-09-19T12:18:07Z Melilla is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciónes) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It has the smallest electorate of all the 52 districts and together with the other African enclave of Ceuta it is one of just two single member districts in Congress. Under Article 68. 2 of the Spanish constitution the constituency must be a single member district and the boundaries must be the same as the Autonomous City of Melilla and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Officially, the electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. The fact that Melilla is a single member district means that in practice it uses the same first past the post system used in many anglophone countries like the United Kingdom and USA. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18. Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if successfully elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible. Generally the parties of the centre right have won in Melilla. The Union of the Democratic Centre won the first two elections in 1977 and 1979, but the seat was gained by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) during their landslide victory of 1982. The Coalición Popular and their successors the Partido Popular (PP) held the seat in 1986 and 1989. However in 1993, in a surprise result, the PSOE regained the seat in an election where they lost seats overall. The PP regained the seat in 1996 and have held it since then. A regional party, the Melillense Local Bloc polled almost a quarter of the votes in the 2000 election and took second place. Their absence in 2004, resulted in the PSOE vote increasing by 21% their biggest increase in all the 52 Spanish districts. For similar reasons it was one of only two districts where the PP vote rose (Ceuta was the only other instance. ) Source:, Melilla_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency) 2009-12-15T16:36:52Z Melilla is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciónes) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It has the smallest electorate of all the 52 districts and together with the other African enclave of Ceuta it is one of just two single member districts in Congress. Under Article 68. 2 of the Spanish constitution the constituency must be a single member district and the boundaries must be the same as the Autonomous City of Melilla and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Officially, the electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. The fact that Melilla is a single member district means that in practice it uses the same first past the post system used in many anglophone countries like the United Kingdom and USA. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18. Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if successfully elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible. Generally the parties of the centre right have won in Melilla. The Union of the Democratic Centre won the first two elections in 1977 and 1979, but the seat was gained by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) during their landslide victory of 1982. The Coalición Popular and their successors the Partido Popular (PP) held the seat in 1986 and 1989. However in 1993, in a surprise result, the PSOE regained the seat in an election where they lost seats overall. The PP regained the seat in 1996 and have held it since then. A regional party, the Melillense Local Bloc polled almost a quarter of the votes in the 2000 election and took second place. Their absence in 2004, resulted in the PSOE vote increasing by 21% their biggest increase in all the 52 Spanish districts. For similar reasons it was one of only two districts where the PP vote rose (Ceuta was the only other instance. ) Source: | 0 |
Carla_Lucero | Carla_Lucero 2007-11-07T08:59:38Z Carla Lucero is a female Composer/Librettist. A native of Los Angeles, she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. Lucero has developed a highly melodic compositional style that puts soul into the cerebral, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music. B. F. A. in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, 1986 San Francisco Los Angeles Collage Dance Theater: original compositions written for Most Wanted (presented in a city jail), LaBrea Woman (a site-specific dance performance), Life in the Lap Lane and Out of Circulation. Lester Horton Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 1998, Carla_Lucero 2008-03-16T12:55:10Z Carla Lucero is a female Composer/Librettist. A native of Los Angeles, she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. Lucero developed a highly melodic compositional style, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music. B. F. A. in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, 1986 San Francisco Los Angeles | 0 |
Sextilia | Sextilia 2008-09-19T18:43:19Z Sextilia (died 69 AD) was the mother of Lucius Vitellius and Aulus Vitellius. Sextilia came from a distinguished family and lived intimately with imperial intrigue. Sextilia married the successful politician and friend of the emperor Claudius, Lucius Vitellius. Placed in charge of Rome while Claudius traveled to Britain, Vitellius died in 52 CE leaving Sextilia with two sons, Aulus Vitellius and the younger Lucius Vitellius. Sextilia and Galeria Fundana remained in Rome after Aulus Vitellius went to Germany. Although he left Galeria in straitened financial circumstances with creditors at her door, Sextilia retained a firm control over her own wealth and distanced herself from her son's financial debacle. After the death of Galba, on January 2, 69 CE the troops in Lower Germany declared Vitellius emperor. More in response to Vitellius's loose regard for discipline than as a measure of his leadership qualities, the troops hailed him a second Germanicus, in reference to the able soldier and son of the younger Antonia who was Tiberius's probable heir. When Sextilia first learned of her son's rise to power, she was said to have responded that she had borne a libertine Vitellius, not a Germanicus. In Rome, Sextilia and Galeria Fundana were in some danger as Marcus Salvius Otho challenged Vitellius. Vitellius wrote Otho's brother and threatened to kill him and his family if the women were harmed. As it turned out, Sextilia may have had her own avenues of access to the camp of Otho, and neither of them were injured. Vitellius defeated Otho, and on his arrival in Rome, he embraced Sextilia and declared her Augusta. He also spent huge sums of money on food, drink, and entertainment. Troops in other parts of the empire deserted to Titus Flavius Vespasian. Vitellius was defeated in battle. Sextilia died shortly before both her sons were killed in December 69. , Sextilia 2009-12-29T08:18:52Z Sextilia (c. 5 - 69) was the mother of Lucius Vitellius the Younger and Aulus Vitellius. Sextilia came from a distinguished family and lived intimately with imperial intrigue. Sextilia married the successful politician and friend of the emperor Claudius, Lucius Vitellius. Placed in charge of Rome while Claudius traveled to Britain, Vitellius died in 52 CE leaving Sextilia with two sons, Aulus Vitellius and the younger Lucius Vitellius. Sextilia and Galeria Fundana remained in Rome after Aulus Vitellius went to Germany. Although he left Galeria in straitened financial circumstances with creditors at her door, Sextilia retained a firm control over her own wealth and distanced herself from her son's financial debacle. After the death of Galba, on January 2, 69 CE the troops in Lower Germany declared Vitellius emperor. More in response to Vitellius's loose regard for discipline than as a measure of his leadership qualities, the troops hailed him a second Germanicus, in reference to the able soldier and son of the younger Antonia who was Tiberius's probable heir. When Sextilia first learned of her son's rise to power, she was said to have responded that she had borne a libertine Vitellius, not a Germanicus. In Rome, Sextilia and Galeria Fundana were in some danger as Marcus Salvius Otho challenged Vitellius. Vitellius wrote Otho's brother and threatened to kill him and his family if the women were harmed. As it turned out, Sextilia may have had her own avenues of access to the camp of Otho, and neither of them were injured. Vitellius defeated Otho, and on his arrival in Rome, he embraced Sextilia and declared her Augusta. He also spent huge sums of money on food, drink, and entertainment. Troops in other parts of the empire deserted to Titus Flavius Vespasian. Vitellius was defeated in battle. Sextilia died shortly before both her sons were killed in December 69. | 0 |
Appukutty | Appukutty 2022-01-20T17:47:47Z Sivabalan, better known as Appukutty, is an Indian actor and comedian, who mainly appears in Tamil films. He became recognized following his performance in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu. His role as Azhagarsami in Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai was praised by film critics and fetched him the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sivabalan hails from a village Nathan Kinaru in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu. He moved to Chennai in 1994, initially in search of a job for survival only. He was working as a cleaner in hotels, when he was spotted by film personalities and received acting offers from them. He then began acting in small character roles. In an interview in 2011, he stated that he always wanted to be a comedian and that he had appeared in several minor roles for over 17 years, before gaining recognition in Suseenthiran's Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu. Suseenthiran went on to cast him in the lead role in his comedy drama film Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai (2011). For his performance in the film, Appukutty won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, while the film was named the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment of 2011. In 2011 he also appeared in an important role in the film Kullanari Koottam and played a character role in Mohanlal's 300th film Snehaveedu. He is currently acting in Mannaru. , Appukutty 2023-11-19T21:04:18Z Sivabalan, better known as Appukutty, is an Indian actor and comedian, who mainly appears in Tamil films. He became recognized following his performance in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu. His role as Azhagarsami in Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai was praised by film critics and fetched him the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sivabalan hails from a village Nathan Kinaru in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu. He moved to Chennai in 1994, initially in search of a job for survival only. Sivabalan was working as a cleaner in hotels, when he was spotted by film personalities and received acting offers from them. He then began acting in small character roles. In an interview in 2011, Sivabalan stated that he always wanted to be a comedian and that he had appeared in several minor roles for over 17 years, before gaining recognition in Suseenthiran's Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu. Suseenthiran went on to cast him in the lead role in his comedy drama film Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai (2011). For his performance in the film, Appukutty won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, while the film was named the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment of 2011. In 2011 he also appeared in an important role in the film Kullanari Koottam and played a character role in Mohanlal's 300th film Snehaveedu. In 2012, he acted in Mannaru as lead role, next Sundarapandian as supporting cast. He also played with Ajith Kumar in movies such as Veeram (2014) and Vedalam (2015). He also played an important character in Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu (2022) directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. | 1 |
Leilani_Reklai | Leilani_Reklai 2009-06-27T21:04:37Z Leilani Reklai (born December 27, 1966) is a Palauan politician and businesswoman. She has served as the chaiperson of the board of directors of the Palau National Communications Corporation. Leilani Reklai was tentatively elected the governor of the state of Aimeliik in the state elections of November 13, 2007. Early results showed Reklai leading her opponent (and cousin), Abina Etpison, by just 35 votes. Reklai had 218 votes while Etpison, a Palauan legislator, had 183 votes. A total of 468 were cast in the Aimeliik election. 58 absentee ballots were still to be counted to determine the winner. Leilani Reklai became the first female governor of Aimeliik and only the third female governor in Palau's history. Palau's other two women governors were Governor Vicki Kanai of Airai State and Governor Akiko Sugiyama of Ngardmau. , Leilani_Reklai 2012-06-08T20:57:58Z Leilani Reklai (born December 27, 1966) is a Palauan politician and businesswoman. She has served as the chaiperson of the board of directors of the Palau National Communications Corporation. Leilani Reklai was tentatively elected the governor of the state of Aimeliik in the state elections of November 13, 2007. Early results showed Reklai leading her opponent (and cousin), Abina Etpison, by just 35 votes. Reklai had 218 votes while Etpison, a Palauan legislator, had 183 votes. A total of 468 were cast in the Aimeliik election. 58 absentee ballots were still to be counted to determine the winner. Leilani Reklai became the first female governor of Aimeliik and only the third female governor in Palau's history. Palau's other two women governors were Governor Vicki Kanai of Airai State and Governor Akiko Sugiyama of Ngardmau. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Electric_Vendetta | Electric_Vendetta 2009-10-18T16:20:46Z Electric Vendetta is the third episode of the fourth season of Midsomer Murders and the sixteenth episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy. The episode involves crop circles. A man is found in the middle of one such circle, naked, with two puncture wounds on his back and the back of his head shaved. A local Ufologist claims extra terrestrial involvement but DCI Tom Barnaby looks for a more plausible explanation. 1. Ronald Stokes - accidentally electrocuted himself 2. Eddie Field - accidentally electrocuted himself (However his death was never adequately explained in the episode) 3. Steve Ramsey - murdered by electrocution 4. Lloyd Kirby - thrown downstairs 5. Lady Isabel Aubrey - natural causes 6. Dave Rippert - killed in accidental collision with combine harvester, Electric_Vendetta 2010-10-29T19:28:21Z Electric Vendetta is the third episode of the fourth season of Midsomer Murders and the sixteenth episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy, where in a long-held grudge of forty years triggers a series of deaths disguised as alien abductions. The episode is notable for the fact that one of the deaths is not adequately explained in the denouement due to a mistake in the editing process. The episode involves crop circles. A man is found in the middle of one such circle, naked, with two puncture wounds on his back and the back of his head shaved. A local Ufologist claims extra terrestrial involvement but DCI Tom Barnaby looks for a more plausible explanation. When a series of bodies are found in mysterious crop circles in the cornfields of Sir Harry Chatwyn, squire of the village of Midsomer Parva, it looks like a case of extra terrestrial kidnapping. Two bodies, bearing the classic hallmarks of alien abduction – burnt fingers, a puncture wound to the lower back and a chunk cut out of the hair - seem to provide evidence that UFOs do exist. But when Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy dig deeper, it seems there could be a far more simple explanation for these deaths – cold blooded murder motivated by greed, love and jealousy. It’s another tangled web to be unravelled in one of the Midsomer villages by Barnaby and his faithful sidekick. 1. Ronald Stokes - accidentally electrocuted himself 2. Eddie Field - electrocuted at foundry. Body dumped in crop circle by Dave and Sally. His death was never adequately explained in the episode. Producers later revealed the explanation had been fergotten in editing. 3. Steve Ramsey - murdered by electrocution 4. Lloyd Kirby - thrown downstairs 5. Lady Isabel Aubrey - natural causes 6. Dave Rippert - killed in accidental collision with combine harvester | 0 |
Luxco | Luxco 2008-05-17T04:27:05Z Luxco is a privately owned producer of inexpensive distilled alcoholic beverages and liqueurs, formerly called the David Sherman Company. It was founded in 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri by David Sherman Sr. and Paul A. Lux. The company sells beverages across the United States and does some international trade. Some brands of Luxco are Admiral Nelson's Rum, Arrow liqueurs, Caffé Lolita, El Mayor, Everclear, Ezra Brooks Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey, Juarez tequila, Pearl vodka, Purple Passion, Rebel Yell whiskey, Saint Brendan's Irish Cream, Salvador's, Tvarscki vodka, and Yago Sant'gria a sangria. Donn Lux is the President and Chief Executive Officer. Manufacturing, packaging, marketing and distribution all take place at the company facilities in St. Louis. They employ 150 people, and in 2007 Luxco made approximately 40 million dollars in sales. Luxco's headquarters are located at 5050 Kemper Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63139., Luxco 2009-10-30T18:19:18Z Luxco, Inc. is a privately owned producer and marketer of distilled alcoholic beverages and liqueurs. Formerly called the David Sherman Corporation, the Company was renamed in 2006. The company was founded in 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri, by David Sherman Sr. and Paul A. Lux. The company sells beverages across the United States and does some international trade. Some brands of Luxco are Admiral Nelson's Rum, Arrow liqueurs, Caffé Lolita, El Mayor, Everclear, Ezra Brooks Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey, Juarez tequila, Pearl vodka, Purple Passion, Rebel Yell whiskey, Saint Brendan's Irish Cream, Salvador's, Tvarscki vodka, and Yago Sant'gria a sangria. Manufacturing, packaging, marketing and distribution all take place at the company facilities in St. Louis. They employ 150 people, and in 2007 Luxco had approximately 140 million dollars in revenues. Luxco's headquarters are located at 1000 Clark Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63102. The company's manufacturing facility is located at 5050 Kemper Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63139. | 0 |
Forrest_Gump_(disambiguation) | Forrest_Gump_(disambiguation) 2008-04-10T17:44:09Z Forrest Gump is a 1994 film. Forrest Gump may also refer to:, Forrest_Gump_(disambiguation) 2010-03-05T23:12:15Z Forrest Gump may refer to: | 0 |
Yuhi Sekiguchi | Yuhi Sekiguchi 2017-06-23T16:22:02Z Yuhi Sekiguchi (関口雄飛, Sekiguchi Yuhi, born 29 December 1987 in Nakano, Tokyo) is a Japanese racing driver. Sekiguchi competed in two races of the 2004 Asian Formula Renault Challenge for the Asia Racing Team, scoring no points. Sekiguchi drove in the Japan-based Formula Toyota in 2005 and 2006, winning the drivers' championship in his second year in the series. Sekiguchi also competed in Formula Challenge Japan in 2006, winning the drivers' title in this championship in addition to his Toyota success. Sekiguchi moved up to the All-Japan Formula Three series for 2007, driving for the Now Motorsport team. He finished seventh overall in the points standings. Sekiguchi moved to Europe in 2008 to compete in the International Formula Master championship. He finished sixteenth in the points standings, with two fourth-placed finishes at Imola and Monza. In late 2008, Sekiguchi competed in the first round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season for the David Price Racing team. His team-mate was Michael Herck. He was the fourth Japanese driver in the championship, alongside Sakon Yamamoto, Kamui Kobayashi, and Hiroki Yoshimoto. However, he was then replaced by Giacomo Ricci from the second round onwards. Sekiguchi returned to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for 2009, finishing fifth in the National class. He improved to finish as runner-up in 2010, and then won the championship in 2011. Sekiguchi made his Super GT debut in 2007, partnering 2002 GT500 champion Akira Iida. At round five at Sportsland SUGO, Sekiguchi drove from behind and passed Shigekazu Wakisaka with just a few laps remaining to take the win. Sekiguchi thus became the youngest GT300 class race winner in history, at 19 years, 7 months of age (a record which would be broken in 2008 by Keisuke Kunimoto). After returning to Japan in 2009 he again juggled his All-Japan Formula Three Championship with a drive in the GT300 class of Super GT. He drove for Hironori Takeuchi's SHIFT team in 2009, and for JLOC Lamborghini for the 2010 and 2011 seasons, achieving a best result of 3rd, at Motegi in 2010. After winning the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship in 2011, and after a solid performance in that year's Macau Grand Prix, Sekiguchi joined NDDP (Nissan Driver Development Programme) Racing in 2012, driving their new Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 alongside newcomer Katsumasa Chiyo. That season, they won from pole position at the fourth round of the season at SUGO, and added a second place at that year's Suzuka 1000km. But Sekiguchi was also forced to sit out the sixth round of the championship at Fuji Speedway due to multiple violations of Super GT's Driving Moral Hazard System. Sekiguchi made his debut in the GT500 class for the 2013 season, joining the defending series champions MOLA and partnering 3-time series champion Satoshi Motoyama. They took pole position for the fourth round at Sugo, with Sekiguchi leading during his stint of the race. In a chaotic final laps of the race, they were ultimately relegated to seventh place. Their best finish that year was fourth at Autopolis. For 2014, Sekiguchi made the surprising switch to drive for Lexus, and joined Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH alongside another three-time GT500 champion, Juichi Wakisaka. They finished the season on a high with two sixth-place finishes at Buriram United International Circuit, and Twin Ring Motegi, to close out the season. Their second year together saw great improvements, with Sekiguchi and Wakisaka finishing every race in the points in 2015, highlighted by a fourth-place finish at the Suzuka 1000km. Wakisaka announced his retirement from Super GT racing in February 2016, and Sekiguchi was joined by Yuji Kunimoto in the WedsSport RC-F. Once again, Sekiguchi had a strong race at Sugo, battling Heikki Kovalainen for the lead of the race for several laps before ultimately finishing fifth. At the sixth race of the year in Buriram, Sekiguchi scored his first pole position lap, and went on to take his first GT500 race win - and the first GT500 victory for Racing Project Bandoh after six years in the top class. Sekiguchi and Kunimoto finished third in the final race of the season at Motegi, to finish the year fourth in the standings, career bests for both drivers and their team. They once again scored points in every race of the season. As of the conclusion of the 2016 season, Sekiguchi holds the longest active streak of consecutive points-paying finishes in Super GT with eighteen races. The current record is held by Takeshi Tsuchiya, who recorded 33 consecutive points-paying finishes from 2002 to 2006. After spending twelve seasons between the Japanese single-seater ladder and Super GT, Sekiguchi was finally offered the chance to race in the Super Formula championship in 2016 for Itochu Enex Team Impul. He joined McLaren Honda F1 reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne as one of only two rookies on the grid that season. In his first Super Formula start at Suzuka, he qualified third on the grid, ahead of Vandoorne, reigning Super Formula champion Kazuki Nakajima and his TOM's teammate Andre Lotterer, and Kamui Kobayashi. After two non-scoring races, Sekiguchi finally scored his first podium at Fuji Speedway, then at the following race at Motegi, he won in just his fourth career start, making him only the third Super Formula rookie without any prior experience in Formula 1 to win a race in the 21st century. Sekiguchi won his second race of the year at Sugo. After leading the first 19 laps and building up a sizeable lead, he was left as the only car yet to pit for fuel following a safety car intervention. He then proceeded to drive more than a second per lap faster than the field for the next 32 laps to extend his lead to over 35 seconds before pitting, and re-emerged from the pits without relinquishing the lead of the race. He finished the season third in the final standings, ahead of the Formula 1-bound Vandoorne. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) * Season still in progress. , Yuhi Sekiguchi 2018-11-13T10:02:18Z Yuhi Sekiguchi (関口雄飛, Sekiguchi Yuhi, born 29 December 1987 in Nakano, Tokyo) is a Japanese racing driver. Sekiguchi competed in two races of the 2004 Asian Formula Renault Challenge for the Asia Racing Team, scoring no points. Sekiguchi drove in the Japan-based Formula Toyota in 2005 and 2006, winning the drivers' championship in his second year in the series. Sekiguchi also competed in Formula Challenge Japan in 2006, winning the drivers' title in this championship in addition to his Toyota success. Sekiguchi moved up to the All-Japan Formula Three series for 2007, driving for the Now Motorsport team. He finished seventh overall in the points standings. Sekiguchi moved to Europe in 2008 to compete in the International Formula Master championship. He finished sixteenth in the points standings, with two fourth-placed finishes at Imola and Monza. In late 2008, Sekiguchi competed in the first round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season for the David Price Racing team. His team-mate was Michael Herck. He was the fourth Japanese driver in the championship, alongside Sakon Yamamoto, Kamui Kobayashi, and Hiroki Yoshimoto. However, he was then replaced by Giacomo Ricci from the second round onwards. Sekiguchi returned to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for 2009, finishing fifth in the National class. He improved to finish as runner-up in 2010, and then won the championship in 2011. Sekiguchi made his Super GT debut in 2007, partnering 2002 GT500 champion Akira Iida. At round five at Sportsland SUGO, Sekiguchi drove from behind and passed Shigekazu Wakisaka with just a few laps remaining to take the win. Sekiguchi thus became the youngest GT300 class race winner in history, at 19 years, 7 months of age (a record which would be broken in 2008 by Keisuke Kunimoto). After returning to Japan in 2009 he again juggled his All-Japan Formula Three Championship with a drive in the GT300 class of Super GT. He drove for Hironori Takeuchi's SHIFT team in 2009, and for JLOC Lamborghini for the 2010 and 2011 seasons, achieving a best result of 3rd, at Motegi in 2010. After winning the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship in 2011, and after a solid performance in that year's Macau Grand Prix, Sekiguchi joined NDDP (Nissan Driver Development Programme) Racing in 2012, driving their new Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 alongside newcomer Katsumasa Chiyo. That season, they won from pole position at the fourth round of the season at SUGO, and added a second place at that year's Suzuka 1000km. But Sekiguchi was also forced to sit out the sixth round of the championship at Fuji Speedway due to multiple violations of Super GT's Driving Moral Hazard System. Sekiguchi made his debut in the GT500 class for the 2013 season, joining the defending series champions MOLA and partnering 3-time series champion Satoshi Motoyama. They took pole position for the fourth round at Sugo, with Sekiguchi leading during his stint of the race. In a chaotic final laps of the race, they were ultimately relegated to seventh place. Their best finish that year was fourth at Autopolis. For 2014, Sekiguchi made the surprising switch to drive for Lexus, and joined Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH alongside another three-time GT500 champion, Juichi Wakisaka. They finished the season on a high with two sixth-place finishes at Buriram United International Circuit, and Twin Ring Motegi, to close out the season. Their second year together saw great improvements, with Sekiguchi and Wakisaka finishing every race in the points in 2015, highlighted by a fourth-place finish at the Suzuka 1000 km. Wakisaka announced his retirement from Super GT racing in February 2016, and Sekiguchi was joined by Yuji Kunimoto in the WedsSport RC-F. Once again, Sekiguchi had a strong race at Sugo, battling Heikki Kovalainen for the lead of the race for several laps before ultimately finishing fifth. At the sixth race of the year in Buriram, Sekiguchi scored his first pole position lap, and went on to take his first GT500 race win - and the first GT500 victory for Racing Project Bandoh after six years in the top class. Sekiguchi and Kunimoto finished third in the final race of the season at Motegi, to finish the year fourth in the standings, career bests for both drivers and their team. They once again scored points in every race of the season. As of the conclusion of the 2016 season, Sekiguchi holds the longest active streak of consecutive points-paying finishes in Super GT with eighteen races. The current record is held by Takeshi Tsuchiya, who recorded 33 consecutive points-paying finishes from 2002 to 2006. After spending twelve seasons between the Japanese single-seater ladder and Super GT, Sekiguchi was finally offered the chance to race in the Super Formula championship in 2016 for Team Impul. He joined McLaren Honda F1 reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne as one of only two rookies on the grid that season. In his first Super Formula start at Suzuka, he qualified third on the grid, ahead of Vandoorne, reigning Super Formula champion Kazuki Nakajima and his TOM's teammate Andre Lotterer, and Kamui Kobayashi. After two non-scoring races, Sekiguchi finally scored his first podium at Fuji Speedway, then at the following race at Motegi, he won in just his fourth career start, making him only the third Super Formula rookie without any prior experience in Formula 1 to win a race in the 21st century. Sekiguchi won his second race of the year at Sugo. After leading the first 19 laps and building up a sizeable lead, he was left as the only car yet to pit for fuel following a safety car intervention. He then proceeded to drive more than a second per lap faster than the field for the next 32 laps to extend his lead to over 35 seconds before pitting, and re-emerged from the pits without relinquishing the lead of the race. He finished the season third in the final standings, ahead of the Formula 1-bound Vandoorne. The driver continued with Team Impul in the 2017 Super Formula Championship. He won at Okayama race 2 and finished second at Okayama race 1. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) * Season still in progress. (Races in bold indicate pole position) | 1 |
Yograj Singh | Yograj Singh 2020-01-01T12:47:53Z Yograj Singh Bhundel pronunciationⓘ (born 25 March 1958) is a former Indian cricketer who played only one Test and six ODIs for India as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His debut Test was at Wellington against New Zealand which India lost by 62 runs. After his career was ended by injury, he entered Punjabi cinema. His son Yuvraj Singh had been a member of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2019. Yograj hails from the village of Kanech, right next to Doraha, in Ludhiana District of Punjab. He has worked in Bollywood movies like Teen Thay Bhai, Singh is Bling and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Singh married Shabnam Singh, but later divorced her. Their elder son Yuvraj Singh was a famous left handed all rounder of the Indian cricket team. He married Punjabi film actress Satveer Kaur (aka Neena Sidhu). In 2011, His son Yuvraj was diagnosed with cancer and recovered from it. , Yograj Singh 2021-12-31T08:59:02Z Yograj Singh (pronunciationⓘ; born 25 March 1958) is an Indian actor and the former cricketer who played one Test and six ODIs for India as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His debut Test was at Wellington against New Zealand which India lost by 62 runs. After his career was ended by injury, he entered Punjabi cinema. His son Yuvraj Singh was a member of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2019. Yograj hails from the village of Kanech, right next to Doraha, in Ludhiana District of Punjab. He has worked in Bollywood movies like Teen Thay Bhai, Singh is Bling and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Singh married Shabnam Kaur, but later divorced her. Their elder son Yuvraj Singh is a former famous left handed all rounder batsman of the Indian cricket team. His another son in Zoravar Singh. In 2011, His son Yuvraj was diagnosed with cancer and recovered from it. Yograj's behaviour was harsh towards his son, Yuvraj during his childhood. He divorced his wife Shabam. After his divorced his son Yuvraj decided to live with his mother. later he married to Satbir Kaur. Yograj Singh criticised and alleged then Indian team captain MS Dhoni for spoiling his son, Yuvraj Singh's career. According to Singh , due to Dhoni, Yuvraj was dropped from 2015 ODI World Cup team. In 2020, Singh accused Virat Kohli for not supporting Yuvraj and 'backstabbing' him. In 2021, Singh stirred up controversy by maligning and using foul language against Hindu Women during a speech in the 2021 Farmers protest. | 1 |
Real Oviedo | Real Oviedo 2003-10-24T21:14:03Z Real Oviedo are a Spanish football team from Oviedo in Asturias. Founded on March 14 1926, they currently play in the Segunda División. They play in blue, with white shorts. Home stadium is the Nuevo Carlos Tartierre that seats 30,000 spectators. Originally playing in the Primera división shortly after inception, the gap caused by the Civil War meant that the club could not push on from earlier successes. When league play was resumed in the forties, the team carried on in the first, but finally were relegated in 1951 to the second division. From then on, Oviedo have tended to hover between promotion and demotion, sometimes descending as low as the Segunda B in the 1980s. Promoted to the Primera división in 1988, they remained there till the 2001-02 season, finishing as high as sixth in the 1990-91 season. Honours Famous Players, Real Oviedo 2004-08-22T16:43:55Z Real Oviedo are a Spanish football team from Oviedo in Asturias. Founded on March 14 1926, they currently play in the Tercera División. They play in blue, with white shorts. Home stadium is the Nuevo Carlos Tartierre that seats 30,000 spectators. Originally playing in the Primera división shortly after inception, the gap caused by the Civil War meant that the club could not push on from earlier successes. When league play was resumed in the forties, the team carried on in the first, but finally were relegated in 1951 to the second division. From then on, Oviedo have tended to hover between promotion and demotion, sometimes descending as low as the Segunda B in the 1980s. Promoted to the Primera división in 1988, they remained there till the 2001-02 season, finishing as high as sixth in the 1990-91 season. At the moment they play in the Spanish third division. Honours Famous Players | 1 |
Jean-Éric Vergne | Jean-Éric Vergne 2022-01-05T16:34:17Z Jean-Éric Vergne (born 25 April 1990), also known as JEV, is a French racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula E Championship with DS Techeetah. He became the 2017-18 ABB Formula E Champion, after clinching fifth in the New York ePrix in 2018, and he became the first Formula E driver to win two consecutive championships after his repeat success in the 2018-19 season. He competed in Formula One for Scuderia Toro Rosso from 2012 to 2014, and was a Ferrari test and development driver from 2015 to 2016. He won the British Formula 3 Championship in 2010 and then finished runner up to teammate Robert Wickens in the 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. Born in Pontoise, France, Vergne started competing in karting at age 4 at his dad's kart circuit near Paris. He entered his first competition in 2000 and became French champion in the "kids" ("Minimes") category in 2001. Three years later, he became runner–up in the French Rotax Max championship. In 2005, he finished as runner-up in the ICA class of the European Championship, behind James Calado, with the highlight of his karting career coming the following year when he finished seventh in the premier KF1 World Championship, held at Angerville, another track near Paris. In 2007, Vergne moved up to single-seater racing, joining the French Formula Renault Campus series which he won comfortably at the first attempt, taking ten podium places from thirteen races in the process. Vergne became a member of both the renowned Red Bull Junior Team and the French Automobile Sport Federation (FFSA), at the conclusion of the 2007 season. The following season, Vergne competed in both the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup championships for SG Formula. He finished sixth in the Eurocup standings, taking nine points scoring positions in fourteen races, including a podium in the final race of the season at Barcelona. In the West European Cup, he took fourth place in the championship, scoring three podium places. In both series, he finished as the highest placed rookie driver, and in addition, he also won the French Formula Renault 2.0 title, which was awarded to the best French driver in the West European Cup standings. For 2009, Vergne remained in both championships with SG Formula. He finished second behind Spain's Albert Costa in both the Eurocup, and the WEC. 2010 saw Vergne move to the British Formula 3 Championship, competing for multiple champions Carlin. He took 12 victories from the first 24 races, including a clean sweep of three victories at the Spa-Francorchamps round. This was enough to give him the title with six races remaining in the season. It was the third consecutive year that a driver from the Red Bull Junior Team had won the title with Carlin, following on from Jaime Alguersuari in 2008 and Daniel Ricciardo in 2009. During the season, Vergne also contested the two main non-championship Formula Three races, the Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort, where he finished just off the podium in fourth, and the Macau Grand Prix where he finished in seventh position. On both occasions he was also the highest placed finisher from the British series. In May 2010, Vergne was signed by Tech 1 Racing to contest the opening GP3 Series round in Barcelona. He was replaced by countryman Jim Pla for the next round in Turkey as it clashed dates with the British Formula 3 event at Hockenheim, but returned to the team for the following round in Valencia. However, in early July it was announced that Daniel Juncadella would take Vergne's seat at the team for the remainder of the season. Along with his Formula Three campaign, Vergne had been due to compete in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for SG Formula. However, SG Formula pulled out a week before the first race, meaning that Vergne could concentrate on his Formula Three campaign. In July 2010, it was announced that Vergne would replace Brendon Hartley at Tech 1 Racing for the final three events of the season after Hartley was released by the Red Bull Junior Team. Despite only taking part in those meetings, Vergne finished 8th in the championship with four podium places, including his first series win at Silverstone after original race winner Esteban Guerrieri was disqualified for a technical infringement. Vergne graduated to the series full-time in 2011, switching from Tech 1 Racing to Carlin. After winning the second race at the Monza round in May, Vergne was given a time penalty and demoted to third place after he was adjudged to have cut a chicane in order to maintain the lead of the race. However, after an appeal by his Carlin team, the Italian Motorsports Commission (CSAI) overturned the penalty and reinstated Vergne to the victory. Going into the final round of the season in Barcelona, Vergne trailed series leader and team–mate Robert Wickens by two points, having taken five race victories including a double win at the Hungaroring. In the final race of the season, Wickens and Vergne collided on the opening lap, sending Wickens into retirement. Although Vergne was able to continue, he was later taken out of the race by Mofaz Racing's Fairuz Fauzy, handing the title to Wickens by just nine points. Vergne had his first outing in a Formula One car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2010, driving a Red Bull RB5. In September 2010, it was announced that he would drive for Toro Rosso in the post-season young driver test to be held at the Yas Marina Circuit in November, with the team later confirming that he would drive the Toro Rosso STR5 for both days of the test. On the first day of the test he set the seventh fastest time with a lap of 1:42.489, completing 93 laps in the process. On the second day of the test, Vergne finished ninth fastest with a lap time of 1:40.974, just 0.030 seconds behind the Williams of new GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado. As well as suffering an engine-related issue which limited his running, he also had to leave the test early to travel to Macau for the end-of-season Formula Three race. In August 2011, during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, it was confirmed that Vergne would participate in selected first practice sessions later in the season for Toro Rosso, with the team later confirming that he would take part in three of the final four race weekends, beginning at the Korean Grand Prix. He did not take part in practice at the Indian Grand Prix to allow race drivers Jaime Alguersuari and Sébastien Buemi the maximum track time at the brand new circuit. Vergne was eleventh fastest during free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, less than 0.3 seconds off the pace of Alguersuari, who was in the other STR6. In November 2011, Vergne tested the title-winning Red Bull RB7 at the young driver test in Abu Dhabi, setting the fastest lap time on all three days. On 14 December 2011, it was officially confirmed that Vergne would race for Toro Rosso in the 2012 season, alongside fellow Red Bull Junior Team member Daniel Ricciardo. After qualifying and finishing in eleventh place at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Vergne scored his first World Championship points at the following race in Malaysia by finishing eighth in a rain-affected race. In the European Grand Prix he turned into the car of Heikki Kovalainen from outside of the racing line during an overtake attempt, damaging both cars severely and scattering enough debris on the track that the safety car had to be deployed. After the race the stewards found that the accident had been avoidable and that Vergne had caused the accident. He would receive a 10-position double-penalty to his qualification result at the British Grand Prix, along with a €25,000 fine. This also proved to be his first race retirement in Formula One as he had finished consistently at the previous seven races on the schedule. Vergne would not score points again until the Belgian Grand Prix, but scored again four races later, at the Korean Grand Prix and then finally at the season-ending race, the Brazilian Grand Prix. Vergne finished the season in 17th in the Drivers' Championship with 16 points, the total being accrued with four eighth-place finishes. Despite not scoring points as frequently as Daniel Ricciardo, he finished the season ahead of Ricciardo. Vergne started the season with a twelfth-place finish at the Australian Grand Prix, before taking his first point of the season with tenth place in Malaysia, despite contact with the Caterham of Charles Pic. Vergne did not score points again until the Monaco Grand Prix, where he finished the race in eighth place, matching the best result of his career. Vergne had the best qualifying of his career for the Canadian Grand Prix, when he qualified seventh on the grid, before going on to take a career best finish of sixth the following day, in the race. The rest of the season was a nightmare with a highest finish of 12th with three retirements, finishing the final race in 15th place and 15th in the standings with a total of 13 points while Daniel Ricciardo outshone him to earn 20 points. It was announced in 2013 that Vergne would drive again for Toro Rosso alongside rookie, 19-year-old Daniil Kvyat, who replaced Ricciardo at the team. Vergne qualified well in the season opener in Australia in sixth place beating champions Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button and he finished the race just ahead of his teammate in ninth, however after Daniel Ricciardo was disqualified, he moved up to eighth place. In Malaysia he qualified ninth but did not finish the race after getting a poor start and colliding with the Marussia and Caterham while his rookie teammate Kvyat finished tenth. Vergne then retired again in the following race in Bahrain. At the Chinese Grand Prix, Vergne qualified in ninth while Kvyat qualified 13th in the wet conditions. Vergne again had a poor start and finished in 12th place while Kvyat scored again in tenth place. As the calendar moved to Europe for the Spanish Grand Prix, Vergne's luck did not improve. A wheel was not properly fitted in Friday practice ending his session early and earning him a 10 place grid penalty. As a result, he started from 21st position, only ahead of Pastor Maldonado who crashed in Q1. Vergne got off to a decent start getting through the Marussias and Caterhams while pulling away from Maldonado, but he retired for the third time in five races due to technical problems. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Vergne retired for the fifth time in eight races, after finishing the previous race in Canada in eighth place. In the following race at Silverstone, Vergne was able to get in to Q3 for the 6th time, finishing the race in 10th. In Hungary, Vergne qualified eighth in changing conditions, but in the race he managed to get as high as second after pitting after a safety car; he held position in front of a battle which included Nico Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. However, after his second stop he dropped back to eventually finish in ninth place. At the Singapore Grand Prix, Vergne was able to equal his best-ever Formula One result with a sixth-place finish after a late charge which saw him pass Nico Hülkenberg, Kimi Räikkönen and Valtteri Bottas in the last four laps of the race, despite two five-second time penalties. In Japan, Vergne finished 9th in worsening wet conditions despite starting 20th on the grid. At the Russian Grand Prix, he qualified ninth while Kvyat started fifth for his home race. At the start of the race, Vergne climbed to fifth and pulled a move around the outside of Kevin Magnussen at turn three on the third lap. However, Vergne slowly dropped back, finishing 13th, directly ahead of Kvyat. In August, Red Bull announced that Kvyat would be joined in the Toro Rosso team by Max Verstappen for 2015, leaving Vergne without a drive for the 2015 season. However, after Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull, it was announced that Kvyat would replace him, leaving a possible seat for Vergne at Toro Rosso for 2015. On 26 November 2014 however, Vergne announced that he would be leaving Toro Rosso for 2015, and Carlos Sainz Jr would replace him. On 19 December 2014, it was announced that Vergne would join Ferrari in 2015, as test and development driver particularly in respect of simulator work. He left Ferrari in February 2017. After being unable to secure a full-time drive for the 2015 Formula One season, he switched to the FIA Formula E Championship and signed for Andretti Autosport. Vergne made his debut in the third race of the season in Uruguay and secured pole position. Vergne was overtaken at the start by Nelson Piquet, Jr., and he retook the lead on lap 12. After the pit stops Vergne conceded the lead to Sébastien Buemi, but he attacked Buemi until retiring due to a broken suspension two laps before the end of the race. He achieved his first podium in Long Beach, finishing second behind race winner Piquet. He finished third in the first race at the London ePrix, passing Piquet and Lucas di Grassi in the process. In the second race, he finished 16th after receiving a drive-through penalty. He ultimately finished seventh in the final championship standings, with 70 points. On 8 August 2015, it was announced that Vergne would join the DS Virgin Racing team for the 2015–16 Formula E season, partnering Sam Bird. Vergne struggled to compete with Bird and finished ninth in the championship. In July 2016, it was announced Vergne would compete with the newly formed Techeetah, following their acquisition of Team Aguri. Vergne went on to score the first podiums, fastest lap award and the team's first win at the 2016-17 season finale in Montréal. Vergne was confirmed to continue with the team in the 2017-18 season. He scored his second win at the 2018 Santiago ePrix, and achieved his third win in his Formula E career at the 2018 Punta del Este ePrix. After stringing together a consistent run of points finishes, Vergne clinched the title with a race to spare in New York, becoming the fourth different driver's champion in four seasons. For the 2018-19 season Vergne stayed with Techeetah and won 3 races in Sanya, Monaco and Bern. He also became champion for the second year in a row, becoming Formula E's first repeat champion. It was announced that in the 2019-20 season, Vergne would be racing alongside António Félix da Costa, who would replace the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team bound André Lotterer (who was his teammate from 2017 to 2019). After two points finishes and two retirements, Vergne scored his first podium finish in Marrakesh despite missing FP1 due to a fever. Super GT and Super Formula veteran James Rossiter took his place during FP1. After a brief hiatus to the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vergne scored two podium finishes in two of the six rounds in the Berlin, finishing third in round three, and scoring his first victory of the season in round four. He would ultimately finish third in the championship standings, just one point behind Stoffel Vandoorne. Vergne signed with the Peugeot factory team to compete at the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship at the Hypercar class. In 2018, Vergne signed a partnership with Veloce Esports. They became the co-founders of Veloce Racing, a racing team currently part of Extreme E. Vergne plays the piano. In addition to his native French, Vergne also speaks English, Italian, and Spanish. He considers André Lotterer, his teammate from 2017 to 2019, a close friend. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. , Jean-Éric Vergne 2023-12-20T20:06:21Z Jean-Éric Serge Raymond Vergne (French pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1990), also known as JEV, is a French racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula E Championship with DS Penske. He became the 2017–18 ABB Formula E Champion, after clinching fifth in the New York ePrix in 2018, and he became the first Formula E driver to win two consecutive championships after his repeat success in the 2018–19 season. He competed in Formula One for Scuderia Toro Rosso from 2012 to 2014, and was a Ferrari test and development driver from 2015 to 2016. He won the British Formula 3 Championship in 2010 and then finished runner up to teammate Robert Wickens in the 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. Born in Pontoise, France, Vergne started competing in karting at age 4 at his dad's kart circuit near Paris. He entered his first competition in 2000 and became French champion in the "kids" ("Minimes") category in 2001. Three years later, he became runner–up in the French Rotax Max championship. In 2005, he finished as runner-up in the ICA class of the European Championship, behind James Calado, with the highlight of his karting career coming the following year when he finished seventh in the premier KF1 World Championship, held at Angerville, another track near Paris. In 2007, Vergne moved up to single-seater racing, joining the French Formula Renault Campus series which he won comfortably at the first attempt, taking ten podium places from thirteen races in the process. Vergne became a member of both the renowned Red Bull Junior Team and the French Automobile Sport Federation (FFSA), at the conclusion of the 2007 season. The following season, Vergne competed in both the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup championships for SG Formula. He finished sixth in the Eurocup standings, taking nine points scoring positions in fourteen races, including a podium in the final race of the season at Barcelona. In the West European Cup, he took fourth place in the championship, scoring three podium places. In both series, he finished as the highest placed rookie driver, and in addition, he also won the French Formula Renault 2.0 title, which was awarded to the best French driver in the West European Cup standings. For 2009, Vergne remained in both championships with SG Formula. He finished second behind Spain's Albert Costa in both the Eurocup, and the WEC. 2010 saw Vergne move to the British Formula 3 Championship, competing for multiple champions Carlin. He took 12 victories from the first 24 races, including a clean sweep of three victories at the Spa-Francorchamps round. This was enough to give him the title with six races remaining in the season. It was the third consecutive year that a driver from the Red Bull Junior Team had won the title with Carlin, following on from Jaime Alguersuari in 2008 and Daniel Ricciardo in 2009. During the season, Vergne also contested the two main non-championship Formula Three races, the Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort, where he finished just off the podium in fourth, and the Macau Grand Prix where he finished in seventh position. On both occasions he was also the highest placed finisher from the British series. In May 2010, Vergne was signed by Tech 1 Racing to contest the opening GP3 Series round in Barcelona. He was replaced by countryman Jim Pla for the next round in Turkey as it clashed dates with the British Formula 3 event at Hockenheim, but returned to the team for the following round in Valencia. However, in early July it was announced that Daniel Juncadella would take Vergne's seat at the team for the remainder of the season. Along with his Formula Three campaign, Vergne had been due to compete in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for SG Formula. However, SG Formula pulled out a week before the first race, meaning that Vergne could concentrate on his Formula Three campaign. In July 2010, it was announced that Vergne would replace Brendon Hartley at Tech 1 Racing for the final three events of the season after Hartley was released by the Red Bull Junior Team. Despite only taking part in those meetings, Vergne finished 8th in the championship with four podium places, including his first series win at Silverstone after original race winner Esteban Guerrieri was disqualified for a technical infringement. Vergne graduated to the series full-time in 2011, switching from Tech 1 Racing to Carlin. After winning the second race at the Monza round in May, Vergne was given a time penalty and demoted to third place after he was adjudged to have cut a chicane in order to maintain the lead of the race. However, after an appeal by his Carlin team, the Italian Motorsports Commission (CSAI) overturned the penalty and reinstated Vergne to the victory. Going into the final round of the season in Barcelona, Vergne trailed series leader and teammate Robert Wickens by two points, having taken five race victories including a double win at the Hungaroring. In the final race of the season, Wickens and Vergne collided on the opening lap, sending Wickens into retirement. Although Vergne was able to continue, he was later taken out of the race by Mofaz Racing's Fairuz Fauzy, handing the title to Wickens by just nine points. Vergne had his first outing in a Formula One car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2010, driving a Red Bull RB5. In September 2010, it was announced that he would drive for Toro Rosso in the post-season young driver test to be held at the Yas Marina Circuit in November, with the team later confirming that he would drive the Toro Rosso STR5 for both days of the test. On the first day of the test he set the seventh fastest time with a lap of 1:42.489, completing 93 laps in the process. On the second day of the test, Vergne finished ninth fastest with a lap time of 1:40.974, just 0.030 seconds behind the Williams of new GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado. As well as suffering an engine-related issue which limited his running, he also had to leave the test early to travel to Macau for the end-of-season Formula Three race. In August 2011, during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, it was confirmed that Vergne would participate in selected first practice sessions later in the season for Toro Rosso, with the team later confirming that he would take part in three of the final four race weekends, beginning at the Korean Grand Prix. He did not take part in practice at the Indian Grand Prix to allow race drivers Jaime Alguersuari and Sébastien Buemi the maximum track time at the brand new circuit. Vergne was eleventh fastest during free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, less than 0.3 seconds off the pace of Alguersuari, who was in the other STR6. In November 2011, Vergne tested the title-winning Red Bull RB7 at the young driver test in Abu Dhabi, setting the fastest lap time on all three days. On 14 December 2011, it was officially confirmed that Vergne would race for Toro Rosso in the 2012 season, alongside fellow Red Bull Junior Team member Daniel Ricciardo. After qualifying and finishing in eleventh place at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Vergne scored his first World Championship points at the following race in Malaysia by finishing eighth in a rain-affected race. In the European Grand Prix he turned into the car of Heikki Kovalainen from outside of the racing line during an overtake attempt, damaging both cars severely and scattering enough debris on the track that the safety car had to be deployed. After the race the stewards found that the accident had been avoidable and that Vergne had caused the accident. He would receive a 10-position double-penalty to his qualification result at the British Grand Prix, along with a €25,000 fine. This also proved to be his first race retirement in Formula One as he had finished consistently at the previous seven races on the schedule. Vergne would not score points again until the Belgian Grand Prix, but scored again four races later, at the Korean Grand Prix and then finally at the season-ending race, the Brazilian Grand Prix. Vergne finished the season in 17th in the Drivers' Championship with 16 points, the total being accrued with four eighth-place finishes. Despite not scoring points as frequently as Daniel Ricciardo, he finished the season ahead of Ricciardo. Vergne started the season with a twelfth-place finish at the Australian Grand Prix, before taking his first point of the season with tenth place in Malaysia, despite contact with the Caterham of Charles Pic. Vergne did not score points again until the Monaco Grand Prix, where he finished the race in eighth place, matching the best result of his career. Vergne had the best qualifying of his career for the Canadian Grand Prix, when he qualified seventh on the grid, before going on to take a career best finish of sixth the following day, in the race. The rest of the season was a nightmare with a highest finish of 12th with three retirements, finishing the final race in 15th place and 15th in the standings with a total of 13 points while Daniel Ricciardo outshone him to earn 20 points. It was announced in 2013 that Vergne would drive again for Toro Rosso alongside rookie, 19-year-old Daniil Kvyat, who replaced Ricciardo at the team. Vergne qualified well in the season opener in Australia in sixth place beating champions Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button and he finished the race just ahead of his teammate in ninth, however after Daniel Ricciardo was disqualified, he moved up to eighth place. In Malaysia he qualified ninth but did not finish the race after getting a poor start and colliding with the Marussia and Caterham while his rookie teammate Kvyat finished tenth. Vergne then retired again in the following race in Bahrain. At the Chinese Grand Prix, Vergne qualified in ninth while Kvyat qualified 13th in the wet conditions. Vergne again had a poor start and finished in 12th place while Kvyat scored again in tenth place. As the calendar moved to Europe for the Spanish Grand Prix, Vergne's luck did not improve. A wheel was not properly fitted in Friday practice ending his session early and earning him a 10 place grid penalty. As a result, he started from 21st position, only ahead of Pastor Maldonado who crashed in Q1. Vergne got off to a decent start getting through the Marussias and Caterhams while pulling away from Maldonado, but he retired for the third time in five races due to technical problems. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Vergne retired for the fifth time in eight races, after finishing the previous race in Canada in eighth place. In the following race at Silverstone, Vergne was able to get in to Q3 for the 6th time, finishing the race in 10th. In Hungary, Vergne qualified eighth in changing conditions, but in the race he managed to get as high as second after pitting after a safety car; he held position in front of a battle which included Nico Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. However, after his second stop he dropped back to eventually finish in ninth place. At the Singapore Grand Prix, Vergne was able to equal his best-ever Formula One result with a sixth-place finish after a late charge which saw him pass Nico Hülkenberg, Kimi Räikkönen and Valtteri Bottas in the last four laps of the race, despite two five-second time penalties. In Japan, Vergne finished 9th in worsening wet conditions despite starting 20th on the grid. At the Russian Grand Prix, he qualified ninth while Kvyat started fifth for his home race. At the start of the race, Vergne climbed to fifth and pulled a move around the outside of Kevin Magnussen at turn three on the third lap. However, Vergne slowly dropped back, finishing 13th, directly ahead of Kvyat. In August, Red Bull announced that Kvyat would be joined in the Toro Rosso team by Max Verstappen for 2015, leaving Vergne without a drive for the 2015 season. However, after Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull, it was announced that Kvyat would replace him, leaving a possible seat for Vergne at Toro Rosso for 2015. On 26 November 2014 however, Vergne announced that he would be leaving Toro Rosso for 2015, and Carlos Sainz Jr would replace him. On 19 December 2014, it was announced that Vergne would join Ferrari in 2015, as test and development driver particularly in respect of simulator work. He left Ferrari in February 2017. After being unable to secure a full-time drive for the 2015 Formula One season, he switched to the FIA Formula E Championship and signed for Andretti Autosport. Vergne made his debut in the third race of the season in Uruguay and secured pole position. Vergne was overtaken at the start by Nelson Piquet Jr., and he retook the lead on lap 12. After the pit stops Vergne conceded the lead to Sébastien Buemi, but he attacked Buemi until retiring due to a broken suspension two laps before the end of the race. He achieved his first podium in Long Beach, finishing second behind race winner Piquet. He finished third in the first race at the London ePrix, passing Piquet and Lucas di Grassi in the process. In the second race, he finished 16th after receiving a drive-through penalty. He ultimately finished seventh in the final championship standings, with 70 points. On 8 August 2015, it was announced that Vergne would join the DS Virgin Racing team for the 2015–16 Formula E season, partnering Sam Bird. Vergne struggled to compete with Bird and finished ninth in the championship. In July 2016, it was announced Vergne would compete with the newly formed Techeetah, following their acquisition of Team Aguri. Vergne went on to score the first podiums, fastest lap award and the team's first win at the 2016–17 season finale in Montréal. Vergne was confirmed to continue with the team in the 2017–18 season. He scored his second win at the 2018 Santiago ePrix, and achieved his third win in his Formula E career at the 2018 Punta del Este ePrix. After stringing together a consistent run of points finishes, Vergne clinched the title with a race to spare in New York, becoming the fourth different driver's champion in four seasons. For the 2018–19 season Vergne stayed with Techeetah and won 3 races in Sanya, Monaco and Bern. He also became champion for the second year in a row, becoming Formula E's first repeat champion. It was announced that in the 2019–20 season, Vergne would be racing alongside António Félix da Costa, who would replace the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team bound André Lotterer (who was his teammate from 2017 to 2019). After two points finishes and two retirements, Vergne scored his first podium finish in Marrakesh despite missing FP1 due to a fever. Super GT and Super Formula veteran James Rossiter took his place during FP1. After a brief hiatus to the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vergne scored two podium finishes in two of the six rounds in the Berlin, finishing third in round three, and scoring his first victory of the season in round four. He would ultimately finish third in the championship standings, just one point behind Stoffel Vandoorne. Vergne remained with DS Techeetah for the 2020-21 season. Vergne failed to score in Diriyah and won the first race in rome, leaving Italy with 25 points after 4 races. Vergne failed to finish in the first race in Puebla after being squeezed into the wall after activating attack mode. Vergne took second in New York on day 1 but remained in the 24th slot on the grid after the lights went out the next day, giving him his second DNF. Vergne again failed to score in London and finished the season in 10th with 80 points, 19 behind De Vries who won the championship. Vergne stayed with DS Techeetah for a sixth straight season. Vergne got 12 points from Diriyah and took 3rd in Mexico. His 2 poles were in the second race in Rome and Jakarta, finishing second in both to Mitch Evans and scored 2 more podium in Monaco and Berlin inbetween. Vergne had a DNF in both second races in New York and London, Both from contact. Vergne finished 6th in both races in Seoul which meant he finished the season in 4th with 144 points. In October 2022, it was announced that Vergne would be joining the newly formed DS Penske outfit alongside reigning champion Stoffel Vandoorne for the 2023 season. The season started out with disappointing rounds in Mexico City and Diriyah, with the Frenchman only taking points in one of the three races. In an unexpected manner however, Vergne bounced back at the inaugural Hyderabad ePrix, where he scored his first victory of the season, defending from a hard-charging Nick Cassidy during the final sequence of laps. He would come close to the top step at the next round in Cape Town, where an audacious overtake from former teammate da Costa relegated Vergne to second by the checkered flag. Vergne continued his relationship with DS Penske for the 2023–24 season alongside Stoffel Vandoorne once again. Vergne signed with the Peugeot factory team to compete at the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship at the Hypercar class. In 2018, Vergne signed a partnership with Veloce Esports. They became the co-founders of Veloce Racing, a racing team currently part of Extreme E. Vergne plays the piano. In addition to his native French, Vergne also speaks English, Italian, and Spanish. He considers André Lotterer, his teammate from 2017 to 2019, a close friend. 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Buemi 2016–17 L. di Grassi 2017–18 J. Vergne 2018–19 J. Vergne 2019–20 A. da Costa 2020–21 N. de Vries 2021–22 S. Vandoorne 2022–23 J. Dennis | 1 |
Bill_Root_(bridge) | Bill_Root_(bridge) 2009-03-07T15:21:44Z William S. (Bill) Root (December 12, 1923, Miami, Florida – March 18, 2002, Boca Raton, Florida) was a professional American bridge player. He represented the United States twelve times in international competition, including the Bermuda Bowl in 1967. He was also the author of several bridge books. One of the most famous hands in his books is a 7 No Trump hand which requires very advanced jettison play. High cards often get in the declarer's way, that is they block the effective play of the hand. A solution to these blocking problems is to throw away high cards. , Bill_Root_(bridge) 2011-01-20T15:38:41Z William S. (Bill) Root (December 12, 1923, Miami, Florida – March 18, 2002, Boca Raton, Florida) was a professional American bridge player. He represented the United States twelve times in international competition, including the Bermuda Bowl in 1967. He was also the author of several bridge books. One of the most famous hands in his books is a 7 No Trump hand which requires very advanced jettison play. High cards often get in the declarer's way, that is they block the effective play of the hand. A solution to these blocking problems is to throw away high cards. | 0 |
Spiel des Jahres | Spiel des Jahres 2005-01-05T16:34:55Z The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is arguably the most prestigious board game award for German-style board games. The award was created in the late 1970s to reward excellence in game design, and to promote top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany. The award is given by a jury, which reviews games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. Here is the list of games that have won this award:, Spiel des Jahres 2006-12-13T09:42:59Z The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is a prestigious award for board and card games, The award was created in 1978 to reward excellence in game design, and to promote top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany. The award is given by a jury of German boardgame critics, who review games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. The games considered for the award are family-style games; wargames, role-playing games, collectible card games, and other complicated, highly-competitive, or hobbyist games are outside the scope of the award. Since 1989, there has been a separate award for children's games. Along with the nominations, the jury also gives a list of recommended games, and occasionally gives out special prizes for games which will not be considered for the main award. The criteria on which a game will be evaluated are, generally speaking: The nominations for the 2006 award were released on 28 May, 2006. The five games nominated were: Thurn und Taxis was announced as winner on 17 July, 2006. Along with the nominations, the jury also assigned two special prizes for games which it felt were too demanding to count as 'family style' games. The nominations for the 2005 award were released on 8 May, 2005. The five games nominated were: Niagara was announced to be the winner on 27 June, 2005. | 1 |
PAOK BC | PAOK BC 2020-01-01T07:58:22Z P.A.O.K. B.C. (Greek: Π.Α.Ο.Κ. Κ.Α.Ε.), commonly known in European competitions as PAOK, is the professional basketball department of the major Greek multi-sports club A.C. PAOK, which was founded in 1926, and is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The club's full name is Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinoupoliton (Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών), which is abbreviated as PAOK (Π.Α.Ο.Κ.), and means Pan-Thessaloniki Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans. The team has established a firm reputation in Greek basketball, especially for its success in European competitions. They have twice won the Greek Basket League (1958–59, 1991–92), and three times won the Greek Basketball Cup (1983–84, 1994–95, 1998–99), while they have also won two European Cups: the FIBA Saporta Cup (1990–91) and the FIBA Korać Cup (1993–94). The men's basketball section of the multi-sports club PAOK AC was created in 1928, when Alekos Alexiadis, a young member of the administration council of PAOK AC (founded in 1926), took the initiative to create a men's basketball team. He "gave birth" to the basketball department again, after World War II. After the war, Alekos Alexiadis began to organize a basketball team from the children that played at the only basketball court in Thessaloniki. The first honor for PAOK's basketball section was the win of the 1959 Greek League. The team was crowned the Champions of Greece, with the following players; Dapontes, Kyriakou, Oikonomou, Paschalis, Stalios, Kokkos, Theoridis, Angelidis, Stergiou, and Konstantinidis, and player-coach Iraklis Klagas. Four years later, the Greek League was reconstructed into a professional National League, but PAOK was placed in the Second National Division, where they won an immediate promotion to the first division the next year. The worst season of the club to date was in 1977, when PAOK avoided relegation, with a 66–53 play-out win over Dimokritos. PAOK met Panathinaikos in its first Greek Cup Final, in 1982. The Athenians managed to scrape through a two-point victory, despite the game being played in Alexandreio Melathron, the then PAOK home arena. In the next season, the team finished second to Aris, after being defeated in only one game by the champions. The success of both Aris and PAOK, fueled the ongoing rivalry between their fans, that had long been established in football. In 1984, the two teams reached the Greek Cup Final. PAOK head coach, Faidon Matthaiou, in trying to boost his team's morale, ordered the players to completely shave their heads. PAOK won the Greek Cup by four points (74–70), in what is now remembered as the "final of the shaven heads". The then 22-year-old Bane Prelević, debuted in the 1988–89 season. He became the definitive leader of PAOK, and a fan favorite. He was often compared to the great Nikos Galis, who was at the time the captain of Aris. Prelević was often quoted for his loyalty to the team. He had a number of injuries and medical emergencies because of weak legs, but he would constantly choose to take heavy dosages of painkillers, rather than missing out on important games. Over the 80s, PAOK was second to Aris in the Greek League. PAOK brought limitless joy to its fans, by winning the European 2nd-tier level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, when PAOK defeated CAI Zaragoza in Geneva, by a score of 76–72, on March 26, 1991. The next season, PAOK reached once again in the final of the same competition (called FIBA European Cup), but lost to Real Madrid Asegurator, by a score of 63–65. The game was going to overtime, as the two teams were equal at 63 points, when Panagiotis Fasoulas lost the ball by Rickey Brown in the last 2 seconds, and Real Madrid scored an unexpected basket. The same year, PAOK won the Greek League championship, by beating out Aris in the final four mini league and Olympiacos in the play-off finals. The 1992–93 season PAOK with a brilliant starting five roster (John Korfas, Bane Prelević, Cliff Levingston, Ken Barlow and Panagiotis Fasoulas) and under the coaching of Dušan Ivković, participated in the 1992–93 FIBA European League (now called EuroLeague), which was the club's first appearance in the top-tier level European league, and managed to reach the Final Four in Piraeus, Athens. PAOK lost in the semifinal game to the Italian champions Benetton Treviso, which was led by the Croat superstar Toni Kukoč, by a score of 77–79 and two days later in the third-place game PAOK defeated Real Madrid Teka of Arvydas Sabonis and Rickey Brown. In 1994, PAOK returned to European success, by winning the European 3rd-tier level FIBA Korać Cup, in a two-leg final against Stefanel Trieste, winning both at home and away, by 9 points. The following year, PAOK won the Greek Cup, in a 19-point victory against Chipita Panionios, 72–53. The 1995–96 season PAOK reached once again in the final of the FIBA European Cup, but lost to Taugrés, by a score of 81–88. Three years later in 1999, PAOK again won the Greek Cup, by defeating AEK, by a score of 71–54. The new home of PAOK, the PAOK Sports Arena, able to hold 8,500 fans, was inaugurated on 17 March 2000. That marked the end of a long period of time of sharing the home court of Alexandreio Melathron with Aris. Bane Prelević returned to PAOK, after quick spells at Kinder Bologna and AEK, and then quit basketball at the end of the season. He later returned to PAOK in the 2001–02 season, as an assistant coach. During the 90s, PAOK was one of the top teams in the Greek League, winning in 1992, and playing in the finals in 1994, 1998 and 2000. PAOK played in the semifinals each year, and won 3rd place in 1993, 1997 and 1999. PAOK played in the inaugural 2000–01 Euroleague, reaching the Round of 16. However, difficult financial situations led the Greek finalists to struggle in the Greek League, finishing in only 8th place. Over the next few years, results in the Greek League started improving - in 2001-2002, PAOK still finished 8th, while in 2002-2003, PAOK finished in 7th pace. Prelević became the team's head coach, and led the team into a short winning streak. PAOK had limited success in European competitions around this time, participating in FIBA competitions. PAOK finished in 6th place in the 2003–04 Greek League season, boasting a squad full of youngsters, like Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Kostas Vasileiadis and Loukas Mavrokefalidis. During the season, PAOK withdrew from FIBA competitions, and in the 2004-2005 season, made their debut in the ULEB Cup, reaching the quarefinals, but losing to BC Lietuvos rytas. In the Greek League, PAOK finished in 6th place. In 2005-2006, PAOK finished in 6th place in the Greek League. A month after the start of the 2006–07 Greek League season, Prelević was replaced as head coach by Kostas Pilafidis, and he then assumed a non-technical position, as the General Manager of the team. During a game that year, PAOK and Aris put on a spectacular show that PAOK ended up winning, after two overtime periods. PAOK returned to the ULEB Cup, once again playing in the playoffs. In the Greek League, PAOK finished 6th after losing to Olympiacos. The 2007-2008 season became one of the worst in PAOK history, with PAOK finishing in disastrous 12th place. However, during the season, PAOK picked up a great victory against Olympiacos. Disappointing European campaigns have led to PAOK taking a break, focusing on the Greek League. Over the next to seasons, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, PAOK rebounded, finishing in 7th and 5th place respectively. Before the 2009-2010 season, Soulis Markopoulos became the new head coach for PAOK. PAOK won 3rd place in the Greek League in 2010-2011. The success allowed PAOK to play in the EuroLeague qualifying tournament in 2011-2012. In 2011-2012, however, PAOK finished in a disappointing 8th place in the Greek League and missed European competition for 2012-2013. In 2012-2013, PAOK finished in 5th place, and returned to European competition, in the 2nd tier EuroCup Basketball. Over the 2010s, PAOK played in the tournament 5 times, while not qualifying for the playoffs, gained a reputation for being one of the toughest teams in the competition. In the Greek League, PAOK won 3rd place in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. In 2015-2016, PAOK finished 5th. After the 2015–17 FIBA–Euroleague Basketball controversy, PAOK returned to FIBA competition, playing in the Basketball Champions League. After finishing 5th in 2016-2017, Markoupolos was replaced by Ilias Papatheodorou. In 2017-2018, PAOK won 3rd place in the Greek League. PAOK played its home games for many years at the 5,183 seat Alexandreio Melathron (Nick Galis Hall). In 2000, the club moved to the 8,500 seat PAOK Sports Arena. Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors Greek Basket League MVP Greek League Top Scorer Greek League Top Rebounder Greek League Assist Leader Greek League Coach of the Year Greek Cup MVP 1990–91 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1993–94 FIBA Korać Cup Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. To appear in this section a player must have either: This is a list of P.A.O.K. B.C. captains since the 1979–80 season: This is a list of P.A.O.K.. B.C. coaches since the 1957–58 season: Media, PAOK BC 2021-12-30T19:59:00Z P.A.O.K. B.C. (Greek: Κ.Α.Ε. Π.Α.Ο.Κ., Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinopolitón, "Pan-Thessalonikian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans"), commonly known in European competitions as PAOK, is the professional basketball department of the major Greek multi-sports club A.C. PAOK, which was founded in 1926, and is based in Thessaloniki. The club's basketball section was founded in 1928. The club's home arena is the PAOK Sports Arena, which is an indoor arena with a seating capacity of 8,500 people. Over the years, the PAOK basketball club has established itself with a firm reputation in Greek pro basketball, especially due to its successes in European-wide competitions. In the past, the club has won Greece's top-tier level Greek Basket League twice, in the years 1959 and 1992. The club has also won the top national Greek Cup competition three times, in the years 1984, 1995, and 1999. In Pan-European competitions, PAOK has also won two European Cup titles. They won the now defunct European-wide secondary level competition, the FIBA Saporta Cup, in the 1990–91 season. They also won the now defunct European-wide third level competition, the FIBA Korać Cup, in the 1993–94 season. In addition, PAOK was the FIBA Saporta Cup Finals' runner-up in both the 1991–92 and 1995–96 seasons. On the European-wide top-tier level, PAOK competed in the EuroLeague's concluding championship tournament, the Final Four, at the 1993 Athens EuroLeague Final Four, where they finished in third place. The men's basketball section of the multi-sports club PAOK AC was created in 1928, when Alekos Alexiadis, a young member of the administration council of PAOK AC (founded in 1926), took the initiative to create a men's basketball team. He "gave birth" to the basketball department again, after World War II. After the war, Alekos Alexiadis began to organize a basketball team from the children that played at the only basketball court in Thessaloniki. The first honor for PAOK's basketball section was the win of the 1958–59 Greek League championship. The team was crowned the Champions of Greece, with the following players; Dapontes, Kyriakou, Oikonomou, Paschalis, Stalios, Kokkos, Theoridis, Angelidis, Stergiou, and Konstantinidis, and player-coach Iraklis Klagas. Four years later, the Greek League was reconstructed into a Nation-wide League, but PAOK was placed in the Second National Division, where they won an immediate league promotion to the first division the next year. The worst season of the club to date was in 1976–77, when PAOK avoided relegation, with a 66–53 play-out win over Dimokritos. PAOK met Panathinaikos in its first Greek Cup Final, in 1982. The Athenians managed to scrape through to a two-point victory, despite the game being played in Alexandreio Melathron, which was PAOK's home arena at that time. In the following 1982–83 season, the team finished in second place behind Aris. The success of both Aris and PAOK, fueled the ongoing rivalry between the clubs, that had long been established in football. In 1984, the two teams reached the Greek Cup Final. PAOK's head coach at that time, Faidon Matthaiou, in trying to boost his team's morale, ordered the players to completely shave their heads. PAOK won the Greek Cup by four points (74–70), in what is now remembered as the "final of the shaven heads". The then 22-year-old Bane Prelević, debuted with the club in the 1988–89 season. He became the definitive leader of PAOK, and a fan favorite. He was often compared to the great Nikos Galis, who was at the time the captain of Aris. Prelević was often quoted for his loyalty to the team. He had a number of injuries and medical emergencies because of weak legs, but he would constantly choose to take heavy dosages of painkillers, rather than missing out on important games. During the 1980s decade, PAOK was second in the Greek League only to Aris. PAOK brought joy to its fans, by winning the now defunct European 2nd-tier level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup's (Saporta Cup's) 1990–91 season championship, when PAOK defeated the Spanish ACB League club CAI Zaragoza in Geneva, by a score of 76–72, on March 26, 1991. In the following 1991–92 season, PAOK once again reached the final of the same competition (then called the FIBA European Cup), but they lost to the Spanish League club Real Madrid Asegurator, by a score of 65–63. The game was heading to overtime, as the two teams were equal at 63 points, when Panagiotis Fasoulas lost the ball to Rickey Brown in the last 2 seconds of the game, and Real Madrid scored an unexpected basket. The same year, PAOK won the Greek League championship, by beating Aris in the league's final four mini stage, and then Olympiacos in the playoff's finals. In the 1992–93 season, PAOK had a great starting five unit of John Korfas, Bane Prelević, Cliff Levingston, Ken Barlow and Panagiotis Fasoulas, and was led by the legendary head coach Dušan Ivković. In that season, the club competed in Europe's premier club basketball competition, the FIBA European League (now called EuroLeague), which marked the club's first appearance in the top-tier level European league. PAOK managed to reach the 1993 Athens Final Four. PAOK lost in the semifinal game to the then defending Italian League champions Benetton Treviso, which was led by the Croatian star Toni Kukoč, by a score of 79–77. Two days later, in the third-place game, PAOK defeated Spain's Real Madrid Teka, which was led by the Lithuanian star Arvydas Sabonis and American Rickey Brown. In the 1993–94 season, PAOK returned to European success, by winning the European 3rd-tier level FIBA Korać Cup competition, in a two-legged final against the Italian League club Stefanel Trieste. PAOK won both at home and away, by 9 points. The following year, PAOK won the Greek Cup title, in a 19-point victory against Chipita Panionios, by a score of 72–53. In the 1995–96 season, PAOK once again reached the final of the FIBA European Cup (Saporta Cup), but they lost to the Spanish club Taugrés, by a score of 88–81. Three years later in 1999, PAOK again won the Greek Cup title, by defeating AEK Athens, by a score of 71–54. The new home of PAOK, the PAOK Sports Arena, able to hold 8,500 fans, was inaugurated on 17 March 2000. That marked the end of a long period of time, in which the club had shared the home court of Alexandreio Melathron with Aris. Bane Prelević returned to PAOK, after having quick spells at Kinder Bologna and AEK Athens, and then quit playing basketball at the end of the 1999–00 season. He later returned to PAOK in the 2001–02 season, as an assistant coach. During the 1990s decade, PAOK was one of the top teams in the Greek League. They won the Greek League championship in 1992, and also played in the league's finals in 1994, 1998, and 2000. In addition to that, PAOK also made it to the league's semifinals each year, and they finished in 3rd place in the Greek league 1993, 1997, and 1999. PAOK played in EuroLeague Basketball's inaugural 2000–01 season, where they made it to the Round of 16, and lost to the Slovenian League club Union Olimpija. However, a difficult financial situation led the previous season's Greek League finalists to struggle in the Greek League, where they finished in 8th place in the 2000–01 Greek League season. In the 2001–02 season, PAOK again finished in 8th place in the Greek League. Prelević became the team's head coach for the 2002–03 season, and he led them to a short winning streak during the year. PAOK ended up in 7th place in the Greek League in the 2002–03 season. PAOK also competed in FIBA-organized Pan-European club competitions at that time. They competed in the European third-level 2001–02 FIBA Korać Cup, and in the European third-level 2002–03 FIBA Europe Champions Cup (EuroChallenge). PAOK finished in 6th place in the 2003–04 Greek League season, with a squad full of talented young players, like Panos Vasilopoulos, Kostas Vasileiadis and Loukas Mavrokefalidis. During the season, PAOK withdrew from FIBA-run competitions, and in the 2004–05 season, the team made its debut in the European-wide secondary level ULEB Cup (EuroCup) competition. PAOK made it to the ULEB Cup's quarterfinals that season, where they lost to the Lithuanian League club Lietuvos Rytas. In the Greek League, PAOK finished in 6th place. In the 2005–06 season, PAOK finished in 6th place in the Greek League. During a 2006–07 Greek League season game, PAOK and Aris put on a spectacular show, that PAOK ended up winning, after two overtime periods. The team finished that season's Greek League in 6th place, after losing to Olympiacos in the league's playoffs. PAOK also played in the ULEB Cup (EuroCup) in the 2006–07 season. They made it to the league's Top 16 Round that season, where they lost to the Italian League club Montepaschi Siena. The 2007–08 Greek League season was one of the worst in PAOK's history, with PAOK finishing in a disastrous 12th place in the league. However, during that Greek League season, PAOK picked up a great victory against Olympiacos. In that same 2007–08 season, PAOK also had a disappointing finish in the now defunct European-wide third- level competition, the FIBA EuroCup (EuroChallenge). Because of that, PAOK's management decided for the club to take a break from Pan-European leagues, and to instead focus mainly on the Greek League. So the club did not compete in any European-wide leagues in the following 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons. PAOK finished in 7th place in the 2008–09 Greek League season. Prior to the start of the 2009–10 season, PAOK hired Soulis Markopoulos to be the team's new head coach. PAOK finished in 5th place in the 2009–10 Greek League season. PAOK finished 3rd place in the Greek League in the 2010-11 season. That success allowed PAOK to play in the EuroLeague's qualifying tournament in the 2011-12 season. However, in the 2011-12 season, PAOK finished in a disappointing 8th place in the Greek League, and thus missed out on European-wide competition for the 2012-13 season. In the 2012-13 season, PAOK finished in 5th place in the Greek League, and was then able to return to European competition for the following season. In the next season, they competed in the 2nd-tier level EuroCup. In the Greek League, PAOK finished in 3rd place, in both the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. In the 2015-16 season, PAOK finished in 5th place in the Greek League. After the 2015–17 FIBA–Euroleague Basketball controversy, PAOK decided to return to FIBA organized competitions, and chose to play in the FIBA Champions League, rather than in the EuroCup. After finishing in 5th place in the Greek League in the 2016-17 season, the club replaced head coach Soulis Markopoulos with Ilias Papatheodorou. In the 2017-18 season, PAOK finished in 3rd place in the Greek League. Season 19/20 was the worst season on PAOK history because PAOK finished in last place of Greek basketball league; but due to COVID-19, it wasn't relegated. The only thing kept was its coach Kostas Mexas whom it kept for the following year. 2020/2021 PAOK starts the new decade from the scratch , with a new contributor Mr. Thanasis Xatzopoulos , PAOK kept was his leader Vangelis Margaritis, PAOK also brought some talented young players as Elijah Mitrou-Long and gave more time to athletes from his academy as Kostantinos Iatridis , PAOK also brought back Nondas Papantoniou. This new beginning seems to be the start of the return to the first places of the Greek league and the return to Europe. In earlier times, PAOK played its home games at the Thessaloniki Forum. After that, PAOK played its home games for many years at the 5,183 seat Alexandreio Melathron (Nick Galis Hall). In 2000, the club moved to the 8,500 seat PAOK Sports Arena. Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. 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Vahan_Totovents | Vahan_Totovents 2012-04-01T09:50:53Z Vahan Hovhannesi Totovents (Armenian: Վահան Թոթովենց; September 1, 1889 - July 17, 1937) was an Armenian writer, poet and public activist. Vahan Totovents was born in Kharpert (modern Turkey). He studied in Armenia and Istanbul, then at Wisconsin University which he finished in 1915. He was a volunteer in Caucasian front during World War I, and served as the bodyguarder, translator and secretary of General Andranik Ozanian, about whom he wrote memoires and published them in 1920. In Tbilisi Totovents edited "Hayastan" paper, the official organ of Andranik. Since 1922 he lived in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. In 1937 he became a victim of Stalinism. A prolific and multi-faceted writer, Vahan Totovents (1889–1937) produced with equal facility poems in prose and verse, short stories, novellas, novels, critical and biographical works, comedies, dramas, translations from Shakespeare, and a widely read and admired autobiographical work titled Life on the Old Roman Road. Writes Rouben Zarian in his reminiscences of Totovents: "He wrote fast. He had no trouble finding the right word. His sentences flowed with ease. He didn't try to achieve perfection, only spontaneity. He had something to say and he said it. He was never idle. A born writer and a reporter by training, he never waited for inspiration. And since his urge to write came from deep within and was irresistible, sentences and paragraphs followed one another with phenomenal speed. " Totovents was born in Mezre, a small town on the Euphrates in the province of Kharpert, where he studied under such masters of Armenian prose as Telgadinstsi and Rouben Zartarian. In his youth he traveled extensively in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he fought as a volunteer in the Caucasus during World War I. "I wanted to see my country liberated," he writes in his autobiographical sketch. "I saw instead its total destruction, and torrents of my countrymen's blood. I saw human suffering of such depth that there can be nothing deeper in this world. I saw nights gorged with blood. I saw men crazed by hunger; I saw bloodthirsty mobs attacking innocent men, women, and children, and I heard the howls of their terrified victims. " Another two years (1920–22) of wandering followed - Istanbul, Paris, New York, whence he returned to Yerevan and where, in addition to over a dozen books, he published countless essays and articles in newspapers and periodicals. Criticized for failing to produce works with "proletarian" content, Totovents refused to conform and was eventually arrested and exiled to Siberia. Very little is known about his last years. Sarepig Manoogian, his official biographer, simply informs us that Totovents "died at the height of his creative powers leaving behind many unfinished projects. . . " From Ara Baliozian's "The Armenians: Their History & Culture" The works of Totovents were published from 1907. He is the author of Doctor Burbonian (1918), Death battalion (1923), New York (1927), Baku (v. 1-3, 1930–34), Jonathan, Son of Jeremiah novels, stories and dramas. He influenced to Armenian literature especially by his Life on the Old Roman Road autobiographical novel (1930, A piece of sky film by Henrik Malian) which "reflect the society, culture, and mores not only of the Armenians of his childhood but also of their neighbors in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire". Template:Persondata, Vahan_Totovents 2013-11-18T19:17:08Z Vahan Hovhannesi Totovents (Armenian: Վահան Թոթովենց; September 1, 1889 - July 18, 1938) was an Armenian writer, poet and public activist. Vahan Totovents was born in Kharpert (modern Turkey). He studied in Armenia and Istanbul, then at Wisconsin University which he finished in 1915. He was a volunteer on the Caucasian front during World War I and served as bodyguard, translator and secretary to General Andranik Ozanian, about whom he wrote memoirs that were published in 1920. In Tbilisi Totovents edited the newspaper "Hayastan", General Andranik's official organ. Since 1922 he lived in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. In 1937 he fell victim to Stalinism. A prolific and multifaceted writer, Vahan Totovents (1889–1937) had an equal facility for writing poems in prose and verse, short stories, novellas, novels, critical and biographical works, comedies, dramas, translations from Shakespeare, and a widely read and admired autobiographical work titled Life on the Old Roman Road. Writes Rouben Zartarian in his reminiscences of Totovents: "He wrote fast. He had no trouble finding the right word. His sentences flowed with ease. He didn't try to achieve perfection, only spontaneity. He had something to say and he said it. He was never idle. A born writer and a reporter by training, he never waited for inspiration. And since his urge to write came from deep within and was irresistible, sentences and paragraphs followed one another with phenomenal speed. " Totovents was born in Mezre, a small town on the Euphrates in the province of Kharpert, where he studied under such masters of Armenian prose as Telgadinstsi and Rouben Zartarian. In his youth he traveled extensively in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he fought as a volunteer in the Caucasus during World War I. "I wanted to see my country liberated," he writes in his autobiographical sketch. "I saw instead its total destruction, and torrents of my countrymen's blood. I saw human suffering of such depth that there can be nothing deeper in this world. I saw nights gorged with blood. I saw men crazed by hunger; I saw bloodthirsty mobs attacking innocent men, women, and children, and I heard the howls of their terrified victims. " Another two years (1920–22) of wandering followed - Istanbul, Paris, New York, whence he returned to Yerevan and where, in addition to over a dozen books, he published countless essays and articles in newspapers and periodicals. Criticized for failing to produce works with "proletarian" content, Totovents refused to conform and was eventually arrested and exiled to Siberia. Very little is known about his last years. Sarepig Manoogian, his official biographer, simply informs us that Totovents "died at the height of his creative powers leaving behind many unfinished projects. . . " From Ara Baliozian's "The Armenians: Their History & Culture" The works of Totovents were published from 1907. He is the author of Doctor Burbonian (1918), Death battalion (1923), New York (1927), Baku (v. 1-3, 1930–34), Jonathan, Son of Jeremiah novels, stories and dramas. He influenced to Armenian literature especially by his Life on the Old Roman Road autobiographical novel (1930, A piece of sky film by Henrik Malian) which "reflect the society, culture, and mores not only of the Armenians of his childhood but also of their neighbors in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire". Template:Persondata | 0 |
Lactoylglutathione_lyase | Lactoylglutathione_lyase 2007-12-20T02:58:40Z In enzymology, a lactoylglutathione lyase (EC 4. 4. 1. 5) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, (R)-S-lactoylglutathione, and two products, glutathione and methylglyoxal. , Lactoylglutathione_lyase 2008-07-22T20:19:07Z In enzymology, a lactoylglutathione lyase (EC 4. 4. 1. 5) (also known as glyoxalase I) is an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of hemithioacetal adducts, which are formed in a spontaneous reaction between a glutathionyl group and aldehydes such as methylglyoxal. The systematic name of this enzyme class is (R)-S-lactoylglutathione methylglyoxal-lyase (isomerizing glutathione-forming); other names include methylglyoxalase, aldoketomutase, ketone-aldehyde mutase, and (R)-S-lactoylglutathione methylglyoxal-lyase (isomerizing). In some instances, the glutathionyl moiety may be supplied by trypanothione, the analog of glutathione in parasitic protozoa such as the trypanosomes. The human gene for this enzyme is called GLO1. Glyoxalase I derives its name from its catalysis of the first step in the glyoxalase system, a critical two-step detoxification system for methylglyoxal. Methylglyoxal is produced naturally as a byproduct of normal biochemistry, but is highly toxic, due to its chemical reactions with proteins, nucleic acids, and other cellular components. The second detoxification step, in which (R)-S-lactoylglutathione is split into glutathione and D-lactate, is carried out by glyoxalase II, a hydrolase. Unusually, these reactions carried out by the glyoxalase system does not oxidize glutathione, which usually acts as a redox coenzyme. Although aldose reductase can also detoxify methylgloxal, the glyoxalase system is more efficient and seems to be the most important of these pathways. Glyoxalase I is an attractive target for the development of drugs to treat infections by some parasitic protozoa, and cancer. Several inhibitors of glyoxalase I have been identified, such as S-(N-hydroxy-N-methylcarbamoyl)glutathione. Glyoxalase I is classified as a carbon-sulfur lyase although, strictly speaking, the enzyme does not form or break a carbon-sulfur bond. Rather, the enzyme shifts two hydrogen atoms from one carbon atom of the methylglyoxal to the adjacent carbon atom. In effect, the reaction is an intramolecular redox reaction; one carbon is oxidized whereas the other is reduced. The mechanism proceeds by subtracting and then adding protons, forming an enediolate intermediate, rather than by transferring hydrides. Unusually for a metalloprotein, this enzyme shows activity with several different metals. Glyoxalase I is also unusual in that it is stereospecific in the second half of its mechanism, but not in the first half. Structurally, the enzyme is a domain-swapped dimer in many species, although the two subunits have merged into a monomer in yeast, through gene duplication. The principal physiological function of glyoxalase I is the detoxification of methylglyoxal, a reactive 2-oxoaldehyde that is cytostatic at low concentrations and cytotoxic at millimolar concentrations. Methylglyoxal is a by-product of normal biochemistry that is a carcinogen, a mutagen and can chemically damage several components of the cell, such as proteins and nucleic acids. Methylglyoxal is formed spontaneously from dihydroxyacetone phosphate, enzymatically by triosephosphate isomerase and methylglyoxal synthase, as also in the catabolism of threonine. To minimize the amount of toxic methylglyoxal and other reactive 2-oxoaldehydes, the glyoxalase system has evolved. The methylglyoxal reacts spontaneously with reduced glutathione (or its equivalent, trypanothione), forming a hemithioacetal. The glyoxalase system converts such compounds into D-lactate and restored the glutathione. In this conversion, the two carbonyl carbons of the 2-oxoaldehyde are oxidized and reduced, respectively, the aldehyde being oxidized to a carboxylic acid and the acetal group being reduced to an alcohol. The glyoxalase system evolved very early in life's history and is found nearly universally through life-forms. The glyoaxalase system consists of two enzymes, glyoxalase I and glyoxalase II. The former enzyme, described here, rearranges the hemithioacetal formed naturally by the attack of glutathione on methylglyoxal into the product. Glyoxalase II hydrolyzes the product to re-form the glutathione and produce D-lactate. Thus, glutathione acts unusually as a coenzyme and is required only in catalytic (i. e. , very small) amounts; normally, glutathione acts instead as a redox couple in oxidation-reduction reactions. The glyoxalase system has also been suggested to play a role in regulating cell growth and in assembling microtubules. Glyoxalase I is a target for the development of pharmaceuticals against bacteria, protozoans (especially Trypanosoma cruzi and the Leishmania) and human cancer. Numerous inhibitors have been developed, most of which share the glutathione moiety. Among the most tightly binding family of inhibitors to the human enzyme are derivatives of S-(N-aryl-N-hydroxycarbamoyl)glutathione, most notably the p-bromophenyl derivative, which has a dissociation constant of 14 nM. The closest analog of the transition state is believed to be S-(N-hydroxy-N-p-iodophenylcarbamoyl)glutathione; the crystal structure of this compound bound to the human enzyme has been solved to 2 Å resolution (PDB accession code 1QIN). Experiments suggest that methylglyoxal is preferentially toxic to proliferating cells, such as those in cancer. Glyoxalase I requires bound metal ions for catalysis. The human enzyme and its counterparts in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and Pseudomonas putida use divalent zinc, Zn2+. By contrast, the prokaryotic versions often use a nickel ion. Interestingly, the glyoxalase I found in eukaryotic trypanosomal parasites such as Leishmania major and Trypanosoma cruzi can also use nickel for activity, possibly reflecting an acquisition of their GLO1 gene by horizontal gene transfer. A striking property of glyoxalase I is its lack of specificity for the catalytic metal ion. Most enzymes prefer to bind one particular type of metal, and their catalytic activity depends on having bound that metal. For example, oxidoreductases often use a specific metal ion such as iron, manganese or copper and will fail to function if their preferred metal ion is replaced, due to differences in the redox potential; thus, the ferrous superoxide dismutase cannot function if its catalytic iron is replaced by manganese, and vice versa. By contrast, although human glyoxalase I prefers to use divalent zinc, it is able to function with many other divalent metals, including magnesium, manganese, cobalt, nickel and even calcium. ; however, the enzyme is inactive with the ferrous cation. Similarly, although the prokaryotic glyoxalase I prefers nickel, it is able to function with cobalt, manganese and cadmium; however, the enzyme is inert with bound zinc, due to a change in coordination geometry from octahedral to trigonal bipyramidal. Structural and computational studies have revealed that the metal binds the two carbonyl oxygens of the methylglyoxal moiety at two of its coordination sites, stabilizing the enediolate anion intermediate. Another unusual property of glyoxalase I is its inconsistent stereospecificity. The first step of its reaction mechanism (the abstraction of the proton from C1 and subsequent protonation of O2) is not sterospecific, and works equally well regardless of the initial chirality at C1 in the hemithioacetal substrate. The resulting enediolate intermediate is achiral, but the second step of the reaction mechanism (the abstraction of a proton from O1 and subsequent protonation of C2) is definitely stereospecific, producing only the (S) form of D-lactoylglutathione. This is believed to result from the two glutamates bound oppositely on the metal ion; either one is able to carry out the first step, but only one is able to carry out the second step. The reason from this asymmetry is not yet fully determined. The methylglyoxal molecule consists of two carbonyl groups flanked by a hydrogen atom and a methyl group. In the discussion below, these two carbonyl carbons will be denoted as C1 and C2, respectively. In both the hemithioacetal substrate and the (R)-S-lactoylglutathione product, the glutathione moiety is bonded to the C1 carbonyl group. The basic mechanism of glyoxalase I is as follows. The substrate hemithioacetal is formed when a molecule of glutathione — probably in its reactive thiolate form — attacks the C1 carbonyl of methylglyoxal or a related compound, rendering that carbon tetravalent. This reaction occurs spontaneously in the cell, without the involvement of the enzyme. This hemithioacetalis then bound by the enzyme, which shifts a hydrogen from C1 to C2. The C2 carbonyl is reduced to a tetravalent alcohol form by the addition of two protons, whereas the C1 carbonyl is restored by losing a hydrogen while retaining its bond to the glutathione moiety. Glyoxalase I was originally believed to operate by the transfer of a hydride, which is a proton surrounded by two electrons (H–). In this, it was thought to resemble the classic Cannizzaro reaction mechanism, in which the attack of a hydroxylate on an aldehyde renders it into a tetravalent alcohol anion; this anion donates its hydrogens to a second aldehyde, forming a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. (In effect, two identical aldehydes reduce and oxidize each other, leaving the net oxidation state the same. ) In glyoxalase I, such a hydride-transfer mechanism would work as follows. The attack of the glutathione would leave a charged O– and the aldehyde hydrogen bound to C1. If the carbonyl oxygen of C2 can secure a hydrogen from an obliging acidic sidechain of the enzyme, forming an alcohol, then the hydrogen of C1 might simultaneously slide over with its electrons onto C2 (the hydride transfer). At the same time, the extra electron on the oxygen of C1 could reform the double bond of the carbonyl, thus giving the final product. An alternative (and ultimately correct) mechanism using proton (H+) transfer was put forward in the 1970s. In this mechanism, a basic sidechain of the enzyme abstracts the aldehyde proton from C1; at the same time, the a proton is added to the oxygen of C2, thus forming a enediol. The ene means that a double bond has formed between C2 and C1, from the electrons left behind by the abstraction of the aldehyde proton; the diol refers to the fact that two alcohols have been made of the initial two carbonyl groups. In this mechanism, the intermediate forms the product by adding another proton to C2. It was expected that solvent protons would contribute to forming the product from the enediol intermediate of the proton-transfer mechanism and when such contributions were not observed in tritiated water, 3H1O, the hydride-transfer mechanism was favored. However, an alternate hypothesis — that the enzyme active site was deeply buried away from water — could not be ruled out and ultimately proved to be correct. The first indications came when ever-increasing temperatures showed ever-increasing incorporation of tritium, which is consistent with proton transfer and unexpected by hydride transfer. The clinching evidence can with studies of the hydrogen-deuterium isotope effect on substrates fluorinated on the methyl group and deuterated on the aldehyde. The fluoride is a good leaving group; the hydride-transfer mechanism predicts less fluoride ion elimination with the deuterated sample, whereas the proton-transfer mechanism predicts more. Experiments on three types of glyoxalase I (yeast, rat and mouse forms) supported the proton-transfer mechanism in every case. This mechanism was finally observed in crystal structures of glyoxalase I. A computational study, combined with the available experimental data, suggests the following atomic-resolution mechanism for glyoxalase I. In the active site, the catalytic metal adopts an octahedral coordination geometry and, in the absence of substrate, binds two waters, two opposite glutamates, a histidine and one other sidechain, usually another histidine or glutamates. When the substrate enters the active site, the two waters are shed and the two carbonyl oxygens of the substrate are bound directly to the metal ion. The two opposing glutamates add and subtract protons from C1 and C2 and their respective oxygens, O1 and O2. The first half of the reaction transfers a proton from C1 to O2, whereas the second half transfers a proton from O1 to C2. The former reaction may be carried out by either of the opposing glutamates, depending on the initial chirality of C1 in the hemithioacetal substrate; however, the second half is stereospecific and is carried out by only one of the opposing glutamates. Several structures of glyoxalase I have been solved. Four structures of the human form have been published, with PDB accession codes 1BH5, 1FRO, 1QIN, and 1QIP. Five structures of the Escherichia coli form have been published, with accession codes 1FA5, 1FA6, 1FA7, 1FA8, and 1F9Z. Finally, one structure of the trypanothione-specific version from Leishmania major has been solved, 2C21. In all these cases, the quaternary structure of the biological unit is a domain-swapped dimer, in which the active site and the 8-stranded beta sheet secondary structure is formed from both subunits. However, in yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the two subunits have fused into a single monomer of double size, through gene duplication. Each half of the structural dimer is a sandwich of 3-4 alpha helices on both sides of an 8-stranded antiparallel beta sheet; the dimer interface is largely composed of the face-to-face meeting of the two beta sheets. The tertiary and quaternary structures of glyoxalase I is similar to those of several other types of proteins. For example, glyoxalase I resembles several proteins that allow bacteria to resist antibiotics such as fosfomycin, bleomycin and mitomycin. Likewise, the unrelated enzymes methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase, 3-demethylubiquinone-9 3-O-methyltransferase and numerous dioxygenases such as biphenyl-2,3-diol 1,2-dioxygenase, catechol 2,3-dioxygenase, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetate 2,3-dioxygenase and 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase all resemble glyoxalase I in structure. Finally, many proteins of unknown or uncertain function likewise resemble glyoxalase I, such as At5g48480 from the plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. The active site has four major regions. 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Álex Sánchez (footballer, born 1989) | Álex Sánchez (footballer, born 1989) 2018-03-05T17:31:22Z name 2 Alejandro 'Álex' Sánchez López (born 6 June 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for CD Tudelano as a striker. He came to fame in 2009, when he became the first player to appear in a professional game with just one hand whilst representing Real Zaragoza. Born in Zaragoza, Aragon, Sánchez started his football career with local Colegio Jesús-María El Salvador, joining Real Zaragoza's youth system still in his teens. In 2008, he began playing as a senior in both the national and regional leagues, with its B and C-teams. On 8 November 2009, Sánchez made his professional debut for the club, playing 20 minutes in the 1–3 La Liga away loss against Valencia CF after having come on as a substitute for Ángel Lafita. He became the first player to appear in a professional game with only one hand, but continued to be mainly registered with the reserves, however. Sánchez rejected the offer to continue playing with Zaragoza B in mid-June 2011, going on to resume his career in Segunda División B with CD Teruel and CD Tudelano. On 2 July 2015, after scoring 15 goals in the previous campaign, he signed a two-year deal with Segunda División side CA Osasuna. , Álex Sánchez (footballer, born 1989) 2019-10-29T18:23:48Z name 2 Alejandro 'Álex' Sánchez López (born 6 June 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Australian club Sydney Olympic FC as a striker. He came to fame in 2009, when he became the first player to appear in a professional game with just one hand whilst representing Real Zaragoza. Born in Zaragoza, Aragon, Sánchez started his football career with local Colegio Jesús-María El Salvador, joining Real Zaragoza's youth system still in his teens. In 2008, he began playing as a senior in both the national and regional leagues, with its B and C-teams. On 8 November 2009, Sánchez made his professional debut for the club, playing 20 minutes in the 1–3 La Liga away loss against Valencia CF after having come on as a substitute for Ángel Lafita. He became the first player to appear in a professional game with only one hand, but continued to be mainly registered with the reserves, however. Sánchez rejected the offer to continue playing with Zaragoza B in mid-June 2011, going on to resume his career in Segunda División B with CD Teruel and CD Tudelano. On 2 July 2015, after scoring 15 goals in the previous campaign, he signed a two-year deal with Segunda División side CA Osasuna. In January 2018, after representing in quick succession Tudelano (two spells) and Osasuna's second team, 28-year-old Sánchez moved abroad for the first time and joined Sydney Olympic FC in the Australian National Premier Leagues NSW. | 1 |
Nithiin | Nithiin 2013-01-20T22:47:54Z Nitin Kumar Reddy, credited as Nitin is an Indian film actor, who works primarily for the Telugu film industry. He is a native of Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in films like Jayam, Dil, Sye, and recently Ishq. In 2002, Nitin started his career with Jayam directed by Teja. He received the Best Male Debut Award at the Filmfare Awards South for this film. In 2003, he acted in the film Dil, directed by V. V. Vinayak and produced by Dil Raju. Also in 2003, Nitin appeared in Sambaram. In 2004, Nitin starred in Sri Anjaneyam by director Krishna Vamsi. He also appeared in S. S. Rajamouli's Sye the same year. Nitin's next film, Allari Bullodu, was released in 2005. In the same year the film Dhairyam, directed by Teja, came out. In 2009, his first Bollywood movie, Agyaat (a Ram Gopal Varma film), was released. Agyaat was dubbed into Telugu as Adavi. His new movie Ishq released on February 24, 2012 co-starring Nithya Menen. , Nithiin 2014-12-29T13:06:59Z Nithiin is an Indian film actor, who works primarily for the Telugu film industry. He is from Nizamabad. He has acted in hit films like Jayam,Dil,Sye, and recently Ishq,Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Heart Attack. He won Filmfare Best Male Debut (South) for the film Jayam | 1 |
Blackfriars_(SER)_railway_station | Blackfriars_(SER)_railway_station 2016-01-22T20:24:37Z Blackfriars Road was a short-lived railway station on the South Eastern Railway (SER) line, between Charing Cross and London Bridge. It was opened in 1864 with the name Blackfriars but closed less than five years later. It is now retrospectively known as Blackfriars Road to distinguish it from the current Blackfriars station. The former entrance to Blackfriars Road station under the railway bridge on Blackfriars Road itself is still clearly visible. The station, situated on the south bank of the River Thames, opened in January 1864 but closed in 1869 when it was replaced by the station now called Waterloo East (originally named Waterloo). In 1886 the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) opened a station on the north bank of the river called St. Paul's — this was renamed Blackfriars in 1937. After the renaming of the LCDR station to Blackfriars, the original SER Blackfriars station became also known as Blackfriars Road. In 2005 the bricked-up former street level entrance and original wording were restored. At track level, widening of the viaduct on its north side is the only indication of its site. In July 2009 planning permission was granted for a cafe to be built over the entranceway to the station. 51°30′15″N 0°06′15″W / 51. 50417°N 0. 10417°W / 51. 50417; -0. 10417 , Blackfriars_(SER)_railway_station 2017-04-13T19:21:13Z Blackfriars Road was a short-lived railway station on the South Eastern Railway (SER) line, between Charing Cross and London Bridge. It was opened in 1864 with the name Blackfriars but closed less than five years later. It is now retrospectively known as Blackfriars Road to distinguish it from the current Blackfriars station. The former entrance to Blackfriars Road station under the railway bridge on Blackfriars Road itself is still clearly visible. The station, situated on the south bank of the River Thames, opened in January 1864 but closed in 1869 when it was replaced by the station now called Waterloo East (originally named Waterloo). In 1886 the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) opened a station on the north bank of the river called St. Paul's — this was renamed Blackfriars in 1937. After the renaming of the LCDR station to Blackfriars, the original SER Blackfriars station became also known as Blackfriars Road. In 2005 the bricked-up former street level entrance and original wording were restored. At track level, widening of the viaduct on its north side is the only indication of its site. In July 2009 planning permission was granted for a cafe to be built over the entranceway to the station. 51°30′15″N 0°06′15″W / 51. 50417°N 0. 10417°W / 51. 50417; -0. 10417 | 0 |
Pittsburgh Steelers | Pittsburgh Steelers 2022-01-04T14:48:25Z National Football League (1933–present) The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the seventh-oldest franchise in the NFL, and the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to have won a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are among the most successful NFL franchises. The team is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles at six, and they have both played in (sixteen times) and hosted (eleven times) more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers have also won eight AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the Patriots' record eleven AFC championships. The team is tied with the Broncos and Dallas Cowboys for the second-most Super Bowl appearances with eight. They lost their most recent championship appearance, Super Bowl XLV, on February 6, 2011. The Steelers, whose history may be traced to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933. The team was owned by Art Rooney and took its original name from the baseball team of the same name, as was common practice for NFL teams at the time. To distinguish them from the baseball team, local media took to calling the football team the Rooneymen, an unofficial nickname that persisted for decades after the team had adopted its current nickname. The ownership of the Steelers has remained within the Rooney family since the organization's founding. Art Rooney's son, Dan Rooney, owned the team from 1988 until his death in 2017. Much control of the franchise has been given to Dan Rooney's son, Art Rooney II. The Steelers enjoy a large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation. They currently play their home games at Heinz Field on Pittsburgh's North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium, which had hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons. Prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20, 1933, losing 23–2 to the New York Giants. Through the 1930s, the Pirates never finished higher than second place in their division, or with a record better than .500 (1936). Pittsburgh did make history in 1938 by signing Byron White, a future Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to what was at the time the biggest contract in NFL history, but he played only one year with the Pirates before signing with the Detroit Lions. Prior to the 1940 season, the Pirates renamed themselves the Steelers. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team. During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the "Steagles". This team went 5–4–1. In 1944, they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as Card-Pitt (or, mockingly, as the "Carpets"). This team finished 0–10, marking the only winless team in franchise history. The Steelers made the playoffs for the first time in 1947, tying for first place in the division at 8–4 with the Philadelphia Eagles. This forced a tie-breaking playoff game at Forbes Field, which the Steelers lost 21–0. That would be Pittsburgh's only playoff game in the pre-merger era; they did qualify for a "Playoff Bowl" in 1962 as the second-best team in their conference, but this was not considered an official playoff. In 1970, the year they moved into Three Rivers Stadium and the year of the AFL–NFL merger, the Pittsburgh Steelers were one of three old-guard NFL teams to switch to the newly formed American Football Conference (the others being the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts), in order to equalize the number of teams in the two conferences of the newly merged league. The Steelers also received a $3 million ($23.5 million today) relocation fee, which was a windfall for them; for years they rarely had enough to build a true contending team. The Steelers' history of bad luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts for the 1969 season. Noll's most remarkable talent was in his draft selections, taking Hall of Famers "Mean" Joe Greene in 1969, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount in 1970, Jack Ham in 1971, Franco Harris in 1972, and finally, in 1974, pulling off the incredible feat of selecting four Hall of Famers in one draft year, Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth, and Mike Webster. The Pittsburgh Steelers' 1974 draft was their best ever; no other team has ever drafted four future Hall of Famers in one year, and only very few (including the 1970 Steelers) have drafted two or more in one year. The players drafted in the early 1970s formed the base of an NFL dynasty, making the playoffs in eight seasons and becoming the only team in NFL history to win four Super Bowls in six years, as well as the first to win more than two. They also enjoyed a regular-season streak of 49 consecutive wins (1971–1979) against teams that would finish with a losing record that year. The Steelers suffered a rash of injuries in the 1980 season and missed the playoffs with a 9–7 record. The 1981 season was no better, with an 8–8 showing. The team was then hit with the retirements of all their key players from the Super Bowl years. "Mean" Joe Greene retired after the 1981 season, Lynn Swann and Jack Ham after 1982's playoff berth, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount after 1983's divisional championship, and Jack Lambert after 1984's AFC Championship Game appearance. After those retirements, the franchise skidded to its first losing seasons since 1971. Though still competitive, the Steelers would not finish above .500 in 1985, 1986, and 1988. In 1987, the year of the players' strike, the Steelers finished with a record of 8–7, but missed the playoffs. In 1989, they would reach the second round of the playoffs on the strength of Merrill Hoge and Rod Woodson before narrowly missing the playoffs in each of the next two seasons, Noll's last seasons. Noll's career record with Pittsburgh was 209–156–1. In 1992, Chuck Noll retired and was succeeded by Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton. Cowher led the Steelers to the playoffs in each of his first six seasons, a feat that had been accomplished only by legendary coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns. In those first six seasons, Cowher coached them as deep as the AFC Championship Game three times and following the 1995 season an appearance in Super Bowl XXX on the strength of the "Blitzburgh" defense. However, the Steelers lost to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXX, two weeks after a thrilling AFC Championship victory over the Indianapolis Colts. Cowher produced the franchise's record-tying fifth Super Bowl win in Super Bowl XL over the NFC champion Seattle Seahawks ten years later. With that victory, the Steelers became the third team to win five Super Bowls, and the first sixth-seeded playoff team to reach and win the Super Bowl since the NFL expanded to a 12-team post-season tournament in 1990. He coached through the 2006 season which ended with an 8–8 record, just short of the playoffs. Overall Cowher's teams reached the playoffs 10 of 15 seasons with six AFC Championship Games, two Super Bowl berths and a championship. Cowher's career record with Pittsburgh was 149–90–1 in the regular season and 161–99–1 overall, including playoff games. On January 7, 2007, Cowher resigned from coaching the Steelers, citing a need to spend more time with his family. He did not use the term "retire", leaving open a possible return to the NFL as coach of another team. A three-man committee consisting of Art Rooney II, Dan Rooney, and Kevin Colbert was set up to conduct interviews for the head coaching vacancy. On January 22, 2007, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Mike Tomlin was announced as Cowher's successor as head coach. Tomlin is the first African-American to be named head coach of the team in its 75-year history. Tomlin became the third consecutive Steelers Head Coach to go to the Super Bowl, equaling the Dallas Cowboys (Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer) in this achievement. He was named the Motorola 2008 Coach of the Year. On February 1, 2009, Tomlin led the Steelers to their second Super Bowl of this decade, and went on to win 27–23 against the Arizona Cardinals. At age 36, he was the youngest head coach to ever win the Super Bowl, and he is only the second African-American coach to ever win the Super Bowl (Tony Dungy was the first). The 2010 season made Tomlin the only coach to reach the Super Bowl twice before the age of 40 as he took the team to Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. However, the Steelers were defeated by the Green Bay Packers, 31–25. The Steelers recorded their 400th victory in 2012 after defeating the Washington Redskins. Through the end of the 2020 season, Tomlin's record is 153–86–1 (.640), including playoffs. He is the first Pittsburgh coach to never post a losing season. The 2013–17 seasons were noted for record performances from the "Killer B's". This trio consisted of Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger and Le'Veon Bell. Occasionally, the "Killer B's" has also included kicker Chris Boswell due to his ability to hit game-winning field goals. Since the NFL merger in 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers have compiled a regular-season record of 444–282–2 (.635) and an overall record of 480-305-2 (.635) including the playoffs, reached the playoffs 30 times, won their division 22 times, played in 16 AFC championship games, and won six of eight Super Bowls. They are also the only NFL team not to have a season with 12 or more losses since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978. Since 2008, the Rooney family has brought in several investors for the team while retaining control of the team itself. This came about so that the team could comply with NFL ownership regulations. Dan Rooney, and his son, Art Rooney II, president of the franchise, wanted to stay involved with the franchise, while two of the brothers – Timothy and Patrick – wanted to further pursue racetracks that they own in Florida and New York. Since 2006, many of the racetracks have added video slot machines, causing them to violate "NFL policy that prohibits involvement with racetrack and gambling interests". Upon Dan Rooney's death in 2017, he and Art Rooney II retained control of the team with the league-minimum 30%, the following make up the other investors: Through the end of the 2015 season, the Steelers have an all-time record of 624–552–21, including playoffs. In recent seasons the Steelers have generally performed well, qualifying for the playoffs six times in the past ten seasons and winning the Super Bowl twice since 2005. In the NFL's "modern era" (since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970) the Steelers have posted the best record in the league. In 2017, they became the first team to reach 450 victories in the regular season since the 1970 merger. The franchise has won the most regular-season games, the most playoff games (33 playoff wins; the Dallas Cowboys are second with 32), won the most divisional titles (20), has played in the most conference championship games (15), hosted the most conference championship games (11), and is tied with the Dallas Cowboys, the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl appearances (8). The Steelers have the best winning percentage (including every expansion team), earned the most All-Pro nominations, and have accumulated the most Super Bowl wins (6) since the modern game started in 1970. In 2017, they became the first team to reach 450 victories in the regular season since the 1970 merger. The Steelers are 36-26 (.580) in the postseason, with all but one (the 1947 playoff) having been played since the merger. The franchise, along with the Rooney family have for generations been strong advocates for equality of opportunity for both minorities and women. Among these achievements of the Steelers was the first to hire an African-American assistant coach (September 29, 1957, with Lowell Perry), the first to start an African-American quarterback (December 3, 1973, with Joe Gilliam), the first team to boast of an African-American Super Bowl MVP (January 12, 1975, with Franco Harris), the first to hire an African-American Coordinator (September 2, 1984, with Tony Dungy), the first owner to push for passage of an "equal opportunity" mandating that at least one minority candidate is given an interview in all head coach hiring decisions throughout the league (the Rooney Rule in the early 2000s), and the first to hire a female as full-time athletic trainer (Ariko Iso on July 24, 2002). Note: Although Marlin Briscoe is sometimes erroneously cited as the first African-American starting quarterback in 1968, this was not for an NFL team and not in an NFL game (the Denver Broncos, for which Briscoe played, were an American Football League team then), additionally the vast majority of Briscoe's career was not as quarterback. The Steelers have used black and gold as their colors since the club's inception, the lone exception being the 1943 season when they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and formed the "Steagles"; the team's colors at that time were green and white as a result of wearing Eagles uniforms. Originally, the team wore solid gold-colored helmets and black jerseys. The Steelers' black and gold colors are now shared by all major professional teams in the city, including the Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball and the Pittsburgh Penguins in ice hockey. The shade of gold differs slightly among teams: the Penguins have previously used "Vegas Gold", a color similar to metallic gold, and the Pirates' gold is a darker mustard yellow-gold, while the Steelers "gold" is more of a bright canary yellow. Black and gold are also the colors of the city's official flag. The Steelers logo was introduced in 1962 and is based on the "Steelmark", originally designed by Pittsburgh's U.S. Steel and now owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). In fact, it was Cleveland-based Republic Steel that suggested the Steelers adopt the industry logo. It consists of the word "Steelers" surrounded by three astroids (hypocycloids of four cusps). The original meanings behind the astroids were, "Steel lightens your work, brightens your leisure, and widens your world." Later, the colors came to represent the ingredients used in the steel-making process: yellow for coal, red for iron ore, and blue for scrap steel. While the formal Steelmark logo contains only the word "Steel", the team was given permission to add "ers" in 1963 after a petition to AISI. The Steelers are the only NFL team that puts its logo on only one side of the helmet (the right side). Longtime field and equipment manager Jack Hart was instructed to do this by Art Rooney as a test to see how the logo appeared on the gold helmets; however, its popularity led the team to leave it that way permanently. A year after introducing the logo, they switched to black helmets to make it stand out more. The Steelers, along with the New York Giants, are one of only two teams in the National Football League to have the players' uniform numbers on both the front and back of the helmets. The current uniform designs were introduced in 1968. The design consists of gold pants and either black jerseys or white jerseys, except for the 1970 and 1971 seasons when the Steelers wore white pants with their white jerseys. In 1997, the team switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font (Futura Condensed) on the helmets, and a Steelers logo was added to the left side of the jersey. The 2007–2011 third uniform, consisting of a black jersey with gold lettering, white pants with black and gold stripes, and a gold helmet were first used during the Steelers' 75th anniversary season in 2007. They were meant to evoke the memory of the 1963–1964 era uniforms. The uniforms were so popular among fans that the Steelers' organization decided to keep them and use them as a third option during home games only. In 2012, the Steelers introduced a new third uniform, consisting of a yellow jersey with black horizontal lines (making a bumble bee like pattern) with black lettering and black numbers placed inside a white box, to represent the jerseys worn by the Steelers in their 1934 season. The rest of the uniform consists of beige pants, yellow with black horizontal stripped socks, and the Steelers regular black helmet. The uniforms were used for the Steelers' 80th anniversary season. Much like the previous alternate these jerseys were so popular that they were used up through the 2016 season. The jerseys were nicknamed the "bumblebee jerseys" due to looking like the pattern of a bumblebee. The jerseys were retired after the 2016 season. In 2018, the Steelers unveiled a third uniform based on those worn by the Steel Curtain teams of the 1970s. It is similar to the current uniforms but without the Steelers logo on the left chest and use block lettering and numbers in place of Futura Condensed. In 1979, the team owners were approached by then-Iowa Hawkeyes Head Coach Hayden Fry about designing his fading college team's uniforms in the image of the Steelers. Three days later, the owners sent Fry the reproduction jerseys (home and away versions) of then quarterback Terry Bradshaw. Today, the Hawkeyes still retain the 1979 Steelers uniforms as their home, and away colors. The Pittsburgh Steelers have three primary rivals, all within their division: (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, and Cincinnati Bengals). They also have rivalries with other teams that arose from post-season battles in the past, most notably the New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans and Dallas Cowboys. They also have an intrastate rivalry with the Philadelphia Eagles, but under the current scheduling the teams play each other only once every four years. The Raiders–Steelers rivalry was one of the most heated of the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. The Steelers' first playoff victory in franchise history was against the Raiders, which occurred on December 23, 1972 in a 13–7 victory over the Raiders; the victory occurred when Terry Bradshaw threw a pass intended for John Fuqua that was deflected into the hands of Franco Harris, who scooped the ball from nearly hitting the ground and carried the ball in for a touchdown, which was later referred to as the Immaculate Reception, while attracting controversy from Raiders players and coaches, who alleged that the ball had bounced off Fuqua, which would have made it an illegal play per the rules of the time. The victory sent Pittsburgh to their first ever AFC Championship Game. The following year, the two teams met in the Divisional Round again, and the Raiders responded with a 33–14 victory to advance to the AFC title game. However, Pittsburgh fired back with two straight AFC Championship victories over the Raiders in 1974 (24–13) and 1975 (16–10) to reach the Super Bowl. Oakland responded with a victory over Pittsburgh in the 1976 AFC Championship game 24–7 (the third consecutive AFC title game between the two teams), but not before Chuck Noll referred to Oakland's George Atkinson as part of the NFL's "criminal element" after his alleged cheap-shot on Lynn Swann during a regular-season matchup. Atkinson and the Raiders later filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Noll, but lost. Following the 1983 regular season, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Steelers 38–10 in the AFC Divisional round which turned out to be the last NFL game for Steeler Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw who did not play due to injury. While the rivalry has dissipated over the years (mostly due to Oakland's decline after 2002), the teams have had notable games against each other including an upset Steelers victory towards the end of the 2000 season to prevent the Raiders from obtaining homefield advantage in the playoffs, and an upset Raiders victory in week 8 of the 2006 NFL season (20–13), which helped cost the Steelers a playoff berth. In Week 13 of the 2009 season, another Raiders upset victory happened; the game lead changed five times on five touchdowns in the fourth quarter until Raiders QB Bruce Gradkowski's third touchdown of the quarter won it with nine seconds to go. The 27–24 loss cost the Steelers another playoff run. The teams met at Pittsburgh in 2010, where the Steelers blew out the Raiders 35–3, and ended their 3-game winning streak; the game was further notable for a punch thrown by Richard Seymour of the Raiders against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The Raiders then hosted the Steelers in 2012 and erased a 31–21 gap to win 34–31. The two clubs met again in 2013 and the Raiders won again, 21–18. In 2015, the Steelers defeated the Raiders 38–35 at Heinz Field. The Steelers trail the all-time series 16–13 (13–10 in regular season). In their most recent matchup, the Raiders defeated the Steelers 24–21 on December 9, 2018, in Oakland, which, ironically, would cost Pittsburgh another playoff berth. The Cowboys–Steelers rivalry started with the Cowboys' first game as a franchise in 1960 (against the Steelers) at the Cotton Bowl with the Steelers coming away with a 35–28 victory. These teams hold a record for the most times (three) that two teams have met in a Super Bowl. The first two times the favored Steelers and Cowboys met came with Pittsburgh victories in the Orange Bowl Super Bowl X 21–17 and Super Bowl XIII 35–31. The Cowboys never won a regular-season game in the Orange Bowl and lost three Super Bowl games (once to the Baltimore Colts and twice to the Steelers). Between the Cowboys and Steelers, Super Bowl XIII had the greatest number of future Pro Football Hall of Fame players participating, which as of 2021 numbered 25 – sixteen players and nine coaches/front office, including Ernie Stautner, defensive coordinator for the Cowboys who was a HoF defensive tackle for the Steelers. The teams featured an all-star matchup at quarterback between the Steelers' Terry Bradshaw and the Cowboys' Roger Staubach, both of whom are in the Hall of Fame. In 1977, Staubach and the Cowboys won Super Bowl XII, their second and last loss of their season being inflicted by Bradshaw and the Steelers, 28–13 at Three Rivers Stadium in November. In 1979, Staubach's final season, the two defending conference champs met again at Three Rivers, the Steelers winning 14–3 en route to winning their fourth Super Bowl title. The Steelers won six of eight meetings during the 1970s and 80s, before the Cowboys won all four meetings during the 1990s, including the teams' record third Super Bowl meeting in 1996, as this time the heavily favored Cowboys beat the Steelers 27–17. Dallas cornerback Larry Brown intercepted Pittsburgh quarterback Neil O'Donnell twice and was named the game's MVP. The teams' first two meetings of the 21st century (2004 and 2008) were won by the Steelers, including a come from behind victory on December 7, 2008, in Pittsburgh, when the Steelers drove the length of the field to tie the game 13–13, then cornerback Deshea Townsend returned an intercepted pass from Tony Romo for the game's final score, Steelers 20, Cowboys 13. The Cowboys won on December 16, 2012, at Cowboys Stadium by a 27–24 margin in overtime and won 35–30 at Heinz Field on November 13, 2016. The all-time series is led by the Dallas Cowboys, 17–16. The Pittsburgh/Dallas rivalry served as a backdrop to the 1977 film Black Sunday, parts of which were filmed during Super Bowl X. Most recently, the Steelers beat the Cowboys by a 24-19 margin. The teams will next play in the regular season in Pittsburgh in 2024. The Denver Broncos in 2011 broke a tie with the Oakland Raiders for the most playoff meetings versus the Steelers and added yet another meeting in 2015 (the Broncos have met Pittsburgh eight times to Oakland's six). The rivalry dates from 1970, but the first notable contest came in 1973, when Denver dealt Pittsburgh its first regular-season defeat at Three Rivers Stadium, 23–13. The following year, they met in the NFL's first regular-season overtime game, which ended in a 35–35 tie. Denver's first playoff game had them hosting the Steelers in the 1977 divisional round; the Broncos won 34–21. The following year, the Steelers hosted and defeated Denver 33–10 in the divisional round. Their next playoff matchup was the 1984 divisional round in Mile High Stadium; the Steelers pulled the upset 24–17. They nearly pulled the upset again 5 years later in Denver, but the Broncos prevailed in the divisional playoff, 24–23. In 1997, the two teams met in Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship Game, where Denver squeaked out at 24–21 win. Eight years later, the Steelers advanced to Super Bowl XL by beating Denver 34–17 in Colorado. In 2011, after appearing in Super Bowl XLV, the Steelers had their campaign to repeat as AFC Champions dashed in Denver after a stunning overtime upset by the Tim Tebow-led Broncos in January 2012, in what would become known as the "316 game". The following September the Steelers were defeated in Denver 31–19 in Peyton Manning's debut as Broncos quarterback. The two clubs met twice in 2015, as the Steelers defeated the Broncos in the regular season but fell in the Divisional Round of the AFC playoffs; Denver presently leads the series 20–12–1, including 5–3 in the playoffs. Neither team has beaten the other more than three times in a row. In their last matchup, the Steelers beat the Broncos on September 20, 2020, in Denver by the score of 26–21. The teams' next regular season matchup will take place in Pittsburgh in 2021. The New England Patriots emerged as a prominent rival in league circles when the Patriots upset the Steelers in the 2001 AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field, though the two teams had met in the postseason twice before; the Patriots defeated the Steelers in 1996 28-3 while the Steelers won 7–6 in 1997; both times, the Patriots fielded players with Pittsburgh-area roots in Ty Law and Curtis Martin. Martin's final game with the Patriots was in the 1997 playoffs before he departed to the rival New York Jets. Following the 2001 AFC title upset, the Patriots defeated the Steelers 30–14 at the start of the 2002 season. Pittsburgh did not exact revenge for the two losses until ending the Patriots' record-setting 21-game winning streak in week 6 of the 2004 NFL season. Later that season, the Steelers lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Patriots in the AFC Championship game after a 15–1 regular season. The Patriots won six of seven meetings over a ten-year period (1998–2007) before the Steelers broke through with a 33–10 victory at Foxborough in 2008, after Matt Cassel turned the ball over five times. The Patriots in 2013 then made history by becoming the first opponent to score 55 points on the Steelers, winning 55–31. The Patriots won again in 2015 (28-21) and 2016's regular season (27-16), and then won 36–17 in the 2016 AFC Championship Game. They also won in 2017 when a go-ahead touchdown reception by Steelers' tight end Jesse James was controversially called back. Though they ultimately missed the playoffs, the Steelers defeated the Patriots by a score of 17–10 on December 16, 2018, in Pittsburgh. In the postseason, the Patriots have outscored the Steelers 135–75, with the Patriots maintaining a 4–1 record. The only other franchises with winning AFC playoff records against Steelers include the Los Angeles Chargers (2–1), the Jacksonville Jaguars (2–0), and the Broncos (5–3). The Steelers have an all-time regular-season record of 15–13 against the Patriots. In the Bill Belichick era, the main period of the rivalry, the Patriots have a 12–4 record against the Steelers. In their last matchup, the Patriots beat the Steelers 33–3 on Sunday Night Football. Less well known is Pittsburgh's rivalry with the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans franchise. The Oilers were aligned into the AFC Central with the Steelers in 1970 and were division rivals for 32 seasons. The Steelers dominated the rivalry during the Houston era and defeated the Oilers in all three of their playoff matchups. However, since the franchise moved to Tennessee in 1997, the rivalry shifted, with the Titans winning 13 of 22 meetings (including a bitter 34–31 playoff showdown in 2002); the Titans won seven in a row in the 1997–2001 period, the longest win streak by either team in the series. The Steelers have won 47 of 79 career meetings following their 27–24 win at Nissan Stadium in 2020. Prior to the 2007 season, the Steelers introduced Steely McBeam as their official mascot. As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the team, his name was selected from a pool of 70,000 suggestions submitted by fans of the team. Diane Roles of Middlesex Township, submitted the winning name which was "meant to represent steel for Pittsburgh's industrial heritage, "Mc" for the Rooney family's Irish roots, and Beam for the steel beams produced in Pittsburgh, as well as for Jim Beam, her husband's favorite alcoholic beverage." Steely McBeam is visible at all home games and participates in the team's charitable programs and other club-sponsored events. Steely's autograph is known to be drawn with an oversized S, and the L is drawn to look like a beam of steel. The Steelers have a tradition of having a large fanbase, which has spread from Pittsburgh. In August 2008, ESPN.com ranked the Steelers' fans as the best in the NFL, citing their "unbelievable" sellout streak of 299 consecutive games. The team gained a large fan base nationally based on its success in the 1970s, but many consider the collapse of the city's steel industry at the end of the 1970s dynasty into the 1980s (and the resulting diaspora) to be a large catalyst for the size of the fan base in other cities. The Steelers have sold out every home game since the 1972 season. The Pittsburgh Steelers have numerous unofficial fan clubs in many cities throughout the country, that typically meet in bars or taverns on game days. This phenomenon is known to occur for other NFL teams as well, but "Steeler bars" are more visible than most, including representative establishments even in cities that field their own NFL teams. The Terrible Towel has been described by the Associated Press as "arguably the best-known fan symbol of any major pro sports team". Conceived of by broadcaster Myron Cope in 1975, the towel's rights have since been given to the Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis, which cares for over 900 people with intellectual disability and physical disabilities, including Cope's autistic son. Since 1996, proceeds from the Terrible Towel have helped raise more than $2.5 million for the school. The Steelers have no official fight song, but many fan versions of Here we go Steelers and the Steelers Polka (the latter a parody of Pennsylvania Polka) by ethnic singer Jimmy Pol, both originating in the 1970s, have been recorded. Since 1994, the song Here We Go by local singer Roger Wood has been popular among fans. During Steelers games, Styx's Renegade is often used to rally the crowd. During the offseason, the Steelers have long participated in charity basketball games throughout Western Pennsylvania and neighboring areas. The games usually feature six active players as well as their player-coach playing against a group of local civic leaders. The players, whose participants aren't announced until the day of the game, sign free autographs for fans during halftime. In 2001, the Steelers moved into Heinz Field. The franchise dating back to 1933 has had several homes. For 31 seasons, the Steelers shared Forbes Field with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1933 to 1963. In 1958, though they started splitting their home games at Pitt Stadium three blocks away at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1964 to 1969, the Steelers played exclusively at the on-campus facility before moving with the Pirates to Three Rivers Stadium on the city's Northside. Three Rivers is remembered fondly by the Steeler Nation as where Chuck Noll and Dan Rooney turned the franchise into a powerhouse, winning four Super Bowls in just six seasons and making the playoffs 11 times in 13 seasons from 1972 to 1984, the AFC title game seven times. Since 2001 however a new generation of Steeler greats has made Heinz Field legendary with multiple AFC Championship Games being hosted and two Super Bowl championships. The Steelers hold training camp east of the city at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. The site is one of the most storied in the league with Peter King of SI.com describing it as: "... I love the place. It's the perfect training-camp setting, looking out over the rolling hills of the Laurel Highlands in west-central Pennsylvania, an hour east of Pittsburgh. On a misty or foggy morning, standing atop the hill at the college, you feel like you're in Scotland. Classic, wonderful slice of Americana. If you can visit one training camp, this is the one to see. The team has its headquarters and practice facilities at the state-of-the-art University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sportsplex on Pittsburgh's Southside. Constructed in 2000, the facility combines the vast expertise of sports medical professionals and researchers as well as hosting the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team. The Rooney family has long had a close relationship with Duquesne University in the city and from the teams founding in the 1930s to the late 1990s used Art Rooney Field and other facilities on campus as either its primary or secondary in-season training site as well as Greenlee Field during the 1930s. In the 1970s and 1980s, the team had season scrimmages at South Park in the suburban south hills of Pittsburgh. During various seasons including the strike season of 1987, the Steelers used Point Stadium in nearby Johnstown for game week practices. During the 1950s St. Bonaventure University and suburban Ligonier also served as a pre-season training camp sites. Running backs Wide receivers Tight ends Defensive linemen Defensive backs Special teams Roster updated April 28, 2024 80 active, 7 unsigned The Steelers retired Stautner's #70 in 1964 before creating a 50-year tradition of not retiring numbers. The team retired Greene's #75 in 2014 and left the possibility open that they would retire other players' jersey numbers at later dates. However, several numbers have not been reissued since the retirement of the players who wore them, including: The Steelers boast the third most "primary" inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, i.e. inductees that spent most or all of their NFL careers in Pittsburgh. They also can claim the most honorees of any franchise founded on or after 1933 and the only franchise with three members of ownership in the Hall of Fame. The following Steelers players have been named to the Pro Bowl: The following Steelers were named to NFL All-Decade Teams (and 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams, selected in 1994 and 2019, respectively). Only those who spent time with Pittsburgh during the respective decades are listed. Bold indicates those elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2007, in celebration of the franchise's 75th season, the team announced an updated All-Time team of the 33 best players who have ever played for the Steelers. This team supplanted the previous All-Time team of 24 players named as part of the 50th anniversary commemoration in 1982. A "Legends team" consisting of the club's best pre-1970s players was released concurrently with the latest All-Time team. The regional Dapper Dan Charities has since 1939 named the "Sportsman of the Year" in the Pittsburgh region. 19 Steelers have won the award in 23 events: The Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor was established on August 1, 2017. There have been 45 inductees. The Steelers have had 16 coaches through their history. They have cycled through the fewest head coaches in the modern NFL history. Their first coach was Forrest Douds, who coached them to a 3–6–2 record in 1933. Chuck Noll had the longest term as head coach with the Steelers; he is one of only four coaches to coach a single NFL team for 23 years. Hired prior to the 2007 season, the Steelers current coach is Mike Tomlin. → Coaching staff → Management → More NFL staffs Source: Source: As of 2006, the Steelers' flagship radio stations were WDVE 102.5 FM and WBGG 970 AM. Both stations are owned by iHeartMedia. Games are also available on 51 radio stations in Pennsylvania, Western Maryland, Ohio, and Northern West Virginia. The announcers are Bill Hillgrove and Tunch Ilkin. Craig Wolfley is the sideline reporter. Myron Cope, the longtime color analyst and inventor of the "Terrible Towel", retired after the 2004 season, and died in 2008. Pre-season games not shown on one of the national broadcasters are seen on CBS O&O KDKA-TV, channel 2; sister CW O&O WPCW, channel 19; and AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. KDKA-TV's Bob Pompeani and former Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch do the announcing for the pre-season games, as well as the two hosting the pre-game program Steelers Kickoff during the regular season prior to the national airing of The NFL Today. Pompeani and former Steelers lineman Chris Hoke also host the Xfinity Xtra Point following the game on days when CBS does not have that week's NFL doubleheader. When CBS has a week's doubleheader, the show airs on WPCW. Coach Mike Tomlin's weekly press conference is shown live on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. Both Batch and Hoke replaced former Steelers lineman Edmund Nelson, who retired from broadcasting in 2015. Thursday Night Football broadcasts are shown locally on Fox affiliate WPGH-TV, channel 53 (along with home games with NFC opponents and some flexed interconference games), while ESPN Monday Night Football broadcasts are shown locally on WTAE-TV, channel 4. (WTAE-TV is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which owns a 20% stake in ESPN.) By virtue of being members of the AFC, most of the Steelers' games air on CBS and KDKA. NBC Sunday Night Football games are carried by WPXI, channel 11, in the market. The Steelers hold a national contract with Grupo Imagen for radio rights to their games in Mexico; Imagen broadcasts the Steelers on their stations in 17 Mexican cities. The Steelers franchise has a rich history of producing well-known sportscasters over the years. The most famous of these is probably Myron Cope, who served as a Steelers radio color commentator for 35 seasons (1970–2004). Several former Steelers players have gone on to careers in media after completing their playing careers. The Steelers Digest is the only official newspaper for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It has been published for 22 years and is currently published by Dolphin/Curtis Publishing in Miami, Florida, which also handles several other publications. The newspaper is very widely acknowledged by Steelers fans. Issues are mailed out to paying subscribers weekly through the season after every regular-season game and continue through playoffs as long as the Steelers do. After a Super Bowl victory, a bonus issue is published, which is followed by a draft preview, draft recap, and training camp edition every other month, then leading into the pre-season. There are typically 24 issues of the paper within a publishing year. The newspaper is listed on the official Steelers.com page. The Steelers' success over several decades has permeated film and literature. The Steelers are portrayed in the following big-budget Hollywood films: The protagonist of John Grisham's novel "The Associate" is a staunch Steelers fan. In the summer of 2019, the Kennywood theme park located near Pittsburgh, opened a new land themed to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers Country, featuring a major record-breaking coaster, the Steel Curtain. The land, in addition to this ride, features a Steelers-themed experience, and an 'End Zone Restaurant'. The Steelers helped launch the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research in November 2016 by donating $1 million. The Foundation, started by Steelers president Art Rooney II, focuses on education and research regarding brain injuries and sports-related concussions. In June 2017, the Steelers announced an inaugural charity walk to raise money for the foundation., Pittsburgh Steelers 2023-12-30T17:25:10Z National Football League (1933–present) 1943 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Philadelphia Eagles): 1944 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Chicago Cardinals): The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North Division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the seventh-oldest franchise in the NFL, and the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to have won a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are among the most successful NFL franchises, especially during their dynasty in the 1970s. The team is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles at six, and they have both played in (16 times) and hosted (11 times) more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers have also won eight AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the Patriots' record 11 AFC championships. The team is tied with the Broncos and Dallas Cowboys for the second-most Super Bowl appearances with eight. The Steelers, whose history may be traced to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933. The team was owned by Art Rooney and took its original name from the baseball team of the same name, as was common practice for NFL teams at the time. To distinguish them from the baseball team, local media took to calling the football team the Rooneymen, an unofficial nickname that persisted for decades after the team had adopted its current nickname. The ownership of the Steelers has remained within the Rooney family since the organization's founding. Art Rooney's son, Dan Rooney, owned the team from 1988 until his death in 2017. Much control of the franchise has been given to Dan Rooney's son, Art Rooney II. The Steelers enjoy a large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation. They currently play their home games at Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh's North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001 as Heinz Field, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium, which had hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons. Prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20, 1933, losing 23–2 to the New York Giants. Through the 1930s, the Pirates never finished higher than second place in their division, or with a record better than .500 (1936). Pittsburgh did make history in 1938 by signing Byron White, a future Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to what was at the time the biggest contract in NFL history, but he played only one year with the Pirates before signing with the Detroit Lions. Prior to the 1940 season, the Pirates renamed themselves the Steelers. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team. During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the "Steagles". This team went 5–4–1. In 1944, they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as Card-Pitt (or, mockingly, as the "Carpets"). This team finished 0–10, marking the only winless team in franchise history. The Steelers made the playoffs for the first time in 1947, tying for first place in the division at 8–4 with the Philadelphia Eagles. This forced a tie-breaking playoff game at Forbes Field, which the Steelers lost 21–0. That would be Pittsburgh's only playoff game in the pre-merger era; they did qualify for a "Playoff Bowl" in 1962 as the second-best team in their conference, but this was not considered an official playoff. In 1970, the year they moved into Three Rivers Stadium and the year of the AFL–NFL merger, the Pittsburgh Steelers were one of three old-guard NFL teams to switch to the newly formed American Football Conference (the others being the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts), in order to equalize the number of teams in the two conferences of the newly merged league. The Steelers also received a $3 million ($23.5 million today) relocation fee, which was a windfall for them; for years they rarely had enough to build a true contending team. The Steelers' history of bad luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts for the 1969 season. Noll's most remarkable talent was in his draft selections, taking Hall of Famers "Mean" Joe Greene in 1969, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount in 1970, Jack Ham in 1971, Franco Harris in 1972, and finally, in 1974, pulling off the incredible feat of selecting five Hall of Famers in one draft year, Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth, Donnie Shell and Mike Webster. The Pittsburgh Steelers' 1974 draft was their best ever; no other team has ever drafted five future Hall of Famers in one year, and only very few (including the 1970 Steelers) have drafted two or more in one year. The players drafted in the early 1970s formed the base of an NFL dynasty, making the playoffs in eight seasons and becoming the only team in NFL history to win four Super Bowls in six years, as well as the first to win more than two. They also enjoyed a regular-season streak of 49 consecutive wins (1971–1979) against teams that would finish with a losing record that year. The Steelers suffered a rash of injuries in the 1980 season and missed the playoffs with a 9–7 record. The 1981 season was no better, with an 8–8 showing. The team was then hit with the retirements of all their key players from the Super Bowl years. "Mean" Joe Greene retired after the 1981 season, Lynn Swann and Jack Ham after 1982's playoff berth, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount after 1983's divisional championship, and Jack Lambert after 1984's AFC Championship Game appearance. After those retirements, the franchise skidded to its first losing seasons since 1971. Though still competitive, the Steelers would not finish above .500 in 1985, 1986, and 1988. In 1987, the year of the players' strike, the Steelers finished with a record of 8–7, but missed the playoffs. In 1989, they would reach the second round of the playoffs on the strength of Merrill Hoge and Rod Woodson before narrowly missing the playoffs in each of the next two seasons, Noll's last seasons. Noll's career record with Pittsburgh was 209–156–1. In 1992, Chuck Noll retired and was succeeded by Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton. Cowher led the Steelers to the playoffs in each of his first six seasons, a feat that had been accomplished only by legendary coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns. In those first six seasons, Cowher coached them as deep as the AFC Championship Game three times and following the 1995 season an appearance in Super Bowl XXX on the strength of the "Blitzburgh" defense. However, the Steelers lost to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXX, two weeks after a thrilling AFC Championship victory over the Indianapolis Colts. Cowher produced the franchise's record-tying fifth Super Bowl win in Super Bowl XL over the NFC champion Seattle Seahawks ten years later. With that victory, the Steelers became the third team to win five Super Bowls, and the first sixth-seeded playoff team to reach and win the Super Bowl since the NFL expanded to a 12-team post-season tournament in 1990. He coached through the 2006 season which ended with an 8–8 record, just short of the playoffs. Overall Cowher's teams reached the playoffs 10 of 15 seasons with six AFC Championship Games, two Super Bowl berths and a championship. Cowher's career record with Pittsburgh was 149–90–1 in the regular season and 161–99–1 overall, including playoff games. On January 7, 2007, Cowher resigned from coaching the Steelers, citing a need to spend more time with his family. He did not use the term "retire", leaving open a possible return to the NFL as coach of another team. A three-man committee consisting of Art Rooney II, Dan Rooney, and Kevin Colbert was set up to conduct interviews for the head coaching vacancy. On January 22, 2007, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Mike Tomlin was announced as Cowher's successor as head coach. Tomlin is the first African-American to be named head coach of the team in its 75-year history. Tomlin became the third consecutive Steelers Head Coach to go to the Super Bowl, equaling the Dallas Cowboys (Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer) in this achievement. He was named the Motorola 2008 Coach of the Year. On February 1, 2009, Tomlin led the Steelers to their second Super Bowl of this decade, and went on to win 27–23 against the Arizona Cardinals. At age 36, he was the youngest head coach to ever win the Super Bowl, and he is only the second African-American coach to ever win the Super Bowl (Tony Dungy was the first). The 2010 season made Tomlin the only coach to reach the Super Bowl twice before the age of 40 as he took the team to Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. However, the Steelers were defeated by the Green Bay Packers, 31–25. The Steelers recorded their 400th victory in 2012 after defeating the Washington Redskins. Through the end of the 2021 season, Tomlin's record is 162–94–2 (.632), including playoffs. He is the first Pittsburgh coach to never post a losing season. The 2013–17 seasons were noted for record performances from the "Killer B's". This trio consisted of Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger and Le'Veon Bell. Occasionally, the "Killer B's" has also included kicker Chris Boswell due to his ability to hit game-winning field goals. Since the NFL merger in 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers have compiled a regular-season record of 444–282–2 (.635) and an overall record of 480-305-2 (.635) including the playoffs, reached the playoffs 30 times, won their division 22 times, played in 16 AFC championship games, and won six of eight Super Bowls. They are also the only NFL team not to have a season with 12 or more losses since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978. Since 2008, the Rooney family has brought in several investors for the team while retaining control of the team itself. This came about so that the team could comply with NFL ownership regulations. Dan Rooney, and his son, Art Rooney II, president of the franchise, wanted to stay involved with the franchise, while two of the brothers – Timothy and Patrick – wanted to further pursue racetracks that they own in Florida and New York. Since 2006, many of the racetracks have added video slot machines, causing them to violate "NFL policy that prohibits involvement with racetrack and gambling interests". Upon Dan Rooney's death in 2017, he and Art Rooney II retained control of the team with the league-minimum 30%, the following made up the other investors at the time: Three minority investors in the Steelers have became majority owners of other NFL teams: Through the end of the 2021 season, the Steelers have an all-time record of 688–590–22, including playoffs. In recent seasons the Steelers have generally performed well, qualifying for the playoffs six times in the past ten seasons, while winning their division four times. In the NFL's "modern era" (since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970) the Steelers have posted the best record in the league. In 2017, they became the first team to reach 450 victories in the regular season since the 1970 merger. The franchise has won the most regular-season games, the most playoff games (33 playoff wins; the Dallas Cowboys are second with 32), won the most divisional titles (20), has played in the most conference championship games (15), hosted the most conference championship games (11), and is tied with the Dallas Cowboys, the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl appearances (8). The Steelers have the best winning percentage (including every expansion team), earned the most All-Pro nominations, and have accumulated the most Super Bowl wins (6) since the modern game started in 1970. In 2017, they became the first team to reach 450 victories in the regular season since the 1970 merger. The Steelers are 36-26 (.580) in the postseason, with all but one (the 1947 playoff) having been played since the merger. The franchise, along with the Rooney family have for generations been strong advocates for equality of opportunity for both minorities and women. Among these achievements of the Steelers was the first to hire an African-American assistant coach (September 29, 1957, with Lowell Perry), the first to start an African-American quarterback (December 3, 1973, with Joe Gilliam), the first team to boast of an African-American Super Bowl MVP (January 12, 1975, with Franco Harris), the first to hire an African-American Coordinator (September 2, 1984, with Tony Dungy), the first owner to push for passage of an "equal opportunity" mandating that at least one minority candidate is given an interview in all head coach hiring decisions throughout the league (the Rooney Rule in the early 2000s), and the first to hire a female as full-time athletic trainer (Ariko Iso on July 24, 2002). The Steelers were a part of the NFL Eastern Division from 1933 to 1943 and were briefly in the Western Division in 1944, before returning back to the Eastern Division until 1949. The team was then in the American Conference from 1950 to 1952, and the Eastern Conference from 1953 to 1966. They were then placed in the Century Division of the Eastern Conference in 1967. When the league reformed into the NFC and AFC in 1970, the Steelers were placed in the AFC Central until 2001 when they were realigned into the AFC North Division. The Steelers have used black and gold as their colors since the club's inception, the lone exception being the 1943 season when they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and formed the "Steagles"; the team's colors at that time were green and white as a result of wearing Eagles uniforms. Originally, the team wore solid gold-colored helmets and black jerseys. The Steelers' black and gold colors are now shared by all major professional teams in the city, including the Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball and the Pittsburgh Penguins in ice hockey. The shade of gold differs slightly among teams: the Penguins have previously used "Vegas Gold", a color similar to metallic gold, and the Pirates' gold is a darker mustard yellow-gold, while the Steelers "gold" is more of a bright canary yellow. Black and gold are also the colors of the city's official flag. The Steelers logo was introduced in 1962 and is based on the "Steelmark", originally designed by Pittsburgh's U.S. Steel and now owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). In fact, it was Cleveland-based Republic Steel that suggested the Steelers adopt the industry logo. It consists of the word "Steelers" surrounded by three astroids (hypocycloids of four cusps). The original meanings behind the astroids were, "Steel lightens your work, brightens your leisure, and widens your world. " Later, the colors came to represent the ingredients used in the steel-making process: yellow for coal, red for iron ore, and blue for scrap steel. While the formal Steelmark logo contains only the word "Steel", the team was given permission to add "ers" in 1963 after a petition to AISI. The Steelers are the only NFL team that puts its logo on only one side of the helmet (the right side). Longtime field and equipment manager Jack Hart was instructed to do this by Art Rooney as a test to see how the logo appeared on the gold helmets; however, its popularity led the team to leave it that way permanently. A year after introducing the logo, they switched to black helmets to make it stand out more. The Steelers, along with the New York Giants, are one of only two teams in the National Football League to have the players' uniform numbers on both the front and back of the helmets. The current uniform designs were introduced in 1968. The design consists of gold pants and either black jerseys or white jerseys, except for the 1970 and 1971 seasons when the Steelers wore white pants with their white jerseys. In 1997, the team switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font (Futura Condensed) on the helmets, and a Steelers logo was added to the left side of the jersey. The 2007–2011 third uniform, consisting of a black jersey with gold lettering, white pants with black and gold stripes, and a gold helmet were first used during the Steelers' 75th anniversary season in 2007. They were meant to evoke the memory of the 1963–1964 era uniforms. The uniforms were so popular among fans that the Steelers' organization decided to keep them and use them as a third option during home games only. In 2012, the Steelers introduced a new third uniform, consisting of a yellow jersey with black horizontal lines (making a bumble bee like pattern) with black lettering and black numbers placed inside a white box, to represent the jerseys worn by the Steelers in their 1934 season. The rest of the uniform consists of beige pants, yellow with black horizontal stripped socks, and the Steelers regular black helmet. The uniforms were used for the Steelers' 80th anniversary season. Much like the previous alternate these jerseys were so popular that they were used up through the 2016 season. The jerseys were nicknamed the "bumblebee jerseys" due to looking like the pattern of a bumblebee. The jerseys were retired after the 2016 season. Also in 2016, the Steelers introduced its alternate black Color Rush uniforms. These were based on the uniforms they wore from 1946 to 1965, but with black pants in place of either gold or white pants. In 2018, the Steelers unveiled a third uniform based on those worn from 1968 to 1997, coinciding with the Steel Curtain teams of the 1970s. It is similar to the current uniforms but without the Steelers logo on the left chest and use block lettering and numbers in place of Futura Condensed. In 1979, the team owners were approached by then-Iowa Hawkeyes Head Coach Hayden Fry about designing his fading college team's uniforms in the image of the Steelers. Three days later, the owners sent Fry the reproduction jerseys (home and away versions) of then quarterback Terry Bradshaw. Today, the Hawkeyes still retain the 1979 Steelers uniforms as their home, and away colors. The Pittsburgh Steelers have three primary rivals, all within their division: (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, and Cincinnati Bengals). They also have rivalries with other teams that arose from post-season battles in the past, most notably the Las Vegas Raiders, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, and Tennessee Titans. They also have an intrastate rivalry with the Philadelphia Eagles, but under the current scheduling the teams play each other only once every four years. The Raiders–Steelers rivalry was one of the most heated of the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. The Steelers' first playoff victory in franchise history was against the Raiders, which occurred on December 23, 1972 in a 13–7 victory over the Raiders; the victory occurred when Terry Bradshaw threw a pass intended for John Fuqua that was deflected into the hands of Franco Harris, who scooped the ball from nearly hitting the ground and carried the ball in for a touchdown, which was later referred to as the Immaculate Reception, while attracting controversy from Raiders players and coaches, who alleged that the ball had bounced off Fuqua, which would have made it an illegal play per the rules of the time. The victory sent Pittsburgh to their first ever AFC Championship Game. The following year, the two teams met in the Divisional Round again, and the Raiders responded with a 33–14 victory to advance to the AFC title game. However, Pittsburgh fired back with two straight AFC Championship victories over the Raiders in 1974 (24–13) and 1975 (16–10) to reach the Super Bowl. Oakland responded with a victory over Pittsburgh in the 1976 AFC Championship game 24–7 (the third consecutive AFC title game between the two teams), but not before Chuck Noll referred to Oakland's George Atkinson as part of the NFL's "criminal element" after his alleged cheap-shot on Lynn Swann during a regular-season matchup. Atkinson and the Raiders later filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Noll, but lost. Following the 1983 regular season, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Steelers 38–10 in the AFC Divisional round which turned out to be the last NFL game for Steeler Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw who did not play due to injury. While the rivalry has dissipated over the years (mostly due to Oakland's decline after 2002), the teams have had notable games against each other including an upset Steelers victory towards the end of the 2000 season to prevent the Raiders from obtaining homefield advantage in the playoffs, and an upset Raiders victory in week 8 of the 2006 NFL season (20–13), which helped cost the Steelers a playoff berth. In Week 13 of the 2009 season, another Raiders upset victory happened; the game lead changed five times on five touchdowns in the fourth quarter until Raiders QB Bruce Gradkowski's third touchdown of the quarter won it with nine seconds to go. The 27–24 loss cost the Steelers another playoff run. The teams met at Pittsburgh in 2010, where the Steelers blew out the Raiders 35–3, and ended their 3-game winning streak; the game was further notable for a punch thrown by Richard Seymour of the Raiders against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The Raiders then hosted the Steelers in 2012 and erased a 31–21 gap to win 34–31. The two clubs met again in 2013 and the Raiders won again, 21–18. In 2015, the Steelers defeated the Raiders 38–35 at Heinz Field. In their most recent matchups, the Raiders defeated the Steelers 24–21 on December 9, 2018, in Oakland, which, ironically, would cost Pittsburgh another playoff berth. The Raiders won at Pittsburgh September 19, 2021 26-17, then fell on Christmas Eve 2022 at Pittsburgh 13-10 on a last-minute touchdown by rookie Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett. A lifeless performance in a 23-18 loss at Vegas September 23, 2023 contributed to the later firing of Raiders coach Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler. The Cowboys–Steelers rivalry started with the Cowboys' first game as a franchise in 1960 (against the Steelers) at the Cotton Bowl with the Steelers coming away with a 35–28 victory. These teams hold a record for the most times (three) that two teams have met in a Super Bowl. The first two times the favored Steelers and Cowboys met came with Pittsburgh victories in the Orange Bowl Super Bowl X 21–17 and Super Bowl XIII 35–31. The Cowboys never won a regular-season game in the Orange Bowl and lost three Super Bowl games (once to the Baltimore Colts and twice to the Steelers). Between the Cowboys and Steelers, Super Bowl XIII had the greatest number of future Pro Football Hall of Fame players participating, which as of 2021 numbered 25 – 16 players and nine coaches/front office, including Ernie Stautner, defensive coordinator for the Cowboys who was a HoF defensive tackle for the Steelers. The teams featured an all-star matchup at quarterback between the Steelers' Terry Bradshaw and the Cowboys' Roger Staubach, both of whom are in the Hall of Fame. In 1977, Staubach and the Cowboys won Super Bowl XII, their second and last loss of their season being inflicted by Bradshaw and the Steelers, 28–13 at Three Rivers Stadium in November. In 1979, Staubach's final season, the two defending conference champs met again at Three Rivers, the Steelers winning 14–3 en route to winning their fourth Super Bowl title. The Steelers won six of eight meetings during the 1970s and 80s, before the Cowboys won all four meetings during the 1990s, including the teams' record third Super Bowl meeting in 1996, as this time the heavily favored Cowboys beat the Steelers 27–17. Dallas cornerback Larry Brown intercepted Pittsburgh quarterback Neil O'Donnell twice and was named the game's MVP. The teams' first two meetings of the 21st century (2004 and 2008) were won by the Steelers, including a come from behind victory on December 7, 2008, in Pittsburgh, when the Steelers drove the length of the field to tie the game 13–13, then cornerback Deshea Townsend returned an intercepted pass from Tony Romo for the game's final score, Steelers 20, Cowboys 13. The Cowboys won on December 16, 2012, at Cowboys Stadium by a 27–24 margin in overtime and won 35–30 at Heinz Field on November 13, 2016. The all-time series is led by the Dallas Cowboys, 17–16. The Pittsburgh/Dallas rivalry served as a backdrop to the 1977 film Black Sunday, parts of which were filmed during Super Bowl X. Most recently, the Steelers beat the Cowboys by a 24-19 margin. The Denver Broncos in 2011 broke a tie with the Oakland Raiders for the most playoff meetings versus the Steelers and added yet another meeting in 2015 (the Broncos have met Pittsburgh eight times to Oakland's six). The rivalry dates from 1970, but the first notable contest came in 1973, when Denver dealt Pittsburgh its first regular-season defeat at Three Rivers Stadium, 23–13. The following year, they met in the NFL's first regular-season overtime game, which ended in a 35–35 tie. Denver's first playoff game had them hosting the Steelers in the 1977 divisional round; the Broncos won 34–21. The following year, the Steelers hosted and defeated Denver 33–10 in the divisional round. Their next playoff matchup was the 1984 divisional round in Mile High Stadium; the Steelers pulled the upset 24–17. They nearly pulled the upset again 5 years later in Denver, but the Broncos prevailed in the divisional playoff, 24–23. In 1997, the two teams met in Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship Game, where Denver squeaked out at 24–21 win. Eight years later, the Steelers advanced to Super Bowl XL by beating Denver 34–17 in Colorado. In 2011, after appearing in Super Bowl XLV, the Steelers had their campaign to repeat as AFC Champions dashed in Denver after a stunning overtime upset by the Tim Tebow-led Broncos in January 2012, in what would become known as the "316 game". The following September the Steelers were defeated in Denver 31–19 in Peyton Manning's debut as Broncos quarterback. The two clubs met twice in 2015, as the Steelers defeated the Broncos in the regular season but fell in the Divisional Round of the AFC playoffs; through the 2021 season, Denver leads the series 20–13–1, including 5–3 in the playoffs. Neither team has beaten the other more than three times in a row. In their last matchup, the Steelers beat the Broncos on October 10, 2021, in Pittsburgh by the score of 27–19. The New England Patriots emerged as a prominent rival in league circles when the Patriots upset the Steelers in the 2001 AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field, though the two teams had met in the postseason twice before; the Patriots defeated the Steelers in 1996 28-3 while the Steelers won 7–6 in 1997; both times, the Patriots fielded players with Pittsburgh-area roots in Ty Law and Curtis Martin. Martin's final game with the Patriots was in the 1997 playoffs before he departed to the rival New York Jets. Following the 2001 AFC title upset, the Patriots defeated the Steelers 30–14 at the start of the 2002 season. Pittsburgh did not exact revenge for the two losses until ending the Patriots' record-setting 21-game winning streak in week 6 of the 2004 NFL season. Later that season, the Steelers lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Patriots in the AFC Championship game after a 15–1 regular season. The Patriots won six of seven meetings over a ten-year period (1998–2007) before the Steelers broke through with a 33–10 victory at Foxborough in 2008, after Matt Cassel turned the ball over five times. The Patriots in 2013 then made history by becoming the first opponent to score 55 points on the Steelers, winning 55–31. The Patriots won again in 2015 (28-21) and 2016's regular season (27-16), and then won 36–17 in the 2016 AFC Championship Game. They also won in 2017 when a go-ahead touchdown reception by Steelers' tight end Jesse James was controversially called back. Though they ultimately missed the playoffs, the Steelers defeated the Patriots by a score of 17–10 on December 16, 2018, in Pittsburgh. In the postseason, the Patriots have outscored the Steelers 135–75, with the Patriots maintaining a 4–1 record. The only other franchises with winning AFC playoff records against Steelers include the Los Angeles Chargers (2–1), the Jacksonville Jaguars (2–0), and the Broncos (5–3). The Steelers have an all-time regular-season record of 15–13 against the Patriots. In the Bill Belichick era, the main period of the rivalry, the Patriots have a 12–4 record against the Steelers. In their last matchup, the Patriots beat the Steelers 33–3 on Sunday Night Football. The Philadelphia Eagles and Steelers are both located in Pennsylvania and began play in 1933. From that season through 1966, this was a major rivalry for both teams, as both were part of the same division. In 1967, they were placed in separate divisions, but remained in the same conference for three years. In 1970 the Steelers (along with the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts) moved to the American Football Conference, while the Eagles stayed with the rest of the old-line NFL teams in the National Football Conference. As a result, the Eagles and Steelers no longer played each other every year; instead, they are scheduled to meet once every four years in the regular season. The most recent meeting was in 2022 at Lincoln Financial Field due to the addition of a regular season game based on opposing conference divisional finish from the season before, with the Eagles winning 35-13. The Steelers have lost ten straight games on the road against the Eagles dating back to 1966, which was also the start of the Super Bowl era. The Eagles lead the all-time series 49–29–3. Less well known is Pittsburgh's rivalry with the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans franchise. The Oilers were aligned into the AFC Central with the Steelers in 1970 and were division rivals for 32 seasons. The Steelers dominated the rivalry during the Houston era and defeated the Oilers in all three of their playoff matchups. However, since the franchise moved to Tennessee in 1997, the rivalry shifted, with the Titans winning 13 of 22 meetings (including a bitter 34–31 playoff showdown in 2002); the Titans won seven in a row in the 1997–2001 period, the longest win streak by either team in the series. The Steelers have won 47 of 79 career meetings following their 27–24 win at Nissan Stadium in 2020. Prior to the 2007 season, the Steelers introduced Steely McBeam as their official mascot. As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the team, his name was selected from a pool of 70,000 suggestions submitted by fans of the team. Diane Roles of Middlesex Township, submitted the winning name which was "meant to represent steel for Pittsburgh's industrial heritage, "Mc" for the Rooney family's Irish roots, and Beam for the steel beams produced in Pittsburgh, as well as for Jim Beam, her husband's favorite alcoholic beverage. " Steely McBeam is visible at all home games and participates in the team's charitable programs and other club-sponsored events. Steely's autograph is known to be drawn with an oversized S, and the L is drawn to look like a beam of steel. The Steelers have a tradition of having a large fanbase, which has spread from Pittsburgh. In August 2008, ESPN.com ranked the Steelers' fans as the best in the NFL, citing their "unbelievable" sellout streak of 299 consecutive games. The team gained a large fan base nationally based on its success in the 1970s, but many consider the collapse of the city's steel industry at the end of the 1970s dynasty into the 1980s (and the resulting diaspora) to be a large catalyst for the size of the fan base in other cities. The Steelers have sold out every home game since the 1972 season. The Pittsburgh Steelers have numerous unofficial fan clubs in many cities throughout the country, that typically meet in bars or taverns on game days. This phenomenon is known to occur for other NFL teams as well, but "Steeler bars" are more visible than most, including representative establishments even in cities that field their own NFL teams. The Terrible Towel has been described by the Associated Press as "arguably the best-known fan symbol of any major pro sports team". Conceived of by broadcaster Myron Cope in 1975, the towel's rights have since been given to the Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis, which cares for over 900 people with intellectual disability and physical disabilities, including Cope's autistic son. Since 1996, proceeds from the Terrible Towel have helped raise more than $2.5 million for the school. The Steelers have no official fight song, but many fan versions of "Here We Go Steelers" and the "Steelers Polka" (the latter a parody of "Pennsylvania Polka") by ethnic singer Jimmy Pol, both originating in the 1970s, have been recorded. Since 1994, the song "Here We Go" by local singer Roger Wood has been popular among fans. Since 2002, the 1979 Styx song "Renegade" is played near the end of the third quarter or the start of the fourth quarter at the start of a defensive stand to rally the crowd, featuring a compilation of recent Steelers defensive highlights. Another song from hometown rapper Wiz Khalifa, "Black and Yellow", which is an ode to growing up in Pittsburgh, is also a standard part of the Steelers home game experience. The Steelers were the first NFL team to have a cheerleading squad, they were known as the Steelerettes. Their run only lasted from 1961 to 1969. To this day, they were the only cheerleaders the team had in their history. During the offseason, the Steelers have long participated in charity basketball games throughout Western Pennsylvania and neighboring areas. The games usually feature six active players as well as their player-coach playing against a group of local civic leaders. The players, whose participants aren't announced until the day of the game, sign free autographs for fans during halftime. In 2001, the Steelers moved into Heinz Field. The franchise dating back to 1933 has had several homes. For 31 seasons, the Steelers shared Forbes Field with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1933 to 1963. In 1958, though they started splitting their home games at Pitt Stadium three blocks away at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1964 to 1969, the Steelers played exclusively at the on-campus facility before moving with the Pirates to Three Rivers Stadium on the city's Northside. The team moved to what was then known as Heinz Field in 2001. In February 2022, after Heinz declined to sign a new deal after naming rights expired, the Steelers signed a deal with Acrisure and renamed the stadium to Acrisure Stadium. The Steelers hold training camp east of the city at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. The site is one of the most storied in the league with Peter King of SI.com describing it as: "... I love the place. It's the perfect training-camp setting, looking out over the rolling hills of the Laurel Highlands in west-central Pennsylvania, an hour east of Pittsburgh. On a misty or foggy morning, standing atop the hill at the college, you feel like you're in Scotland. Classic, wonderful slice of American culture. If you can visit one training camp, this is the one to see. " The team has its headquarters and practice facilities at the state-of-the-art University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sportsplex on Pittsburgh's Southside. Constructed in 2000, the facility combines the vast expertise of sports medical professionals and researchers as well as hosting the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team. In 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steelers held their training camp at Heinz Field. They returned to Saint Vincent College for the 2022 season. The Rooney family has long had a close relationship with Duquesne University in the city and from the teams founding in the 1930s to the late 1990s used Art Rooney Field and other facilities on campus as either its primary or secondary in-season training site as well as Greenlee Field during the 1930s. In the 1970s and 1980s, the team had season scrimmages at South Park in the suburban south hills of Pittsburgh. During various seasons including the strike season of 1987, the Steelers used Point Stadium in nearby Johnstown for game week practices. During the 1950s St. Bonaventure University (where Art Rooney's brother Silas was serving as athletic director) and suburban Ligonier also served as a pre-season training camp sites. Running backs Wide receivers Tight ends Defensive linemen Defensive backs Special teams Roster updated April 28, 2024 80 active, 7 unsigned The Steelers retired Stautner's #70 in 1964 before creating a 50-year tradition of not retiring numbers. The team retired Greene's #75 in 2014 and left the possibility open that they would retire other players' jersey numbers at later dates. However, several numbers have not been reissued since the retirement of the players who wore them, including: The Steelers boast the third most "primary" inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, i.e. inductees that spent most or all of their NFL careers in Pittsburgh. They also can claim the most honorees of any franchise founded on or after 1933 and the only franchise with three members of ownership in the Hall of Fame. The following Steelers players have been named to the Pro Bowl: The following Steelers were named to NFL All-Decade Teams (and 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams, selected in 1994 and 2019, respectively). Only those who spent time with Pittsburgh during the respective decades are listed. Bold indicates those elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2007, in celebration of the franchise's 75th season, the team announced an updated All-Time team of the 33 best players who have ever played for the Steelers. This team supplanted the previous All-Time team of 24 players named as part of the 50th anniversary commemoration in 1982. A "Legends team" consisting of the club's best pre-1970s players was released concurrently with the latest All-Time team. The regional Dapper Dan Charities has since 1939 named the "Sportsman of the Year" in the Pittsburgh region. 19 Steelers have won the award in 23 events: The Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor was established on August 1, 2017. There have been 53 inductees. The Steelers have had 16 coaches through their history. They have cycled through the fewest head coaches in the modern NFL history. Their first coach was Forrest Douds, who coached them to a 3–6–2 record in 1933. Chuck Noll had the longest term as head coach with the Steelers; he is one of only four coaches to coach a single NFL team for 23 years. Hired prior to the 2007 season, the Steelers current coach is Mike Tomlin. → Coaching staff → Management → More NFL staffs Source: Source: As of 2006, the Steelers' flagship radio stations were WDVE 102.5 FM and WBGG 970 AM. Both stations are owned by iHeartMedia. Games are also available on 51 radio stations in Pennsylvania, Western Maryland, Ohio, and Northern West Virginia. The announcers are Bill Hillgrove and Tunch Ilkin. Craig Wolfley is the sideline reporter. Myron Cope, the longtime color analyst and inventor of the "Terrible Towel", retired after the 2004 season, and died in 2008. Pre-season games not shown on one of the national broadcasters are seen on CBS O&O KDKA-TV, channel 2; sister CW O&O WPKD-TV, channel 19; and AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. KDKA-TV's Bob Pompeani and former Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch do the announcing for the pre-season games, as well as the two hosting the pre-game program Steelers Kickoff during the regular season prior to the national airing of The NFL Today. Pompeani and former Steelers lineman Chris Hoke also host the Xfinity Xtra Point following the game on days when CBS does not have that week's NFL doubleheader. When CBS has a week's doubleheader, the show airs on WPKD-TV. Coach Mike Tomlin's weekly press conference is shown live on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. Both Batch and Hoke replaced former Steelers lineman Edmund Nelson, who retired from broadcasting in 2015. Thursday Night Football broadcasts are shown locally on Fox affiliate WPGH-TV, channel 53 (along with home games with NFC opponents and some flexed interconference games), while ESPN Monday Night Football broadcasts are shown locally on WTAE-TV, channel 4. (WTAE-TV is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which owns a 20% stake in ESPN.) By virtue of being members of the AFC, most of the Steelers' games air on CBS and KDKA. NBC Sunday Night Football games are carried by WPXI, channel 11, in the market. The Steelers hold a national contract with Grupo Imagen for radio rights to their games in Mexico; Imagen broadcasts the Steelers on their stations in 17 Mexican cities. The Steelers franchise has a rich history of producing well-known sportscasters over the years. The most famous of these is probably Myron Cope, who served as a Steelers radio color commentator for 35 seasons (1970–2004). Several former Steelers players have gone on to careers in media after completing their playing careers. The Steelers Digest is the only official newspaper for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It has been published for 22 years and is currently published by Dolphin/Curtis Publishing in Miami, Florida, which also handles several other publications. The newspaper is very widely acknowledged by Steelers fans. Issues are mailed out to paying subscribers weekly through the season after every regular-season game and continue through playoffs as long as the Steelers do. After a Super Bowl victory, a bonus issue is published, which is followed by a draft preview, draft recap, and training camp edition every other month, then leading into the pre-season. There are typically 24 issues of the paper within a publishing year. The newspaper is listed on the official Steelers.com page. The Steelers' success over several decades has permeated film and literature. The Steelers are portrayed in the following big-budget Hollywood films: The protagonist of John Grisham's novel "The Associate" is a staunch Steelers fan. In the summer of 2019, the Kennywood theme park located near Pittsburgh, opened a new land themed to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers Country, featuring a major record-breaking coaster, the Steel Curtain. The land, in addition to this ride, features a Steelers-themed experience, and an 'End Zone Restaurant'. The Steelers helped launch the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research in November 2016 by donating $1 million. The Foundation, started by Steelers president Art Rooney II, focuses on education and research regarding brain injuries and sports-related concussions. In June 2017, the Steelers announced an inaugural charity walk to raise money for the foundation. | 1 |
Edinboro_Fighting_Scots | Edinboro_Fighting_Scots 2016-08-15T08:18:34Z The Edinboro Fighting Scots are the athletic teams that represent the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Fighting Scots are members of the West Division of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference for 15 of 16 varsity sports; the wrestling team competes in the Eastern Wrestling League as a member of the NCAA's Division I. The Fighting Scots have been a member of the PSAC since its foundation in 1951. The men's and women's cross country and track programs are legendary in NAIA (winning the NAIA men's national championship in 1975 and 1976) and NCAA Division II circles, as is the Fighting Scots football team. Edinboro added women's lacrosse for the 2008 season. In accordance with Edinboro University's commitment to serving students with physical disabilities, it has one of the nation's best wheelchair basketball teams, the Rolling Scots. The team hosts an annual tournament, the Boro Shootout. In recent years, a club power wheelchair soccer team has been developed as well. Edinboro also has an ACHA-Division III men's ice hockey club and, NCLL Division II Mens Club Lacrosse Team, as well as a women's equestrian team, and a men's and women's ultimate team. Penn-Ohio Conference (swimming) Men's sports (7) Women's sports (9) To this day, the Edinboro men's cross country team is the only team that has won national titles. Edinboro has one of the premier Division I wrestling programs. Prior to moving to the Division I level in 1986, Edinboro was already a national power at the NAIA and NCAA Division II levels. Edinboro has been fortunate to be home of one of the greatest Olympic and amateur wrestlers in the world, Bruce Baumgartner. Baumgartner came to Edinboro in 1984 as an assistant coach, and was promoted to head coach in 1991. He guided the Fighting Scots to three top 15 finishes in the National Championship tournament. The team is currently coached by Tim Flynn and continues to excel as a top program. Baumgartner became the Director of Athletics in 1997. All in all, Edinboro's wrestling program has produced 120 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champions, 59 Eastern Wrestling League champions, 60 NCAA All-Americans, 4 NCAA Division I champions, 9 NCAA Division II and NAIA national champions, 2 USA Olympic team members, 17 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference tournament team championships, and 14 Eastern Wrestling League tournament team championships. The current Edinboro University wrestling head coach is Tim Flynn, and has been head coach of the Fighting Scots since the 1998-1999 wrestling season. Tim Flynn is an all-American himself while in the NCAA at Penn State University in 1987, winning the EWL title and finishing seventh at Nationals. Flynn has received numerous awards for his accomplishments with the program such as:, Edinboro_Fighting_Scots 2017-06-30T09:14:00Z The Edinboro Fighting Scots are the athletic teams that represent the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Fighting Scots are members of the West Division of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) for 15 of 17 varsity sports. The wrestling team competes in the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) as a member of the NCAA's Division I and the wheelchair basketball team competes in the NWBA Intercollegiate Division. The Fighting Scots have been a member of the PSAC since its foundation in 1951. The men's and women's cross country and track programs are legendary, winning the only national titles in school history by winning the NAIA men's national championship in 1975 and 1976 and winning the NCAA men's national championship in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990. Edinboro added women's lacrosse for the 2008 season. In accordance with Edinboro University's commitment to serving students with physical disabilities, it has one of the nation's best wheelchair basketball teams. The team hosts an annual tournament, the Boro Shootout. Edinboro also has an ACHA-Division III men's ice hockey club and,an NCLL Division II Men's Club Lacrosse Team, as well as a women's equestrian team, and a men's and women's ultimate team. Men's sports (8) Women's sports (9) Men's sports (6) Women's sports (2) The cross country teams are the most successful athletic program at Edinboro and among the best in Division II. Formed in 1969 by legendary coach Doug Watts, the team quickly grew into a national powerhouse, winning 2 NAIA titles in 1975 and 1976. The program won 4 more championships for division II in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990. Under Watts, Edinboro would make the national meet for 31 straight years (1979-2009, a division II record). He also coached 4 individual national champions as well. Watts coached the team for 44 years before retiring in 2013. Rick Hammer took over the program for 3 years but left after a controversial firing. Since 2016, the team has been coached by Ryan Foster. Edinboro has one of the premier Division I wrestling programs. Prior to moving to the Division I level in 1986, Edinboro was already a national power at the NAIA and NCAA Division II levels. Edinboro has been fortunate to be home of one of the greatest Olympic and amateur wrestlers in the world, Bruce Baumgartner. Baumgartner came to Edinboro in 1984 as an assistant coach, and was promoted to head coach in 1991. He guided the Fighting Scots to three top 15 finishes in the National Championship tournament. The team is currently coached by Tim Flynn and continues to excel as a top program. Baumgartner became the Director of Athletics in 1997. All in all, Edinboro's wrestling program has produced 120 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champions, 59 Eastern Wrestling League champions, 60 NCAA All-Americans, 4 NCAA Division I champions, 9 NCAA Division II and NAIA national champions, 2 USA Olympic team members, 17 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference tournament team championships, and 14 Eastern Wrestling League tournament team championships. Three former Edinboro wrestlers and former All-Americans have transitioned and found success in mixed martial arts. Former NCAA Division I champion Josh Koscheck is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title challenger and current Bellator fighter. Another former NCAA Division I champion Gregor Gillespie is a current UFC fighter. Former NCAA Division I runner-up Chris Honeycutt is a current Bellator fighter. The current Edinboro University wrestling head coach is Tim Flynn, who has been head coach of the Fighting Scots since the 1998-1999 wrestling season. Tim Flynn was an All-American himself while in the NCAA at Penn State University in 1987, winning the EWL title and finishing seventh at Nationals. Flynn has received numerous awards for his accomplishments with the program such as: | 0 |
Toshiki_Yoshioka | Toshiki_Yoshioka 2008-08-08T20:50:53Z Toshiki Yoshioka (吉岡稔記, Yoshioka Toshiki, 21 December 1976, Hiroshima) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team DRoo-P and Even before he started drifting professionally he always used the Toyota AE86. He first competed in the D1 Grand Prix in the first round of 2002 and has always scored points in every season. He got his first victory in Round 4 of the 2005 season at Autopolis. His Toyota Sprinter Trueno is very fast as it is normally aspirated and uses nitrous oxide, this leads to him being feared by the other competitors and also many crashes. In 2007 he had an average season being best of the AE86 drivers, finishing in 8th place overall. In 2008 he has switched from his trusty AE86 to a Lexus SC430 prepared by renown tuning garage Tom's, now he just has to get used to the new machine. (key), Toshiki_Yoshioka 2009-12-04T01:03:35Z Toshiki Yoshioka (吉岡稔記, Yoshioka Toshiki, 21 December 1976, Hiroshima) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team DRoo-P and Yamasa Even before he started drifting professionally he always used the Toyota AE86. He first competed in the D1 Grand Prix in the first round of 2002 and has always scored points in every season. He got his first victory in Round 4 of the 2005 season at Autopolis. His Toyota Sprinter Trueno is very fast as it is normally aspirated and uses nitrous oxide, this leads to him being feared by the other competitors and also many crashes. In 2007 he had an average season being best of the AE86 drivers, finishing in 8th place overall. In 2008 he has switched from his trusty AE86 to a Lexus SC430 prepared by renown tuning garage Tom's, now he just has to get used to the new machine. (key) | 0 |
BC Rytas | BC Rytas 2017-01-02T10:07:13Z BC Lietuvos rytas, also known as Rytas, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The club, founded in 1997 on the basis of another club, BC Statyba, is one of the most successful Lithuanian basketball clubs. Rytas, among other titles, have won two Eurocup titles, five Lithuanian League titles, three Lithuanian Cups and three Baltic Championships. Lietuvos Rytas plays their home games at 11,000-seat Siemens Arena and 2,500-seat Lietuvos rytas Arena. They also had a daughter club Perlas which was used for the development of young players, but after two seasons in LKL it was dissolved. Lietuvos Rytas basketball club is connected with the Lietuvos rytas newspaper and owned by newspaper editor Gedvydas Vainauskas who is also the president of the club. Some of the greatest Lithuanian basketball players have played for Lietuvos Rytas over the years including: Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Arvydas Macijauskas, Jonas Valančiūnas, Martynas Gecevičius, Renaldas Seibutis, Simas Jasaitis, Robertas Javtokas, Darius Songaila, Marijonas Petravičius, Rimantas Kaukėnas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Gintaras Einikis. Lietuvos Rytas plays in the Eurocup, Lithuanian Basketball League, and King Mindaugas Cup. In 1963 first basketball team from Vilnius, called Žalgiris, was formed. Next year it changed its name to Plastikas. The same year, 1964, Plastikas players joined a new team, called Statyba. This name was used for over 30 years. Jonas Kazlauskas, Rimas Girskis, and then head coach Rimantas Endrijaitis led Statyba to a third place in the 1979 Soviet Union Championship. Three years later, Šarūnas Marčiulionis joined the team and became its leader. In 1987, Artūras Karnišovas joined the team at the age of 16. In 1994 Statyba won bronze medals in first LKL season. In 1995 biggest Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos rytas started sponsoring Sūduva Marijampolė, a basketball club from Marijampolė, Lithuania. The partnership lasted for two seasons, during which the team was known as Lietuvos Rytas Marijampolė and played in the second-tier Lithuanian league, the LKAL. A notable player for the team was teenager Darius Songaila. However, after 1996–97 season partnership ended. At the same time Statyba faced with financial difficulties and was at the verge of bankruptcy. The team needed new investors and in 1997 Lietuvos rytas bought the club. However, new owners didn't want to continue Statyba history and started anew – the team was renamed to Statyba-Lietuvos rytas, then just Lietuvos rytas. The newspaper's investment helped the club to establish itself as one of two best in Lithuania, the other being BC Žalgiris from the country's second-largest city Kaunas. During its first season, Lietuvos Rytas managed to repeat Statyba's biggest achievement in LKL and won bronze. Next season was even better - Rytas won LKL silver, losing only to reigning Euroleague's champions BC Žalgiris. Team also took second place in 1997 William Jones Cup. However, the biggest success at that time came in 2000, when Vilnius' side, led by the so-called "big three" — Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Andrius Giedraitis and Eric Elliott, also combined with youngsters Arvydas Macijauskas and Robertas Javtokas, managed to win LKL. The team was coached by Šarūnas Sakalauskas. It was the first time in the history of the Lithuanian Basketball League when Žalgiris did not win the LKL title. Also, Rytas reached the Saporta Cup semifinal, where they met last season Euroleague runner-up Kinder. After an upsetting home win 70–60, Lietuvos rytas lost in Italy 71–83, with Šiškauskas missing a three-pointer which would've won the two-game series for his team. The next season, due to the split between the FIBA and ULEB, Rytas played in the FIBA Suproleague, making to the, but losing in quarterfinals to Anadolu Efes S.K.. The team won third place in the NEBL, a step down from the previous seasons second place. In the LKL finals, Žalgiris defeated Lietuvos rytas in tough five game series 3:2. In 2002 Lietuvos rytas repeated their triumph, this time in a dramatic seven-game final series with the last game decided in overtime. The team played without center Robertas Javtokas, who was seriously injured in a motorbike crash. Lietuvos rytas also won the NEBL title in 2002, becoming the last team winning the tournament. The team held first place in the group stage of the Saporta Cup, but lost in the quarter-finals to Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.. Over the next two seasons, Lietuvos rytas lost both times in the LKL finals to Žalgiris. They had more success in Europe, though, finishing in second place in the FIBA Eurocup regional stage (though losing to KK Hemofarm in the final stage). The team also debuted in the ULEB Cup, making to the quarterfinals, but losing to Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.. After not winning any title in the past two seasons Lietuvos Rytas decided that change was needed and started recruiting foreign coaches, first of them being Serbian Vlade Đurović. Midway through the season, team leader Frederick House suffered a season-ending injury, head coach Đurović resigned and was replaced by Slovenian Tomo Mahorič. Despite this, newcomer Tyrone Nesby, Latvian playmaker Roberts Štelmahers and an inspirational Lithuanian trio: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Tomas Delininkaitis led the team to the victory of 2005 ULEB Cup, beating Pamesa Valencia in the semifinals and Makedonikos in the final. This victory granted them a place in the Euroleague, the continent's primary basketball club tournament. Lietuvos Rytas won second place in both the LKL and BBL finals. Before the 2005–06 season, Croatian specialist Neven Spahija became the head coach of the team. Lietuvos rytas started the 2005–06 Euroleague season well. After losing their first two matches, Rytas matched the Euroleague record by winning seven consecutive Euroleague fixtures, defeating such teams as Winterthur FCB, champions Maccabi (twice) and Efes Pilsen. Those wins allowed Rytas to advance to Top 16 phase, where they won three times out of six, beating Tau Ceramica once and Brose Baskets twice. However, that was not enough and Lietuvos rytas was eliminated from that year's Euroleague. After winning the Baltic Basketball League title, Lietuvos rytas won their easiest finals series, crushing Žalgiris 4–0. Despite winning the Lithuanian title, Lietuvos rytas did not acquire the country's spot for 2006–07 that was reserved to the archrival Žalgiris. Although the coach and three leading players: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Fred House had left the team during the interseason, the 2006–07 ULEB Cup season was rather successful for Lietuvos rytas as well, despite that two coaches were replaced during the season: Sharon Drucker from Israel was replaced by Slovenian Zmago Sagadin and the latter to his assistant coach Aleksandar Trifunović from Serbia. The roster was strengthened during the season when promising NBA player Kareem Rush arrived to lead the team to the ULEB Cup final where Lietuvos rytas was defeated by Real Madrid. However, Real Madrid's victory at the ACB semifinals and of one of four spots reserved for Spain allowed Lietuvos rytas to take part in the Euroleague 2007–08 season as the ULEB Cup finalist. On 27 April 2007, Lietuvos rytas won their second consecutive BBL title, Kareem Rush was named the Final Four MVP. The LKL finals and LKF Cup finals were both unsuccessful, though, as Žalgiris won them both. Lietuvos Rytas was very successful in the regular season of 2007–08 Euroleague, beating teams like Unicaja Málaga or Armani Jeans Milano. Very notable victories were achieved against future Euroleague finalists of that season, Maccabi Tel Aviv. On 1 November, Lietuvos rytas defeated Maccabi by 18 points at home for a third time in a row as Artūras Jomantas led the team with 19 points and became the week's co-MVP with Erazem Lorbek, both having performance index ratings of 29. The fourth victory in a row over Maccabi (away, by 5 points) was due to spectacular performances by Hollis Price (19 points) and Chuck Eidson (28 points). A road victory against Cibona Zagreb on 31 January 2008 completed the Euroleague regular season for Lietuvos rytas and allowed them to remain at the first spot in the Group B securing a favorable position in the first pool before the Top 16 draw together with CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid and Panathinaikos Athens. Their 11–3 record was the team's best regular-season performance ever, and the best by a Lithuanian team in Euroleague at the time. However, the team wasn't as successful in the Top 16 and with record of 2–4 did not advance to playoffs. Lietuvos rytas were the runner-up at all: the Lithuanian Basketball League, the Baltic Basketball League and the Lithuanian Cup, losing each time to Žalgiris. The 2008–2009 season was met by the team with a significantly reduced budget, putting a greater emphasis on young and perspective local players. Nevertheless, Lietuvos rytas managed to win the first Baltic Basketball Presidents Cup. On 21 October 2008, Lietuvos Rytas had a first chance ever to play against basketball club Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena. Lietuvos Rytas lost that game with result 106:126. However, as many other Baltic professional sports clubs, Lietuvos rytas had to face the blow of financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009. Having lost two of its foreign leaders Lietuvos rytas still managed to reach the second phase of Eurocup finishing second in their group with three home wins and three away losses. Head coach Antanas Sireika resigned and was replaced by a former Lietuvos rytas' player Rimas Kurtinaitis for the second half of the season. The team has started second phase of the Eurocup with only two foreign players, Chuck Eidson (a teammate of Petravičius at South Carolina) and Milko Bjelica on its roster which had been refreshed with promising Lithuanians. However, that was enough and Rytas successfully advanced to Final 8. Chuck Eidson was named the regular season MVP. The Final 8 started with a victory against Benetton Treviso in quarterfinal on 2 April 2009. Two days later the team won semifinal against Hemofarm Vršac and made the third consecutive appearance in the ULEB Eurocup finals. Mindaugas Lukauskis has made a decisive three-pointer and that allowed him to become the only player to participate in the final three times in total and, later, the only two-times ULEB Cup champion. Going into finals, Rytas was considered underdog against rich Russian team BC Khimki. However, terrific performances of Steponas Babrauskas (18 points) and Marijonas Petravičius (20 points) allowed the team to overcome the odds and win the final. Lietuvos rytas made an outstanding 15:0 run, having left their rivals empty for 6 straight minutes in the third and fourth quarters. Rytas became the first team to reclaim the Eurocup title, while Marijonas Petravičius became the Final 8 MVP. Lietuvos rytas was very successful in matches against archrival Žalgiris too. Firstly, it won the 2009 LKF Cup, with Mindaugas Lukauskis scoring the game-winning three pointer with 2 seconds left. Next was the Baltic Basketball League final game - it was won by Lietuvos rytas on 25 April 2009 over Žalgiris, 97 to 74. Chuck Eidson scored 41 points and was announced the MVP. It was the third BBL title for the club, compared to Žalgiris' two. The final trophy of the season was the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Lietuvos rytas swept past all the teams in the playoffs and qualified to the finals. There Vilnius team confronted their rival Žalgiris Kaunas and won the series 4 to 1, the final match taking place on 18 May. This was the 4th time Lietuvos rytas became the LKL champion. It was the 5th trophy of the season for the team from 5 possible ones. After the season team leaders Marijonas Petravičius, Mindaugas Lukauskis and Chuck Eidson left the team and Lietuvos rytas acquired new perspective players to replace them. The team began their 2009-2010 season with a dramatic loss to their rivals BC Žalgiris 78 to 83 in BBL Cup finals. Lietuvos rytas also participated in the 2009 Gomelsky Cup, in which the team claimed third place after a near-loss game against Triumph Lyubertsy 94 to 90. Lietuvos rytas was not successful in Euroleague—they lost the deciding game against Unicaja Málaga, took the 5th place in Group B and did not advance to the Top 16. However, their fierce battles with BC Žalgiris continued. After winning the LKF Cup by the score of 77:65, Lietuvos rytas, having problems with players injuries, suffered a loss in the BBL Finals to their rivals from Kaunas, 66 to 73. However, Lietuvos rytas took revenge and won the LKL trophy, beating Žalgiris after a thrilling series 4–3. It was the second consecutive LKL title of Vilnius' team. After the conclusion of the season, head coach Rimas Kurtinaitis left the club to be replaced by Croatian Dražen Anzulović. The Euroleague 2010–2011 season was the fourth one for Lietuvos rytas. After an unsuccessful start of the season, Dražen Anzulović was replaced by the team's former coach Aleksandar Trifunović. The result being 0-4 in their Group C, the team signed free agent Lithuanian star and a former team member Šarūnas Jasikevičius. After winning 3 of 3 last Euroleague group phase games, Rytas qualified for the Top 16 stage in the fourth berth during their last games. At the New Year's Eve Jasikevičius was replaced by a former member of the team Simas Jasaitis, also a free agent. The Top 16 phase was the most successful for the team from all its 3 attempts. Playing in the Group E Lietuvos rytas defeated Caja Laboral at home, Panathinaikos Athens and Unicaja Málaga on the road. The last round remaining, the team had a chance to finish first in their Top 16 E group. However, Lietuvos rytas lost to Caja Laboral and took the third place in the group. The 9th place in Euroleague is the highest achievement for Lietuvos Rytas in this tournament in whole club history. However, the remaining part of the season was unsuccessful for the club as Lietuvos Rytas lost in the semi-final at the Baltic Basketball League and finished only in 3rd place for the first time in club history. The Coach Trifunović was replaced by assistant coach Darius Maskoliūnas. The game improved, but the team ended up losing to Žalgiris in the LKL finals, 4 games to 1. After dismissing Milko Bjelica, Kenan Bajramović, D.J. Strawberry, Cemal Nalga and losing team leader Martynas Gecevičius, Lietuvos Rytas replaced 8 players and opened a new page in club history. The beginning of the season was not very successful as Lietuvos Rytas didn't win Euroleague's qualification tournament which was organized in Vilnius. Lietuvos Rytas won their first two matches against Budućnost and Cibona Zagreb, but lost the final game against Galatasaray with a score of 63:71. Because of that, Lietuvos Rytas had to play at the second-tier European competition - EuroCup. The team, led by Renaldas Seibutis, Jonas Valančiūnas and Tyrese Rice, made it to the EuroCup quarterfinal round for the fifth time in a row and defeated BC Donetsk there, but lost to Valencia Basket in the semifinals. Rytas finished third after defeating Spartak 71:62. Lietuvos rytas finished third in the regular season round of VTB United League and qualified for the eighth-final. They defeated BC Nizhny Novgorod there and advanced to quarterfinals where they met BC Khimki. Khimki were reigning Eurocup and VTB league champions and they were considered heavy favorites, but, unexpectedly, Rytas won the series 2:1. The Final Four tournament was organized at Siemens Arena. After a tense semifinal Lietuvos Rytas lost to CSKA and went on to win 3rd place against Lokomotiv-Kuban. Despite two third places in international competitions, Rytas lost the LKL final series to Žalgiris 0:3. This was the worst domestic season in team's history - Rytas lost all 6 of its matches (5 in LKL and 1 in BBL) to its rival. Following the conclusion of the season, Tyrese Rice, Lawrence Roberts, Aleksandar Rašić and Jonas Valančiūnas left the team. After losing most of their leaders during the summer, Rytas formed a younger squad. Players like Nemanja Nedović were expected to be the future of the team. However, the season was not very successful. It started with loss of Lithuanian Supercup to BC Žalgiris. After struggling to find rhythm in the opening months, Lietuvos Rytas released coach Aleksandar Džikić, promoting Maskoliūnas as head coach. Though the game has improved, thanks to the solid play of Leon Radošević, Renaldas Seibutis and Nemanja Nedović, the Euroleague season was finished only with a 2-8 record. The team did not fare much better in the VTB United League. After Leon Radošević and Predrag Samardžiski were released, Rytas signed Milt Palacio, Tomislav Zubčić and Patrick O'Bryant. However, the rookies didn't help much and Rytas still missed the VTB playoffs, with BC Donetsk defeating Rytas in the deciding game. Coach Maskoliūnas was fired then and replaced with Dirk Bauermann. Rytas started to play much better then, and in April scored a shocking away win over BC Žalgiris (first one in almost 2 years). Rytas made the LKL finals for the 15th time in a row. However, BC Žalgiris easily swept Lietuvos Rytas 4-0 in the final. Due to the unsuccessful past season, the manager decided to almost completely rebuild the team: eight players left after the team lost LKL finals to the rival Žalgiris. Former team leader Martynas Gecevičius was recalled after two seasons break and a notable point guard Omar Cook was signed. Because the team was second in the domestic league, it had to hope for a Euroleague wild card. The team did not receive it, and had to participate in Euroleague's qualification tournament once again, which was held in Vilnius. This time, Rytas, led by Renaldas Seibutis and Martynas Gecevičius, was successful: it won three games in a row (against VEF Rīga, EWE Oldenburg and Telenet Oostende), and qualified for the Euroleague. To strengthen the team roster before Euroleague games, Lietuvos rytas signed former NBA and Lithuania national team player Darius Songaila. On 18 October 2013, Lietuvos rytas started 13/14 Euroleague season with a tremendous victory against Panathinaikos Athens with the result 84–83 after Renaldas Seibutis winning shot in OT. The game was named as the Euroleague's Game of the Week and re-broadcast in over 150 countries worldwide. However, after this, the level of play for the Lithuanian team dropped significantly and Rytas was not able to win any more games. 6 games were lost by 10 points or more and it turned out to be worst Lietuvos rytas season ever in Euroleague. Following the fiasco, coach Dirk Bauermann was replaced by Croat Aleksandar Petrović. The change helped and on 22 December 2013, Rytas crushed its rival Žalgiris with the result 90–58. After being eliminated in the Eurocup playoffs by KK Crvena zvezda, Lietuvos rytas also sufered a shocking defeat in the LKF Cup finals, losing to BC Prienai 91:92, leading to the firing of coach Aleksandar Petrović, who was replaced by Dainius Adomaitis. Despite two victories against biggest Rytas rival Žalgiris during regular season, the LKL playoffs were an disaster for Lietuvos rytas. Due to rare situation in LKL standings, Rytas and Žalgiris met in the semi-finals and not in the finals for the second time since 1998. Darius Songaila 28 points led Rytas to first series victory in Vilnius with result 90:85, however then Rytas lost to Žalgiris in Kaunas with result 57:72 and series tied at 1-1. Third crucial game was played in Vilnius, however it was not successful for the home team. Despite having 7 points lead multiple times, Rytas lost to Žalgiris with result 71:73 and did not qualified to the LKL Finals for the second time in club history, losing the series 1:2. Team captain Steponas Babrauskas described it as an tragedy, moreover one of team leaders Renaldas Seibutis injured his eye after contact with Vytenis Lipkevičius and due to required surgery missed the rest of the season. The disastrous season continued for Rytas in the VTB playoffs-after defeating BC Triumph in the first round, Rytas lost to BC Nizhny Novgorod in the semifinal round, losing a chance to play in the 2014-2015 Euroleague season. Rytas finished in 3rd place in the LKL, winning the series against BC Prienai 3:0 and winning the bronze medals-this was the team's worst season since the 1998-1999 season. After terrible LKL season last year, taking only 3rd place, Rytas lost all chances of qualifying into the Euroleague that year. He was not even invited to the qualifying tournament as before and had to return to the second-tier European league EuroCup. As a result of this, the club changed firmly. Firstly, club biggest stars Renaldas Seibutis, Omar Cook and Darius Songaila left the team. Secondly, the team played most of its games in the newly reconstructed Lietuvos rytas Arena instead of the Siemens Arena. Thirdly, Rytas withdrew from Russian VTB League. Virginijus Šeškus, a former multiple LKL bronze medalist with BC Prienai, was signed as a head coach of the team, along with his past team members Artūras Valeika and Mindaugas Lukauskis, who played six seasons in Rytas previously. Club owner Gedvydas Vainauskas shortly afterward said that enthusiastic V. Šeškus reminds him former team coach Rimas Kurtinaitis, who has led Rytas to the biggest victories in the club history. Lithuania national team member Adas Juškevičius and former NBA player Travis Leslie were signed as well. On 15 October 2014, Rytas powerfully started the EuroCup season by 92–65 crushing Serbian powerhouse Partizan Belgrade. They have finished first round with 8-2 record and took first place in the group. On 16 December 2014, team roster was strengthened with addition of Kšyštof Lavrinovič, who has signed two-year deal with Rytas. Later, on 5 January 2014, another Lithuania national team member Simas Jasaitis also signed with Rytas for the third time in his career. Lietuvos Rytas started the LAST-32 stage in Eurocup by winning against the best team in Poland, Turów Zgorzelec which was relegated to Eurocup after winning only one game in Euroleague's regular season. Despite successful start, Rytas lost three games of six in the second stage and qualified into the next round by taking 2nd place in the group only after the crucial smash-up of Telenet Oostende 111–83 at the last game in Vilnius. Due to questionable shape of the team, Virginijus Šeškus was fired as head coach. Despite fired as head coach, Šeškus stayed in Rytas as an assistant of the new head coach Marcelo Nicola. On 20–22 February, Rytas participated in 2015 LKF Cup. They defeated Dzūkija 78–63 in the quarter-finals and Šiauliai 71–61 in the semi-finals, however at the finals Rytas lost season's first trophy to principal rival Žalgiris 76–82 and extended trophies drought. On 4 March 2015, Lietuvos rytas played first game of the Eurocup playoffs versus Pınar Karşıyaka. Despite having the double-digit lead multiple times, Rytas failed to secure it until the final seconds. The match finished with result 81–81 and the series winner was to be decided in Turkey. Despite the affirmative thoughts and the mighty moods, on 11 March, Rytas players failed to show any positive signs in the game. The deficit was already shattering after the first two quarters (34–53). The final result was 97–81, ending the two-times Eurocup champion Rytas journey in the international competitions early that year. In LKL, Rytas started ambiguously. On 19 October 2014 they suffered first defeat against Žalgiris 82–84 in Vilnius. Although, they defeated the Euroleague participant BC Neptūnas week later. On 15 November 2014 during the game against Pieno žvaigždės second defeat happened. Furthermore, on 28 December 2014, Rytas also suffered defeat to Neptūnas 90–94 in their home arena. On 1 January 2015 Rytas failed to compete for the victory during the second game against Žalgiris in Kaunas, losing the game 77–91. Though, on 8 March 2015 Rytas shown solid positive signs under the command of the new head coach. They absolutely crushed Žalgiris in Vilnius with result 93–66 and at times the Rytas lead was even 35 points. Žalgiris assistant coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius described the game as a "shame". Following the fiasco in Eurocup, on 15 March 2015, Rytas tremendously defeated Neptūnas 87–86 for the second time in Klaipėda after the astonishing Mike Moser shot when there was only 0.6 second remaining, and firmly improved the chances of taking the first spot during the regular LKL season. On 13 April 2015, Rytas defeated Neptūnas 84–75 for the third time, reaching the 16th straight victory in LKL, and guarantying at least second spot in the regular LKL season. The winning streak ended on the final day of the regular season, with a tough 81–82 loss to Žalgiris. With the loss, Rytas entered the playoffs as the second seed team. Though, the game referees decisions left doubtful impressions, which sparked many discussions. Consequently, Rytas requested LKL to hire foreign-born referees during the semi-finals and the grand finals to completely guarantee referees impartiality. Although, their request was rejected by the majority of the LKL clubs. Rytas began the LKL playoffs by smashing Šiauliai 3–0 in the series (97–69, 96–107 and 96–92), in spite of all their militant efforts, especially shown by the upcoming Rytas member Rokas Giedraitis. The LKL semi-finals began much more difficultly for Lietuvos rytas, overcoming Neptūnas only during the final game minutes 88–79. Though, they later lost 101–107 in Klaipėda after OT and the semi-final series tied at 1–1. Rytas successfully reached a revenge 96–89 two days later in Vilnius. Crucial game in Klaipėda began remarkably positively for Rytas, who once even had 29 points lead. Though, Neptūnas performed their last assault and almost tied the game at the end. Still it wasn't powerful enough assault as Rytas won the game by 5 points and eliminated Neptūnas 3–1, qualifying into the LKL grand-final after one-year break. Lietuvos rytas began LKL finals with a close defeat of 66–73 to Žalgiris. Antanas Kavaliauskas dominated in the first half with total of 17 points, Kšyštof Lavrinovič did the same in the second half with 17 points as well, though the team failed to receive solid support from the team captain Martynas Gecevičius (4 points, 0/5 three-pointers) and one of the key players Gediminas Orelik (2 points, 1/6 field goals). During second game, Rytas suffered desperate defeat 62–78 in Vilnius. All-season team's leaders: Gecevičius, Kavaliauskas and Orelik together scored only 13 points. Then Žalgiris won two more games: 71–68 after OT and 77–85. Rytas was crushed 0–4 in the finals once again. Despite the victories in the regular season and 2–3 LKL semi-final result last season, their most recent victory versus Žalgiris in the LKL finals was achieved only back in 2011. "I don't know how they got this information, but they tried to lure me. <...> Vilnius. Family. Challenge. Beloved team. BC Lietuvos rytas had more levers at his side." — Antanas Kavaliauskas, describing his "Loyalty..." message in Twitter, which he wrote after rejecting the identical contract from the LKL champions Žalgiris Kaunas that competed in Euroleague. On 5 July 2015 Lietuvos rytas president Gedvydas Vainauskas admitted that the tickets prices and the move to the 2500 seats arena during the primary games were failure and said that the club is seeking to return the lost positions in the near future. Following the agreement with the Siemens Arena, the club once again played their most important games there. The deal with the arena owners was signed till 2020. Despite all the Rytas efforts and ULEB promises to LKL, the club did not received a wild card to the tournament and had to play in the second-tier league Eurocup for a second straight season. Rytas early began signings with the new team members. First of all, all the foreigners left the team: Billy Baron, Mike Moser, Travis Leslie. Though, Marcelo Nicola remained as the head coach of the team, despite the disastrous LKL finals. Then one of the CSU Asesoft Ploiești leaders Marius Runkauskas replaced Martynas Gecevičius. Club president later in an interview told that the contract extension with a team leader, who scores only 10 points per 4 final games, is not possible. Unlike Gecevičius, another Rytas leader Antanas Kavaliauskas signed a new three-years deal. Rytas also signed with Deividas Gailius, who was Neptūnas team leader and had a solid Euroleague season. As a result, Simas Jasaitis had to leave the team. Later Rytas surprisingly signed with Artūras Gudaitis by paying buyout, who was a member of the principal opponents Žalgiris, and was recently drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. Team roster was also strengthened with one of the most talented young Lithuanians, Rokas Giedraitis, who had signed a four-year deal with the club. Furthermore, one of the Šiauliai leaders Julius Jucikas replaced Artūras Valeika. Seven Lietuvos rytas players were invited to the Lithuania men's national basketball team training camp. Argentina national basketball team member Nicolás Laprovíttola became Rytas roster final piece in the summer of 2015. On 19 August, first training camp was held. On 4 September, Krasta Auto (authorized BMW dealer in Lithuania) became one of the club sponsors, giving 14 brand-new cars for the club members and replacing the former vehicles sponsor Škoda. The agreement was signed for 3 years. On 23 September 2015, Kavaliauskas was chosen captain of the team. Rytas positively began the pre-season by winning a friendly tournament in Alytus and then the Vladas Garastas Cup, where they defeated the Euroleague participant BC Khimki in the final 85–84. Rytas also started the LKL in dominating fashion. The returning to the Siemens Arena game, which started the 2015–16 Eurocup season, ended with a vexatious 87–91 defeat to Beşiktaş J.K. The team then crushed Szolnoki Olaj KK 65–89. After a loss to BC Žalgiris 70:79, the problems began. After shocking losses to BC Avtodor Saratov 81:97 and BC Zenit Saint Petersburg 65:70 at home in the Eurocup, the team was even booed of the court. Rytas also lost to PAOK B.C. 76:81, and rumors started off about conflicts between coach Nicola and the team. Due to the hopeless shape of the team, Marcelo Nicola was fired, with rumors that he will be replaced by Tomas Pačėsas. Under current coach Aurimas Jasilionis, however, the team played the best match in the season - a thrilling 103–92 win over Beşiktaş J.K in Istanbul. A few days later, despite improved play, Rytas lost to BC Žalgiris again - 68–82 - in the Siemens Arena. The poor form of the team was quickly recalled when Rytas lost another Eurocup home game, this time to the Szolnoki Olaj KK 98–99. Another disastrous performance happened in Saratov - Rytas lost to BC Avtodor Saratov 92:109, with only minimal hope for qualification for the LAST-32 stage in the Eurocup. After the loss, coach Jasilionis was replaced by longtime assistant coach Arvydas Gronskis. After another loss, this time to BC Zenit Saint Petersburg 84–92, Rytas lost all hope to qualify to the LAST-32 stage. In the final game, Rytas lost to PAOK B.C. 81:88 at home, finishing with a 2-8 record. After the Eurocup fiasco, coach Gronskis was sent to the reserve team Perlas Vilnius again, and Tomas Pačėsas became the new head coach of the team. The team, under a firm arm of Pačėsas, finished the year with a three straight victories. On 31 December 2015, Nicolás Laprovíttola left the team. On 10 January, Julius Jucikas was traded to Dzūkija Alytus for Adam Łapeta. On 17 January, Rytas achieved the season's first victory versus Žalgiris 78–72. On 19–21 February, Rytas competed in the newly formed Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė tournament. After defeating Lietkabelis Panevėžys in the quarter-final 88–82, Neptūnas Klaipėda in the semi-final 79–97 and Žalgiris Kaunas in the final 57–67, the team won their first trophy following a five seasons drought. Antanas Kavaliauskas was named MVP. On March 29, Rytas signed a three-years contract with the Euroleague Basketball Company and will compete in its organized tournaments. The rest of the season, however, was a complete fiasco. After losing to Žalgiris in the final regular season game, Rytas had difficulty in a victorious sweep against Lietkabelis Panevėžys in the quarterfinal stage. In the semifinals, the problems became clear - in the first match at Siemens Arena, Rytas lost to Neptūnas 71–83. After a loss at Klaipėda 68–70, Rytas was down 0–2, though managed to win the next two games 66–64 and 74–73, setting a deciding fifth game at the Siemens Arena. Rytas lost 72–73 and lost the series 2–3, suffering the biggest fiasco in club history. This was also the first time that Rytas was eliminated in the LKL by another team, instead of Žalgiris. The disappointing season ending was finished by winning LKL bronze medals series 3–0 versus the Juventus Utena. The signings of the new season began by contract extensions with Artūras Jomantas and Artūras Gudaitis, who decided to stay in the club. Following it, Rytas signed David Logan, who had been an Euroleague star under the command of Tomas Pačėsas. On July 23, the front line was strengthened by athletic Kenny Kadji. On July 27, Adam Łapeta signed a new two-year contract. During the summer, team captain Kavaliauskas reportedly had disputes with the team management concerning pay. Soon it was announced that Kavaliauskas would probably not return for the next season, leading to Kavaliauskas deleting the infamous "Loyalty.." message he wrote about Lietuvos Rytas last summer. In August, in a move that shocked fans from both teams alike, Kavaliauskas left the team and signed with Žalgiris Kaunas. On August 30, Drew Gordon was signed. On October 1, Rashaun Broadus signed a trial deal. On October 2, Kadji was released after failing to adapt to the team and playing just three games. On November 22, one of the Nigerian Olympic national team leaders Josh Akognon was signed as primary point guard. On December 9, Broadus was fired. On December 28, Clevin Hannah joined the team. Marijonas Mikutavičius, the creator of de facto Lithuania Olympics Team song – Trys Milijonai, also created a special song to the BC Lietuvos rytas team, following its success in LKL and the very first steps in the prestigious Euroleague. The song is called "Laikas būti pirmiems" (English: Time To Be First) and is widely regarded as the club's anthem. To this day it is still played after the successful club's games or just at the time-outs during the home games. Lietuvos rytas Note: exact date is listed for players who joined or left during season. squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 12 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | SG |David Logan (from Dinamo Basket Sassari) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 32 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PF |Drew Gordon (from Champagne Châlons-Reims Basket) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 0 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Corey Fisher (from Guaros de Lara) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 5 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Rashaun Broadus (from MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 1 | style="padding-right:15px;" | NGA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Josh Akognon (from Baskonia) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 11 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Clevin Hannah (from Büyükçekmece Basketbol) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 10 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SF |Laimonas Kisielius (from Tsmoki Minsk) |} |} squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 12 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Kšyštof Lavrinovič (to Lietkabelis Panevėžys) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 8 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SG |Mindaugas Lukauskis (to Lietkabelis Panevėžys) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 11 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Artūras Valeika (to Vytautas Prienai-Birštonas) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 22 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SG |Marius Runkauskas (to Steaua București) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 7 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Adas Juškevičius (to Tecnyconta Zaragoza) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 2 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Kendrick Brown (to Koroivos) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 17 | style="padding-right:15px;" | UKR | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Denys Lukashov (to Yenisey Krasnoyarsk) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 19 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Žygimantas Janavičius (to Lietkabelis Panevėžys) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 11 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SF |Gediminas Orelik (to Banvit) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 21 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Antanas Kavaliauskas (to Žalgiris Kaunas) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 35 | style="padding-right:15px;" | CMR | style="text-align: center;" | PF |Kenny Kadji (to Trabzonspor B.K.) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 5 | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Rashaun Broadus |} |} squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | 10 | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Karolis Guščikas (to BC Dzūkija) |} |} Total titles: 14 Used for most LKL games and practices. To appear in this section a player must be either: The following head coaches won at least one major trophy when in charge of Rytas: Only players with significant amount of games played or points scored. ‡ Euroleague MVP of the Week Euroleague MVP of the Month 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors Chosen: Nominated: Euroleague Basketball 2001–10 All-Decade Team Euroleague Assists leaders Eurocup MVP of the Week Eurocup Performance Index Rating Leaders Best Eurocup Coach of All Time Eurocup Basketball Awards LKL Finals MVP Slam Dunk Contest Champions Three-point Shootout Champions Final Four MVP Finals MVP FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award As of January 2014: Lietuvos rytas basketball club was featured in the NBA 2K15 video game. , BC Rytas 2018-12-26T20:38:30Z BC Rytas, formerly known as Lietuvos rytas, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The club, founded in 1997, on the basis of another club, Statyba, is one of the most successful Lithuanian basketball clubs. Rytas, among other titles, have won two EuroCup titles, five Lithuanian League titles, three Lithuanian Cups and three Baltic Championships. Lietuvos rytas plays their home games at 11,000-seat Siemens Arena and 2,500-seat Lietuvos rytas Arena. Some of the greatest Lithuanian basketball players have played for Rytas over the years including: Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Arvydas Macijauskas, Jonas Valančiūnas, Martynas Gecevičius, Renaldas Seibutis, Simas Jasaitis, Robertas Javtokas, Darius Songaila, Marijonas Petravičius, Rimantas Kaukėnas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Gintaras Einikis. Rytas plays in the EuroCup, Lithuanian Basketball League, and King Mindaugas Cup. They also have a farm club Perlas, which is used for the development of young players and plays in the second-tier NKL. In 1963, the first basketball team from Vilnius, called Žalgiris, was formed. Next year it changed its name to Plastikas. The same year, 1964, Plastikas players joined a new team, called Statyba. This name was used for over 30 years. Jonas Kazlauskas, Rimas Girskis, and then head coach Rimantas Endrijaitis led Statyba to a third place in the 1979 Soviet Union Championship. Three years later, Šarūnas Marčiulionis joined the team and became its leader. In 1987, Artūras Karnišovas joined the team at the age of 16. In 1994, Statyba won bronze medals in first LKL season. In 1995, biggest Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos rytas started sponsoring Sūduva Marijampolė, a basketball club from Marijampolė, Lithuania. The partnership lasted for two seasons, during which the team was known as Lietuvos rytas Marijampolė and played in the second-tier Lithuanian league, the LKAL. A notable player for the team was teenager Darius Songaila. However, after 1996–97 season partnership ended. At the same time, Statyba faced with financial difficulties and was at the verge of bankruptcy. The team needed new investors and in 1997 Lietuvos rytas bought the club. However, the new owners did not want to continue Statyba history and started a new one – the team was renamed to Statyba-Lietuvos rytas, then just Lietuvos rytas. The newspaper's investment helped the club to establish itself as one of two best in Lithuania, the other being Žalgiris from the country's second-largest city Kaunas. During its first season, Lietuvos rytas managed to repeat Statyba's biggest achievement in LKL and won bronze. Next season was even better - Rytas won LKL silver, losing only to reigning EuroLeague champions Žalgiris Kaunas. The team also took second place in 1997 William Jones Cup. However, the biggest success at that time came in 2000, when Vilnius' side, led by the so-called "big three"—Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Andrius Giedraitis and Eric Elliott, also combined with youngsters Arvydas Macijauskas and Robertas Javtokas, managed to win LKL. The team was coached by Šarūnas Sakalauskas. It was the first time in the history of the Lithuanian Basketball League when Žalgiris Kaunas did not win the LKL title. Also, Rytas reached the Saporta Cup semifinal, where they met last season EuroLeague runner-up Kinder. After an upsetting home win 70–60, Lietuvos rytas lost in Italy 71–83, with Šiškauskas missing a three-pointer which would've won the two-game series for his team. The next season, due to the split between the FIBA and ULEB, Rytas played in the FIBA SuproLeague, making it to the quarterfinals, but losing to Anadolu Efes S.K.. The team won third place in the NEBL, a step down from the previous season's second place. In the LKL finals, Žalgiris Kaunas defeated Lietuvos rytas in tough five game series 3–2. In 2002, Lietuvos rytas repeated their triumph, this time in a dramatic seven-game final series with the last game decided in overtime. The team played without center Robertas Javtokas, who was seriously injured in a motorbike crash. Lietuvos rytas also won the NEBL title in 2002, becoming the last team winning the tournament. The team held first place in the group stage of the Saporta Cup, but lost in the quarterfinals to Hapoel Jerusalem. Over the next two seasons, Lietuvos rytas lost both times in the LKL finals to Žalgiris Kaunas. They had more success in Europe, though, finishing in second place in the FIBA Eurocup regional stage (though losing to Hemofarm Vršac in the final stage). The team also debuted in the ULEB Cup, making to the quarterfinals, but losing to Hapoel Jerusalem. After not winning any title in the past two seasons Lietuvos rytas decided that change was needed and started recruiting foreign coaches, first of them being Serbian Vlade Đurović. Midway through the season, team leader Frederick House suffered a season-ending injury, head coach Đurović resigned and was replaced by Slovenian Tomo Mahorič. Despite this, newcomer Tyrone Nesby, Latvian playmaker Roberts Štelmahers and an inspirational Lithuanian trio: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Tomas Delininkaitis led the team to the victory of 2005 ULEB Cup, beating Pamesa Valencia in the semifinals and Makedonikos in the final. This victory granted them a place in the EuroLeague, the continent's primary basketball club tournament. Lietuvos rytas won second place in both the LKL and BBL finals, losing handily to Žalgiris Kaunas. Before the 2005–06 season, Croatian specialist Neven Spahija became the head coach of the team. Lietuvos rytas started the 2005–06 EuroLeague season well. After losing their first two matches, Rytas matched the EuroLeague record by winning seven consecutive EuroLeague fixtures, defeating such teams as FC Barcelona, champions Maccabi Tel Aviv (twice) and Efes Pilsen Istanbul. Those wins allowed Rytas to advance to Top 16 phase, where they won three times out of six, beating Tau Ceramica Vitoria once and Brose Baskets Bamberg twice. However, that was not enough and Lietuvos rytas was eliminated from that year's EuroLeague. After winning the Baltic Basketball League title, Lietuvos rytas won their easiest finals series, crushing Žalgiris Kaunas 4–0. Despite winning the Lithuanian title, Lietuvos rytas did not acquire the country's spot for 2006–07 EuroLeague that was reserved to the arch rival Žalgiris Kaunas. Although the coach and three leading players: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Fred House had left the team during the interseason, the 2006–07 ULEB Cup season was rather successful for Lietuvos rytas as well, despite that two coaches were replaced during the season: Sharon Drucker from Israel was replaced by Slovenian Zmago Sagadin and the latter to his assistant coach Aleksandar Trifunović from Serbia. The roster was strengthened during the season when promising NBA player Kareem Rush arrived to lead the team to the ULEB Cup final where Lietuvos rytas was defeated by Real Madrid. However, Real Madrid's victory at the ACB semifinals and of one of four spots reserved for Spain allowed Lietuvos rytas to take part in the 2006–07 EuroLeague as the ULEB Cup finalist. On 27 April 2007, Lietuvos rytas won their second consecutive BBL title, Kareem Rush was named the Final Four MVP. The LKL finals and LKF Cup finals were both unsuccessful, though, as Žalgiris Kaunas won them both. Lietuvos rytas was very successful in the regular season of 2007–08 EuroLeague, beating teams like Unicaja Málaga or Armani Jeans Milano. Very notable victories were achieved against future EuroLeague finalists of that season, Maccabi Tel Aviv. On 1 November, Lietuvos rytas defeated Maccabi by 18 points at home for a third time in a row as Artūras Jomantas led the team with 19 points and became the week's co-MVP with Erazem Lorbek, both having performance index ratings of 29. The fourth victory in a row over Maccabi (away, by 5 points) was due to spectacular performances by Hollis Price (19 points) and Chuck Eidson (28 points). A road victory against Cibona Zagreb on 31 January 2008 completed the Euroleague regular season for Lietuvos rytas and allowed them to remain at the first spot in the Group B securing a favorable position in the first pool before the Top 16 draw together with CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid and Panathinaikos Athens. Their 11–3 record was the team's best regular season performance ever, and the best by a Lithuanian team in Euroleague at the time. However, the team was not as successful in the Top 16 and with record of 2–4 did not advance to playoffs. Lietuvos rytas were the runner-up at all: the Lithuanian Basketball League, the Baltic Basketball League and the Lithuanian Cup, losing each time to Žalgiris Kaunas. The 2008–09 season was met by the team with a significantly reduced budget, putting a greater emphasis on young and perspective local players. Nevertheless, Lietuvos rytas managed to win the first Baltic Basketball Presidents Cup. On 21 October 2008, Lietuvos rytas had a first chance ever to play against National Basketball Association basketball club Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena. Lietuvos rytas lost that game 126–106. However, as many other Baltic professional sports clubs, Lietuvos rytas had to face the blow of financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009. Having lost two of its foreign leaders Lietuvos rytas still managed to reach the second phase of EuroCup finishing second in their group with three home wins and three away losses. Head coach Antanas Sireika resigned and was replaced by a former Lietuvos rytas' player Rimas Kurtinaitis for the second half of the season. The team has started second phase of the EuroCup with only two foreign players, Chuck Eidson (a teammate of Petravičius at South Carolina) and Milko Bjelica on its roster which had been refreshed with promising Lithuanians. However, that was enough and Rytas successfully advanced to Final 8. Chuck Eidson was named the regular season MVP. The Final 8 started with a victory against Benetton Treviso in quarterfinal on 2 April 2009. Two days later the team won semifinal against Hemofarm Vršac and made the third consecutive appearance in the EuroCup finals. Mindaugas Lukauskis has made a decisive three-pointer and that allowed him to become the only player to participate in the final three times in total and, later, the only two-time EuroCup champion. Going into finals, Rytas was considered underdog against rich Russian team Khimki. However, terrific performances of Steponas Babrauskas (18 points) and Marijonas Petravičius (20 points) allowed the team to overcome the odds and win the final. Lietuvos rytas made an outstanding 15–0 run, having left their rivals empty for 6 straight minutes in the third and fourth quarters. Rytas became the first team to reclaim the EuroCup title, while Marijonas Petravičius became the Final 8 MVP. Lietuvos rytas was very successful in matches against arch rival Žalgiris Kaunas too. Firstly, it won the 2009 LKF Cup, with Mindaugas Lukauskis scoring the game-winning three pointer with 2 seconds left. Next was the Baltic Basketball League final game - it was won by Lietuvos rytas on 25 April 2009 over Žalgiris Kaunas, 97–74. Chuck Eidson scored 41 points and was announced the MVP. It was the third BBL title for the club, compared to Žalgiris' two. The final trophy of the season was the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Lietuvos rytas swept past all the teams in the playoffs and qualified to the finals. There Vilnius team confronted their rival Žalgiris Kaunas and won the series 4–1, the final match taking place on 18 May. This was the 4th time Lietuvos rytas became the LKL champion. It was the 5th trophy of the season for the team from 5 possible ones. After the season team leaders Marijonas Petravičius, Mindaugas Lukauskis and Chuck Eidson left the team and Lietuvos rytas acquired new perspective players to replace them. The team began their 2009–10 season with a dramatic loss to their rivals Žalgiris Kaunas 83–78 in BBL Cup finals. Lietuvos rytas also participated in the 2009 Gomelsky Cup, in which the team claimed third place after a near-loss game against Triumph Lyubertsy 94–90. Lietuvos rytas was not as successful in 2009–10 EuroLeague as before – they lost the deciding game against Unicaja Málaga, took the 5th place in Group B and did not advance to the Top 16. However, their fierce battles with Žalgiris Kaunas continued. After winning the LKF Cup by the score of 77–65, Lietuvos rytas, having problems with players injuries, suffered a loss in the BBL Finals to their rivals from Kaunas, 66–73. However, Lietuvos rytas took revenge and won the LKL trophy, beating Žalgiris Kaunas after a thrilling series 4–3. It was the second consecutive LKL title of Vilnius' team. After the conclusion of the season, head coach Rimas Kurtinaitis left the club to be replaced by Croatian Dražen Anzulović. The 2010–11 EuroLeague season was the fourth one for Lietuvos rytas. After an unsuccessful start of the season, Dražen Anzulović was replaced by the team's former coach Aleksandar Trifunović. The team's overall record being 0–4 in their Group C, the team signed free agent Lithuanian star and a former team member Šarūnas Jasikevičius. After winning 3 of 3 last EuroLeague group phase games, Rytas qualified for the Top 16 stage in the fourth berth during their last games. At the New Year's Eve Jasikevičius was replaced by a former member of the team Simas Jasaitis, also a free agent. The Top 16 phase was the most successful for the team from all its 3 attempts. Playing in the Group E Lietuvos rytas defeated Caja Laboral at home, Panathinaikos Athens and Unicaja Málaga on the road. The last round remaining, the team had a chance to finish first in their Top 16 E group. However, Lietuvos rytas lost to Caja Laboral and took the third place in the group. The 9th place in EuroLeague is the highest achievement for Lietuvos rytas in this tournament in whole club history. However, the remaining part of the season was unsuccessful for the club as Lietuvos rytas lost in the semifinals at the Baltic Basketball League and finished only in 3rd place for the first time in club history. Head coach Trifunović was replaced by assistant coach Darius Maskoliūnas. The game improved, but the team ended up losing to Žalgiris Kaunas in the LKL finals, 4–1. After dismissing Milko Bjelica, Kenan Bajramović, D.J. Strawberry, Cemal Nalga and losing team leader Martynas Gecevičius, Lietuvos rytas replaced 8 players and opened a new page in club history. The beginning of the season was not very successful as Lietuvos rytas didn not win EuroLeague's qualification tournament, which was organized in Vilnius. Lietuvos rytas won their first two matches against Budućnost Podgorica and Cibona Zagreb, but lost the final game against Galatasaray with a score of 71–63. Because of that, Lietuvos rytas had to play at the second-tier European competition - EuroCup. The team, led by Renaldas Seibutis, Jonas Valančiūnas and Tyrese Rice, made it to the EuroCup quarterfinal round for the fifth time in a row and defeated Donetsk there, but lost to Valencia Basket in the semifinals. Rytas finished third after a 71–62 win against Spartak St. Petersburg. Lietuvos rytas finished third in the regular season round of VTB United League and qualified for the eighth-final. They defeated Nizhny Novgorod there and advanced to quarterfinals where they met Khimki. Khimki were reigning EuroCup and VTB League champions and they were considered heavy favorites, but, unexpectedly, Rytas won the series 2–1. The Final Four tournament was organized at Siemens Arena. After a tense semifinal Lietuvos rytas lost to CSKA and went on to win 3rd place against Lokomotiv-Kuban. Despite two third places in international competitions, Rytas lost the LKL final series 3–0 to Žalgiris Kaunas. This was the worst domestic season in team's history - Rytas lost all six of its matches (five in LKL and one in BBL) to its rival. Following the conclusion of the season, Tyrese Rice, Lawrence Roberts, Aleksandar Rašić and Jonas Valančiūnas left the team. After losing most of their leaders during the summer, Rytas formed a younger squad. Players like Nemanja Nedović were expected to be the future of the team. However, the season was not very successful. It started with loss of Lithuanian Supercup to Žalgiris Kaunas. After struggling to find rhythm in the opening months, Lietuvos rytas released coach Aleksandar Džikić, promoting Maskoliūnas as head coach. Though the game has improved, thanks to the solid play of Leon Radošević, Renaldas Seibutis and Nemanja Nedović, the EuroLeague season was finished only with a 2–8 record. The team did not fare much better in the VTB United League. After Leon Radošević and Predrag Samardžiski were released, Rytas signed Milt Palacio, Tomislav Zubčić and Patrick O'Bryant. However, the rookies did not help much and Rytas still missed the VTB playoffs, with Donetsk defeating Rytas in the deciding game. Coach Maskoliūnas was fired then and replaced with Dirk Bauermann. Rytas started to play much better then, and in April scored a shocking away win over Žalgiris Kaunas (first one in almost 2 years). Rytas made the LKL finals for the 15th time in a row. However, Žalgiris Kaunas easily swept Lietuvos rytas 4–0 in the final. Due to the unsuccessful past season, the manager decided to almost completely rebuild the team: eight players left after the team lost LKL finals to the rival Žalgiris Kaunas. Former team leader Martynas Gecevičius was recalled after two seasons break and a notable point guard Omar Cook was signed. Because the team was second in the domestic league, it had to hope for a EuroLeague wild card. The team did not receive it, and had to participate in EuroLeague's qualification tournament once again, which was held in Vilnius. This time, Rytas, led by Renaldas Seibutis and Martynas Gecevičius, was successful – it won three games in a row (against VEF Rīga, EWE Oldenburg and Telenet Oostende), and qualified for the EuroLeague. To strengthen the team roster before EuroLeague games, Lietuvos rytas signed former NBA and Lithuania national team player Darius Songaila. On 18 October 2013, Lietuvos rytas started the 2013–14 EuroLeague season with an 84–83 victory against Panathinaikos Athens after Renaldas Seibutis's winning shot in overtime. The game was named as the EuroLeague's Game of the Week and re-broadcast in over 150 countries worldwide. However, after this, the level of play for the Lithuanian team dropped significantly and Rytas was not able to win any more games. 6 games were lost by 10 points or more and it turned out to be worst Lietuvos rytas season ever in EuroLeague. Following the fiasco, coach Dirk Bauermann was replaced by Croat Aleksandar Petrović. The change helped and on 22 December, Rytas crushed its rival Žalgiris Kaunas 90–58. After being eliminated in the EuroCup playoffs by Crvena zvezda Belgrade, Lietuvos rytas also suffered a shocking defeat in the LKF Cup finals, losing to TonyBet Prienai 92–91, leading to the firing of coach Aleksandar Petrović, who was replaced by Dainius Adomaitis. Despite two victories against biggest Rytas rival Žalgiris Kaunas during regular season, the LKL playoffs were an disaster for Lietuvos rytas. Due to rare situation in LKL standings, Rytas and Žalgiris Kaunas met in the semifinals and not in the finals for the second time since 1998. Darius Songaila 28 points led Rytas to first series victory in Vilnius with result 90–85, however then Rytas lost to Žalgiris in Kaunas with result 72–57 and series tied at 1–1. Third crucial game was played in Vilnius, however it was not successful for the home team. Despite having 7 points lead multiple times, Rytas lost 71–73 to Žalgiris Kaunas and did not qualify to the LKL Finals for the second time in club history, losing the series 2–1. Team captain Steponas Babrauskas described it as an tragedy, moreover one of team leaders Renaldas Seibutis injured his eye after contact with Vytenis Lipkevičius and due to required surgery missed the rest of the season. The disastrous season continued for Rytas in the VTB playoffs-after defeating Triumph Lyubertsy in the first round, Rytas lost to Nizhny Novgorod in the semifinal round, losing a chance to play in the 2014–15 EuroLeague season. Rytas finished in 3rd place in the LKL, winning the series against TonyBet Prienai 30 and winning the bronze medals-this was the team's worst season since the 1998–99 season. After terrible LKL season last year, taking only 3rd place, Rytas lost all chances of qualifying into the EuroLeague that year. He was not even invited to the qualifying tournament as before and had to return to the second-tier European league EuroCup. As a result of this, the club changed firmly. Firstly, club biggest stars Renaldas Seibutis, Omar Cook and Darius Songaila left the team. Secondly, the team played most of its games in the newly reconstructed Lietuvos rytas Arena instead of the Siemens Arena. Thirdly, Rytas withdrew from Russian VTB League. Virginijus Šeškus, a former multiple LKL bronze medalist with Prienai, was signed as a head coach of the team, along with his past team members Artūras Valeika and Mindaugas Lukauskis, who played six seasons in Rytas previously. Club owner Gedvydas Vainauskas shortly afterward said that enthusiastic V. Šeškus reminds him former team coach Rimas Kurtinaitis, who has led Rytas to the biggest victories in the club history. Lithuania national team member Adas Juškevičius and former NBA player Travis Leslie were signed as well. On 15 October 2014, Rytas powerfully started the EuroCup season by 92–65 crushing Serbian powerhouse Partizan Belgrade. They have finished first round with 8–2 record and took first place in the group. On 16 December, team roster was strengthened with addition of Kšyštof Lavrinovič, who has signed two-year deal with Rytas. Later, on 5 January 2015, another Lithuania national team member Simas Jasaitis also signed with Rytas for the third time in his career. Lietuvos rytas started the Last-32 stage in EuroCup by winning against the best team in Poland, Turów Zgorzelec which was relegated to EuroCup after winning only one game in EuroLeague's regular season. Despite successful start, Rytas lost three games of six in the second stage and qualified into the next round by taking 2nd place in the group only after the crucial smash-up of Telenet Oostende 111–83 at the last game in Vilnius. Due to questionable shape of the team, Virginijus Šeškus was fired as head coach. Despite fired as head coach, Šeškus stayed in Rytas as an assistant of the new head coach Marcelo Nicola. Between 20 and 22 February, Rytas participated in 2015 LKF Cup. They defeated Dzūkija Alytus 78–63 in the quarterfinals and Šiauliai 71–61 in the semifinals, however at the finals Rytas lost season's first trophy to principal rival Žalgiris Kaunas 83–76 and extended trophies drought. On 4 March, Lietuvos rytas played first game of the EuroCup playoffs versus Pınar Karşıyaka. Despite having the double-digit lead multiple times, Rytas failed to secure it until the final seconds. The match finished with result 81–81 and the series winner was to be decided in Turkey. Despite the affirmative thoughts and the mighty moods, on 11 March, Rytas players failed to show any positive signs in the game. The deficit was already shattering after the first two quarters (34–53). The final result was 97–81, ending the two-times EuroCup champion Rytas journey in the international competitions early that year. In LKL, Rytas started ambiguously. On 19 October 2014, they suffered first defeat against Žalgiris Kaunas 84–82 in Vilnius. Although, they defeated the EuroLeague participant Neptūnas Klaipėda week later. On 15 November, during a game against Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys second defeat happened. Furthermore, on 28 December, Rytas also suffered defeat to Neptūnas 90–94 in their home arena. On 1 January 2015 Rytas failed to compete for the victory during the second game against Žalgiris in Kaunas, losing the game 77–91. Though, on 8 March 2015 Rytas had shown solid positive signs under the command of the new head coach. They absolutely crushed Žalgiris Kaunas in Vilnius with result 93–66 and at times the Rytas lead was even 35 points. Žalgiris Kaunas assistant coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius described the game as a "shame". Following the fiasco in EuroCup, on 15 March, Rytas tremendously defeated Neptūnas 87–86 for the second time in Klaipėda after the astonishing Mike Moser shot when there was only 0.6 second remaining, and firmly improved the chances of taking the first spot during the regular LKL season. On 13 April, Rytas defeated Neptūnas 84–75 for the third time, reaching the 16th straight victory in LKL, and guaranteeing at least second spot in the regular LKL season. The winning streak ended on the final day of the regular season, with a tough 81–82 loss to Žalgiris Kaunas. With the loss, Rytas entered the playoffs as the second seed team. Though, the game referees decisions left doubtful impressions, which sparked many discussions. Consequently, Rytas requested LKL to hire foreign-born referees during the semifinals and the grand finals to completely guarantee referees impartiality. Although, their request was rejected by the majority of the LKL clubs. Rytas began the LKL playoffs by smashing Šiauliai 3–0 in the series (97–69, 107–96 and 96–92), in spite of all their militant efforts, especially shown by the upcoming Rytas member Rokas Giedraitis. The LKL semifinals began much more difficultly for Lietuvos rytas, overcoming Neptūnas only during the final game minutes 88–79. Though, they later lost 107–101 in Klaipėda after overtime and the semifinal series tied at 1–1. Rytas successfully reached a revenge 96–89 two days later in Vilnius. Crucial game in Klaipėda began remarkably positively for Rytas, who once even had 29 points lead. Though, Neptūnas performed their last assault and almost tied the game at the end. Still it was not powerful enough assault as Rytas won the game by 5 points and eliminated Neptūnas 3–1, qualifying for the LKL Finals after one-year break. Lietuvos rytas began LKL finals with a close defeat of 73–66 to Žalgiris Kaunas. Antanas Kavaliauskas dominated in the first half with total of 17 points, Kšyštof Lavrinovič did the same in the second half with 17 points as well, though the team failed to receive solid support from the team captain Martynas Gecevičius (4 points, 0/5 three-pointers) and one of the key players Gediminas Orelik (2 points, 1/6 field goals). During second game, Rytas suffered desperate defeat 62–78 in Vilnius. All-season team's leaders: Gecevičius, Kavaliauskas and Orelik together scored only 13 points. Then Žalgiris Kaunas won two more games: 71–68 after overtime and 85–77. Rytas was crushed 4–0 in the finals once again. Despite the victories in the regular season and 3–2 LKL semifinal result last season, their most recent victory versus Žalgiris Kaunas in the LKL finals was achieved only back in 2011. "I don't know how they got this information, but they tried to lure me. <...> Vilnius. Family. Challenge. Beloved team. BC Lietuvos rytas had more levers at his side." — Antanas Kavaliauskas, describing his "Loyalty..." message in Twitter, which he wrote after rejecting the identical contract from the LKL champions Žalgiris Kaunas that competed in EuroLeague. On 5 July 2015, Lietuvos rytas president Gedvydas Vainauskas admitted that the tickets prices and the move to the 2,500 seat arena during the primary games were a failure and said that the club was seeking to return the lost positions in the near future. Following the agreement with the Siemens Arena, the club once again played their most important games there. The deal with the arena owners was signed till 2020. Despite all the Rytas efforts and Euroleague Basketball Company promises to LKL, the club did not received a wild card to the tournament and had to play in the second-tier league EuroCup for a second straight season. Rytas early began signings with the new team members. First of all, all the foreigners left the team: Billy Baron, Mike Moser, Travis Leslie. Though, Marcelo Nicola remained as the head coach of the team, despite the disastrous LKL finals. Then one of the CSU Asesoft Ploiești leaders Marius Runkauskas replaced Martynas Gecevičius. Club president later in an interview told that the contract extension with a team leader, who scores only 10 points per 4 final games, is not possible. Unlike Gecevičius, another Rytas leader Antanas Kavaliauskas signed a new three-years deal. Rytas also signed with Deividas Gailius, who was Neptūnas|Neptūnas Klaipėda team leader and had a solid EuroLeague season. As a result, Simas Jasaitis had to leave the team. Later Rytas surprisingly signed with Artūras Gudaitis by paying buyout, who was a member of the principal opponents Žalgiris Kaunas, and was recently drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. Team roster was also strengthened with one of the most talented young Lithuanians, Rokas Giedraitis, who had signed a four-year deal with the club. Furthermore, one of the Šiauliai leaders Julius Jucikas replaced Artūras Valeika. Seven Lietuvos rytas players were invited to the Lithuania men's national basketball team training camp. Argentina national basketball team member Nicolás Laprovíttola became Rytas roster final piece in the summer of 2015. On 19 August, first training camp was held. On 4 September, Krasta Auto (authorized BMW dealer in Lithuania) became one of the club sponsors, giving 14 brand-new cars for the club members and replacing the former vehicle's sponsor Škoda. The agreement was signed for 3 years. On 23 September, Kavaliauskas was chosen captain of the team. Rytas positively began the pre-season by winning a friendly tournament in Alytus and then the Vladas Garastas Cup, where they defeated the EuroLeague participant Khimki in the final 85–84. Rytas also started the LKL in dominating fashion. The returning to the Siemens Arena game, which started the 2015–16 EuroCup season, ended with a vexatious 91–87 defeat to Beşiktaş J.K. The team then crushed Szolnoki Olaj 89–65. After a loss to Žalgiris Kaunas 79–70, the problems began. After shocking losses to Avtodor Saratov 81–97 and Zenit Saint Petersburg 70–65 at home in the EuroCup, the team was even booed of the court. Rytas also lost to P.A.O.K. BC 76–81, and rumors started off about conflicts between coach Nicola and the team. Due to the hopeless shape of the team, Marcelo Nicola was fired, with rumors that he will be replaced by Tomas Pačėsas. Under coach Aurimas Jasilionis, however, the team played the best match in the season - a thrilling 103–92 win over Beşiktaş J.K in Istanbul. A few days later, despite improved play, Rytas lost 82–68 to Žalgiris Kaunas in the Siemens Arena. The poor form of the team was quickly recalled when Rytas lost another EuroCup home game, this time to Szolnoki Olaj 99–98. Another disastrous performance happened in Saratov - Rytas lost to Avtodor Saratov 109–92, with only minimal hope for qualification for the Last-32 stage in the EuroCup. After the loss, coach Jasilionis was replaced by longtime assistant coach Arvydas Gronskis. After another loss, this time to Zenit Saint Petersburg 92–84, Rytas lost all hope to qualify to the Last-32 stage. In the final game, Rytas lost to P.A.O.K. BC 81–88 at home, finishing with a 2–8 record. After the EuroCup fiasco, coach Gronskis was sent to the reserve team Perlas Vilnius again, and Tomas Pačėsas became the new head coach of the team. The team, under a firm arm of Pačėsas, finished the year with a three straight victories. On 31 December, Nicolás Laprovíttola left the team. On 10 January, Julius Jucikas was traded to Dzūkija Alytus for Adam Łapeta. On 17 January, Rytas achieved the season's first victory versus Žalgiris Kaunas 78–72. On 19–21 February, Rytas competed in the newly formed Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė tournament. After defeating Lietkabelis Panevėžys in the quarterfinals 88–82, Neptūnas Klaipėda in the semifinals 97–79 and Žalgiris Kaunas in the final 67–57, the team won their first trophy following a five seasons drought. Antanas Kavaliauskas was named MVP. On March 29, Rytas signed a three-years contract with the Euroleague Basketball Company in order to compete in its organized tournaments. The rest of the season, however, was a complete fiasco. After losing to Žalgiris Kaunas in the final regular season game, Rytas had difficulty in a victorious sweep against Lietkabelis Panevėžys in the quarterfinal stage. In the semifinals, the problems became clear when in the first match at Siemens Arena, Rytas lost to Neptūnas 71–83. After a 70–68 loss in Klaipėda, Rytas was down 0–2, though managed to win the next two games 66–64 and 74–73, setting a deciding fifth game at the Siemens Arena. Rytas lost 73–72 and lost the series 3–2, suffering the biggest fiasco in club history. This was also the first time that Rytas was eliminated in the LKL by another team, instead of Žalgiris Kaunas. The disappointing season ending was finished by winning LKL bronze medals series 3–0 versus the Juventus Utena. The signings of the new season began by contract extensions with Artūras Jomantas and Artūras Gudaitis, who decided to stay in the club. Following it, Rytas signed David Logan, who had been an EuroLeague star under the command of Tomas Pačėsas. On July 23, the front line was strengthened by athletic Kenny Kadji. On July 27, Adam Łapeta signed a new two-year contract. During the summer, team captain Kavaliauskas reportedly had disputes with the team management concerning pay. Soon it was announced that Kavaliauskas would probably not return for the next season, leading to Kavaliauskas deleting the infamous "Loyalty.." message he wrote about Lietuvos rytas last summer. In August, in a move that shocked fans from both teams alike, Kavaliauskas left the team and signed with Žalgiris Kaunas. On August 30, Drew Gordon was signed. On October 1, Rashaun Broadus signed a trial deal. On October 2, Kadji was released after failing to adapt to the team and playing just three games. On November 22, one of the Nigerian national team leaders Josh Akognon was signed as primary point guard. On December 9, Broadus was fired. On December 28, Clevin Hannah joined the team, along with Laimonas Kisielius. On January 21, Akognon left the team. Lietuvos rytas qualified to the EuroCup Top 16 phase with a 3–5 record, in large part due to incredible efforts from Drew Gordon, David Logan and the rising Artūras Gudaitis. Many troubles started before the start of the top 16, as Gudaitis and Gailius suffered injuries. Rytas lost a very close game to Hapoel Jerusalem at the start in Vilnius, losing 76–80 in a game Rytas led by as much as 20 points, with the fans and coaching staff blaming the referees after the game. In the second round, Rytas lost to Zenit Saint Petersburg 88–79 in an away game, though fought hard and erased a bigger deficit before the end. In the next two weeks, Rytas faced Nizhny Novgorod, blowing out their opponents both times – 97–63 away, and 99–73 at home, with chances to reach the playoffs returning. After a tough game, and a loss, to Hapoel in Jerusalem 82–77, Rytas faced Zenit at home – David Logan scored 28 points in the deciding game, with Rytas winning 86–84, but just narrowly missing the playoffs, as Zenit won the first game by 9 points. After the failure to progress into the EuroCup Playoffs club announced addition of guard Jimmy Baron from local rivals Neptūnas Klaipėda. On February 10, Tomas Pačėsas decided to leave the club and was replaced by Rimas Kurtinaitis, who coached Rytas to most of its titles previously. The coaching change, however, did not save Rytas from one of the most shocking losses in the season – in the first round of the King Mindaugas Cup, Rytas, the defending champion, lost to Juventus Utena 87–84. The loss also became the last game of David Logan, who after weeks of rumors left to sign with Sidigas Avellino. On 25 February, club signed a contract with forward Taylor Brown from the Polish Basketball League. In the LKL, with coach Pačėsas, the team fell to third place for much of the season, only getting second place by the last weeks in the regular season under coach Kurtinaitis. Rytas split the season series with new rivals Neptūnas Klaipėda, and with the rising Lietkabelis Panevėžys team. Against Žalgiris Kaunas, however, this was not the case, Lietuvos rytas were swept in the season series 4–0. In the LKL playoffs, Rytas faced, and swept Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys in the quarterfinals 3–0. In the semifinal, Rytas faced Lietkabelis – in the regular season, both teams won at home, and fought for the second place and home court advantage, which Rytas won at the last game in Vilnius 92–60. Considered a fovorite, Rytas won the first game 96–85 in Vilnius, a game with many conflicts between both teams, in particular Drew Gordon and Lietkabelis forward Žygimantas Skučas. In the second game, Rytas lost in Panevėžys 90–73. With the series tied at 1–1, Rytas was the favorite heading in the third game in Vilnius - Lietkabelis had never won in Vilnius before. However, a shock happened – Rytas lost 81–73, and was down 1–2 in the series. Heading to Panevėžys, internal teams arose with the team in regards with discipline violations by Taylor Brown, Corey Fisher and Clevin Hannah, though no actions were taken by the team until after the series - the three players, along with Drew Gordon, were suspended for the rest of the season. All of them were denying the fact but the incontestable pictures were published, which shattered all the doubts. In Panevėžys, Rytas lost 86–77 and lost the series 3–1. This fiasco also meant that Rytas did not qualify for the LKL finals for the second time in a row - first time in history this has happened. In the bronze medal series, Rytas faced Neptūnas Klaipėda, who was now considered the favorite due to problems internally in Rytas. Rytas started the series with a 79–60 win in Vilnius, to shut up all critics. After losing in Klaipėda 70–83, Rytas won the third game in Vilnius 71–54, again taking a series lead. The last two games were thrillers - led by Chris Lofton, Neptūnas tied the series in Klaipėda at 2–2 apiece with a 70–65 win, leading to a decisive Game 5 in the next few days. Led by Gailius and Baron, former Neptūnas players who hit many clutch baskets in the deciding minutes, Rytas won the game 74–66 and the series 3–2, ending the season with a bit more positive note and avenging the 2016 loss to Neptūnas. The season ended with international scandal for the team, however, as club president Gedvydas Vainauskas made a controversial statement about black players of the team who severely behaved unprofessionally (saying no more than 2 players should play in the team and that more are like a gang), drawing negative attention to the team all over the world. On 19 June 2017, famous poker player, businessman and European Parliament member Antanas Guoga bought major stake of the club (2/4) from Sigitas Židonis and Remigijus Kazilionis. Two remaining stake owners Darius Gudelis and Vilnius City Municipality retained their rights to the club (1/4 each). On 20 June, Gedvydas Vainauskas resigned from the Rytas president post following 20 years of operation since the founding of the club in 1997, just a week after receiving award from LKL president Remigijus Milašius for merits to basketball. Shortly after becoming new owner of the club, Guoga sparked discussions about changing the club's name and invited the public to offer their ideas since the team no longer have connections with the Vainauskas' newspaper Lietuvos rytas. The idea was strictly criticised by the club's elite fans group B Tribūna (Rytas Ultras), who told that the only team they will support is black-white-red Rytas. On 21 June, the new owners organized a meeting, during which first changes were made: public institution Krepšinio rytas was renamed to Statyba in order to remember the historical Statyba Vilnius, Darius Gudelis replaced Martynas Purlys in the club's director position and it was decided that the club's name Lietuvos rytas will be changed in not longer than 1-year term with the most likely but not yet final choice being Rytas. Guoga also told media that it is very likely that at least two Lithuanian basketball stars will participate in the team activities, bearing in mind Jonas Valančiūnas, Linas Kleiza and Arvydas Macijauskas. On 4 July, Gudelis announced that former assistant coach Alberto Blanco and Linas Kleiza are joining the club, whose first task will be assisting Rimas Kurtinaitis to bring together new roster of the team. On 13 July, press conference was held during which it was announced that Kleiza also became shareholder of the club by receiving part of the Guoga's stake, was named vice-president of the club and will also act as sports director. Limited liability company Norvelita and Perlas also became shareholders of the club. Despite positive changes around the club, rifts between the new owners started to emerge after club announced sponsorship agreement with Lithuanian business consortium MG Baltic. Club's president Antanas Guoga condemned this partnership and demanded both - annulment of it and resignation of CEO Darius Gudelis. Despite that other shareholders decided against such actions and openly questioned Guoga's financial commitment to the club. Finally on 24 October, club announced that Guoga sold his share in the club to Gudelis and wrote off €300,000 that he had previously loaned for the club. On 9 October 2018, however, it was revealed Guoga was still the team's president. Gudelis resigned on 15 November, after controversy involving Blanco. Executive director Julius Serapinas was named as his replacement. On 14 June 2017, it was announced that Rytas received a wild card to the 2017–18 EuroCup season. On 17 June, Rytas quickly signed with first addition to the club for the upcoming season - former Lietkabelis leader Ben Madgen. Rimas Kurtinaitis also remained on as head coach. On 11 July, famous Lithuanian masseur Juozas Petkevičius returned to the team. After launching ticket sales for the upcoming season, the team has sold 1,800 season tickets in less than 24 hours. On 19 July, Rytas signed veteran Mindaugas Lukauskis for his 9th season as the club member. On the following day, Travis Peterson was signed and Kurtinaitis also confirmed that the team has reached an agreement with Chris Kramer. On 22 July, Chris Kramer and Marc Antonio Carter officially joined the team. On 28 July, Mindaugas Brazys joined the coaching staff. On 17 August, notable Lithuanian youth national teams member Martynas Echodas was signed to a three-years deal. The newly formed team has shown positive results during the preparation games, winning all their 7 games and the Vladas Garastas Cup. On 23 September, Rytas began the 2017–18 LKL season by defeating Juventus Utena 82–75. On 25 September, Rytas signed with the experienced veteran Loukas Mavrokefalidis. Due to the Artūras Gudaitis' departure to the Olimpia Milano, he was replaced by Egidijus Mockevičius, who signed a three-year deal with the team on September 30. However, Mockevičius was ruled out from playing due to injury. In the LKL regular season, Rytas played the best season since 2015. Wins over rivals Neptūnas Klaipėda and Lietkabelis Panevėžys helped the team reach second place in the standings, behind Žalgiris Kaunas, with whom Rytas tied in the season series, 2–2. In the LKL playoffs, Rytas defeated Juventus Utena 3–0 in the quarterfinals. Having signed Neptūnas leaders Girdžiūnas and Butkevičius, Rytas became the most hated team in Klaipėda, and the rivalry between the two teams intensified. Rytas tied the season series with Neptūnas 2–2 in the regular season, with a win in Klaipėda in April 90–72 being the first one since the 2016 season and it helped Rytas secure 2nd place in the standings. The two teams faced off in the LKL semifinals. In the first game in Vilnius, Rytas shockingly lost to Neptūnas 83–74. In the second game in Klaipėda, Rytas avenged the loss and played the best defence of the season, winning 67–49 and tying the series at 1–1. Rytas then won the third game at home, 74–67, after good performances by both Mavrokefalidis, and Girdžiūnas, whose many shots helped Rytas take control against his former team and helped Rytas take a 2–1 series lead. In Klaipėda, with a chance to close out the series in the fourth game, Rytas took a 16-point lead in the first quarter. Neptūnas, however, came back - led by former Rytas players Seibutis and Delininkaitis, Neptūnas took the lead in the 4th quarter, and won the game 74–70, forcing the deciding match in Vilnius by tying the series 2–2. In the deciding fifth game, led by Girdžiūnas, Giedraitis, Mavrokefalidis and Echodas, Rytas defeated Neptūnas 88–82 in a very hard-fought game, winning the series 3–2. The win marked the first trip to the LKL finals since 2015. In the LKL finals, Rytas faced Žalgiris Kaunas, playing the best season since 1999 and coming off a 3rd-place finish in the Euroleague. Rytas lost the first game, 96–83, in Kaunas. In the second game, Rytas avenged the loss with an 82–73 win in Vilnius, led by Mavrokefalidis scoring 22 points and Ben Madgen with 19, and tied the series at 1–1. This win marked the first win by Rytas in the LKL finals since 2011. In Kaunas, Žalgiris Kaunas won the game 90–80 and took a 2–1 series lead. Back in Vilnius, Rytas lead for much of the first half, but a tragic third quarter lead to a Rytas loss 82–78 at home, with Žalgiris Kaunas taking a commanding 3–1 series lead. With one last chance, Rytas fought hard in the fifth game back in Kaunas, but a strong fourth quarter by Žalgiris Kaunas led to an 80–70 win. Rytas lost the series 4–1. In the King Mindaugas Cup, Rytas avenged their previous season defeat against Juventus Utena, winning an overtime thriller 91–88 in the quarterfinals thanks to Chris Kramer. In the semifinals, Rytas defeated Dzūkija Alytus 81–61. In the finals, Rytas faced rival Žalgiris Kaunas, who were having a spectacular season in the Euroleague. Coming off two wins against Žalgiris Kaunas in the LKL, Rytas lead in the first half, before Žalgiris Kaunas recovered in the second, dominating the game and beating Rytas 81–62 in the finals. In the 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball season, Rytas lost at home to Bilbao Basket 93–83 in the opener. The next week, Rytas won their first game by defeating Partizan Belgrade 91–80 in Belgrade due to monster efforts from Week MVP Rokas Giedraitis, who scored 28 points, and Loukas Mavrokefalidis, 26 points. An injury to Chris Kramer did a lot of damage for the team - Rytas then lost a home game to PBC Lokomotiv Kuban 93–85 in overtime, as well as an away game to Alba Berlin 93–86. The team faced a lot of criticism for poor defence. With Kramer back in the lineup, Rytas defeated Limoges CSP at home, 92–76. The second round of the Eurocup became a huge success for Rytas - in Bilbao, Rytas avenged their loss by defeating Bilbao Basket 96–79 in dominating fashion, being led by Chris Kramer, who scored 27 points, and became the Week MVP. A home win against Partizan Belgrade followed, 93–75. Rytas lost to Lokomotiv Kuban 77–68 in an away game, fighting back and erasing a huge deficit, but not being able to hold off Lokomotiv by the end. Many changes occurred in the team at the same time – Marc Antonio Carter and power forward Robert Carter were released, and replaced by Mindaugas Girdžiūnas and Arnas Butkevičius, leaders from rivals Neptūnas Klaipėda, and Egidijus Mockevičius returned from injury. These changes helped, as Rytas won the most important game in the regular season, by defeating Alba Berlin 94–73 and avenging their first round loss - the win also helped Rytas qualify for the EuroCup Top 16. In the last game of the regular season, Rytas defeated Limoges CSP 71–69 in an away game, finishing second in the group C. In the Top 16, Rytas started by losing a very tough game to B.C. Zenit Saint Petersburg at home, 98–96. After losing two more away games to Bayern Munich 81–68 and Fiat Torino 83–77, Rytas fell to 0–3 record, worst start in club history. A monster game by Martynas Echodas, who became the Week MVP, helped Rytas get revenge against Fiat Torino 101–68 in home victory. During the same game, however, Arnas Butkevičius suffered a broken hand, and was out for about 5 weeks. In the most important game of the EuroCup season for Rytas, they fell to Zenit 113–100 in an away game, thus losing all chances to qualify for the EuroCup playoffs. Coach Kurtinaitis and the team faced heavy criticism for the poor defence. In the final home game in the EuroCup, Rytas lost to Bayern Munich 87–85, another poor defensive showing, and finished with a 1–5 record and last place in Top 16 group F. The preparation for the season began in June, during the semifinal series, with controversial rumors that Lithuanian national basketball team and former Rytas head coach Dainius Adomaitis will replace coach Kurtinaitis at the end of the season. While the team denied the rumors, after losing the LKL finals to Žalgiris Kaunas, Adomaitis was named the team's new head coach. Former Rytas players and current members of the national team, Eimantas Bendžius and Evaldas Kairys, were the first additions, signing in July. Dominique Sutton, formerly of Dolomiti Energia Trento and one of the best players in both the Italian league and the Eurocup, signed in August. D. J. Seeley replaced Rokas Giedraitis, who left to sign with Alba Berlin. Rytas also signed point guard Matt Farrell, scoring leader from University of Notre Dame, but he was released just before the season, for reported personal reasons. Talented young players Deividas Sirvydis and Marek Blaževič were signed to long term deals. Norbertas Giga, former member of the Rytas system, returned in October. Kramer, who resigned in the summer, was named as the new team captain. Rytas won the first game of the season, beating Juventus Utena 87–57 in the start of the LKL. In the 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball, on October 2, Rytas defeated Unicaja Malaga in the first game in Vilnius, winning 80–72. On October 10, Rytas lost to UNICS in Kazan 86–73. Young Deividas Sirvydis had an amazing performance, scoring 17 points, being the youngest player in Eurocup history to accomplish such a feat, at just 17 years old. Rytas signed guard Manny Harris, former leader of FIBA BCL champion AEK Athens, hoping to strengthen the guard position. Rytas then suffered a shocking loss at home, to Skyliners Frankfurt, 70–61. Harris played poorly in his debut Eurocup match. Rytas rebounded the next week, beating Fiat Torino at home 86–77, thanks to a strong performance by Sutton and the return of Kramer, who missed the last two games. Reported off-court issues lead to Harris being released on October 29, spending just a little over than one month with the team. Rytas finished the first round of the Eurocup by beating Mornar Bar 92–69 in a decisive road victory, ending with a 3–2 record. At the start of the second round, more injuries plagued Kramer, and without him, Rytas played two very different halves in Malaga - in the first, Rytas lead by double digits and had great performances by Seeley and young talents Blaževič and Aistis Pilauskas, but in the second, Rytas had no chance, and lost to Unicaja 95–76. In need of a point guard, Rytas signed Rok Stipčević to help. Stipčević had a solid Eurocup debut, during the game against UNICS, and helped Rytas lead most of the way, but a solid fourth quarter helped UNICS pick up an 87–81 win at the Siemens Arena, dropping Rytas to a 3–4 record. In a rematch against Skyliners in Frankfurt, again, Rytas led most of the way, including a 17-point lead in the second quarter, before shockingly losing 65–63, after a poor second half. Stipčević lead the team to the EuroCup Top16 on December 11, scoring 31 points and helping Rytas win against Fiat Torino in an overtime 101–96 victory in Torino, again losing a big lead in the game. Stipčević was named the EuroCup Week MVP for his efforts. Rytas finished the regular season by beating Mornar Bar 71–67 at home, behind a spectacular performance by Martynas Echodas, and finished with a 5–5 record. After it was announced that Kairys would be out for the remainder of the season due to a shoulder injury, Rytas signed former Euroleague center Artsiom Parakhouski to the team. Marijonas Mikutavičius, the creator of de facto Lithuania Olympics Team song – Trys Milijonai, also created a special song to the BC Lietuvos rytas team, following its success in LKL and the very first steps in the prestigious EuroLeague. The song is called Laikas būti pirmiems (English: Time To Be First) and it is widely regarded as the club's anthem. To this day it is still played after the successful club's games or just at the time-outs during the home games. Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. Note: exact date is listed for players who joined or left during season. squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SF |Eimantas Bendžius (from Monbus Obradoiro) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | F/C |Evaldas Kairys (from Demir İnşaat Büyükçekmece) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | F |Dominique Sutton (from Dolomiti Energia Trento) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | SG |D. J. Seeley (from Herbalife Gran Canaria) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Norbertas Giga (from Jacksonville State Gamecocks) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | BLR | style="text-align: center;" | C |Artsiom Parakhouski (from Maccabi Tel Aviv) |} |} squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SF |Rokas Giedraitis (to Alba Berlin) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Egidijus Mockevičius (to VL Pesaro) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | F |Artūras Jomantas (to Dzūkija Alytus) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | G |Jimmy Baron (to Champagne Châlons-Reims) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | GRE | style="text-align: center;" | C |Loukas Mavrokefalidis (to Ionikos Nikaias) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | F |Travis Peterson (to retired) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | SF |Mindaugas Lukauskis (to Skycop Prienai) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | AUS | style="text-align: center;" | SG |Ben Madgen (to Crailsheim Merlins) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | PG |Matt Farrell (to Delaware Blue Coats) |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | USA | style="text-align: center;" | SG |Manny Harris (to Bahçeşehir Koleji) |} |} squad start |- class="vcard agent" | style="text-align: right;" | | style="padding-right:15px;" | LTU | style="text-align: center;" | C |Norbertas Giga (to Spójnia Stargard) |} |} Total titles: 21 Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. To appear in this section a player must have either: To appear in this section a player must be either: The following head coaches won at least one major trophy when in charge of Rytas: Only players with significant amount of games played or points scored. ‡ Last updated: 15 November 2016 EuroLeague MVP of the Round EuroLeague MVP of the Month 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors Chosen: Nominated: EuroLeague Basketball 2001–10 All-Decade Team EuroCup MVP of the Round EuroCup Leaders Performance Index Rating Rebounds Best EuroCup coach of all time EuroCup Basketball Awards LKL Finals MVP Slam Dunk Contest Champions Three-point Shootout Champions Final Four MVP Finals MVP FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award Lietuvos rytas basketball club was featured in the NBA 2K15 video game. | 1 |
List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Wettin | List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Wettin 2009-08-22T21:32:34Z This is a list of members of the recent House of Wettin. It includes only those who were members of the male-line descent from Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and consequently bore his "surname", Wettin. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, 1601 - 1675, had 7 sons;, List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Wettin 2010-07-29T01:00:20Z This is a list of members of the recent House of Wettin. It includes only those who were members of the male-line descent from Ernest, Elector of Saxony, and consequently bore his "surname", Wettin. Ernest, Elector of Saxony, 1441 - 1486, had 5 sons; Albert III, Duke of Saxony, 1443 - 1500, had 4 sons; Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, 1257 - 1323, had 2 sons; | 0 |
U Sports football | U Sports football 2012-01-06T21:12:43Z Twenty-six universities across Canada compete in football under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The teams are divided into four conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of the CIS: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Quebec Student Sports Federation, and Atlantic University Sport. At the end of every season, the champions of each conference advance to semifinal bowl games; the winners of these meet in the Vanier Cup national championship. In 2010, University of Waterloo suspended its CIS football team because they had a drug test failed by 5 out of 62 players. The CIS reorganized the calendar of the OUA with 9 teams instead of 10. The program has been reinstated for the 2011 season. CIS football is the highest level of amateur play in Canadian football. The origins of North American football lie here. The first documented game was played at University College at the University of Toronto in 1861. A number of CIS programs have been in existence since the origins of the sport. It is from these Canadian universities that the game we now know as Canadian football, and its offshoot, American football, sprang. In 1874, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) challenged Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) to a series of games. American football traces its roots to this varsity play. The Grey Cup, the championship trophy of the professional Canadian Football League since its founding in the 1950s, was originally contested by teams from the University of Toronto and Queen's University and other amateur teams in the early 1900s. Many CIS players have gone on to professional careers in the Canadian Football League and elsewhere; a number are drafted annually in the Canadian College Draft. In 2007, there were a record 120 CIS alumni on Canadian Football League rosters. The regular season is eight weeks long and usually opens on the Labour Day weekend. Regular season games are in-conference with the exception of limited interlocking play between the Quebec and Atlantic conferences. There are featured homecoming and rivalry games in most regions. The Hec Crighton Trophy is awarded annually to the MVP of the CIS. After the regular season, single elimination playoff games are held between the top teams in each conference to determine conference champions. In the Canada West and Quebec conferences, the top four teams qualify for the playoffs, while in the Atlantic conference the top three teams qualify, and in Ontario the top six teams qualify. Each conference has its own championship trophy; the Hardy Trophy in the West, the Yates Cup in Ontario, the Dunsmore Cup in Quebec and the Jewett Trophy in the Atlantic conference. The conference champions proceed to national semifinal bowl games: the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl. The participant conferences of each bowl are determined several years in advance on a rotating basis. The winners of each bowl game meet in the Vanier Cup national championship, first established in 1965 and named in honour of Governor General Georges Vanier. The game was held in Toronto every year through 2003 when host conference bids were first accepted, yielding a move to Hamilton for 2004 and 2005, followed by Saskatoon in 2006. In 2007, the game returned to Toronto, along with the Grey Cup, which was hosted there for the first time since 1992. The Vanier Cup game moved back to Hamilton in 2008 before heading to Quebec City for the 2009 and 2010 games. The 2011 Vanier Cup will be played in the newly renovated BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. There have recently been efforts at establishing new varsity football programs at institutions that currently do not have teams. A group of alumni from Carleton University in Ottawa have successfully revived that school's program that is now scheduled to return in 2013. The team will be a member of the Ontario University Athletics conference of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, returning football to Carleton University after a 15-year absence. Because the AUS is the smallest conference in the CIS, there has been talk of adding more teams there, as well. There has been interest expressed in starting a team at the Université de Moncton, due to the recent construction of Moncton stadium. As of May 2011, the athletics department has submitted a feasibility report to the school's president and are going to base a large part of their decision upon how the Uteck Bowl in 2011 is received by the fans in Moncton. Additionally, a club team league, the Atlantic Football League, features five universities in what some hope will lead to varsity teams featured at some of these schools. There are post-season awards for on-the-field excellence. The players deemed to be the best at each position are named to the annual All-Canadian Football Team as first or second team players. Additionally there are a number of individual awards for categories like "best defensive player". As of 2009, there were 111 CIS football players on the rosters of Canadian Football League teams. As of 2010, the CIS had produced 25 players who have earned a spot on an NFL roster (including three who did not play a regular season game; players listed in chronological order by entry year in NFL): 1945 Joe Krol, Western Ontario, K/RB. 1947 Les Lear, Manitoba, OG/OT. 1960 Bill Crawford, UBC, OG. 1965 Jim Young, Queen's, RB/R. 1976 Brian Fryer, Alberta, R. 1979 Ken Clark, Saint Mary's, P. 1986 Mike Schad, Queen's, OG. 1987 Brian Belway, Calgary, DE. 1987 Dave Sparenberg, Western Ontario, OG. 1987 Brant Bengen, UBC and Idaho, WR. 1988 Dean Dorsey, Toronto, K. 1992 Tyrone Williams, Western Ontario, WR. 1995 Tim Tindale, Western Ontario, RB. 1995 Mark Montreuil, Concordia, CB. 1995 Mark Hatfield, Bishop's, OL. 1996 Grayson Shillingford, UBC, SB. 1998 Jerome Pathon, Acadia & U. of Washington, R. 2001 Randy Chevrier, McGill, LS/DE. 2000 J. P. Darche, McGill, LS/LB. 2003 Israel Idonije, Manitoba, DL. 2004 Steve Morley, Saint Mary's, OG/OT. 2006 Daniel Federkeil, Calgary, DE. 2006 Jon Ryan, Regina, K. 2009 Vaughn Martin, Western Ontario, DL. 2010 Cory Greenwood, Concordia, LB. In the 2009 NFL draft, the San Diego Chargers selected defensive lineman Vaughn Martin from Western Ontario in the fourth round. Martin became the first CIS underclassmen to be selected in the NFL draft. , U Sports football 2013-11-22T02:16:00Z Canadian Interuniversity Sport football is the highest level of amateur play of Canadian football and operates under the auspices of the CIS. Twenty-seven teams from Canadian universities are divided into four athletic conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of the CIS: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (Quebec Student Sports Network), and Atlantic University Sport. At the end of every season, the champions of each conference advance to semifinal bowl games; the winners of these meet in the Vanier Cup national championship. The origins of North American football can be traced here, where the first documented game was played at University College at the University of Toronto in 1861. A number of CIS programs have been in existence since the origins of the sport. It is from these Canadian universities that the game we now know as Canadian football began. In 1874, McGill University (Montreal) challenged Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) to a series of games. The Grey Cup, the championship trophy of the professional Canadian Football League (CFL) since its founding in the 1950s, was originally contested by teams from the University of Toronto and Queen's University and other amateur teams since 1909. Many CIS players have gone on to professional careers in the CFL and elsewhere; a number are drafted annually in the Canadian College Draft. In 2012, there were a record 145 CIS alumni on CFL rosters. The regular season is eight to nine weeks long, depending on the conference, and, as of 2013, opens one week before the Labour Day weekend. Teams play eight regular season games and regular season games are in-conference with the exception of limited interlocking play between the Quebec and Atlantic conferences. Throughout the season, there are featured homecoming and rivalry games in most regions. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Hec Crighton Trophy is awarded annually to the MVP of the CIS. After the regular season, single elimination playoff games are held between the top teams in each conference to determine conference champions. In the Canada West and Quebec conferences, the top four teams qualify for the playoffs, while in the Atlantic conference the top three teams qualify. In Ontario, the top six teams qualify with the top two teams receiving playoff byes to the next round. Because the OUA teams have conference playoffs that last three weeks instead of two, the first round of the post-season in the OUA occurs during the same week that each of the other three conferences are playing their last regular season games. Each conference has its own championship trophy; the Hardy Trophy in the West, the Yates Cup in Ontario, the Dunsmore Cup in Quebec and the Jewett Trophy in the Atlantic conference. The conference champions proceed to national semifinal bowl games: the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl. The participant conferences of each bowl are determined several years in advance on a rotating basis. The winners of each bowl game meet in the Vanier Cup national championship, first established in 1965 and named in honour of Governor General Georges Vanier. The game was held in Toronto every year through 2003 when host conference bids were first accepted, yielding a move to Hamilton for 2004 and 2005, followed by Saskatoon in 2006. In 2007, the game returned to Toronto, along with the Grey Cup, which was hosted there for the first time since 1992. The Vanier Cup game moved back to Hamilton in 2008 before heading to Quebec City for the 2009 and 2010 games. The 2011 Vanier Cup was played in the newly renovated BC Place in Vancouver. There have recently been efforts at establishing new varsity football programs at institutions that currently do not have teams. A group of alumni from Carleton University in Ottawa have successfully revived that school's program that is now scheduled to return in 2013. The team will be a member of the Ontario University Athletics conference of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, returning football to Carleton University after a 15-year absence. Because the AUS is the smallest conference in the CIS, there has been talk of adding more teams there, as well. There has been interest expressed in starting a team at the Université de Moncton, due to the recent construction of Moncton Stadium. As of May 2011, the athletics department has submitted a feasibility report to the school's president and are going to base a large part of their decision upon how the Uteck Bowl in 2011 is received by the fans in Moncton. Additionally, a club team league, the Atlantic Football League, features four universities in what some hope will lead to varsity teams featured at some of these schools. Following their successful application to become full-members of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association, the UBC Okanagan Heat are investigating the feasibility of starting their own football program, likely to be partnered with the existing CJFL's Okanagan Sun. UBCO are now permitted to apply for new varsity teams within Canada West and would host the Sun in much the same way that the University of Regina was paired with the Prairie Football Conference's Regina Rams. If UBCO submits a formal proposal for a football program, they would need five of the six existing programs to approve the move and the earliest they would begin play would be 2016. There are post-season awards for on-the-field excellence. The players deemed to be the best at each position are named to the annual All-Canadian Football Team as first or second team players. Additionally there are a number of individual awards for categories like "best defensive player". Opening Day of the 2012 CFL season saw 145 CIS football players on rosters around the League. As of 2009, there were 111 CIS football players on the rosters of Canadian Football League teams. As of 2012, the CIS had produced 29 players who have earned a spot on an NFL roster (including three who did not play a regular season game; players listed in chronological order by entry year in NFL): 1945 Joe Krol, Western Ontario, K/RB. 1947 Les Lear, Manitoba, OG/OT. 1960 Bill Crawford, UBC, OG. 1965 Jim Young, Queen's, RB/R. 1976 Brian Fryer, Alberta, R. 1979 Ken Clark, Saint Mary's, P. 1986 Mike Schad, Queen's, OG. 1987 Brian Belway, Calgary, DE. 1987 Dave Sparenberg, Western Ontario, OG. 1987 Brant Bengen, UBC and Idaho, WR. 1988 Dean Dorsey, Toronto, K. 1992 Tyrone Williams, Western Ontario, WR. 1995 Tim Tindale, Western Ontario, RB. 1995 Mark Montreuil, Concordia, CB. 1995 Mark Hatfield, Bishop's, OL. 1996 Grayson Shillingford, UBC, SB. 1998 Jerome Pathon, Acadia & U. of Washington, R. 2001 Randy Chevrier, McGill, LS/DE. 2000 J. P. Darche, McGill, LS/LB. 2003 Israel Idonije, Manitoba, DL. 2004 Steve Morley, Saint Mary's, OG/OT. 2006 Daniel Federkeil, Calgary, DE. 2006 Jon Ryan, Regina, K. 2008 Sam Giguere Sherbrooke, WR 2009 Vaughn Martin, Western Ontario, DL. 2010 Cory Greenwood, Concordia, LB 2010 Joel Reinders Waterloo, OT 2011 Matt O'Donnell Queen's OT 2012 Akiem Hicks Regina, DT In the 2009 NFL draft, the San Diego Chargers selected defensive lineman Vaughn Martin from Western Ontario in the fourth round. Martin became the first CIS underclassman to be selected in the NFL draft. In the 2012 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints selected defensive lineman Akiem Hicks from Regina in the third round, 89th overall. The following is a list of recent numbers from the CFL Draft, which is an annual seven round event with a current maximum of 60 players drafted (63 in 2014). The high-water mark of 44 players from the CIS drafted was recorded in the 2013 CFL Draft, which was the most since 1987. 44 CIS players drafted in the 2013 draft 24 CIS players drafted in the 2012 draft 34 CIS players drafted in the 2011 draft 36 CIS players drafted in the 2010 draft 38 CIS players drafted in the 2009 draft 33 CIS players drafted in the 2008 draft 31 CIS players drafted in the 2007 draft 26 CIS players drafted in the 2006 draft navbox | 1 |
Dave_Kane | Dave_Kane 2009-04-14T15:46:25Z Dave Kane, born (1948-01-26) January 26, 1948 (age 76), is a American radio talk show host, comedian, performance artist, and author. Kane was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and currently still makes his home in the Ocean State. Nicknamed "The Pitbull of comedy" in the 1980s during his time as a stand-up comedian, Kane is known for his passionate, sometimes confrontational style of talk radio, urging people to stand up for what they believe in and to take action in the face of injustice. One of Kane's oft-spoken phrases is the well known quote, often attributed to Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing. " In addition to his strong viewpoints about current local and national issues, his radio show, dubbed "Kane and Company", also features Kane's self-deprecating style of humor liberally peppered throughout. Conflict between Kane and his callers is commonplace, with some of the more vociferous people attaining the level of "Prisoner. " This is a title Kane reserves for the most antagonistic callers who consistently claim to hate his show, but who feel compelled to keep listening and/or calling back to argue. Dave Kane has been involved in the field of radio for over 40 years, beginning in 1962, when he was 14 years old. His first radio-related job was at Pawtucket's WPAW where he acted as an intern for radio legend Chuck Stevens (a recent inductee into the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame). Kane's first paying radio job at the now defunct WKFD in North Kingstown lasted for just one day. His involvement in talk radio began in the early 1970s when he worked as a producer for WJAR radio and filled in for the other hosts. From that point forward, Kane has carved a successful niche in Rhode Island talk radio, spending time at various stations throughout the state, including WPRO and WHJJ, the two of largest and most powerful AM stations in the state. Aside from being involved in talk radio, Kane's second major source of livelihood is his work as a performance artist. Kane is well-known regionally for creating the character of Father Misgivings, an Irish Catholic priest. In this one man play, which Kane describes as featuring "blessings, Blarney, belly laughs and Bingo," the character of Father Misgivings tells stories and relates his views about the idiosyncrasies of growing up and living life as a Roman Catholic. Kane performs the show many times each year, usually in the form of a dinner theater, in venues throughout New England. Kane's son, Nicholas O'Neill, at age 18, was the youngest victim of The Station nightclub fire of 2003 in which 100 people lost their lives. In the wake of this tragedy, Kane became a strong proponent of fire safety awareness and the enforcement of strict laws for the administration of fire safety inspections on public buildings. Kane was publicly opposed to Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's handling of the criminal trials of those involved in negligence leading to the fire. The friction between the two heightened in 2006 when Lynch, questioned about Kane during an interview, replied, "Mr. Kane is a sad, tragic, somewhat pathetic figure. " In 2006, Kane authored his first published book, 41 Signs of Hope. In the book, Kane shares anecdotes of synchronistic, and at times, seemingly supernatural occurrences revolving around the number 41, which Kane and his family contend are communications from the spirit of his son Nicholas. , Dave_Kane 2011-01-14T02:56:17Z No issues specified. Please specify issues, or remove this template. Dave Kane, born (1948-01-26) January 26, 1948 (age 76), is an American radio talk show host, comedian, performance artist, and author. Kane was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and currently still makes his home in the Ocean State. Nicknamed "The Pitbull of comedy" in the 1980s during his time as a stand-up comedian, Kane is known for his passionate, sometimes confrontational style of talk radio, urging people to stand up for what they believe in and to take action in the face of injustice. One of Kane's oft-spoken phrases is the well known quote, often attributed to Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing. " In addition to his strong viewpoints about current local and national issues, his radio show, dubbed "Kane and Company", also features Kane's self-deprecating style of humor liberally peppered throughout. Conflict between Kane and his callers is commonplace, with some of the more vociferous people attaining the level of "Prisoner. " This is a title Kane reserves for the most antagonistic callers who consistently claim to hate his show, but who feel compelled to keep listening and/or calling back to argue. Dave Kane has been involved in the field of radio for over 40 years, beginning in 1962, when he was 14 years old. His first radio-related job was at Pawtucket's WPAW where he acted as an intern for radio legend Chuck Stevens (a recent inductee into the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame). Kane's first paying radio job at the now defunct WKFD in North Kingstown lasted for just one day. His involvement in talk radio began in the early 1970s when he worked as a producer for WJAR radio and filled in for the other hosts. From that point forward, Kane has carved a successful niche in Rhode Island talk radio, spending time at various stations throughout the state, including WPRO and WHJJ, the two of largest and most powerful AM stations in the state. In 2009 Kane & WNRI: Woonsocket, Rhode Island parted ways. Aside from being involved in talk radio, Kane's second major source of livelihood is his work as a performance artist. Kane is well-known regionally for creating the character of Father Misgivings, an Irish Catholic priest. In this one man play, which Kane describes as featuring "blessings, Blarney, belly laughs and Bingo," the character of Father Misgivings tells stories and relates his views about the idiosyncrasies of growing up and living life as a Roman Catholic. Kane performs the show many times each year, usually in the form of a dinner theater, in venues throughout New England. Kane's son, Nicholas O'Neill, at age 18, was the youngest victim of The Station nightclub fire of 2003 in which 100 people lost their lives. In the wake of this tragedy, Kane became a strong proponent of fire safety awareness and the enforcement of strict laws for the administration of fire safety inspections on public buildings. Kane was publicly opposed to Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's handling of the criminal trials of those involved in negligence leading to the fire. In 2006, Kane authored his first published book, 41 Signs of Hope. In the book, Kane shares anecdotes of synchronistic, and at times, seemingly supernatural occurrences revolving around the number 41, which Kane and his family contend are communications from the spirit of his son Nicholas. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Scott Major | Scott Major 2022-05-23T20:52:36Z Scott Ian Major (born 4 July 1975) is an Australian actor and TV and film director, best known for his roles as Peter Rivers in the 1994 television teen drama series Heartbreak High and Lucas Fitzgerald in soap opera Neighbours. Major's acting debut was playing Murray on Home and Away in the 1990s. He played a student in the comedy series Late For School in 1992 and then joined the cast of Neighbours in 1993 as the original Darren Stark. Major appeared in the 1993 Australian romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid, with Alex Dimitriades and Claudia Karvan. Major reprise his role as Peter Rivers in Heartbreak High from 1994 to 1995. In 1998 he appeared in an episode of All Saints (Season 2 – "If these walls could talk"). In 1999 he was cast in the Aussie film Envy (titled as The New Girlfriend in the United States). Two years later he had a small role as a welfare officer in the book to film production He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the novel was written by John Birmingham. Major had a major role the Australian drama, Always Greener as Tom Morgan, which was shown on the Seven Network between 2001 and 2003. He also wrote, produced, directed and starred in his own play called Both Sides of the Bar at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Spending two years in the UK, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap Doctors in 2007 and also starred in the first episode of the second series of Love Soup, a BBC comedy starring Tamsin Greig. Major returned to Australia and began appearing in Neighbours from July 2008 as Lucas Fitzgerald. On 1 July 2013, it was announced that Major had left the show. In December 2010, the actor revealed that he has been directing some episodes of Neighbours with the help of an existing television director. Major has admitted that he finds the directing part of his job "very tough to fit it in with the acting" because he is "running from location to location and getting the scene shot and then putting a different hat on and directing a scene." Of his decision to take on the new role, Major has said "I want to do it all. I also do a lot of writing. I write my own plays and put them on, direct and produce them. Australia is a very small industry acting-wise. I've been doing it professionally for 21 years and you just have to have more strings to your bow than acting." In 2019, Major won Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama Serial for his work on "Episode 7776A" at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards. He was nominated in the same category for "Episode 7776B". Major directed episodes of the 2018 drama series Playing for Keeps. He also directed the 2021 miniseries Lie With Me created by Neighbours executive producer Jason Herbison. Major has filmed a part in the upcoming film titled "Residence, playing Cormac the Shepherd., Scott Major 2023-11-27T13:21:25Z Scott Ian Major (born 4 July 1975) is an Australian actor and TV and film director, known for his roles as Peter Rivers in the 1994 television teen drama series Heartbreak High and Lucas Fitzgerald in soap opera Neighbours. After leaving Neighbours in 2013, Major returned to direct over 200 episodes of the serial. He has since gone on to direct episodes of Playing for Keeps, and two miniseries Lie With Me and Riptide. Major reprised his role as Rivers in the 2022 reboot of Heartbreak High. Major's acting debut came in the 1990 TV Movie More Winners: His Master's Ghost. He played Oates, a student in the comedy series Late For School in 1992, and then joined the cast of Neighbours for three months in 1993 as Darren Stark. Major appeared in the 1993 Australian romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid, with Alex Dimitriades and Claudia Karvan. Major reprised his role as Peter Rivers in Heartbreak High from 1994 to 1995. In 1998, he appeared in an episode of All Saints (Season 2 – "If these walls could talk"). Major also guested on Home and Away that year as Murray, a criminal, for five episodes. In 1999 he was cast in the Aussie film Envy (titled as The New Girlfriend in the United States). Two years later he had a small role as a welfare officer in the book to film production He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the novel was written by John Birmingham. Major had a major role the Australian drama, Always Greener as Tom Morgan, which was shown on the Seven Network between 2001 and 2003. He also wrote, produced, directed and starred in his own play called Both Sides of the Bar at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Spending two years in the UK, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap Doctors in 2007 and also starred in the first episode of the second series of Love Soup, a BBC comedy starring Tamsin Greig. Major returned to Australia and began appearing in Neighbours from July 2008 as Lucas Fitzgerald. On 1 July 2013, it was announced that Major had left the show. In December 2010, Major confirmed that he had been directing some episodes of Neighbours with the help of an existing television director. Major admitted that he finds the directing part of his job "very tough to fit it in with the acting" because he is "running from location to location and getting the scene shot and then putting a different hat on and directing a scene. " Of his decision to take on the new role, Major has said "I want to do it all. I also do a lot of writing. I write my own plays and put them on, direct and produce them. Australia is a very small industry acting-wise. I've been doing it professionally for 21 years and you just have to have more strings to your bow than acting. " In 2019, Major won Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama Serial for his work on "Episode 7776A" at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards. He was nominated in the same category for "Episode 7776B". He directed over 200 episodes of Neighbours. Major directed episodes of the 2018 drama series Playing for Keeps. He also directed the 2021 miniseries Lie With Me created by Neighbours' executive producer Jason Herbison. Major has filmed a part in the upcoming film titled Residence, playing Cormac the Shepherd. Major directed the 2022 psychological thriller series Riptide, and the Stan indie thriller film Darklands. Major reprised his role of Rivers in Netflix's 2022 reboot of Heartbreak High. Of the changes to his character, Major said "Rivers was a horrible, racist, sexist human being. But by the time he left, he was no longer that person and in this new series, he's on a whole new journey. " Rivers is the father of Darren Rivers, one of the main characters, who is queer and non-binary. Major was adamant that Rivers would not be a homophobe and instead accepted Darren for who they were. Major's father was Melbourne radio sports broadcaster Ian Major. He supports the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. Major is also a musician and plays bass guitar. | 1 |
Harry Tincknell | Harry Tincknell 2015-01-03T12:01:42Z Harry Tincknell (born 29 October 1991 in Exeter, Devon) is a British auto racing driver. Tincknell made his karting début in 2001, finishing in the top five of both the Dunkeswell Club Championship and the South West British Championship series. After competing in Cadets in 2002, Tincknell moved up to TKM karts in 2003, winning the Winter Series at the Shenington kart circuit in Oxfordshire. He continued at that level in 2004, winning a round at Larkhall and finished in 27th place in the championship for Connaught Racing. Tincknell moved into the ICA Junior Belgian Championship in 2005, and finished in fifth position in the championship, 65 points behind champion Laurens Vanthoor. Tincknell stayed at ICA Junior level for the 2006 season, competing in the WSK International Series. He finished fourteenth in the championship, despite earning a third place finish at La Conca, Italy. Tincknell frequented in various series in 2007, competing in no less than eight different championships or trophy races during the season. His best result was fourth in the South Garda Winter Cup, finishing behind Yannick de Brabander, António Félix da Costa and Robin Frijns. 2008 was Tincknell's final season in karting, and he finished as runner-up in the Euro Rotax Max Challenge. Tincknell moved into the Formula Renault UK Winter Series in 2008 and finished seventh with points-scoring finishes in each of the four races with CR Scuderia. He also contested two races of the Fórmula Júnior Portugal Winter Series, finishing in sixth and eighth places during the two races in Estoril. In 2009, Tincknell remained with the newly renamed CRS Racing, to contest a full season of Formula Renault UK. He started well, setting the first pole position of the season at Brands Hatch before finishing behind Oliver Webb in the first race. Further podiums came at Thruxton, Oulton Park and Rockingham as Tincknell finished fifth overall in the championship standings. His consistent finishing also earned him the Graduate Cup title, where first-year drivers battle for honours, with the best fifteen finishes for each drivers counting towards the championship. At the conclusion of the season, Tincknell dominated the Winter Series, finishing each of the four races on the podium and winning two of them. He also contested a round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup at Oschersleben, finishing both races in seventeenth place. Tincknell continued in the series in 2010, leading a four-car challenge from CRS Racing. Tincknell was also confirmed as one of ten drivers selected by the UK's motorsport governing body, the Motor Sports Association, to take part in its driver development programme, Team UK. Considered to be the top 10 most promising young racing drivers in the UK, each member of the team received in-car performance, fitness and nutrition training as well as advanced sports psychology, care of the Brabham Performance Clinic, created by David Brabham. Tincknell started the 2010 season off well with 5 podiums and a 1 win in the first 8 races of the season at Thruxton, Rockingham, Brands Hatch and Oulton Park. After a difficult weekend at the Croft circuit, he bounced back to take a pole position and victory at Snetterton breaking the lap record which still stands on the way to the win. However, the final 4 rounds of the season proved a struggle for the team with the new Formula Renault car and Tincknell managed one more podium and 3 top five places to eventually finish 5th overall in the championship. At the start of 2010, Tincknell was also invited to become to part of the British Racing Drivers' Club Rising Stars programme. He was also confirmed as one of ten drivers selected by the UK's motorsport governing body, the Motor Sports Association, to take part in its driver development programme, Team UK. Considered to be the top 10 most promising young racing drivers in the UK, each member of the team received in-car performance, fitness and nutrition training as well as advanced sports psychology, care of the Brabham Performance Clinic, created by David Brabham. Tincknell signed with Fortec Motorsport to race in the British Formula Three Championship in 2011. After a tough start to the year at Monza he claimed in his first F3 podium at Oulton Park at the second race of the season before going on to finish 2nd at the next round at Snetterton. At the following round at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit, Tincknell took his first win of his Formula Three career leading the race from pole position. He claimed his 4th podium of the season at the Nurburgring, Germany. After starting in 8th position, Tincknell made an astonishing start to make up 5 places on the way down to the first corner and ended the race in 3rd position. After a good start to the season Tincknell finished the championship in 11th position with 1 win and 4 podiums. After the end of the 2011 season Tincknell signed for multiple British F3 Champion team Carlin. After impressing in initial testing Tincknell suffered a freak accident at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, breaking his right hand severely which needed to be operated on back in the UK. This put him out of action for the rest of the year. In 2012 Tincknell returned to the British Formula Three Championship and took his first podium at the first round of the year at Oulton Park. Two DNFs followed at Monza and Pau before Tincknell got his season back on track winning at Rockingham on the championships return to the UK. Tincknell then scored another 3rd place and fastest lap at Brands Hatch before the championship combined with the Formula Three Euroseries meeting at Norisring. Tincknell took 8th overall and 3rd place in British F3 in race one before scoring a lights to flag victory in race two, his first European win in car racing. He then scored another dominant win at the Snetterton Circuit and ended the year in good style with two third places at Silverstone and another win at Donington Park in the season Finale. He finished 5th overall in the Championship with 4 wins and 9 podiums. He also contested the Pau Historic Grand Prix in a 1965 Lotus 20 in the Formula Junior category finishing 2nd in both races. Tincknell returned to his former F3 team, Fortec Motorsport for the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in November 2012. On his debut at the notoriously difficult Guia Circuit, Tincknell had an outstanding weekend, qualifying 7th overall and finishing 6th in the Qualification race in the 30 strong world class field. Tincknell had a great start in the final to move up to 4th position but after encountering a mechanical issue during the race, finished 9th. Tincknell agreed a deal to make a one-off return to the British F3 Championship in 2014, signing with Double R Racing for the Thruxton meeting. At the beginning of 2013, Tincknell extended his deal with multiple Championship winning team, Carlin Motorsport, for the 2013 season of the FIA European Formula Three Championship. The five-time Formula Three race winner continued his relationship with the team and has been joined by Canadian racer Nicholas Latifi and British rookies Jann Mardenborough and Jordan King. Tincknell emerged from the first rounds of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship at the Autodromo di Monza in 3rd place in the points table after a dramatic opening weekend to the season with the final two races taking place in treacherous conditions. Tincknell then scored an emotional win at Silverstone from a double pole position. It was the first time the 21-year-old from Devon has scored maximum points in the championship and was also a landmark victory for the Carlin team that runs his Volkswagen-powered Dallara – it was the squad’s first-ever success in a non-reversed-grid race on the series’ control Hankook tyres. With the win at Silverstone, Tincknell became the first Briton to win a round of the FIA F3 European Championship, revived in 2012 after a 29-year break, since ex-Lotus Formula 1 driver and Jaguar Le Mans winner Johnny Dumfries. It was also the first time Tincknell topped qualifying in his F3 career. Tincknell remained in third position in the Championship. Tincknell then had a tough weekend in the third round of the series at Hockenheim, finishing the weekend with a strong fifth-place finish but slipping to fifth in the Championship. Tincknell claimed his second FIA Formula 3 European Championship podium finish of the season after a strong performance in the latest round at Brands Hatch on 18–19 May 2013. Tincknell was third on the road in the third and final race of the weekend, but was moved up to second place when race winner Raffaele Marciello was excluded for a technical infringement. Tincknell switched from single seaters to sportscars for 2014, signing with Jota Sport to race a Zytek Z11SN-Nissan in the European Le Mans Series and the Le Mans 24 Hours. † – As Tincknell was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. Tincknell attended St. John's School in Sidmouth, Devon, until the age of 12. He then attended Exeter School, where he achieved 10 GCSEs: six As and four Bs. Away from the race track, Tincknell enjoys playing golf, darts, rugby, and chess, as well as supporting Plymouth Argyle, his local football club. , Harry Tincknell 2016-11-21T16:59:35Z Harry Tincknell (born 29 October 1991 in Exeter, Devon) is a British racing driver who switched from a successful single-seater career to sportscars in 2014. Having won the LM P2 class on his Le Mans 24 Hour race début in 2014, in 2015 he was announced as an official “factory” Nissan NISMO LM P1 FIA World Endurance Championship race and development driver. He contested the Le Mans 24 Hours in June 2015, and set fastest time for the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo both in qualifying and during the race. In March 2016, Tincknell was confirmed as a factory driver for Ford Racing with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing UK in the FIA WEC and also for the Le Mans 24 Hours. He will also compete in the European Le Mans Series with G-Drive Racing in a Gibson-Nissan chassis (formerly designated Zytek Z11SN). Tincknell made his karting début in 2001, finishing in the top five of both the Dunkeswell Club Championship and the South West British Championship series. After competing in Cadets in 2002, Tincknell moved up to TKM karts in 2003, winning the Winter Series at the Shenington kart circuit in Oxfordshire. He continued at that level in 2004, winning a round at Larkhall and finished in 27th place in the championship for Connaught Racing. Tincknell moved into the ICA Junior Belgian Championship in 2005, and finished in fifth position in the championship, 65 points behind champion Laurens Vanthoor. Tincknell stayed at ICA Junior level for the 2006 season, competing in the WSK International Series. He finished fourteenth in the championship, despite earning a third-place finish at La Conca, Italy. Tincknell frequented in various series in 2007, competing in no less than eight different championships or trophy races during the season. His best result was fourth in the South Garda Winter Cup, finishing behind Yannick de Brabander, António Félix da Costa and Robin Frijns. 2008 was Tincknell's final season in karting, and he finished as runner-up in the Euro Rotax Max Challenge. Tincknell moved into the Formula Renault UK Winter Series in 2008 and finished seventh with points-scoring finishes in each of the four races with CR Scuderia. He also contested two races of the Fórmula Júnior Portugal Winter Series, finishing in sixth and eighth places during the two races in Estoril. In 2009, Tincknell remained with the newly renamed CRS Racing, to contest a full season of Formula Renault UK. He started well, setting the first pole position of the season at Brands Hatch before finishing behind Oliver Webb in the first race. Further podiums came at Thruxton, Oulton Park and Rockingham as Tincknell finished fifth overall in the championship standings. His consistent finishing also earned him the Graduate Cup title, where first-year drivers battle for honours, with the best fifteen finishes for each drivers counting towards the championship. At the conclusion of the season, Tincknell dominated the Winter Series, finishing each of the four races on the podium and winning two of them. He also contested a round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup at Oschersleben, finishing both races in seventeenth place. Tincknell continued in the series in 2010, leading a four-car challenge from CRS Racing. Tincknell was also confirmed as one of ten drivers selected by the UK's motorsport governing body, the Motor Sports Association, to take part in its driver development programme, Team UK. Considered to be the top 10 most promising young racing drivers in the UK, each member of the team received in-car performance, fitness and nutrition training as well as advanced sports psychology, care of the Brabham Performance Clinic, created by David Brabham. Tincknell started the 2010 season off well with 5 podiums and a 1 win in the first 8 races of the season at Thruxton, Rockingham, Brands Hatch and Oulton Park. After a difficult weekend at the Croft circuit, he bounced back to take a pole position and victory at Snetterton breaking the lap record which still stands on the way to the win. However, the final 4 rounds of the season proved a struggle for the team with the new Formula Renault car and Tincknell managed one more podium and 3 top five places to eventually finish 5th overall in the championship. At the start of 2010, Tincknell was also invited to become to part of the British Racing Drivers' Club Rising Stars programme. He was also confirmed as one of ten drivers selected by the UK's motorsport governing body, the Motor Sports Association, to take part in its driver development programme, Team UK. Considered to be the top 10 most promising young racing drivers in the UK, each member of the team received in-car performance, fitness and nutrition training as well as advanced sports psychology, care of the Brabham Performance Clinic, created by David Brabham. Tincknell signed with Fortec Motorsport to race in the British Formula 3 Championship in 2011. After a tough start to the year at Monza he claimed in his first F3 podium at Oulton Park at the second race of the season before going on to finish 2nd at the next round at Snetterton. At the following round at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit, Tincknell took his first win of his Formula Three career leading the race from pole position. He claimed his 4th podium of the season at the Nurburgring, Germany. After starting in 8th position, Tincknell made an astonishing start to make up 5 places on the way down to the first corner and ended the race in 3rd position. After a good start to the season Tincknell finished the championship in 11th position with 1 win and 4 podiums. After the end of the 2011 season Tincknell signed for multiple British F3 Champion team Carlin. After impressing in initial testing Tincknell suffered a freak accident at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, breaking his right hand severely which needed to be operated on back in the UK. This put him out of action for the rest of the year. In 2012 Tincknell returned to the British Formula 3 Championship and took his first podium at the first round of the year at Oulton Park. Two DNFs followed at Monza and Pau before Tincknell got his season back on track winning at Rockingham on the championships return to the UK. Tincknell then scored another 3rd place and fastest lap at Brands Hatch before the championship combined with the Formula Three Euroseries meeting at Norisring. Tincknell took 8th overall and 3rd place in British F3 in race one before scoring a lights to flag victory in race two, his first European win in car racing. He then scored another dominant win at the Snetterton Circuit and ended the year in good style with two third places at Silverstone and another win at Donington Park in the season Finale. He finished 5th overall in the Championship with 4 wins and 9 podiums. He also contested the 2012 Historic Pau Grand Prix in a 1965 Lotus 20 in the Formula Junior category finishing 2nd in both races. Tincknell returned to his former F3 team, Fortec Motorsport for the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in November 2012. On his debut at the notoriously difficult Guia Circuit, Tincknell had an outstanding weekend, qualifying 7th overall and finishing 6th in the Qualification race in the 30 strong world class field. Tincknell had a great start in the final to move up to 4th position but after encountering a mechanical issue during the race, finished 9th. Tincknell agreed a deal to make a one-off return to the British F3 Championship in 2014, signing with Double R Racing for the Thruxton meeting. At the beginning of 2013, Tincknell extended his deal with multiple Championship winning team, Carlin Motorsport, for the 2013 season of the FIA European Formula Three Championship. The five-time Formula Three race winner continued his relationship with the team and has been joined by Canadian racer Nicholas Latifi and British rookies Jann Mardenborough and Jordan King. Tincknell emerged from the first rounds of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship at the Autodromo di Monza in 3rd place in the points table after a dramatic opening weekend to the season with the final two races taking place in treacherous conditions. Tincknell then scored an emotional win at Silverstone from a double pole position. It was the first time the 21-year-old from Devon has scored maximum points in the championship and was also a landmark victory for the Carlin team that runs his Volkswagen-powered Dallara – it was the squad’s first-ever success in a non-reversed-grid race on the series’ control Hankook tyres. With the win at Silverstone, Tincknell became the first Briton to win a round of the FIA F3 European Championship, revived in 2012 after a 29-year break, since ex-Lotus Formula 1 driver and Jaguar Le Mans winner Johnny Dumfries. It was also the first time Tincknell topped qualifying in his F3 career. Tincknell remained in third position in the Championship. Tincknell then had a tough weekend in the third round of the series at Hockenheim, finishing the weekend with a strong fifth-place finish but slipping to fifth in the Championship. Tincknell claimed his second FIA Formula 3 European Championship podium finish of the season after a strong performance in the latest round at Brands Hatch on 18–19 May 2013. Tincknell was third on the road in the third and final race of the weekend, but was moved up to second place when race winner Raffaele Marciello was excluded for a technical infringement. Tincknell, who is mentored by triple Le Mans 24 Hours winner and 2013 FIA World Endurance Champion Allan McNish, switched from single seaters to sportscars for 2014. He signed with JOTA Sport to race a Zytek Z11SN-Nissan in the European Le Mans Series and finished 2nd in the 2014 ELMS Driver’s Championship (74 points total) with Simon Dolan and Filipe Albuquerque after 1 win, 3 podiums and three personal poles. He was ELMS “Rookie of the Year” and also won the BRDC Woolf Barnato Trophy. Harry re-signed with the British Jota Sport outfit in 2015 when the ‘factory’ Nissan NISMO LM P1 team opted to delay its race programme. He subsequently finished 3rd in the ELMS Driver’s Championship (89 points total) driving a Gibson 015S-Nissan with Dolan and Albuquerque again in the five-race series, after 1 win, 4 podiums, 2 personal poles, three front row starts and two fastest race laps. In 2016 he returns to the European Le Mans Series, co-driving the G-Drive Racing Gibson-Nissan (formerly designated the Zytek Z11SN-Nissan) alongside Giedo van der Garde and Simon Dolan. Tincknell contested two FIA World Endurance Championship races in 2014 – both with his ELMS team Jota Sport. He finished 2nd (LM P2) in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and then won LM P2 on his Le Mans 24 Hour race début finishing 5th overall in the Zytek Z11SN-Nissan. In 2015, Tincknell was announced as an official “factory” Nissan NISMO LM P1 WEC race and development driver. When the race programme was delayed, Tincknell competed in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps with Jota Sport once again and won – Tincknell setting the fastest time in the LM P2 class in qualifying and again in the race itself. He ultimately made his LM P1 race début in the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo in the Le Mans 24 Hours – the team’s only race of the FIA World Endurance Championship season that year. He set the fastest lap time for Nissan in qualifying and again in the race itself. In March 2016 Harry Tincknell was confirmed as one of the Ford Racing factory drivers to co-drive the all-new Ford GT LM GTE with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship and also for the Le Mans 24 Hours. In August 2016, Tincknell was listed among four drivers who would drive for Jaguar in the pre-season test at Donington Park. † As Tincknell was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † As Tincknell was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † As Tincknell was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. Tincknell attended St. John's School in Sidmouth, Devon, until the age of 12. He then attended Exeter School, where he achieved 10 GCSEs: six As and four Bs. Away from the race track, Tincknell enjoys playing golf, darts, rugby, and chess, as well as supporting Plymouth Argyle, his local football club. | 1 |
List_of_Lalit_Kala_Akademi_fellows | List_of_Lalit_Kala_Akademi_fellows 2010-03-08T10:44:52Z Template:Infobox Indian Awards The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honour for the fine arts in India, given to eminent artists for their life time achievements in the field of visual arts. It is awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, it is the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India. The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse money of Rs. 25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honoured with a portfolio of his/her art works. The first elected fellow, in 1955, was the artist Jamini Roy. No. Name of the Fellow Year, List_of_Lalit_Kala_Akademi_fellows 2012-05-02T14:03:51Z Template:Infobox Indian Awards The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honour for the fine arts in India, given to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts. It is awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, it is the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India. The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse money of Rs. 25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honoured with a portfolio of their art works. The first elected fellow, in 1955, was the artist Jamini Roy. No. Name of the Fellow Year | 0 |
Madison_Group | Madison_Group 2009-03-27T03:46:06Z The Madison Limestone is a thick sequence of mostly carbonate rocks of Mississippian age in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains areas of western United States. The rocks serve as an important aquifer as well as an oil reservoir in places. The Madison and its equivalent strata extend from the Black Hills of western South Dakota to western Montana and eastern Idaho, and from the Canadian border to western Colorado and the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The Madison is formally known as the Madison Group. In Montana, where its thickness reaches 1,700 feet (520 m), the group is subdivided into the Mission Canyon Formation and Lodgepole Formation. Equivalents of the Madison are named the Pahasapa Limestone in the Black Hills, Leadville Limestone (Colorado), Guernsey Limestone (Wyoming), and Redwall Limestone in the Grand Canyon. The upper part of the Madison Group, the Charles Formation in the subsurface of North Dakota and northern Montana, is not strictly an equivalent of the Madison Limestone as usually defined. Most of the Madison Limestones were deposited during Early to Middle Mississippian time (Tournaisian to Visean stages), about 359 to 326 million years ago. Older North American usage lists the Madison as being laid down during the Kinderhookian, Osagian, and Meramecian stages. Neither a type locality nor derivation of the name was designated when the term "Madison Limestone" was first used by Peale (1893), but since the original work focused on the area of Three Forks, Montana, it is likely that the name relates to outcrops along the Madison River, Montana. A reference section has been designated on the north side of Gibson Reservoir in SE/4 sec. 36, T. 22 N. , R. 10 W. , Patricks Basin quad, Teton Co. , Montana. Limestones and dolomites dominate the Madison. Because the rock is highly soluble, it often develops caves and karst topography. Lewis and Clark Caverns, Montana, is an example of a cave developed in the Madison. The rocks were deposited in a generally shallow marine setting, indicated by the richly fossiliferous rocks of the Madison. In the Williston Basin, water was shallow enough for oolite shoals to develop; they later became reservoirs for oil. The gray cliffs along the Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains, Montana are formed by Madison Limestone. , Madison_Group 2010-01-22T17:21:25Z The Madison Limestone is a thick sequence of mostly carbonate rocks of Mississippian age in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains areas of western United States. The rocks serve as an important aquifer as well as an oil reservoir in places. The Madison and its equivalent strata extend from the Black Hills of western South Dakota to western Montana and eastern Idaho, and from the Canadian border to western Colorado and the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The Madison is formally known as the Madison Group. In Montana, where its thickness reaches 1,700 feet (520 m), the group is subdivided into the Mission Canyon Formation and Lodgepole Formation. Equivalents of the Madison are named the Pahasapa Limestone in the Black Hills, Leadville Limestone (Colorado), Guernsey Limestone (Wyoming), and Redwall Limestone in the Grand Canyon. The upper part of the Madison Group, the Charles Formation in the subsurface of North Dakota and northern Montana, is not strictly an equivalent of the Madison Limestone as usually defined. Most of the Madison Limestones were deposited during Early to Middle Mississippian time (Tournaisian to Visean stages), about 359 to 326 million years ago. Older North American usage lists the Madison as being laid down during the Kinderhookian, Osagian, and Meramecian stages. Neither a type locality nor derivation of the name was designated when the term "Madison Limestone" was first used by Peale (1893), but since the original work focused on the area of Three Forks, Montana, it is likely that the name relates to outcrops along the Madison River, Montana. A reference section has been designated on the north side of Gibson Reservoir in SE/4 sec. 36, T. 22 N. , R. 10 W. , Patricks Basin quad, Teton Co. , Montana. Limestones and dolomites dominate the Madison. Because the rock is highly soluble, it often develops caves and karst topography. Lewis and Clark Caverns, Montana, is an example of a cave developed in the Madison. The rocks were deposited in a generally shallow marine setting, indicated by the richly fossiliferous rocks of the Madison. In the Williston Basin, water was shallow enough for oolite shoals to develop; they later became reservoirs for oil. The gray cliffs along the Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains, Montana are formed by Madison Limestone. The following formations are recognized in Montana, Wyoming and Manitoba, from top to base: The following subdivisions (of formation rank) are recognized in Saskatchewan, from top to base: | 0 |
Eric Bicfalvi | Eric Bicfalvi 2016-01-11T19:23:18Z Eric Cosmin Bicfalvi (Romanian pronunciation: , Hungarian: Bikfalvi Erik, Hungarian pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1988) is a Romanian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chinese Super League side Liaoning Whowin. Bicfalvi began his career by Romanian third division side Fink Fenster Petreşti Carei, where he spent one season. During this period he played 23 games and scored 9 goals. At the end of the season Bicfalvi moved to Liga I side Jiul Petroşani. After his team relegated to Liga II, he signed a five-year contract with Steaua Bucharest. Bicfalvi however joined Ukrainian Premier League club Volyn Lutsk in 2012. He scored 17 goals in the League in the 2014–15 season. On 7 July 2015, after his contract with Volyn Lutsk expired, Bicfalvi transferred to Chinese Super League side Liaoning Whowin. Bicfalvi played for Romania at U-19 and U-21 level. In August 2013 his manager announced that Bicfalvi, whose mother is of Hungarian origin, wants to represent Hungary in the future. In October 2014 Anghel Iordanescu, the new coach of Romania named him as a possible call-up for the next European Qualifier against Northern Ireland. In 18 November 2014 he made his debut for the Romanian national team in a friendly match against Denmark. Bicfalvi's paternal grandfather, Bikfalvi Sándor (Alexandru Bicfalvi), ethnic Hungarian, was once a footballer of Victoria Carei; his paternal grandmother, Maria is of Romanian origin. Bicfalvi's father, Marius, died when Eric was 7 years old. Bicfalvi's mother, Elisabeta, is an ethnic Hungarian. Whowin F.C. Squad, Eric Bicfalvi 2017-12-31T16:41:59Z Eric Cosmin Bicfalvi (Romanian pronunciation: , Hungarian: Bikfalvi Erik, Hungarian pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1988) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays mainly as an attacking midfielder for Russian side FC Ural Yekaterinburg and the Romania national team. In 2005, Bicfalvi began his senior career in the Romanian Liga III with Fink Fenster Petrești, where he spent one year. During this period he made 23 appearances and scored 9 goals for the club. The following season he moved to Liga I side CSM Jiul Petroșani. After the team was relegated, he was signed by FC Steaua București on a five-year deal. In 2012, as his contract expired he subsequently joined Ukrainian club FC Volyn Lutsk. Bicfalvi ended the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League season as joint-top scorer with 17 goals, earning him on 7 July 2015 a transfer to Liaoning Whowin F.C. in the Chinese Super League. He did not adapt to life in China and after a brief spell with FC Dinamo București, main rival of his former team Steaua, he put pen on a contract with FC Tom Tomsk, newly promoted to the Russian Premier League. On 23 January 2017, he signed a 2.5-year contract with another Russian Premier League side FC Ural Yekaterinburg. Bicfalvi played for Romania at U19 and U21 levels and for the Romania national team. In August 2013 his manager announced that Bicfalvi, whose mother is of Hungarian origin, wants to represent Hungary in the future. In October 2014 Anghel Iordanescu, the new coach of Romania named him as a possible call-up for the next European Qualifier against Northern Ireland. On 18 November 2014 he made his debut for the Romanian national team in a friendly match against Denmark. Bicfalvi's paternal grandfather, Alexander Bicfalvi / Sándor Bikfalvi was ethnic Swedish according to Gazeta Sporturilor and Hungarian according to nemzetisport.hu, and was once a footballer, playing for Victoria Carei. Bicfalvi's mother, Elisabeta / Erzsébet, is ethnic Hungarian. | 1 |
Jessica Yu | Jessica Yu 2022-01-02T20:12:42Z Jessica Lingmin Yu (born February 14, 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based upon Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been: Misconception (2014), ForEveryone. Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Yu grew up in Los Altos Hills, California. Her father, Dr. Kou-ping Yu, an oncologist, was born in Shanghai. Her mother, Connie Young Yu, writer and historian, is a third-generation Californian. Yu graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. She was a reporter for the school newspaper, The Oracle. She went on to attend Yale University, where she was a two-time NCAA All-American and three-time All-Ivy in fencing. As a world-class foilist, she was a member of the Junior World Team and the United States national team at the World Championships and World University Games. Yu graduated from Yale University in 1987 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's degree in English. After graduation, Yu thought of pursuing law school like her peers. However, her father discouraged her from doing so. She discovered film production while searching for a job that allowed flexible hours to allow her to compete in fencing. She started as a production assistant in 1989 on a few commercials, where she got to arrange frozen noodles on forks and re-park cars. When she started working in documentary, she became further intrigued by the process. Yu refused to attend film school and gained her film education on the job. She focuses on making documentaries but says that one day she'd love to make a fully animated comedy feature. The opportunity to make film is a random occurrence for Yu. Her documentary films present worldwide issues that people face every day and allow the subjects to speak for themselves as much as possible. She is adamant that story should come before politics. Her films intend to inform the general public to incite people to become active in everyday issues such as water conservation and regulation. When not making documentaries and feature films, Yu spends time directing television shows. Yu began her career in 1993 with her short Sour Death Balls, a silent black-and-white montage of assorted subjects’ reactions to blindingly bitter candy, which was shot on an old school Bell & Howell wind-up camera. She got her inspirations from daily interactions in her life, i.e. when a child offered local people sour candy. Yu sent the short film to film festivals, and it became her first feature at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993. Yu made her first documentary, Men of Reenaction (1994), which explores the extremes of people searching for authenticity through Civil War reenacting. Her most famous work was her Academy Award-winning Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien. The documentary short features Berkeley writer Mark O'Brien, a disabled poet with an iron lung. His editor at the Pacific News Service, Sandy Close, introduced the pair and suggested that a film be made. It debuted at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and won several honors, including the International Documentary Association Achievement Award for Best Documentary, before the Academy Awards. In the 2000s, Yu's chance to work in episodic TV came when she received an invitation to apprentice at John Wells Productions as the first participant of their director diversity program. Shadowing directors, Yu sensed she was a guinea pig. “If you screw this up,” she told herself, “they’ll never let another woman of color from documentaries do this again.” While working for Wells’ production company, she began directing in television for shows like Grey's Anatomy and The West Wing. On her first directorial assignment, an episode of The West Wing, Yu was heartened that Wells encouraged her stylistic input. “He made a point of saying, ‘You should bring your own ideas to the table,’ rather than just follow prescribed formula.” So she decided to open with a series of mood-establishing low, wide-angle shots to signal the calm before the gathering storm. She directed a sport comedy film, Ping Pong Playa (2007), that explored Asian family culture through a Chinese ping pong playing son that is trying to prove himself to his family. Her producer friends Joan Huang and Jeff Guo approached her with the idea of working on a comedy together. They felt the time was right to have an obnoxious Asian American character on the screen. Yu and her comrades felt that Asian American cinema had plenty of good dramas and wanted to fill the void of superficial comedy. She tried to bring the same loose hand and adaptability she used for documentaries to scripted material. Her approach to Ping Pong Playa was to “have a lighter touch, especially with actors” to give them a sense of freedom. In her later documentaries such as Last Call at The Oasis (2011) and Misconception (2014) , Yu focused on capturing the big picture and understanding how these issues intertwined with other aspects of life such as climate, population, and the environment. Last Call at The Oasis addresses the water crisis in the United States, and working on the film made her consider the impact of the crisis on her children and their children. This project became more personal to Yu and compelled her to complete it. It took six months of research prior to filming, as Yu wanted to create the big picture of the facts and threats of the water crisis in the domestic United States. Last Call at the Oasis inspired Yu to direct her 2014 documentary Misconception, which paints the population issues from a person-to-person point of view. While filming Last Call at the Oasis people questioned the purpose of acting on water conservation because they cannot control the population growth affecting it. Her main goal is to take this topic and tie with emotionally, entertaining, and interesting stories. The majority of her work after 2015 has been focused on television production and directing. For Netflix, she directed episodes of the dramas 13 Reasons Why and Hollywood and did Maria Bamford's comedy special Old Baby. Yu is married to author Mark Salzman. They and their daughters, Ava and Esme, live in Los Angeles. Jessica has an older sister, Jennifer Yu, a technical publications manager, and a younger brother, Martin Yu, an actor. , Jessica Yu 2023-12-29T06:48:05Z Jessica Lingmin Yu (born February 14, 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based upon Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been: Misconception (2014), ForEveryone. Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Yu grew up in Los Altos Hills, California. Her father, Dr. Kou-ping Yu, an oncologist, was born in Shanghai. Her mother, Connie Young Yu, writer and historian, is a third-generation Californian. Yu graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. She was a reporter for the school newspaper, The Oracle. She went on to attend Yale University, where she was a two-time NCAA All-American and three-time All-Ivy in fencing. As a world-class foilist, she was a member of the Junior World Team and the United States national team at the World Championships and World University Games. Yu graduated from Yale University in 1987 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's degree in English. After graduation, Yu thought of pursuing law school like her peers. However, her father discouraged her from doing so. She discovered film production while searching for a job that allowed flexible hours to allow her to compete in fencing. She started as a production assistant in 1989 on a few commercials, where she got to arrange frozen noodles on forks and re-park cars. When she started working in documentary, she became further intrigued by the process. Yu refused to attend film school and gained her film education on the job. She focuses on making documentaries but says that one day she'd love to make a fully animated comedy feature. The opportunity to make film is a random occurrence for Yu. Her documentary films present worldwide issues that people face every day and allow the subjects to speak for themselves as much as possible. She is adamant that story should come before politics. Her films intend to inform the general public to incite people to become active in everyday issues such as water conservation and regulation. When not making documentaries and feature films, Yu spends time directing television shows. Yu began her career in 1993 with her short Sour Death Balls, a silent black-and-white montage of assorted subjects’ reactions to blindingly bitter candy, which was shot on an old school Bell & Howell wind-up camera. She got her inspirations from daily interactions in her life, i.e. when a child offered local people sour candy. Yu sent the short film to film festivals, and it became her first feature at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993. Yu made her first documentary, Men of Reenaction (1994), which explores the extremes of people searching for authenticity through Civil War reenacting. Her most famous work was her Academy Award-winning Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien. The documentary short features Berkeley writer Mark O'Brien, a disabled poet with an iron lung. His editor at the Pacific News Service, Sandy Close, introduced the pair and suggested that a film be made. It debuted at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and won several honors, including the International Documentary Association Achievement Award for Best Documentary, before the Academy Awards. In the 2000s, Yu's chance to work in episodic TV came when she received an invitation to apprentice at John Wells Productions as the first participant of their director diversity program. Shadowing directors, Yu sensed she was a guinea pig. “If you screw this up,” she told herself, “they’ll never let another woman of color from documentaries do this again.” While working for Wells’ production company, she began directing in television for shows like Grey's Anatomy and The West Wing. On her first directorial assignment, an episode of The West Wing, Yu was heartened that Wells encouraged her stylistic input. “He made a point of saying, ‘You should bring your own ideas to the table,’ rather than just follow prescribed formula.” So she decided to open with a series of mood-establishing low, wide-angle shots to signal the calm before the gathering storm. She directed a sport comedy film, Ping Pong Playa (2007), that explored Asian family culture through a Chinese ping pong playing son that is trying to prove himself to his family. Her producer friends Joan Huang and Jeff Guo approached her with the idea of working on a comedy together. They felt the time was right to have an obnoxious Asian American character on the screen. Yu and her comrades felt that Asian American cinema had plenty of good dramas and wanted to fill the void of superficial comedy. She tried to bring the same loose hand and adaptability she used for documentaries to scripted material. Her approach to Ping Pong Playa was to “have a lighter touch, especially with actors” to give them a sense of freedom. In her later documentaries such as Last Call at The Oasis (2011) and Misconception (2014) , Yu focused on capturing the big picture and understanding how these issues intertwined with other aspects of life such as climate, population, and the environment. Last Call at The Oasis addresses the water crisis in the United States, and working on the film made her consider the impact of the crisis on her children and their children. This project became more personal to Yu and compelled her to complete it. It took six months of research prior to filming, as Yu wanted to create the big picture of the facts and threats of the water crisis in the domestic United States. Last Call at the Oasis inspired Yu to direct her 2014 documentary Misconception, which paints the population issues from a person-to-person point of view. While filming Last Call at the Oasis people questioned the purpose of acting on water conservation because they cannot control the population growth affecting it. Her main goal is to take this topic and tie with emotionally, entertaining, and interesting stories. The majority of her work after 2015 has been focused on television production and directing. For Netflix, she directed episodes of the dramas 13 Reasons Why and Hollywood and did Maria Bamford's comedy special Old Baby. Jessica's work in the 2020s includes directing a number of television drama series. This Is Us (Don't Let Me Keep You, 2021), The Morning Show (Kill the Fatted Calf, 2021), In Treatment (Brooke, Laila, Colins, Eladio, 2021). Yu is married to author Mark Salzman. They and their daughters, Ava and Esme, live in Los Angeles. Jessica has an older sister, Jennifer Yu, a technical publications manager, and a younger brother, Martin Yu, an actor. | 1 |
Shelley Calene-Black | Shelley Calene-Black 2016-01-04T19:42:59Z Shelley Calene-Black (born April 30, 1979) is an American actress and voice actress who has worked for Funimation and Seraphim Digital. She has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. She has also moved into live action roles, playing the lead role of Maria Patterson in the Mariusz Kotowski-directed Holocaust film Esther's Diary (2010). , Shelley Calene-Black 2017-12-12T02:39:15Z Shelley Calene-Black is an American actress who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. She has worked for Funimation, ADV Films and Sentai Filmworks. Some of Calene-Black's leading voice roles include Mireille in Noir, Kyou Fujibayashi in Clannad, Medaka Kurokami in Medaka Box, and Hamyuts Meseta in The Book of Bantorra. For live-action, she played the lead role of Maria Patterson in the Mariusz Kotowski-directed Holocaust film Esther's Diary. Calene-Black was born and raised in Texas. She studied theatre at the University of Houston and worked on stage in New York City. After returning to Houston, she worked on local theatre groups such as the Alley Theatre and Stages Repertory Theatre. | 1 |
Merritt Patterson | Merritt Patterson 2016-01-06T19:34:27Z Merritt Patterson (born September 2, 1990) is a Canadian actress best known for playing Olivia on the short-lived Pretty Little Liars spin-off, Ravenswood, and for playing Ophelia on E! network's television series, The Royals. Patterson was born on September 2, 1990 in British Columbia. In 2013, Patterson was initially cast in a supporting role in the pilot for the ABC Family series, Ravenswood, but was subsequently recast as Olivia, a main role on the series. Since 2015, she has portrayed Ophelia, one of the main roles of E! television series, The Royals. , Merritt Patterson 2017-12-18T05:13:49Z Merritt Patterson (born September 2, 1990) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Olivia on the short-lived Pretty Little Liars spin-off Ravenswood, and for playing Ophelia on E! network's television series The Royals. In 2013, Patterson was initially cast in a supporting role in the pilot for the ABC Family series, Ravenswood, but was subsequently recast as Olivia, a main role on the series. In 2015, she portrayed Ophelia, one of the main roles in the first season of E! television series, The Royals. In 2016 Patterson was cast in the second season of the Crackle television drama The Art of More, playing Olivia Brukner, the daughter of Dennis Quaid's character. | 1 |
Matt Evans | Matt Evans 2021-01-10T14:42:41Z Matthew Nicolas Evans (born October 22, 1986) is a Filipino actor of American descent who was a contender of the Philippine reality television show Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 1. He rose to fame through his Filipino teleseryes Komiks Presents: Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko, Tanging Yaman and Rosalka. He studied college in Far Eastern University, Manila. Evans was born to father Thalmage Eugene Evans, an American citizen, and mother Vivien Mercado Nicolas, a Filipino. He has two half siblings: Mark, who is full Filipino and Akira, who is half Japanese. Evans resides in Quezon City, Philippines. His biological father left his mother before he was born. His father was serving in the United States Air Force at that time. He eventually found out from his uncle that his biological father had died from a heart attack on June 10, 2010. Evans has a daughter with former partner Johnelline Hickins (daughter of former '80s star, Coca Nicolas). On October 3, 2013, Evans married Katrina Fariñas, who belongs in a prominent political family in the Philippines, the Fariñas Family of Ilocos Norte. In 2014, they welcomed their first child, Hayley Marley. Evans also adopted Fariñas' son from a previous relationship, thus the child is now using the name Hayden Tyler Fariñas Evans. In 2015, Evans announced that they were expecting "baby Evans #3", Ellie Madison, who is Fariñas' and Evans' second child together. Evans' former live-in partner Johnelline Hickins had him arrested and detained at a precinct jail in Pasig on October 21, 2012 after he allegedly hurt her and her brother during an altercation at their home, a day prior to his 26th birthday. Evans was released 2 days after on a ₱200 bail. According to the initial report, Hickins and her brother were planning a surprise birthday party for Evans when the actor and Hickins had a heated argument. Hickins fell off the stairs while she and Evans were arguing, prompting the girl's brother to intercept. The brother said he tried to stop the actor from hurting his sister, who just gave birth last month, but he was kicked in the face and then held a knife to his face. The camp of Evans, however, denied that the actor inflicted any injury against his then-girlfriend and her brother. In a statement, Evans' legal counsel Gerly Rico said there was indeed an altercation among the three but denied that the actor injured Hickins and her brother. Evans corrected the reports that the altercation began when he went home drunk on Saturday night after going out with friends. He said he was at home the whole evening hosting a small party for some friends. He said he and Hickins quickly got into an argument after she asked why his guests had already left. He suspects she deliberately taunted him as part of a ruse for the surprise birthday party she was planning for him. He wanted to leave the house, he said, but Hickins tried to stop, leading to a struggle near the staircase on the second floor of the house in which Hickins tripped off and fell. The brother went into the rescue and got a minor scuffle with Evans but broke up immediately. Evans denied that he held a knife on him as there was no knife present on the place and that he only fought back for self-defense. Evans vowed not to reconcile with Hickins ever again after being embarrassed in prison. However reports say that they were able to settle and came up to an agreement with sharing custody with their child since Evans is now married to Katrina Fariñas, who is related to the Fariñas political clan of Ilocos Norte. , Matt Evans 2022-12-16T13:50:02Z Matthew Nicolas Evans (born October 22, 1986) is a Filipino actor who rose to prominence after appearing in Filipino soap operas Komiks Presents: Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko, Tanging Yaman and Rosalka. Evans previously competed in Philippine reality television show Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 1. Evans was born to father Thalmage Eugene Evans, an American citizen, and mother Vivien Mercado Nicolas, a Filipino. He has two half siblings. His biological father left his mother before he was born. His father was serving in the United States Air Force at that time. He eventually found out from his uncle that his biological father had died from a heart attack on June 10, 2010. Evans has a daughter with former partner Johnelline Hickins (daughter of former '80s star, Coca Nicolas). On October 3, 2013, Evans married Katrina Fariñas, who belongs in a prominent political family in the Philippines. In 2014, they welcomed their first child. Evans also adopted Fariñas' son from a previous relationship. In 2015, Evans announced that they were expecting their second child together. Evans' former live-in partner Johnelline Hickins had him arrested and detained at a precinct jail in Pasig on October 21, 2012 after he allegedly hurt her and her brother during an altercation at their home, a day prior to his 26th birthday. Evans was released 2 days after on a ₱200 bail. The camp of Evans, however, denied that the actor inflicted any injury against his then-girlfriend and her brother. In a statement, Evans' legal counsel Gerly Rico said there was indeed an altercation among the three but denied that the actor injured Hickins and her brother, adding that Evans only fought back in self-defense. | 1 |
Karl Davies | Karl Davies 2009-01-30T17:46:40Z Karl Davies (born 6 August 1982) is an English actor, who portrays Lyle Anderson in the TV series Kingdom. Previously he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Davies was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. He began his television acting career in 2000 with a guest appearance as Rick Ashburn in the ITV series Fat Friends before moving into the recurring role of Nick Pullen in Peak Practice, a role he played between series 9 - 11. He continued to play a number of minor television roles including The Bill before getting his big break in Emmerdale. In 2001, Davies took over the role of Robert Sugden, a longstanding character first introduced in 1986. The role had initially been played by Robert Smith (1986 - 1989) before being taken by Christopher Smith, who held the position from 1989 - 2001. The change was made by series producers to allow them to engage Robert in a number of more mature story lines. His first episode was broadcast in August 2001. The change in actor allowed the character to be developed and he soon became involved in a number of controversial storylines, most involving a long running feud with his adopted brother Andy Sugden. He also became known for a number of romantic storylines, with Robert having an increasing number of sexual partners including Donna Windsor, his brother's wife Katie Sugden and 15 year old Debbie Dingle, the mother of his niece. As one of the young male characters in the show he was invited to take part in a soap calendar for Now Magazine in 2004 alongside fellow actors Ben Freeman and Kelvin Fletcher. The character's final romantic storyline involved an affair with the married Sadie King, played by Patsy Kensit. This storyline received media attention when Kensit reportedly objected to a relationship with a younger actor believing her character should be portrayed as a "more sophisticated man-eater". Kensit however clarified the reasons for this in an interview with Leeds Today News stating "When I first heard about the storyline, I said 'but he looks like one of James's friends, so boyish and young'. But Karl is so adorable and we had a lot of fun filming those scenes". The brotherly feud which dominated much of Davies' time on the show was used by producers as the vehicle for a high profile attempt to compete with rival soap EastEnders in the television ratings war and to secure Emmerdale's place as the second most popular soap opera in the UK. The chosen storyline involved Andy's attempts to kill Robert which led to their father, Jack Sugden being shot. The story was to prove a success securing viewing figures of 7.6m compared with 6.4m for EastEnders. This was the first time Emmerdale has secured such a ratings victory. For his final and highly publicised storyline it was made clear to the media weeks in advance that either Robert, Andy or local vet Max King would be killed in an explosive road accident. In the end, it was to be Max who was killed but Robert decided he could no longer remain in the village and was last seen driving off towards a new life. The open ending allowed Davies to attempt to create himself a film career but leaves open a possible return to the show (where the character's family remains) should he and the producers wish to pursue this option. Following his departure from Emmerdale, Davies took the role of Damien in the short film, Me and Her, which aired at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 22 2006. It was made by the UK Film Council and directed by Sarah Tripp. In 2005 he began production on a new movie, Dolphins, in which he plays the central role of Brent Black - a teenager from a rough estate in Brighton. Filming was completed in 2007. Along with the production of Dolphins, Davies also spent 2006 filming a new ITV television series, Kingdom, opposite Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Hermione Norris and Tony Slattery. It follows the story of a solicitor (Fry) living in a quiet seaside village in Norfolk. Davies plays a trainee solicitor Lyle Anderson, who dreams of escaping Market Shipborough, where the show is set, to work in the city. The first series aired in 2007 and the second began in January 2008. In between series of Kingdom, Davies filmed a one off drama documentary for Channel 4, A Very British Sex Scandal. This was broadcast during a season of shows to commemorate the changing of the law with regards to gay rights. It told the story of the trial of Lord Edward Montagu. He was arrested and charged along with Peter Wildeblood (a Daily Mail Journalist) for alleged indecent acts with two RAF nurses, Johnny Reynolds (played by Davies) and Edward McNally. In 2008 Davies made his stage debut as Alex in Snowbound, a new play by Ciaran McConville , at the Trafalgar Studios. Prior to becoming a professional actor Davies enjoyed extreme sports and competed in climbing competitions at the age of 14, 15 and 16 but never pursued this further than local competitions at a junior level. He has expressed a love of extreme sports such as snowboarding and skiing. However, during his time on Emmerdale he has publicly stated that he was prevented from participating in these activities by the producers. His only real exception to this was as part of the annual charity fund-raising event in Inveraray where he was allowed to go Wing walking on a bi-plane, an experience he greatly enjoyed. Davies has revealed that his role in Emmerdale has led to much greater public recognition and that the reaction from fans of the show has been mixed. He has been insulted and slapped in the street by strangers who have been unable to tell him from the character he plays. However, he has also developed a following amongst gay viewers and has admitted that he receives a lot of fan mail from male viewers. Since leaving the show it has been revealed that he is dating his former co-star Jenna-Louise Coleman who plays the vicar's niece Jasmine Thomas. According to the Internet Movie Database, Davies speaks French and takes part in many athletic sports including cycling, swimming and gymnastics. He plays the guitar and bass guitar and lists his skills as motorcyclist, stunts, precision driving, stage combat, voiceover and improvisation. The same resumé confirms that he is authorised to work in the United States. Karl is a dad to twin baby girls names Sophie Laura and Louise Gemma born christmas day 2007 {{subst:#if:Davies, Karl|}} [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc: 1982 }} }}]] {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc: }} }}, Karl Davies 2010-12-26T11:28:45Z Karl Davies (born 6 August 1982) is an English actor, who portrays Lyle Anderson in the TV series Kingdom. Previously he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Davies was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. He began his television acting career in 2000 with a guest appearance as Rick Ashburn in the ITV series Fat Friends before moving into the recurring role of Nick Pullen in Peak Practice, a role he played between series 9 - 11. He continued to play a number of minor television roles including The Bill before getting his big break in Emmerdale. In 2001, Davies took over the role of Robert Sugden, a longstanding character first introduced in 1986. The role had initially been played by Robert Smith (1986–1989) before being taken by Christopher Smith, who held the position from 1989 - 2001. The change was made by series producers to allow them to engage Robert in a number of more mature story lines. His first episode was broadcast in August 2001. The change in actor allowed the character to be developed and he soon became involved in a number of controversial storylines, most involving a long running feud with his adopted brother Andy Sugden. He also became known for a number of romantic storylines, with Robert having an increasing number of sexual partners including Donna Windsor, his brother's wife Katie Sugden and 15 year old Debbie Dingle, the mother of his niece. As one of the young male characters in the show he was invited to take part in a soap calendar for Now Magazine in 2004 alongside fellow actors Ben Freeman and Kelvin Fletcher. The character's final romantic storyline involved an affair with the married Sadie King, played by Patsy Kensit. This storyline received media attention when Kensit reportedly objected to a relationship with a younger actor believing her character should be portrayed as a "more sophisticated man-eater". Kensit however clarified the reasons for this in an interview with Leeds Today News stating "When I first heard about the storyline, I said 'but he looks like one of James's friends, so boyish and young'. But Karl is so adorable and we had a lot of fun filming those scenes". The brotherly feud which dominated much of Davies' time on the show was used by producers as the vehicle for a high profile attempt to compete with rival soap EastEnders in the television ratings war and to secure Emmerdale's place as the second most popular soap opera in the UK. The chosen storyline involved Andy's attempts to kill Robert which led to their father, Jack Sugden being shot. The story was to prove a success securing viewing figures of 7.6 million compared with 6.4 million for EastEnders. This was the first time Emmerdale has secured such a ratings victory. For his final and highly publicised storyline it was made clear to the media weeks in advance that either Robert, Andy or local vet Max King would be killed in an explosive road accident. In the end, it was to be Max who was killed but Robert decided he could no longer remain in the village and was last seen driving off towards a new life. The open ending allowed Davies to attempt to create himself a film career but leaves open a possible return to the show (where the character's family remains) should he and the producers wish to pursue this option. Following his departure from Emmerdale, Davies took the role of Damien in the short film, Me and Her, which aired at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 22, 2006. It was made by the UK Film Council and directed by Sarah Tripp. In 2005 he began production on a new movie, Dolphins, in which he plays the central role of Brent Black - a teenager from a rough estate in Brighton. Filming was completed in 2007. Along with the production of Dolphins, Davies also spent 2006 filming a new ITV television series, Kingdom, opposite Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Hermione Norris and Tony Slattery. It follows the story of a solicitor (Fry) living in a quiet seaside village in Norfolk. Davies plays a trainee solicitor Lyle Anderson, who dreams of escaping Market Shipborough, where the show is set, to work in the city. The first series aired in 2007 and the second began in January 2008. In between series of Kingdom, Davies filmed a one off drama documentary for Channel 4, A Very British Sex Scandal. This was broadcast during a season of shows to commemorate the changing of the law with regards to gay rights. It told the story of the trial of Lord Edward Montagu. He was arrested and charged along with Peter Wildeblood (a Daily Mail Journalist) for alleged indecent acts with two RAF nurses, Johnny Reynolds (played by Davies) and Edward McNally. In 2007 Davies made his stage debut in flint street nativaty at the Liverpool Playhouse On 10 February 2009, he returned to Emmerdale for a one hour special episode for his screen father, Jack Sugden's funeral, dedicated to Clive Hornby. In 2010, Davies played multiple characters on stage in the Tricycle Theater's ambitious, "The Great Game: Afghanistan." The play consists of twelve separate one-act plays (each by a different author) about Afghanistan. The production's US tour includes stops in Washington, DC, Berkeley, Minneapolis and New York City. Davies appears in four segments, frequently as a soldier. Prior to becoming a professional actor Davies enjoyed extreme sports and competed in climbing competitions at the age of 14, 15 and 16 but never pursued this further than local competitions at a junior level. He has expressed a love of extreme sports such as snowboarding and skiing. However, during his time on Emmerdale he has publicly stated that he was prevented from participating in these activities by the producers. His only real exception to this was as part of the annual charity fund-raising event in Inverurie where he was allowed to go Wing walking on a bi-plane, an experience he greatly enjoyed. Davies has revealed that his role in Emmerdale has led to much greater public recognition and that the reaction from fans of the show has been mixed. He has been insulted and slapped in the street by strangers who have been unable to tell him from the character he plays. However, he has also developed a following amongst gay viewers and has admitted that he receives a lot of fan mail from male viewers. Since leaving the show it has been revealed that he is dating his former co-star Jenna-Louise Coleman who plays the vicar's niece Jasmine Thomas. According to the Internet Movie Database, Davies speaks French and takes part in many athletic sports including cycling, swimming and gymnastics. He plays the guitar and bass guitar and lists his skills as motorcyclist, stunts, precision driving, stage combat, voiceover and improvisation. The same resumé confirms that he is authorised to work in the United States. | 1 |
Coccothrinax_ekmanii | Coccothrinax_ekmanii 2019-12-24T14:58:47Z Coccothrinax ekmanii (gwenn) is a palm which is endemic to the island of Hispaniola. Like other members of the genus, C. ekmanii is a fan palm. Trees are single-stemmed, between 3 and 15 metres tall with stems 5 to 8 (occasionally 20) centimetres in diameter. The fruit is brownish, 5–6 millimetres in diameter. It grows on rocky hills or in dry scrub forest on limestone. , Coccothrinax_ekmanii 2021-11-20T01:01:16Z Coccothrinax ekmanii (gwenn) is a palm which is endemic to the island of Hispaniola. Like other members of the genus, C. ekmanii is a fan palm. Trees are single-stemmed, between 3 and 15 metres tall with stems 5 to 8 (occasionally 20) centimetres in diameter. The fruit is brownish, 5–6 millimetres in diameter. It grows on rocky hills or in dry scrub forest on limestone. | 0 |
Carrie Keranen | Carrie Keranen 2016-01-02T00:09:04Z is an American voice actress, production manager and voice director known for her work with 4Kids Entertainment, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post and Studiopolis. Her major voice roles include Satsuki Kiryuin in Kill La Kill, Mami Tomoe in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Casca in Berserk. Keranen grew up in Oak Park, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Theatre and Linguistics. She moved to New York City where she worked on various acting jobs and did stand-up comedy. In 2003, she was a waitress at Rocco's which was featured in The Restaurant, a reality television series about the launch of celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito's eatery. The series was broadcast on NBC for two seasons. In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles, California to continue working on other projects. She had a recurring role as Kate Harper in the Fringe TV series, and is a member of the Sacred Fools Theater Company. On July 23, 2011, she and fellow voice actress Cristina Vee were panelists at Comic-Con for Namco Bandai's preview of the Tekken: Blood Vengeance film. , Carrie Keranen 2017-12-30T02:44:46Z Carrie Keranen is an American voice actress, production manager, producer and voice director known for her work with 4Kids Entertainment, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post, Studiopolis, and Funimation. Her major voice roles include Satsuki Kiryuin in Kill La Kill, Mami Tomoe in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Casca in Berserk. In live-action work, she was a participant in the reality TV series The Restaurant. She also portrayed Piper Tate in the science fiction web series Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time. Keranen grew up in Oak Park, Michigan. She had always been involved in acting, including high school plays, but in an interview with Everything Geek Podcast, she said she was more active in sports. She attended University of Michigan, and originally intended to major in international business with a specialization in Japanese but would be drawn back into doing plays and subbing in for major roles there. She graduated with a BA in Theatre and Linguistics, and after visiting Europe, moved to New York City to pursue acting. She worked on various acting jobs and did stand-up comedy. In 2003, she was a waitress at Rocco's which was featured in The Restaurant, a reality television series about the launch of celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito's eatery. The series was broadcast on NBC for two seasons. Keranen's first voice-over audition for 4Kids was April O'Neil in the 2003 TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Although she did not get that lead part, she landed supporting roles, and also landed some guest and supporting voices on the Pokémon TV series. When fellow voice actress Tara Sands moved from New York to Los Angeles, she auditioned to voice match Sands' character Mokuba Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! . On her way out of the audition she started pitching another voice actress for the part, but the director Eric Stuart later told her that she was the right person for the role and that he even vouched for her to play the part. That was her first major role as a lead boy. Later in the same season, she also got to voice Kisara which she said was more typical of the characters and used her natural voice. She also voiced Mina which she described as "type A but not in a forceful way" and would totally get into something if she had the chance. In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles, California to continue working on other projects. She had a recurring role as Kate Harper in the Fringe TV series, and is a member of the Sacred Fools Theater Company. On July 23, 2011, she and fellow voice actress Cristina Vee were panelists at Comic-Con for Namco Bandai's preview of the Tekken: Blood Vengeance film. In 2014, Keranen voiced Satsuki Kiryuin, the student council president and antagonist in the anime series Kill la Kill, which ran on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. In 2016, she provided the voice of Alya, Marinette's best friend, in the French anime-style cartoon Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, which ran on Nickelodeon. She attended San Diego Comic-Con 2016 with the cast and the original creator Thomas Astruc. | 1 |
Federal Correctional Complex, Butner | Federal Correctional Complex, Butner 2018-01-21T06:22:25Z The Federal Correctional Complex, Butner (FCC Butner) is a United States federal prison complex for men in Butner, North Carolina. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCC Butner is about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Raleigh, the state capital. It includes the Bureau's largest medical complex, which operates a drug treatment program and specializes in oncology and behavioral science. Among its inmates is Bernie Madoff, who was convicted for perpetrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The complex consists of four facilities: The complex lies on the county line between Durham County to the west and Granville County to the east. On March 18, 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Bernard Madoff, the New York financier serving a 150-year sentence at FCI Butner for running a Ponzi scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was assaulted by another inmate in December 2009. Citing three sources, a current inmate, a former inmate, and a prison employee, the Journal reported that the assailant was an inmate serving time for a drug conviction who believed that Madoff owed him money. The inmate reported that Madoff suffered a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face. In response to the report, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Denise Simmons said, "We have no knowledge or information to confirm he was assaulted." On November 16, 2011, James Lukinoff, an inmate at FCI Butner, was indicted for planning to assault and kill an FBI agent involved in investigating the crime for which he was sent to prison. The indictment alleged that from February 2009 to April 2011, Lukinoff developed and pursued a plan to purchase a silencer and have a friend or family member store it until his release from prison. Once released, Lukinoff planned to retrieve the silencer and his firearm and kill the agent. Lukinoff pleaded guilty to retaliating against a federal official by threat on June 20, 2012. He is currently being held at the Federal Medical Center, Butner and is scheduled for release in 2024. 36°08′22″N 78°48′16″W / 36.13944°N 78.80442°W / 36.13944; -78.80442, Federal Correctional Complex, Butner 2019-12-31T08:15:24Z The Federal Correctional Complex, Butner (FCC Butner) is a United States federal prison complex for men in Butner, North Carolina. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCC Butner is about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Raleigh, the state capital. It includes the Bureau's largest medical complex, which operates a drug treatment program and specializes in oncology and behavioral science. Among its inmates is Bernie Madoff, who was convicted for perpetrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The complex consists of four facilities: The complex lies on the county line between Durham County to the west and Granville County to the east. On March 18, 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Bernard Madoff, the New York financier serving a 150-year sentence at FCI Butner for running a Ponzi scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was assaulted by another inmate in December 2009. Citing three sources, a current inmate, a former inmate, and a prison employee, the Journal reported that the assailant was an inmate serving time for a drug conviction who believed that Madoff owed him money. The inmate reported that Madoff suffered a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face. In response to the report, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Denise Simmons said, "We have no knowledge or information to confirm he was assaulted." On November 16, 2011, James Lukinoff, an inmate at FCI Butner, was indicted for planning to assault and kill an FBI agent involved in investigating the crime for which he was sent to prison. The indictment alleged that from February 2009 to April 2011, Lukinoff developed and pursued a plan to purchase a silencer and have a friend or family member store it until his release from prison. Once released, Lukinoff planned to retrieve the silencer and his firearm and kill the agent. Lukinoff pleaded guilty to retaliating against a federal official by threat on June 20, 2012. He is currently being held at the Federal Medical Center, Butner and is scheduled for release in 2024. 36°08′22″N 78°48′16″W / 36.13944°N 78.80442°W / 36.13944; -78.80442 | 1 |
Alfonso_Rendano | Alfonso_Rendano 2008-05-22T21:36:18Z Alfonso Rendano (1853 – 1931) was an Italian pianist mostly renowned for inventing the "third pedal", which augmented the interpretative resources of the piano. Rendano was born at Cosenza, Calabria. He was particularly precocious and at the age of ten he was admitted to the Naples Conservatoire, where he was noticed by Sigismund Thalberg who sent him to Paris, recommending him to Rossini. In 1866 he studied under Georges Mathias, Chopin's pupil. For about fifteen years, he carried out an intense musical activity; he then devoted himself to teaching: first at the Naples Conservatoire, then in Rome. Rendano wrote the opera Consuelo, successfully staged in Turin and in Germany. He held his last concert at Rome's Teatro Valle in 1925. He died in Rome in 1931. The main theatre of Cosenza is named after him. {{subst:#if:Rendano, Alfonso|}} [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:1853}} }}]] {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:1931}} }}, Alfonso_Rendano 2010-11-15T07:00:22Z Alfonso Rendano (1853 – 1931) was an Italian pianist and composer. He is mostly renowned for inventing the "third pedal", which augmented the interpretative resources of the piano. Rendano was born in Cosenza, Calabria. He was particularly precocious and at the age of ten he was admitted to the Naples Conservatoire, where he was noticed by Sigismund Thalberg who sent him to Paris, recommending him to Rossini. In 1866 he studied under Georges Mathias, Chopin's pupil. For about fifteen years, he carried out an intense musical activity; he then devoted himself to teaching: first at the Naples Conservatoire, then in Rome. Rendano wrote the opera Consuelo, successfully staged in Turin and in Germany. He held his last concert at Rome's Teatro Valle in 1925. He died in Rome in 1931. The main theatre of Cosenza is named after him. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Richmond Football Club | Richmond Football Club 2014-01-08T13:44:52Z The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since joining the competition in 1908, Richmond has won ten premierships, the most recent victory being in 1980. This currently sees the club ranked sixth in terms of premierships won. In recent times, unstable administration on and off the field has troubled Richmond, none more so than in 1990, when a large debt almost forced the club to fold. Richmond has since regained a strong financial position, but with the exception of finals appearances in 1995, 2001 and 2013, the club has underachieved on the field. Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Punt Road Oval, formerly known as the Richmond Cricket Ground, just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The Tigers have played their home games at the MCG since 1965. The club's training and administration headquarters are at the Punt Road Oval and from 2011 are called the ME Bank Centre. Based in a traditionally working-class area, Richmond has a long-standing rivalry with both the Carlton Football Club, Essendon Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club. Over the years, many great players have represented Richmond. Some of these players have been recognized as being among Australian rules football's greatest players. Such players include Jack Dyer, Kevin Bartlett, Royce Hart, Francis Bourke, Ian Stewart, Matthew Richardson and Jack Titus. A team of footballers playing as Richmond is mentioned by the newspapers in the first years of Australian football, circa 1860. Tom Wills, one of the game's founders, was the club's inaugural secretary and captain, and Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison captained Richmond briefly in the early 1860s before moving to Geelong. This loosely organised group has no continuity to the present club. A number of teams formed in the Richmond area during the game's rapid expansion of the 1870s and early 1880s. However, all played at a junior level and it was considered an anomaly that Richmond, one of Melbourne's biggest locales, didn't boast a senior team. The wait ended when the Richmond Football Club was officially formed at the Royal Hotel in Richmond on 20 February 1885. A successful application for immediate admission to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) followed. The club shared the Punt Road Oval with the Richmond Cricket Club, one of the strongest cricket clubs in Australia which had been playing on the ground since 1856. At first the team wore a blue uniform. One of the most important features of a nineteenth-century footballer's uniform was his headgear, and Richmond opted for yellow and black striped caps, the same as the cricket club. After a couple of years, yellow and black stripes replaced blue as the colours of the team's guernseys. The team was variously called the "Richmondites", the "Wasps" or, most commonly, the "Tigers". During the late 1880s, the VFA expanded rapidly. A booming economy and large numbers of immigrants made Melbourne the largest city in the Australian colonies. The city was besotted with football and many clubs clamoured for admission to the VFA. Richmond struggled to make an impression and after a promising season in 1888 (when they finished fifth with eleven wins), the club slipped backwards. In a theoretically amateur sport, the strongest teams were luring the best talent with undisclosed payments to players and were not keen to schedule matches against teams with poor followings (such as Richmond) that could not generate much gate money. As the local economy slipped into severe depression in the early 1890s and the crowds began to dwindle, a cabal of strong teams began to agitate for a reform of the competition. Richmond were not considered part of this elite group, who usually voted together as a block at VFA meetings. A lack of commitment and focused effort was holding the Tigers back. In 1896, Richmond walked off the field in a match with South Melbourne at half time when they were a long way behind on a very wet day to protest the umpiring. Later in the season, the Tigers had their score annulled against Essendon when it was discovered that they had too many men on the ground. In the closing three weeks of the season, Richmond's gate takings amounted to just five pounds. Richmond finished the season last of the 13 clubs and picked a bad time to perform so poorly. In October 1896, the cabal of six strong clubs broke with the association to form the VFL and invited two other clubs to join them: Carlton and St Kilda. Richmond's struggles during the season had not helped when the invitations to the new competition were being considered. Richmond's performances did not immediately improve in the emaciated VFA until the turn of the century. The Tigers were boosted by a significant country recruit in 1901. George 'Mallee' Johnson was an instant sensation and the first true star player at the club. Richmond leapt to third place and then in 1902, with Johnson dominating the ruck, Richmond entered the closing weeks of the season neck and neck with Port Melbourne at the head of the ladder. Just when a play-off between the clubs to decide the premiership looked certain, Port faltered against Williamstown to hand Richmond its first flag. Having missed a potential bonanza from a premiership play-off, the VFA decided to emulate the VFL and introduce a finals series in 1903, a fateful decision for the Tigers. After recruiting the competition's leading goalkicker, Jack Hutchinson, and finishing the season as minor premier, Richmond lost both finals and were runner-up. The following season, the club became embroiled in a feud with umpire Allen, whom the Tigers accused of failing to curb field invasions or the illegal tactics of arch-rival North Melbourne. When the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the Grand Final, Richmond announced that they wouldn't play with Allen as umpire. The VFA called the Tigers' bluff, and appointed Allen as umpire for the match, meaning that the Grand Final was scratched and North Melbourne won the premiership on forfeit. Richmond were now openly at odds with the VFA and matters failed to improve in the next few years. The club was campaigning against violence (both on-field and among the crowd), ungentlemanly conduct and poor sportsmanship, issues that plagued the VFA to a far greater extent than the rival VFL. Richmond cultivated links with some League clubs by playing practice matches against them. The Tigers knew that they were a major asset to the Association. They had built up a large following and played on one of the best grounds in the competition, where they remained unbeaten for five consecutive seasons. In 1905, Richmond confirmed their status with a second premiership, this time overcoming bitter rivals North Melbourne, a club perceived as the antithesis of Richmond. 'Mallee' Johnson had moved to Carlton, but youngster Charlie Ricketts dominated the season and won plaudits among the pressmen, who voted him the best player in the VFA. However, Ricketts was also lost to the VFL and injury hit the club hard. In 1906–07, the Tigers played finals without looking likely to win the flag. The club earned a rebuke from the VFA for scheduling a practice match against Geelong before the 1907 season. Richmond went ahead with the commitment and earned further censure. Later in the year it became clear that the VFL wanted to expand its competition and Richmond won a place ahead of North Melbourne, which had been strengthened by an amalgamation with the bankrupt West Melbourne as part of their bid. Richmond were granted admission along with the now defunct University Football Club. The first few seasons in the VFL were less than spectacular. Although the club turned up some star players, it let a lot of talent leave and the administration was unstable after George Bennett's death at the end of the 1908 season. In 1916, the side played in the finals for the first time, however, with the ravages of war having reduced the competition to just four clubs, finals qualification was automatic. Finally, in 1919, the Tigers made their first Grand Final appearance, losing to Collingwood. Richmond stoked a rivalry with the Magpies by recruiting their former skipper Dan Minogue as playing coach and the Tigers gained vengeance by beating Collingwood in the 1920 Grand Final to secure a first flag in the big league. This was followed by an even better performance the next year. The only club that continued to beat Richmond on a regular basis was Carlton. Finishing minor premier with only one loss for the season in 1921, the Blues were the hottest premiership favourite, yet Richmond managed to beat them in two classic finals matches played over successive weeks to go back-to-back. The rest of the decade saw four more Grand Final appearances, all of which would end in frustration. From 1927 to 1929 Richmond became the first club in the VFL to lose three consecutive Grand Finals, all of which were to neighbouring arch rivals, Collingwood. The next VFL flag came in 1932, with the Tigers triumph over Carlton in a tough encounter which saw Richmond wingman Alan Geddes play the second half with a broken jaw. Another Tigers premiership came in 1934, this time against South Melbourne's famed "Foreign Legion", avenging the Tigers' loss in the previous season's Grand Final. Prior to the commencement of the 1940 season, internal problems were brewing between the key personalities at the club. Some felt that the uneven performance of the team was due to Bentley's coaching methods, and that he should be replaced. Dyer walked out on the club and threatened to play in the VFA after his father, a committeeman who was involved with the anti-Bentley faction, lost his position at the board elections. Finally, the matter was resolved and Bentley kept his job, while Dyer returned to training on the eve of the season. The problems appeared to have been solved when the Tigers won the semi final against Melbourne to go straight into the Grand Final. However, the Demons reversed this result with a crushing win to pinch the premiership. The Tigers had been out-thought by their old mentor Checker Hughes, who had assigned a tagger to negate Dyer. Dyer was furious that Bentley had done nothing to prevent his opponent taking him out of the game. The Richmond committee agreed with this assessment, so when Bentley (after retiring as a player) attempted to negotiate a higher fee to continue his coaching tenure, he was rebuffed. Incensed, Bentley quit Punt Road and moved to Carlton as coach, adding further spice to an already fierce rivalry between the two clubs. Despite the tribulations created by the Second World War, the Tigers were able to maintain a commendable level of consistency on the field. The club had quite a lot of players in reserved occupations who remained at home, while the administration became adept at securing star players who were temporarily in Melbourne on war service. Dyer was a fearsome presence in his role as playing coach, but he was unable to improve the Tigers' ability to win finals matches. A loss in the 1942 Grand Final to Essendon (after starting as favourite) meant that over the previous 18 years, Richmond had won two flags but been runner-up eight times. Jack Titus set a still unbeaten record of playing in six losing Grand Final teams. In 1943, Richmond broke through to beat Essendon in a thrilling Grand Final by five points, a win that the club dedicated to ex-player Bill Cosgrove, an RAF pilot who had been killed in action a few weeks before the match. But another Grand Final loss followed in 1944, when Dyer's team failed against Fitzroy on a very hot day. In the immediate post-war era, despite an influx of excellent new players, Richmond struggled to make the four, appearing in the finals only once, in 1947. The Tigers seemed to have lost the killer instinct. Dyer continued on as coach for three years after his playing retirement at the end of 1949, but was asked to retire by the committee who felt the club needed a shake up. Under a succession of coaches, the 1950s were wasted years for Richmond. With the demands of potential players increasing with each passing year, the club refused to allocate sufficient funds to recruit and they failed to replace star players as they retired. When stalwarts such as Des Rowe and dual-Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright left, the team slumped dramatically and finished with a wooden spoon in 1960. 1966 heralded the start of the Tom Hafey era. Hafey, a former player of the club, was appointed coach and lead the club to winning four premierships under his leadership. They won the 1967 flag in a thrilling encounter with Geelong, ending a 24 year premiership drought. In 1969, it became two in three years as Richmond, who had finished fourth on the ladder, beat the much fancied Carlton in the Grand Final by 25 points. The Tigers were dominant in 1972 and were hot favourites in the Grand Final against Carlton. However, the Blues stunned the Tigers in a game of ridiculous high scoring. Even Richmond equalled the then record highest score in a Grand Final of 22.18(150), but Carlton beat it with 28.9(177). The Tigers got their revenge in an intensely physical clash in the 1973 Grand Final and went back-to-back in 1974 with a strong win against a resurgent North Melbourne. Richmond won its last premiership with a then record-breaking margin of 81 points over arch-rivals Collingwood in 1980. After reaching and losing the 1982 Grand Final, it has been a rocky road for the Tigers who have struggled to come to grips with the rules and regulations of a modernized AFL, including the draft and salary cap. The successes of the early 1980s were bought at high financial cost through expensive recruiting, and were followed by severe cut backs that saw several top players depart. Still smarting from the loss of star players to Collingwood, the Tigers set themselves for war with the Magpies in 1984 by signing three of their players: John Annear, Craig Stewart and Phil Walsh. Not only were there big contracts and transfer fees to pay, but the costs of an expensive court action as well. Richmond also signed a number of mediocre players on big contracts, and the club's financial situation took a battering. With the team failing to improve, a challenge to the committee was brewing and Richmond's traditional political stability threatened. The rebel group, organised by long-time servant Bill Durham, convinced former player and coach Barry Richardson to be leader. An election in late 1984 failed to clarify the situation. The challengers had the numbers, but Ian Wilson held on to the presidency into the new year. When the one hundredth birthday of the club arrived in February 1985, there was too much dissension to mark the moment fittingly. Eventually, Wilson handed over to Richardson, who had selected his former premiership teammate Paul Sproule to return from Tasmania and take over the coaching position on a guaranteed contract. As the season progressed with Richmond still struggling, Sproule came under pressure. Richardson guaranteed his position, but at the end of the year, the committee overruled Richardson and sacked Sproule. Incensed, Richardson walked out of Punt Road, which was in turmoil again. Desperately, the Tigers turned back to Tony Jewell, who was appointed coach for a second time, the only man in the club's history to get a second go at the job. Jewell later commented on the destruction wrought on the club during his four-year absence: "the supporters were gone, the members were gone, the money was gone . . . a real shame." With the competition set to expand, the Tigers made a number of misguided moves in 1986. To fill the vacancy left by Richardson, Richmond wooed high-flying West Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond to become president. Bond came with an agenda to raise money for the club by listing on the stockmarket and relocating to Brisbane. When the latter plan was revealed in the media, a furious reaction from supporters and high profile club personalities buried the proposal almost immediately. Early in 1987, Bond's tenure at the club ended in farce when he resigned without presiding over a single game. The off-field confusion was reflected in the players' performance as Richmond slumped to only its second wooden spoon in 70 years. Although the new president, ex-captain Neville Crowe, had stabilised the club and scored a coup by persuading club legend Kevin Bartlett to coach, the matter of servicing the huge debt remained a chain around the Tigers' neck. The club managed to stay solvent by cutting expenses to the bone and paying only two-thirds of the allowable salary cap. But there was no money for recruiting to improve an impoverished playing list. The club struggled to come to terms with the draft after its inception in 1986, and made a number of poor choices—notably, the number one pick in 1987 was used on a player who had only two games with the Tigers. Finally, with the economy in serious recession and interest rates touching seventeen per cent, Richmond's creditors came knocking. At one point, an attempt was made to seize the club's 1973 and 1974 premiership trophies as securities for unpaid debts, an embarrassing situation. For a number of years, the exact amount that the club owed was not publicly known. After Bartlett came Allan Jeans, who then passed the job to ex-Tiger premiership player John Northey for 1993. Northey returned the team to the simple long-kicking style of the halcyon days under the legendary Tom Hafey. Along with some draft concessions granted by the AFL, Northey's efforts gradually improved the Tigers. The team fumbled an opportunity to make the 1994 finals, then opened 1995 with its best start to a season in 75 years and eventually made it to the preliminary final. With a talented playing list and a strong administration led by Leon Daphne (the Tigers' first president from the corporate world, the Alan Bond farce aside), Richmond looked set to become regular finalists again. During 1992 the Richmond Football Club logo was redesigned by Rob Perry (see external links), while he was working as an art director at the advertising agency George Patterson Bates in Melbourne. The illustration of the tiger was done by Lex Bell, the in-house illustrator of the agency. Somehow, the anticipated success failed to materialise, partly because Richmond allowed the coaching position to again become unstable. With over a year still to run on his contract, John Northey demanded a contract extension that the club refused. This was because of a rumour that some people with an association with the club were pursuing Essendon coach and former Richmond premiership player Kevin Sheedy. So Northey walked out on Richmond and accepted a longer-term contract to coach Brisbane. Richmond, caught short, appointed the Bears' ex-coach Robert Walls for 1996. After several humiliating thrashings in 1997, Walls became the first Tiger coach to be sacked mid-season. After two-and-a-half seasons under Jeff Gieschen, the club appointed ex-St Kilda captain Danny Frawley. After a Preliminary Final appearance in Frawley's second season, Richmond overestimated the strength of the list and settled for trading for established players rather than drafting youth. Over the next three seasons, the team managed just 18 wins. The administration continued to support Frawley and ensured that he would see out his contract, a far cry from the way many of his predecessors were treated. However, midway through the 2004 season (a season in which the Tigers only managed 4 wins, and lost their last 14 H&A matches), Frawley announced he would be relinquishing his role as the Tiger coach at seasons' end. The 2005 pre-season began with renewed optimism at the club, with No. 1 draft pick Brett Deledio being touted as a future star and leader. However, the Tigers' first match of the season (against Geelong), quickly dashed that hope, as they were thrashed by 62 points. However, this loss would spark a change in the Tigers, and in the next 8 weeks of the season, they would go on to win 7 matches (the one exception being a 68 point loss at the hands of St. Kilda in Round 5). This included wins over the then-reigning premiers, Port Adelaide, and over then-runners up, the Brisbane Lions. Sitting pretty at 7 wins and 2 losses, and 3rd on the ladder, the impossible prospect of finals football loomed large. However, in the Round 10 match against Melbourne, star player Nathan Brown suffered a horrible leg injury, that would sideline him for the rest of the season. They went on to lose the match by 57 points, and would only register 3 more wins for the season (one of those was against eventual premiers the Sydney Swans by one point, who coincidentally had a one point win against Collingwood the round before), eventually finishing 12th. Nevertheless, from where they had come from, this move up the ladder was considered by many as a sign of things to come. 2006, a year which many experts predicted continued improvement for the Tigers, saw them lose their first H&A match by 115 points, against the Western Bulldogs, after which followed losses to St Kilda and West Coast. By the end of Round 3, things were looking grim for the Tigers once again. However, just as they did in 2005, the Tigers would respond to their poor start by winning 8 of their next 11 matches, and by the end of Round 14, the Tigers were in the Top 8 by a game and percentage. However, their spot in the Top 8 would be short lived, as 4 straight losses between Rounds 15 and 18 would effectively end their finals chances. They finished the 2006 season in 9th place, with 11 wins and 11 losses. After promising seasons in 2005 and 2006, it was expected that the Tigers would take the next step in 2007, and play finals football. After massive hype in the off-season, the Tigers had a terrible start to the 2007 season, losing their first 9 matches (this included suffering their biggest ever defeat, at the hands of eventual premiers Geelong, by a whopping 157 points). Their first premiership points came in a draw against the Brisbane Lions in Round 10, and their first win of the season didn't come until Round 12 against fellow straggler Melbourne. After Round 18 of the season, the Tigers had registered a mere 1 win, 1 draw, and 16 losses, and were looking like recording their worst ever recorded season. However, late-season victories over old rivals Collingwood in Round 19, and Essendon in Round 21, saved them from this fate. They would eventually finish the year as wooden spooners, with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 18 losses. After the end of the 2007 season, Richmond elected to delist Patrick Bowden, Brent Hartigan, Andrew Krakouer and Carl Peterson. These four joined another four players in leaving Punt Road—veteran Darren Gaspar, Kent Kingsley, Trent Knobel and Ray Hall. While these players left the club Jake King and Angus Graham were elevated off the rookie list. During the trade period the Tigers obtained Bulldog midfielder Jordan McMahon along with Eagle forward Mitch Morton. Next up came the 2007 AFL Draft, where the Tigers recruited highly rated midfielder Trent Cotchin with their 1st pick (number 2 overall), backman Alex Rance (pick number 18 overall) and ruckman Dean Putt (pick number 51 overall). Then in the Pre Season draft they elected to pick David Gourdis with the number one pick. The Tigers also picked Clayton Collard, Jarrod Silvester, Tristan Cartledge and Cameron Howat for the rookie list. Cam Howat had previously been on the rookie list but was delisted then picked up again. The Tigers had kept a low profile going into their Round 1 clash against Carlton. Many people predicted Carlton would run all over Richmond because Carlton had received Chris Judd during the trade period. The Tigers trailed by as much as 25 points during the second quarter but they came back, led by Matthew Richardson kicking 5 goals. The Tigers ended up winning 17.7 (109) to Carlton 11.13 (79) in front of a crowd of 72,552 at the MCG. From Rounds 2 to 11 however, the Tigers would only register 2 more wins (and a controversial draw against the Western Bulldogs), and after Round 11's completion, they sat in 12th place with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 7 losses. While many people wrote the Tigers of 2008 off at this point, they defied the odds, and went on to win 8 of their last 11 matches to finish off the 2008 season strongly, recording 11 wins, 1 draw, and 10 losses. However, this would not be enough to get them into finals football, as they finished 2 premiership points short (and percentage) of 8th placed Collingwood, who finished with 12 wins and 10 losses. At the start of 2009, Richmond was said to be rising as a team, and they would be in the eight . They had recruited former Brownlow Medallist Ben Cousins, and they had rising stars in Brett Deledio and Trent Cotchin. However, the club was beaten by 83 points in Round 1 by Carlton, and did not register a win until Round 5, against North Melbourne. With a record of 2–9 after eleven weeks, Terry Wallace stepped down as coach, having announced his intention during the previous week. Jade Rawlings was announced as caretaker senior coach; he adopted a youth policy for the remainder of the year, which saw experienced players Joel Bowden and Matthew Richardson retire by the end of the year. Rawlings led Richmond to three wins and a draw from eleven games. Richmond finished fifteenth with a record of 5–16–1. On 25 August, Damien Hardwick was appointed to be the senior coach from 2010. As Jade Rawlings and Craig McRae and Brian Royal left the Tigers assistant coaching panel, Brendon Lade and Justin Leppitsch were appointed as assistant coaches, leaving only Wayne Campbell as a previous Richmond assistant coach. Brendon Gale was also appointed CEO of the Tigers. Richmond was not expected to be competitive in 2010, with many commentators predicting the team would win no more than four games. From the 2009 AFL Draft, the Tigers drafted seven new players, which included midfielder Dustin Martin. At the 2010 Pre-season Draft, Richmond recruited young key defender Dylan Grimes, brother of Melbourne defender Jack Grimes. Damien Hardwick selected a young team at the start of the season, with four debutants, and very few players over 25 in the Round 1 loss against Carlton. Richmond was winless after nine games, before a scrappy win over Port Adelaide in Round 10. This was the start of a turnaround in Richmond's form, with the team winning six out of eight games, to sit with a record of 6–12 after eighteen rounds. After losing the final four matches, Richmond finished fifteenth out of sixteen with a record of 6–16. Young key forward Jack Riewoldt finished the season with 78 goals, to win the Coleman Medal. Very early in the season, Richmond were criticised for "partying too much" in the wake of its winless start to the season; after the Round 3 loss to the Sydney Swans, Richmond players were reported to be at the bar drinking and acting in a disorderly manner. Richmond continued to show significant improvement to finish 12th out of 17 teams in 2011 with eight wins including a strong win over Port Adelaide in Alice Springs mid-season. Jack Riewoldt again led the goalkicking with 62 majors, down on his previous year's tally of 78. Young midfielder Trent Cotchin won his first Jack Dyer Medal with 236 votes. Cotchin also polled the most votes of any Richmond player in the 2011 Brownlow Medal count with 15 votes. Dustin Martin was next best, polling 12 votes. Richmond's 2012 season did not see an improvement from the previous three years, as they finished 12th for the second year running. They were the first team to be beaten by the Gold Coast in the season, having led by ten points with less than a minute remaining, the Tigers produced what former Sydney Swans coach Paul Roos labelled "the worst 47 seconds in footy" to lose by two points. They did, however, defeat both of the eventual grand finalists Hawthorn and Sydney during the season, the only team to do so the entire year. 2013 saw the Tigers produce their best season in twelve years, with the club qualifying for its' first finals series since 2001 and just its third since 1982. They were also one of only two teams to defeat eventual premiers Hawthorn, that same season. Richmond, however, was defeated by Carlton in the first elimination final, 18.8 (116) to 14.12 (96) and bowed out of the finals series. The crowd of 94,690 is the largest week-one crowd since the AFL moved away from the final four in 1972. Also in 2013, Peggy O'Neal, an American-born lawyer, became the first woman in the Australian Football League to hold the position of club president when she was chosen as the president of the Richmond Football Club. Initially, Richmond saw itself as a gentlemanly and sportsman-like club; it even went to the extent of sacking a player who used poor language. During the early 1900s, the club used the press as a forum to publicise a campaign against violence in the game, which earned the derision of some rival clubs. This image followed the club into the VFL in 1908 and during the First World War the club emphasised the number of men associated with the club who had enlisted and served overseas. But the club's actions in 1916, when it voted with three other clubs seen as representative of the working class (Collingwood, Fitzroy and Carlton) to continue playing football, left no doubt as to which side of the class divide that the Tigers belonged. The club's self-consciously non-confrontational image can be partly attributed to two of long serving presidents—George Bennett (1887–1908) and Frank Tudor (1909–1918). Both were Richmond men and respected parliamentarians who took the view that how the game was played was more important than whether the game was won. After World War I, the club's attitude hardened as they attempted to match it with the then power clubs Collingwood and Carlton. Eventually, the Tigers became more prosaic in their approach to recruiting and training. The Hafey era transformed Richmond into one of the most feared combinations in the then VFL. Football Administrator Graham Richmond drove the "win at all costs" mentality across the whole club, making Richmond a formidable force that won 5 flags from 1967–1980. Since the Tigers' last Grand Final appearance in 1982, the club has appeared in only three finals series(1995, 2001 and 2013). Board and coaching instability during the 80s and 90s distracted the club, and forced its focus away from becoming an on-field force. The club's current home jumper is black, which features a yellow sash running from the top left of the jumper to the bottom right. In its first season, Richmond wore a blue jumper with a thin yellow-and-black sash running from right to left. In 2007, the club introduced a clash jumper to avoid a jumper clash with rival AFL team Essendon. It is similar to the current home jumper, but features a yellow collar, yellow side panels and a large white number box on the back of the guernsey. Since 2010, the club guernsey's have been manufactured by sportswear company KooGa and features logo of its major sponsors Bingle and Jeep. Jack Malcolmson is credited with writing the words to the song in 1962, adapting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row" (Monaco/Jerome), a show tune from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912. Richmond were using words sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda at the time and approached Jack, a cabaret singer who was performing regularly at the Richmond Football Club Social Club, to write the lyrics. The current version of the song used by the club is a 1972 recording performed by the Fable Singers. Richmond's club mascot is called Tiger Stripes Dyer named after AFL legend Jack "Captain Blood" Dyer. The club's home ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground where they play most of their home matches in the regular season. The MCG has capacity of 100,000, and the club usually draws large attendances against Victorian clubs, particularly against rivals such as Essendon, Collingwood and Carlton. Richmond train at their home ground, the Punt Road Oval, which is located only a few hundred metres away from the MCG. Club administration since 1908 Richmond has an enormous support that can lie dormant during times of poor performance but is vociferous and very noticeable during periods of success. In the golden era of the 1960s and 1970s, the Tiger supporters were sometimes labelled rabid and arrogant, a description that matched how the club's rivals felt about the Tigers in general. The building of the fan base was a slow burn for Richmond. In the 1890s, the club never sold more than three hundred season's tickets, but the following was built up with success in the VFA and membership numbered about 2,000 at the time of admission to the VFL in 1908. Between the wars, the club captured the imagination of the residents of Richmond. The successful Tigers were a positive motif for the oppressed working class community which suffered deprivation during the Great Depression. At this time, the Richmond community was almost half Catholic, and this demographic was reflected in the club amongst the players and officials. As Melbourne dramatically spread out in the post-war years, so too did the Richmond supporters. Many were now concentrated in the eastern suburbs, which eventually formed the club's metropolitan recruiting zone. Indeed, at one point during the early development of the Waverley Park ground, the Tigers considered making the stadium its home for this reason. Following the barren period of the 1950s, Richmond was able to tap into the large number of fans by moving home matches to the MCG and almost doubled attendance figures. The Tigers maintained this advantage over the other clubs until the mid-1980s, when poor administration led to a downturn in every area of the club. As the club struggled for funds, the membership plummeted from over 10,000 to under 3,000. The greatest display of loyalty from the fans occurred during 1990. Threatened by liquidation, the supporters rallied to pay off the multi-million dollar debt via the "Save Our Skins" campaign. In 2011, the club launched the Fighting Tiger Fund to reduce the club's debt and to allow it to increase spending on the football department in order to be more competitive on field. In 2013, the club launched the The Roar is Back membership promotion aiming at signing up 60,000 members in a season for the first time ever. Following a successful campaign, on 24 June 2013, Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale confirmed that membership had passed 60,000. The club created a limited edition commemorative Sherrin football to celebrate the achievement and it was distributed free to families at the 'Thank you for 60,000 members BBQ/Training Morning' at Punt Road Oval on 29 June 2013. The official membership total for 2013 was 60,321. For statistical purposes 30 June is the cut-off date for membership numbers although it does continue to sell memberships. In 2013, after 30 June the club commenced bundling 2013 and 2014 membership years into a special "Sign up as a member for 2014 and get the rest of 2013 free!" offer. Season records in bold* Includes three finals in both 1996 and 2001 and one final in 2013¹ as at end of 2013 membership year The Official Richmond Cheer Squad is an organised group of passionate supporters that attend every Richmond game whether in Melbourne or interstate. In 1998, Richmond announced its Team of the 20th Century. The selection of the 22 players shows an even spread of champions from all the eras of the club: Thorp from the club's first premiership wins of 1920–21; McCormack, Strang, Titus and Dyer from the inter-war years; Rowe, Morris and Wright from the battling era after the war; Richardson and Knights from recent times. But the great days from the late 1960s to the early 1980s provide the bulk of the side: Sheedy, Green, Keane, Bourke, Barrot, Clay, Hart, Dean and Bartlett who made up the core of Tom Hafey's teams, and later success stories Weightman and Raines. Ian Stewart, named on the bench, created a record as the only man to win selection in a team of the century at two clubs—he was named in the centre of St Kilda's team as well. Richmond has four players denoted below with an asterisk who are also members of AFL Team of the Century. This is the second-most of any club. 1967–79, 180cm 81k, 251 games 91 goals 1910–25, 178cm 83k, 263 games 7 goals 1966–75, 193cm 94k, 146 games 83 goals 1925–36, 180cm 80k, 199 games 1 goal 1931–38, 185cm 83k, 116 games 108 goals 1972–84, 185cm 82k, 238 games 36 goals 1967–81, 185cm 83k, 300 games 71 goals 1961–70, 180 cm 76k, 120 games 91 goals 1966–76, 185cm 85k, 213 games 80 goals 1993-09 , 197cm 103k, 282 games 800 goals 1967–77, 187cm 86k, 187 games 369 goals 1957–73, 175cm 73k, 245 games 204 goals 1978–93, 170cm 69k, 274 games 344 goals 1926–43, 175cm 66k, 294 games 970 goals 1942–51, 188cm 86k, 140 games 98 goals 1946–59, 188cm, 102k, 195 games 127 goals 1931–49, 185cm 89k, 312 games 443 goals 1965–83, 175cm 71k, 403 games 778 goals 1946–57, 182cm 83k, 175 games 24 goals 1976–82, 180cm 78k, 134 games 53 goals 1971–75, 180cm 78k, 78 games 55 goals 1988–2002, 179cm 74k, 279 games 141 goals Played 248 Won 173 Lost 73 Drawn 2 As legends of the game: As players of the game: As coaches of the game: The club's hall of fame was created in 2002 with 23 inductees. Below is a list, separated into categories, of members and the year they were inducted. So far, five Richmond "Immortals" have been named, the first of whom was Jack Dyer, the year before his death in 2003. Dyer was followed by Kevin Bartlett, Tom Hafey, Francis Bourke and Royce Hart. Neil Balme 2010 Bill Barrot 2007 Kevin Bartlett 2002 Percy Bentley 2002 Martin Bolger 2005 Francis Bourke 2002 Ron Branton 2006 Wayne Campbell 2013 Dick Clay 2002 David Cloke 2007 Roger Dean 2002 Jack Dyer 2002 Alec Edmond 2007 Alan Geddes 2007 Michael Green 2004 Clarrie Hall 2006 Dick Harris 2004 Royce Hart 2002 Frank Hughes 2004 Hugh James 2005 Jim Jess 2008 Mervyn Keane 2005 Mark Lee 2010 Ray Martin 2010 Basil McCormack 2004 Bill Morris 2002 Tom O'Halloran 2013 Kevin O'Neill 2008 Max Oppy 2004 Geoff Raines 2008 Michael Roach 2002 Des Rowe 2004 Kevin Sheedy 2002 Ian Stewart 2013 Vic Thorp 2002 Jack Titus 2002 Wayne Walsh 2013 Dale Weightman 2002 Bryan Wood 2006 Roy Wright 2002 Dan Minogue 2002 Charlie Callander 2002 James Charles 2002 Allan Cooke 2006 Neville Crowe 2002 Ray Dunn 2002 Barney Herbert 2004 Tony Jewell 2002 Barry Richardson 2004 Graeme Richmond 2002 Alice Wills 2002 Ian Wilson 2010 During the centenary season the tigers announced their 100 Tiger Treasures consisting of 10 awards, each with 10 nominees given by the Richmond Football Club in 2008 to celebrate their centenary year of competition in the VFL/AFL. The awards were mostly given to players but also club moments and campaigns. On Saturday, 28 June Richmond held a centenary celebration at Punt Road Oval before the centenary game at the MCG against arch rivials Carlton later that day. "Put his unique stamp on the 1980 finals series, kicking 21 goals as a half-forward in Richmond's three appearances, including a Grand Final-equalling bag of seven in the Grand Final massacre of the Magpies, which earned him the Norm Smith Medal for being best afield." "Thrilled Tiger fans for a decade with his match-winning exploits at centre half-forward. His dominance up forward was a major factor in the Club's run of four premierships from 1967–74. He was an extraordinary mark, a deadeye shot for goal, very courageous and, when the ball hit the ground, he swooped on it like a rover." "No player in the history of the game epitomises his club more than the man known as 'Captain Blood'. He struck fear into the hearts and minds of all opposition players during the 1930s and 40s. Was renowned for his bone-jarring shirtfronts, which left many an opponent bloodied, battered and bruised. He bled for the Tigers and expected his teammates to do likewise." "On 15 August 1990, Richmond announced that it needed to raise $1 million by 31 October that year, or it would cease to exist. The Save Our Skins campaign was immediately established to keep the Tigers alive. With Club president Neville Crowe as the figurehead, the SOS campaign did exactly what it set out to achieve, raising the necessary funds to stave off the threat of extinction." "Graeme Richmond filled a variety of important roles at Tigerland over more than 30 years of devoted service. He was a shrewd, ruthless administrator, who never wasted an opportunity that could benefit his beloved Tigers. His strength lay in his relentless persuasiveness—he was a masterly recruiter and negotiator. And, as a speaker, arguably there have been none finer in league football history." "Bourke collided with teammate Stephen Mount in a tense Round 21, 1980 clash with North Melbourne at Arden Street and had trouble seeing because of the blood streaming down his face. He was subsequently moved from full-back to the opposite end of the ground, where he immediately made his presence felt, taking a diving chest mark and slotting through a crucial goal." "Richmond, under coach Tommy Hafey, finished the 1967 home-and-away season on top. The Tigers disposed of Carlton by 40 points in the second-semi, then faced up to a star-studded Geelong combination in the Grand Final. At the end of a spectacular contest, Richmond had broken a 24-year premiership drought. Barrot, Brown, Hart, Dean and Bartlett starred, while unsung hero Ronaldson kicked three vital goals." "The superstar full-forward was a noted high-flyer during his 200-game career at Tigerland, but the mark he took against Hawthorn at the MCG in 1979 was, almost literally, out of this world. 'Roachy' actually rose so high over a huge nest of Hawk players, he ended up making it a chest mark!" "The little Tiger excitement machine decided to take off on a bit of a trot during the team's final home-and-away match of the 1990 season, against Sydney at the SCG. After gathering the ball deep in defence, 'Mitch' took one bounce, then another, and then five more (seven in total), before calmly drilling home an incredibly inspirational goal." "On 18 May 1974, all hell broke loose at half-time of Richmond's clash with Essendon at Windy Hill as the players were leaving the field . . . A massive brawl erupted, involving players and officials of both clubs. Following a league investigation, several players and officials received suspensions, the heaviest being for Graeme Richmond, who was rubbed out until 31 December and also fined $2000." As of 28 Nov 2013: Head coach Assistant coaches Updated: 8 January 2014Source(s): Senior list, Rookie list, Coaching staff VFL/AFL Premierships VFL/AFL Runner-Up VFL/AFL Reserve Premierships VFL/AFL Under 19 Premierships McClelland Trophies Champions of Australia Pre-season/Night Series Premierships VFL/AFL Lightning Premierships VFL/AFL "Wooden Spoons" First Awarded 1924 First Awarded 1897 * Michael Roach was the first winner of the Coleman Medal in 1981. Retrospective awards were dated back to 1955. Prior to 1955 the Leading Goalkicker Medal was awarded. First Awarded 1993 First Awarded 1979 Awarded 1937 to 1988 Commenced 1953 Commenced 1998, Richmond Football Club 2015-12-31T07:15:30Z The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since joining the competition in 1908, Richmond has won ten premierships, the most recent victory being in 1980. This currently sees the club ranked sixth in terms of premierships won. In recent times, unstable administration on and off the field has troubled Richmond, none more so than in 1990 when a large debt almost forced the club to fold. Richmond has since regained a strong financial position, but this has not translated to any significant success on field, with the team only reaching the finals five times since (in 1995, 2001, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and failing to win a match in the latter three appearances with elimination final exits. Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Punt Road Oval, formerly known as the Richmond Cricket Ground, a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The Tigers have played their home games at the MCG since 1965. The club's training and administration headquarters are at the Punt Road Oval and from 2011 is called the ME Bank Centre. Based in a traditionally working-class area, Richmond has long-standing rivalries with cross town Melbourne based clubs, Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon. Many notable players have represented Richmond over the years. Some of these players have been recognised as being among Australian rules football's greatest players. Such players include Jack Dyer, Kevin Bartlett, Royce Hart, Francis Bourke, Ian Stewart, Matthew Richardson and Jack Titus. A team of footballers playing as Richmond is mentioned by the newspapers in the first years of Australian football, circa 1860. Tom Wills, one of the game's founders, was the club's inaugural secretary and captain, and Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison captained Richmond briefly in the early 1860s before moving to Geelong. This loosely organised group has no continuity to the present club. A number of teams formed in the Richmond area during the game's rapid expansion of the 1870s and early 1880s. However, all played at a junior level and it was considered an anomaly that Richmond, one of Melbourne's biggest locales, did not boast a senior team. The wait ended when the Richmond Football Club was officially formed at the Royal Hotel in Richmond on 20 February 1885. A successful application for immediate admission to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) followed. The club shared the Punt Road Oval with the Richmond Cricket Club, one of the strongest cricket clubs in Australia which had been playing on the ground since 1856. At first the team wore a blue uniform. One of the most important features of a nineteenth-century footballer's uniform was his headgear, and Richmond opted for yellow and black striped caps, the same as the cricket club. After a couple of years, yellow and black stripes replaced blue as the colours of the team's guernseys. The team was variously called the "Richmondites", the "Wasps" or, most commonly, the "Tigers". During the late 1880s, the VFA expanded rapidly. A booming economy and large numbers of immigrants made Melbourne the largest city in the Australian colonies. The city was mad with football and many clubs tried to get admission to the VFA. Richmond struggled to make an impression and after a promising season in 1888 (when they finished fifth with eleven wins), the club slipped backwards. In an amateur sport, the strongest teams were luring the best talent with undisclosed payments to players and were not keen to schedule matches against teams with poor followings (such as Richmond) that could not generate much gate money. As the local economy slipped into severe depression in the early 1890s and the crowds began to dwindle, a number of strong teams began to agitate for a reform of the competition. Richmond were not considered part of this elite group, who usually voted together as a block at VFA meetings. A lack of commitment and focused effort was holding the Tigers back. In 1896, Richmond walked off the field in a match with South Melbourne at half time when they were a long way behind on a very wet day to protest the umpiring. Later in the season, the Tigers had their score annulled against Essendon when it was discovered that they had too many men on the ground. In the closing three weeks of the season, Richmond's gate takings amounted to just five pounds. Richmond finished the season last of the 13 clubs. In October 1896, the cabal of six strong clubs broke with the association to form the Victorian Football League (VFL) and invited two other clubs to join them: Carlton and St Kilda. Richmond's struggles during the season had not helped when the invitations to the new competition were being considered. Richmond's performances did not immediately improve in the emaciated VFA until the turn of the century. The Tigers were boosted by a significant country recruit in 1901. George "Mallee" Johnson was an instant sensation and the first true star player at the club. Richmond leapt to third place and then in 1902, with Johnson dominating the ruck, Richmond entered the closing weeks of the season neck and neck with Port Melbourne at the head of the ladder. Just when a play-off between the clubs to decide the premiership looked certain, Port Melbourne faltered against Williamstown to hand Richmond its first flag. Having missed a potential bonanza from a premiership play-off, the VFA decided to emulate the VFL and introduce a finals series in 1903, a fateful decision for the Tigers. After recruiting the competition's leading goalkicker, Jack Hutchinson, and finishing the season as minor premier, Richmond lost both finals and were runner-up. The following season, the club became embroiled in a feud with umpire Allen, whom the Tigers accused of failing to curb field invasions or the illegal tactics of arch-rival North Melbourne. When the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the 1904 VFA Grand Final, Richmond announced that they wouldn't play with Allen as umpire. The VFA called Richmond's bluff, and appointed Allen as umpire for the match, meaning that the Grand Final was scratched and North Melbourne won the premiership on forfeit. Richmond were now openly at odds with the VFA and matters failed to improve in the next few years. The club was campaigning against violence (both on-field and among the crowd), ungentlemanly conduct and poor sportsmanship, issues that plagued the VFA to a far greater extent than the rival VFL. Richmond cultivated links with some VFL clubs by playing practice matches against them. Richmond knew that they were a major asset to the VFA. They had built up a large following and played on one of the best grounds in the competition, where they remained unbeaten for five consecutive seasons. In 1905, Richmond confirmed their status with a second premiership, this time overcoming bitter rivals North Melbourne, "Mallee" Johnson had moved to Carlton, but youngster Charlie Ricketts dominated the season and won plaudits among the pressmen, who voted him the best player in the VFA. However, Ricketts was also lost to the VFL and injury hit the club hard. In 1906–07, the Tigers played finals without looking likely to win the flag. The club earned a rebuke from the VFA for scheduling a practice match against Geelong before the 1907 season. Richmond went ahead with the commitment and earned further censure. Later in the year it became clear that the VFL wanted to expand its competition and Richmond won a place ahead of North Melbourne, which had been strengthened by an amalgamation with the bankrupt West Melbourne as part of their bid. Richmond were granted admission along with the now defunct University Football Club. The first few seasons in the VFL were less than spectacular. Although the club turned up some star players, it let a lot of talent leave and the administration was unstable after George Bennett's death at the end of the 1908 season. In 1916, the side played in the finals for the first time, however, with World War I having reduced the competition to just four clubs, finals qualification was automatic. Finally, in 1919, Richmond made their first Grand Final appearance, losing to Collingwood. Richmond stoked a rivalry with Collingwood by recruiting their former skipper Dan Minogue as playing coach and gained vengeance by beating Collingwood in the 1920 VFL Grand Final to secure a first flag in the big league. This was followed by an even better performance the next year. The only club that continued to beat Richmond on a regular basis was Carlton. Finishing minor premier with only one loss for the season in 1921, Carlton were the hottest premiership favourite, yet Richmond managed to beat them in two classic finals matches played over successive weeks to go back-to-back. The rest of the decade saw four more Grand Final appearances, all of which would end in frustration. From 1927 to 1929 Richmond became the first club in the VFL to lose three consecutive Grand Finals, all of which were to neighbouring arch rivals, Collingwood. The next VFL flag came in 1932, with Richmond's triumph over Carlton in a tough encounter which saw Richmond wingman Alan Geddes play the second half with a broken jaw. Another premiership came in 1934, this time against South Melbourne's famed "Foreign Legion", avenging Richmond's loss in the 1933 VFL Grand Final. Prior to the commencement of the 1940 season, internal problems were brewing between the key personalities at the club. Some felt that the uneven performance of the team was due to Percy Bentley's coaching methods, and that he should be replaced. Jack Dyer walked out on the club and threatened to play in the VFA after his father, a committeeman who was involved with the anti-Bentley faction, lost his position at the board elections. Finally, the matter was resolved and Bentley kept his job, while Dyer returned to training on the eve of the season. The problems appeared to have been solved when Richmond won the semi-final against Melbourne to go straight into the 1940 VFL Grand Final. However, Melbourne reversed this result with a crushing win to pinch the premiership. Richmond had been out-thought by their old mentor Frank 'Checker' Hughes, who had assigned a tagger to negate Dyer. Dyer was furious that Bentley had done nothing to prevent his opponent taking him out of the game. The Richmond committee agreed with this assessment, so when Bentley (after retiring as a player) attempted to negotiate a higher fee to continue his coaching tenure, he was rebuffed. Incensed, Bentley quit Punt Road and moved to Carlton as coach, adding further spice to an already fierce rivalry between the two clubs. Despite the tribulations created by the Second World War, Richmond was able to maintain a commendable level of consistency on the field. The club had quite a lot of players in reserved occupations who remained at home, while the administration became adept at securing star players who were temporarily in Melbourne on war service. Dyer was a fearsome presence in his role as playing coach, but he was unable to improve Richmond's ability to win finals matches. A loss in the 1942 VFL Grand Final to Essendon (after starting as favourite) meant that over the previous 18 years, Richmond had won two flags but been runner-up eight times. Jack Titus set a still unbeaten record of playing in six losing Grand Final teams. In 1943, Richmond broke through to beat Essendon in a thrilling Grand Final by five points, a win that the club dedicated to ex-player Bill Cosgrove, an RAF pilot who had been killed in action a few weeks before the match. But another Grand Final loss followed in 1944, when Dyer's team failed against Fitzroy on a very hot day. In the immediate post-war era, despite an influx of excellent new players, Richmond struggled to make the four, appearing in the finals only once, in 1947. Dyer continued on as coach for three years after his playing retirement at the end of 1949, but was asked to retire by the committee who felt the club needed a shake up. Under a succession of coaches in the 1950s, With the demands of potential players increasing with each passing year, the club refused to allocate sufficient funds to recruit and they failed to replace star players as they retired. When stalwarts such as Des Rowe and dual-Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright left, the team slumped dramatically and finished with a wooden spoon in 1960. 1966 heralded the start of the Tom Hafey era. Hafey, a former player of the club, was appointed coach and lead the club to winning four premierships under his leadership. They won the 1967 flag in a thrilling encounter with Geelong, ending a 24-year premiership drought. In 1969, it became two in three years as Richmond, who had finished fourth on the ladder, beat the much fancied Carlton in the 1969 VFL Grand Final by 25 points. Richmond were dominant in 1972 and were hot favourites in the 1972 VFL Grand Final against Carlton. However, Carlton stunned Richmond in a game of ridiculous high scoring. Even Richmond equalled the then record highest score in a Grand Final of 22.18 (150), but Carlton beat it with 28.9 (177). Richmond got their revenge in an intensely physical clash in the 1973 VFL Grand Final and went back-to-back in 1974 with a strong win against a resurgent North Melbourne. Richmond won its last premiership with a then record-breaking margin of 81 points over arch-rivals Collingwood in 1980. After reaching and losing the 1982 VFL Grand Final, it has been a rocky road for Richmond who have struggled to come to grips with the rules and regulations of a modernised VFL, including the draft and salary cap. The successes of the early 1980s were bought at high financial cost through expensive recruiting, and were followed by severe cut backs that saw several top players depart. Still smarting from the loss of star players to Collingwood, Richmond set themselves for war with Collingwood in 1984 by signing three of their players: John Annear, Craig Stewart and Phil Walsh. Not only were there big contracts and transfer fees to pay, but the costs of an expensive court action as well. Richmond also signed a number of mediocre players on big contracts, and the club's financial situation took a battering. With the team failing to improve, a challenge to the committee was brewing and Richmond's traditional political stability threatened. The rebel group, organised by long-time servant Bill Durham, convinced former player and coach Barry Richardson to be leader. An election in late 1984 failed to clarify the situation. Ian Wilson held on to the presidency into the new year. When the one hundredth birthday of the club arrived in February 1985, there was too much dissension to mark the moment fittingly. Eventually, Wilson handed over to Richardson, who had selected his former premiership teammate Paul Sproule to return from Tasmania and take over the coaching position on a guaranteed contract. As the season progressed with Richmond still struggling, Sproule came under pressure. Richardson guaranteed his position, but at the end of the year, the committee overruled Richardson and sacked Sproule. Incensed, Richardson walked out of Punt Road, which was in turmoil again. Desperately, Richmond turned back to Tony Jewell, who was appointed coach for a second time, the only man in the club's history to get a second go at the job. Jewell later commented on the destruction wrought on the club during his four-year absence: "the supporters were gone, the members were gone, the money was gone, ... a real shame." With the competition set to expand, Richmond made a number of misguided moves in 1986. To fill the vacancy left by Richardson, Richmond wooed high-flying West Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond to become president. Bond came with an agenda to raise money for the club by listing on the stockmarket and relocating to Brisbane. When the latter plan was revealed in the media, a furious reaction from supporters and high profile club personalities buried the proposal almost immediately. Early in 1987, Bond's tenure at the club ended in farce when he resigned without presiding over a single game. The off-field confusion was reflected in the players' performance as Richmond slumped to only its second wooden spoon in 70 years. Although the new president, ex-captain Neville Crowe, had stabilised the club and scored a coup by persuading club legend Kevin Bartlett to coach, The club managed to stay solvent by cutting expenses to the bone and paying only two-thirds of the allowable salary cap. But there was no money for recruiting to improve an impoverished playing list. The club struggled to come to terms with the draft after its inception in 1986, and made a number of poor choices—notably, the number one pick in 1987 was used on a player who had only two games with Richmond. Finally, with the economy in serious recession and interest rates touching seventeen per cent, Richmond's creditors came knocking. At one point, an attempt was made to seize the club's 1973 and 1974 premiership trophies as securities for unpaid debts, an embarrassing situation. For a number of years, the exact amount that the club owed was not publicly known. After Bartlett came Allan Jeans, who then passed the job to ex-Richmond premiership player John Northey for 1993. Northey returned the team to the simple long-kicking style of the halcyon days under the legendary Tom Hafey. Along with some draft concessions granted by the AFL, Northey's efforts gradually improved Richmond. The team fumbled an opportunity to make the 1994 finals, then opened 1995 with its best start to a season in 75 years and eventually made it to the preliminary final. With a talented playing list and a strong administration led by Leon Daphne (Richmond's first president from the corporate world, the Alan Bond farce aside), Richmond looked set to become regular finalists again. During 1992 the Richmond Football Club logo was redesigned by Rob Perry (see external links), while he was working as an art director at the advertising agency George Patterson Bates in Melbourne. The illustration of the tiger was done by Lex Bell, the in-house illustrator of the agency. The anticipated success failed to materialise, partly because Richmond allowed the coaching position to again become unstable. With over a year still to run on his contract, John Northey demanded a contract extension that the club refused. This was because of a rumour that some people with an association with the club were pursuing Essendon coach and former Richmond premiership player Kevin Sheedy. So Northey walked out on Richmond and accepted a longer-term contract to coach the Brisbane Bears. Richmond, caught short, appointed the Bears' ex-coach Robert Walls for 1996. After several humiliating thrashings in 1997, Robert Walls became the first Richmond coach to be sacked mid-season. After two-and-a-half seasons under Jeff Gieschen, the club appointed ex-St Kilda captain Danny Frawley. After a Preliminary Final appearance in Frawley's second season, Richmond overestimated the strength of the list and settled for trading for established players rather than drafting youth. Over the next three seasons, the team managed just 18 wins. The administration continued to support Frawley and ensured that he would see out his contract, a far cry from the way many of his predecessors were treated. However, midway through the 2004 season (a season in which Richmond only managed 4 wins, and lost their last 14 H&A matches), Frawley announced he would be relinquishing his role as Richmond coach at seasons' end. The 2005 pre-season began with renewed optimism at the club, with No. 1 draft pick Brett Deledio being touted as a future star and leader. However, the Tigers' first match of the season (against Geelong), quickly dashed that hope, as they were thrashed by 62 points. However, this loss would spark a change in the Tigers, and in the next 8 weeks of the season, they would go on to win 7 matches (the one exception being a 68-point loss at the hands of St. Kilda in Round 5). This included wins over the then-reigning premiers, Port Adelaide, and over then-runners up, the Brisbane Lions. Sitting pretty at 7 wins and 2 losses, and 3rd on the ladder, the impossible prospect of finals football loomed large. However, in the Round 10 match against Melbourne, star player Nathan Brown suffered a horrible leg injury, that would sideline him for the rest of the season. They went on to lose the match by 57 points, and would only register 3 more wins for the season (one of those was against eventual premiers the Sydney Swans by one point, who had a one-point win against Collingwood the round before), eventually finishing 12th. 2006, a year which many experts predicted continued improvement for the Tigers, saw them lose their first H&A match by 115 points, against the Western Bulldogs, after which followed losses to St Kilda and West Coast. By the end of Round 3, things were looking grim for the Tigers once again. However, just as they did in 2005, the Tigers would respond to their poor start by winning 8 of their next 11 matches, and by the end of Round 14, the Tigers were in the Top 8 by a game and percentage. However, their spot in the Top 8 would be short lived, as 4 straight losses between Rounds 15 and 18 would effectively end their finals chances. They finished the 2006 season in 9th place, with 11 wins and 11 losses. After promising seasons in 2005 and 2006, it was expected that the Tigers would take the next step in 2007, and play finals football. After massive hype in the off-season, the Tigers had a terrible start to the 2007 season, losing their first 9 matches (this included suffering their biggest ever defeat, at the hands of eventual premiers Geelong, by a whopping 157 points). Their first premiership points came in a draw against the Brisbane Lions in Round 10, and their first win of the season didn't come until Round 12 against fellow straggler Melbourne. After Round 18 of the season, the Tigers had registered a mere 1 win, 1 draw, and 16 losses, and were looking like recording their worst ever recorded season. However, late-season victories over old rivals Collingwood in Round 19, and Essendon in Round 21, saved them from this fate. They would eventually finish the year as wooden-spooners, with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 18 losses. After the end of the 2007 season, Richmond elected to delist Patrick Bowden, Brent Hartigan, Andrew Krakouer and Carl Peterson. These four joined another four players in leaving Punt Road—veteran Darren Gaspar, Kent Kingsley, Trent Knobel and Ray Hall. While these players left the club Jake King and Angus Graham were elevated off the rookie list. During the trade period the Tigers obtained Bulldog midfielder Jordan McMahon along with Eagle forward Mitch Morton. Next up came the 2007 AFL Draft, in which the Tigers recruited highly rated midfielder Trent Cotchin with their first pick (No. 2 overall), backman Alex Rance (pick No. 18 overall) and ruckman Dean Putt (pick No. 51 overall). Then, in the pre-season draft, they elected to pick David Gourdis with the number one pick. The Tigers also picked Clayton Collard, Jarrod Silvester, Tristan Cartledge and Cameron Howat for the rookie list. Cam Howat had previously been on the rookie list but was delisted then picked up again. The Tigers had kept a low profile going into their Round 1 clash against Carlton. Many people predicted that Carlton would run all over Richmond because Carlton had received Chris Judd during the trade period. The Tigers trailed by as much as 25 points during the second quarter but they came back, led by Matthew Richardson kicking five goals. The Tigers ended up winning 17.7 (109) to Carlton 11.13 (79) in front of a crowd of 72,552 at the MCG. From Rounds 2 to 11 however, the Tigers would only register two more wins (and a controversial draw against the Western Bulldogs). After Round 11's completion they sat in 12th place with three wins, one draw and seven losses. While many people wrote the Tigers of 2008 off at this point, they defied the odds and went on to win eight of their last 11 matches to finish off the 2008 season strongly, recording 11 wins, one draw and 10 losses. However, this would not be enough to get them into finals football, as they finished two premiership points short (and percentage) of 8th placed Collingwood, who finished with 12 wins and 10 losses. At the start of 2009, Richmond was said to be rising as a team, and they would be in the eight . They had recruited former Brownlow Medallist Ben Cousins, and they had rising stars in Brett Deledio and Trent Cotchin. However, the club was beaten by 83 points in Round 1 by Carlton, and did not register a win until Round 5, against North Melbourne. With a record of 2–9 after eleven weeks, Terry Wallace stepped down as coach, having announced his intention during the previous week. Jade Rawlings was announced as caretaker senior coach; he adopted a youth policy for the remainder of the year, which saw experienced players Joel Bowden and Matthew Richardson retire by the end of the year. Rawlings led Richmond to three wins and a draw from eleven games. Richmond finished fifteenth with a record of 5–16–1. On 25 August, Damien Hardwick was appointed to be the senior coach from 2010. As Jade Rawlings and Craig McRae and Brian Royal left the Tigers assistant coaching panel, Brendon Lade and Justin Leppitsch were appointed as assistant coaches, leaving only Wayne Campbell as a previous Richmond assistant coach. Brendon Gale was also appointed CEO of the Tigers. Richmond was not expected to be competitive in 2010, with many commentators predicting the team would win no more than four games. From the 2009 AFL Draft, the Tigers drafted seven new players, which included midfielder Dustin Martin. At the 2010 Pre-season Draft, Richmond recruited young key defender Dylan Grimes, brother of Melbourne defender Jack Grimes. Damien Hardwick selected a young team at the start of the season, with four debutants, and very few players over 25 in the Round 1 loss against Carlton. Richmond was winless after nine games, before a scrappy win over Port Adelaide in Round 10. This was the start of a turnaround in Richmond's form, with the team winning six out of eight games, to sit with a record of 6–12 after eighteen rounds. After losing the final four matches, Richmond finished fifteenth out of sixteen with a record of 6–16. Young key forward Jack Riewoldt finished the season with 78 goals, to win the Coleman Medal. Very early in the season, Richmond were criticised for "partying too much" in the wake of its winless start to the season; after the Round 3 loss to the Sydney Swans, Richmond players were reported to be at the bar drinking and acting in a disorderly manner. Richmond continued to show improvement to finish 12th out of 17 teams in 2011 with eight wins including a strong win over Port Adelaide in Alice Springs mid-season. Jack Riewoldt again led the goalkicking with 62 majors, down on his previous year's tally of 78. Young midfielder Trent Cotchin won his first Jack Dyer Medal with 236 votes. Cotchin also polled the most votes of any Richmond player in the 2011 Brownlow Medal count with 15 votes. Dustin Martin was next best, polling 12 votes. Richmond's 2012 season did not see an improvement from the previous three years, as they lost 6 games by 12 points or less and finished 12th for the second year running. They were the first team to be beaten by the Gold Coast in the season, having led by ten points with less than a minute remaining, the Tigers produced what former Sydney Swans coach Paul Roos labelled "the worst 47 seconds in footy" to lose by two points. They did, however, defeat both of the eventual grand finalists Hawthorn and Sydney during the season, the only team to do so the entire year. 2013 saw the Tigers produce their best season in twelve years, with the club qualifying for its first finals series since 2001 and just its third since 1982. They were also one of only two teams to defeat the eventual premiers, Hawthorn, during the season. Richmond, however, were defeated by Carlton in the first elimination final, 18.8 (116) to 14.12 (96), and bowed out of the finals series. The crowd of 94,690 is the largest week-one final crowd since the AFL changed from a final four in 1972. Also in 2013, Peggy O'Neal, an American-born lawyer, became the first woman in the Australian Football League to hold the position of club president when she was chosen as the president of the Richmond Football Club. After finally breaking their finals drought the previous year, many believed the Tigers would build on this success in 2014 and push for a top-four berth. Following a disappointing start to the season which saw them win only 3 of their first 13 matches, the team went into Round 15 in 16th place, off the bottom of the ladder due to percentage. Despite public sentiment that the season was lost, the team rallied behind a five-goal performance by captain Trent Cotchin to win against St Kilda the following week. It was a win that would start a nine match winning streak, with a Round 23 victory against eventual grand-finalists Sydney claiming the Tigers eighth position on the ladder and putting the club into its first back-to-back finals appearance since 1975. A 57-point loss in their elimination final against Port Adelaide ended their finals campaign, knocking the club out in the first week of the finals for the second straight year. The captain, Trent Cotchin, won the Jack Dyer Medal for the third time in four years, becoming the youngest Tiger to three club best and fairests. Beginning the season with only 2 wins from 6 games, the Tigers faced the prospect of another disappointing season. In the following weeks however, they would register 4 straight wins including an upset victory over the previously undefeated Fremantle in Perth. Following the bye they also managed victories over top-four teams Sydney and the reigning premiers Hawthorn. They then traveled to Adelaide, losing to the Crows by a disappointing 36 points, with Coach Damien Hardwick saying "it felt like a 100 point loss". Richmond would go on to win the final four games of the home and away season against Gold Coast, Collingwood, Essendon and North Melbourne. Richmond finished 5th for the regular season with 60 premiership points and a percentage of 123.1 for the season. In their home elimination final against North Melbourne, the Tigers were defeated by 17 points. It was the third consecutive year the team was defeated in the first week of the finals series. The season was the last for players Chris Knights, Ricky Petterd and Nathan Foley. Four time club captain Chris Newman also retired after 268 games with the Tigers. Off-field, the club had another strong season, leading the league in home and away game attendances with an average crowd of 47,925. The club also broke its own membership records with over 70,000 reported for the season. Initially, Richmond saw itself as a gentlemanly and sportsman-like club; it even went to the extent of sacking a player who used poor language. During the early 1900s, the club used the press as a forum to publicise a campaign against violence in the game, which earned the derision of some rival clubs. This image followed the club into the VFL in 1908 and during the First World War the club emphasised the number of men associated with the club who had enlisted and served overseas. But the club's actions in 1916, when it voted with three other clubs seen as representative of the working class (Collingwood, Fitzroy and Carlton) to continue playing football, left no doubt as to which side of the class divide that the Tigers belonged. The club's self-consciously non-confrontational image can be partly attributed to two of long serving presidents—George Bennett (1887–1908) and Frank Tudor (1909–1918). Both were Richmond men and respected parliamentarians who took the view that how the game was played was more important than whether the game was won. After World War I, the club's attitude hardened as they attempted to match it with the then power clubs Collingwood and Carlton. Eventually, the Tigers became more prosaic in their approach to recruiting and training. The Hafey era transformed Richmond into one of the most feared combinations in the then VFL. The club's football administrator, Graham Richmond, drove the "win at all costs" mentality across the whole club, making Richmond a formidable force, winning five premierships from 1967 to 1980. Since the Tigers' last grand final appearance in 1982, the club has appeared in five finals series(1995, 2001, 2013, 2014, 2015). Board and coaching instability during the 1980s and 1990s distracted the club and forced its focus away from becoming an onfield force. The club's current home jumper design is black and features a yellow sash running from the top left of the jumper to the bottom right. For away games against teams with dark coloured jumpers, the club wears a clash strip with a reverse of this design, a black sash on a yellow base. In its first season, Richmond wore a blue jumper with a thin yellow-and-black sash running from right to left. Since the 2014 season, the club guernseys have been manufactured by sportswear company BLK and feature logos of its major sponsors Bingle and Jeep. Jack Malcolmson is credited with writing the words to the song in 1962, adapting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row" (Monaco/Jerome), a show tune from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912. Richmond were using words sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda at the time and approached Malcolmson, a cabaret singer who was performing regularly at the Richmond Football Club Social Club, to write the lyrics. The current version of the song used by the club is a 1972 recording performed by the Fable Singers. Richmond's club mascot is called Tiger "Stripes" Dyer, named after AFL legend Jack "Captain Blood" Dyer. The club's home ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) where the team plays most of their home matches in the regular season. The MCG has a capacity of 100,000 and the club usually draws large attendances against Victorian clubs, particularly rivals such as Essendon, Collingwood and Carlton. The club also plays select home games against smaller local and interstate clubs at the smaller capacity Docklands Stadium. Richmond's training ground and base of operations is located at the ME Centre, located a few hundred metres from the MCG. Club administration since 1908 Richmond has an enormous support and is known for its dedicated fan-base, including its personal cheer squad who attended both home and away matches, for the club. Membership record for the club hit 70,000 in 2015 making it one of the most supported clubs in the Australian Football League. The building of the fan base was a slow process for Richmond. In the 1890s, the club never sold more than three hundred season's tickets, but the following was built up with success in the VFA and membership numbered about 2,000 at the time of admission to the VFL in 1908. Between the wars, the club captured the imagination of the residents of Richmond. The successful Tigers were a positive motif for the oppressed working class community which suffered deprivation during the Great Depression. At this time, the Richmond community was almost half Catholic, and this demographic was reflected in the club amongst the players and officials. As Melbourne dramatically spread out in the post-war years, so too did the Richmond supporters. Many were now concentrated in the eastern suburbs, which eventually formed the club's metropolitan recruiting zone. Indeed, at one point during the early development of the Waverley Park ground, the Tigers considered making the stadium its home for this reason. Following the barren period of the 1950s, Richmond was able to tap into the large number of fans by moving home matches to the MCG and almost doubled attendance figures. The Tigers maintained this advantage over the other clubs until the mid-1980s, when poor administration led to a downturn in every area of the club. As the club struggled for funds, the membership plummeted from over 10,000 to under 3,000. The greatest display of loyalty from the fans occurred during 1990. Threatened by liquidation, the supporters rallied to pay off the multimillion-dollar debt via the "Save Our Skins" campaign. In 2011, the club launched the Fighting Tiger Fund to reduce the club's debt and to allow it to increase spending on the football department in order to be more competitive on field. In 2013, the club launched the The Roar is Back membership promotion aiming at signing up 60,000 members in a season for the first time ever. Following a successful campaign, on 24 June 2013, Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale confirmed that membership had passed 60,000. The club created a limited edition commemorative Sherrin football to celebrate the achievement and it was distributed free to families at the 'Thank you for 60,000 members BBQ/Training Morning' at Punt Road Oval on 29 June 2013. The official membership total for 2013 was 60,321. For statistical purposes 30 June is the cut-off date for membership numbers although it does continue to sell memberships. In 2013, after 30 June the club commenced bundling 2013 and 2014 membership years into a special "Sign up as a member for 2014 and get the rest of 2013 free!" offer. The 2014 membership total of 66,122 gave Richmond the 3rd biggest membership base in the AFL behind Collingwood and Hawthorn (80,793 and 68,650 respectively). This record was again broken in 2015 with the club signing up 70,809 members, still ranking 3rd in total membership numbers. The club averaged the highest crowds in the AFL of 49,841 in 2015, home crowd averaged 53,236 the highest in the 2015 AFL season Club records in bold text. * Includes three finals in 1995, 2001 and one final in 2013, 2014. The Official Richmond Cheer Squad is an organised group of passionate supporters who attend every Richmond game whether in Melbourne or interstate. There are also supporter groups located in each state of Australia. In 1998, Richmond announced its Team of the 20th Century. The selection of the 22 players shows an even spread of champions from all the eras of the club: Thorp from the club's first premiership wins of 1920–21; McCormack, Strang, Titus and Dyer from the inter-war years; Rowe, Morris and Wright from the battling era after the war; Richardson and Knights from recent times. But the great days from the late 1960s to the early 1980s provide the bulk of the side: Sheedy, Green, Keane, Bourke, Barrot, Clay, Hart, Dean and Bartlett who made up the core of Tom Hafey's teams, and later success stories Weightman and Raines. Ian Stewart, named on the bench, created a record as the only man to win selection in a team of the century at two clubs—he was named in the centre of St Kilda's team as well. Richmond has four players denoted below with an asterisk who are also members of AFL Team of the Century. This is the second-most of any club. 1967–79, 180cm 81k, 251 games 91 goals 1910–25, 178cm 83k, 263 games 7 goals 1966–75, 193cm 94k, 146 games 83 goals 1925–36, 180cm 80k, 199 games 1 goal 1931–38, 185cm 83k, 116 games 108 goals 1972–84, 185cm 82k, 238 games 36 goals 1967–81, 185cm 83k, 300 games 71 goals 1961–70, 180 cm 76k, 120 games 91 goals 1966–76, 185cm 85k, 213 games 80 goals 1993–2009 , 197cm 103k, 282 games 800 goals 1967–77, 187cm 86k, 187 games 369 goals 1957–73, 175cm 73k, 245 games 204 goals 1978–93, 170cm 69k, 274 games 344 goals 1926–43, 175cm 66k, 294 games 970 goals 1942–51, 188cm 86k, 140 games 98 goals 1946–59, 188cm, 102k, 195 games 127 goals 1931–49, 185cm 89k, 312 games 443 goals 1965–83, 175cm 71k, 403 games 778 goals 1946–57, 182cm 83k, 175 games 24 goals 1976–82, 180cm 78k, 134 games 53 goals 1971–75, 180cm 78k, 78 games 55 goals 1988–2002, 179cm 74k, 279 games 141 goals Played 248 Won 173 Lost 73 Drawn 2 As legends of the game: As players of the game: As coaches of the game: The club's hall of fame was created in 2002 with 23 inductees. Below is a list, separated into categories, of members and the year they were inducted. To date, six Richmond "Immortals" have been named, the first of whom was Jack Dyer, the year before his death in 2003. Dyer was followed by Kevin Bartlett, Tom Hafey, Francis Bourke, Royce Hart and Vic Thorp. During the centenary season the tigers announced their 100 Tiger Treasures consisting of 10 awards, each with 10 nominees given by the Richmond Football Club in 2008 to celebrate their centenary year of competition in the VFL/AFL. The awards were mostly given to players but also club moments and campaigns. On Saturday, 28 June Richmond held a centenary celebration at Punt Road Oval before the centenary game at the MCG against arch rivials Carlton later that day. "Put his unique stamp on the 1980 finals series, kicking 21 goals as a half-forward in Richmond's three appearances, including a Grand Final-equalling bag of seven in the Grand Final massacre of the Magpies, which earned him the Norm Smith Medal for being best afield." "Thrilled Tiger fans for a decade with his match-winning exploits at centre half-forward. His dominance up forward was a major factor in the Club's run of four premierships from 1967–74. He was an extraordinary mark, a deadeye shot for goal, very courageous and, when the ball hit the ground, he swooped on it like a rover." "No player in the history of the game epitomises his club more than the man known as 'Captain Blood'. He struck fear into the hearts and minds of all opposition players during the 1930s and 40s. Was renowned for his bone-jarring shirtfronts, which left many an opponent bloodied, battered and bruised. He bled for the Tigers and expected his teammates to do likewise." "On 15 August 1990, Richmond announced that it needed to raise $1 million by 31 October that year, or it would cease to exist. The Save Our Skins campaign was immediately established to keep the Tigers alive. With Club president Neville Crowe as the figurehead, the SOS campaign did exactly what it set out to achieve, raising the necessary funds to stave off the threat of extinction." "Graeme Richmond filled a variety of important roles at Tigerland over more than 30 years of devoted service. He was a shrewd, ruthless administrator, who never wasted an opportunity that could benefit his beloved Tigers. His strength lay in his relentless persuasiveness—he was a masterly recruiter and negotiator. And, as a speaker, arguably there have been none finer in league football history." "Bourke collided with teammate Stephen Mount in a tense Round 21, 1980 clash with North Melbourne at Arden Street and had trouble seeing because of the blood streaming down his face. He was subsequently moved from full-back to the opposite end of the ground, where he immediately made his presence felt, taking a diving chest mark and slotting through a crucial goal." "Richmond, under coach Tommy Hafey, finished the 1967 home-and-away season on top. The Tigers disposed of Carlton by 40 points in the second-semi, then faced up to a star-studded Geelong combination in the Grand Final. At the end of a spectacular contest, Richmond had broken a 24-year premiership drought. Barrot, Brown, Hart, Dean and Bartlett starred, while unsung hero Ronaldson kicked three vital goals." "The superstar full-forward was a noted high-flyer during his 200-game career at Tigerland, but the mark he took against Hawthorn at the MCG in 1979 was, almost literally, out of this world. 'Roachy' actually rose so high over a huge nest of Hawk players, he ended up making it a chest mark!" "The little Tiger excitement machine decided to take off on a bit of a trot during the team's final home-and-away match of the 1990 season, against Sydney at the SCG. After gathering the ball deep in defence, 'Mitch' took one bounce, then another, and then five more (seven in total), before calmly drilling home an incredibly inspirational goal." "On 18 May 1974, all hell broke loose at half-time of Richmond's clash with Essendon at Windy Hill as the players were leaving the field . . . A massive brawl erupted, involving players and officials of both clubs. Following a league investigation, several players and officials received suspensions, the heaviest being for Graeme Richmond, who was rubbed out until 31 December and also fined $2000." Head coach Assistant coaches Updated: 31 December 2015Source(s): Senior list, Rookie list, Coaching staff First Awarded 1924 First Awarded 1897 * Michael Roach was the first winner of the Coleman Medal in 1981. Retrospective awards were dated back to 1955. Prior to 1955 the Leading Goalkicker Medal was awarded. First Awarded 1993 First Awarded 1979 Awarded 1937 to 1988 Commenced 1953 Commenced 1998 Richmond has had a reserves team participate in various competitions since the early 20th century. The reserves competition for the then-Victorian Football League (now trading as the Australian Football League) began in 1919 and the Richmond reserves recorded its first premiership in 1929. In the following 68 years, Richmond went on to win a further eight premierships in reserve-grade football. The Richmond reserves participated in the VFL/AFL reserves, then the Victorian State Football League up to the 1999 season, then in the new Victorian Football League competition in 2000. In 2001, the Richmond reserves team was dissolved and the club entered a reserves affiliation with the Coburg Football Club in the VFL, using the latter as a feeder team. This arrangement lasted from 2001 until 2013. Richmond ended the affiliation at the end of 2013, seeking to re-establish a more direct developmental structure by operating a stand-alone reserves team. The reformed Richmond reserves team has played in the VFL since 2014, playing most its home games at the Punt Road Oval, with many as curtain raisers to the club's senior home and away games at the nearby Melbourne Cricket Ground. | 1 |
Anna Mucha | Anna Mucha 2015-05-01T14:45:42Z Anna Maria Mucha, born on April 26, 1980 in Warsaw, Poland, is a Polish film and television actress and journalist. She is best known to American audiences as the character Danka Dresner (the little girl with the round glasses) in the movie Schindler's List. Winner of the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars. In 2010 she became a member of jury in the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance (You can dance: Po prostu tańcz). Anna Mucha won the 10th season of Polish Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami. , Anna Mucha 2016-10-14T16:54:00Z Anna Maria Mucha (born April 26, 1980, Warsaw) is a Polish film and television actress and journalist. She is best known to Western world audiences as the character Danka Dresner (the little girl with the round glasses) in the film Schindler's List. Mucha is the winner of the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars, Taniec Z Gwiazdami. In 2010 she became a member of jury in the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance (You can dance: Po prostu tańcz). Mucha posed nude in the October 2009 Polish edition of Playboy. Anna Mucha won the 10th season of Polish Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami. | 1 |
Ivelin Popov | Ivelin Popov 2018-01-02T21:08:43Z Ivelin Ivanov Popov (Bulgarian: Ивелин Иванов Попов; born 26 October 1987) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays for Russian club Spartak Moscow and the Bulgaria national team as an attacking midfielder. Born in Sofia, Popov started to play football in Septemvri Sofia's academy. In 2005, he trained for four months with Feyenoord but did not sign with the team because he was not 18 years old. After that, he returned to Bulgaria and played in a tournament for Beroe's youth team and there he was spotted by the Litex Lovech scouts. On 14 July 2005, he even scored a goal for Beroe in a friendly game. Popov signed his first professional contract with Litex Lovech in December 2005. He made his European debut in the first leg of Round of 32 Stage in a 0–0 draw against Strasbourg; he made his official debut in the Bulgarian top division in a match against CSKA Sofia on 12 March 2006. He played 59 minutes. The result of the match was a 1–1 draw. On 9 April 2006 he scored his first goal in professional football against Lokomotiv Sofia. The result of the match was a 3–1 win for Litex. The same season, Popov played in 11 matches and scored five goals. In two consecutive seasons, Popov was third placed in the voting for Young player of the year award in 2005–06 and 2006/07 seasons. In 2007/08 UEFA Cup, Popov scored a brace, in a first leg of second round, in a 3-0 win over Besa Kavajë. Eventually, Litex Lovech advanced to the next round, losing to Hamburg in two's leg. On 18 September 2008, Popov scored a goal in the first round of the UEFA Cup against Aston Villa. In July 2009, Popov was given the captain's armband. At the end of the season, Popov was awarded A League's player of the season after having the most votes in the poll. In August 2010, he went on trial to Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. He impressed the club, whereafter he received a contract offer, but the move collapsed over his work permit rejected by the British Government, having not played enough international matches. On 25 August 2012, Popov joined Russian Premier League club Kuban Krasnodar on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee. According to Chempionat.com, the fee was worth 2 million. He made his debut for the club, coming on as a substitute for Marcos Pizzelli, in a 2-1 win over Dynamo Moscow on 2 September 2012. On 26 October 2012, Popov scored his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Rostov. Less than a month later he scored his first brace, putting two goals past Krylia Sovetov and contributing with an assist in a 4-1 home victory. On 13 April 2013, Popov scored a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw away from home to Terek Grozny. On 4 May, he scored a brace as Kuban beat Rostov 2-0 away from home on. On the last day of the 2012–13 season, Popov scored the only goal in a vital 1-0 home victory over Anzhi Makhachkala, securing Kuban a European debut in the Third Qualifying Round of the 2013-14 UEFA Europa League and earning them their best ever finish in the top flight at 5th, having the same points as 4th-placed Spartak Moscow. He finished the season with 9 goals as the club's top goalscorer together with Aras Özbiliz. Because of his outstanding performance in the 2012–13 season, Popov was appointed as captain of Kuban Krasnodar for the 2013-2014 season. He captained his team to its first away victory of the season over Russian Premier League newcomer, Tom Tomsk, by contributing with a pair of assists. The match ended with a 1-2 score. His first brace came shortly after, in a historical first ever match in a European championship for Kuban. He netted 2 goals in a 0-2 away victory over Scottish Premier League runners-up Motherwell in the first leg of a qualifying match for the UEFA Europa League. Both goals were assisted by teammate Ibrahima Baldé. This resulted in his jersey being displayed in the National football museum. On 28 April 2014, Ivelin Popov scored an away brace against strong Spartak Moscow in a 0-2 victory. This outstanding performance got him voted as player of week 27 in the Russian Premier League. He continued his good run the week after, which saw him providing 2 assist, marking a 4-0 victory over Krylia Sovetov. The first assist was turned into a goal, scored by fellow Bulgarian teammate Stanislav Manolev, marking his first goal for the club after recently being transferred from PSV Eindhoven. Popov was named man of the match for the second time in a row, earning him a spot in Russian premier league team of the week. He finished his season in Russia having provided 12 assists; making him the joint top assists provider of the season, alongside Danny from Zenit St. Petersburg. He was also included in the team of the season 2013-2014, because of his consistency throughout the whole campaign. On 3 June 2015, it was announced that Popov had signed a long-term contract with Spartak Moscow. It was reported that the signing fee cost the club about €7 million. Popov made his league debut for Spartak as a starter in a 2-2 home draw to Ufa on 17 July. He scored his first two official goals for the club on 23 September, in a 7-0 win away to Volga Nizhny Novgorod in the Round of 32 in the Russian Cup. He followed that with his first league goal for the club, coming against Zenit as Spartak drew 2-2 at home. The goal featured a spectacular lob over Zenit defender Javi García, followed by another lob over the goalkeeper Yuri Lodigin. Popov's performance earned him the Best Player award for the 10th round of the 2015-16 Russian Premier League, as well as the most valuable player award for the month of September. He scored for the third consecutive game on 3 October, netting the only goal in a 1-0 win away to Mordovia Saransk. On 30 April 2017, he provided two assists in a 1-2 away victory over city rivals, CSKA Moscow, which earned him a spot in the Russian Premier League team of the week for matchday 26. In August 2007, Dimitar Penev called Popov up to the Bulgaria national team squad for the friendly match with Wales. On 11 February 2009, he scored his first goal for Bulgaria against Switzerland. On 2 April 2009, Popov scored the first of two goals for Bulgaria in the 2-0 win against Cyprus. On 9 February 2011, Popov scored twice from the penalty spot in a 2-2 friendly draw with Estonia, but the result was subsequently declared void by FIFA and expunged from the records due to suspicions of match fixing with the involvement of the game officials. He captained the national team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification, providing his team with two goals, including a 25-yard free kick goal against Armenia national football team, throughout a tough campaign, having to face strong national teams like those of Italy, the Czech Republic and Denmark. In 2015, Popov was a crucial figure in the 2-2 home draw versus Italy. He hit the back of the net to tie the score at 1-1 in the 11th minute, raising the spirits of his compatriots after a disappointing own-goal in the 4th minute. This resulted in a series of swift attacks from the home team which saw them grab the lead in the 17th minute. They were able to keep their lead until the 84th minute, but in the end had to settle for a 2-2 draw after a late equalizer. In the next official match, he once again proved his worth after the only goal in a tough but decisive 0-1 away win against Malta, keeping the hopes alive of his national team qualifying for Euro 2016. On 31 August 2017, Ivelin Popov provided two decisive assists in a 3-2 home win against Sweden. Popov's name became associated with scandal early in his career and became synonymous with irresponsibility and lack of discipline. In April 2007, he was removed from Litex's starting roster due to bad form. In September 2008, Popov was banned from the youth national team following an incident on the team bus, where he threw a bottle at the bus driver–-hitting him on the head–-who then lost control, narrowly avoiding a crash. In September 2010, just days before the Euro 2012 qualifier against England, Popov led a group of teammates out of the training camp in Pravets and took them to Botevgrad so they could celebrate Valeri Bojinov's birthday, where the players consumed large amounts of alcohol. Days later, Bulgaria lost to England 0:4. In September 2011, as Bulgaria was preparing to host England for the second leg of the Euro 2012 qualifier, Popov again led a group of players to a bar, where they drank until 4am, angering then coach Lothar Matthäus. Bulgaria lost to England 0:3 at home. On November 16, 2014, Popov missed a penalty against Malta in a Euro 2016 qualifier, allowing for the match to end in a 1:1 draw. Following the game, Popov was accused of missing the penalty on purpose. Days later, it came to light that Popov had abused and humiliated the national team masseur on several occasions, forcing him to do pushups in front of the other players. At this point, the executive committee of the Bulgarian Football Union had seen enough and proceeded to ban Popov from the national team for life. Nevertheless, in 2015, newly appointed head coach Ivaylo Petev reinstated Popov to the squad. The captain's band, however, went to midfielder Svetoslav Dyakov. , Ivelin Popov 2019-12-23T08:03:45Z Slavic name Ivelin Ivanov Popov (Bulgarian: Ивелин Иванов Попов; born 26 October 1987) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays for FC Rostov and played for the Bulgaria national team as an attacking midfielder until November 2019. Born in Sofia, Popov started to play football in Septemvri Sofia's academy. In 2005, he trained for four months with Feyenoord but did not sign with the team because he was not 18 years old. After that, he returned to Bulgaria and played in a tournament for Beroe's youth team and there he was spotted by the Litex Lovech scouts. On 14 July 2005, he even scored a goal for Beroe in a friendly game. Popov signed his first professional contract with Litex Lovech in December 2005. He made his European debut in the first leg of Round of 32 Stage in a 0–0 draw against Strasbourg; he made his official debut in the Bulgarian top division in a match against CSKA Sofia on 12 March 2006. He played 59 minutes. The result of the match was a 1–1 draw. On 9 April 2006 he scored his first goal in professional football against Lokomotiv Sofia. The result of the match was a 3–1 win for Litex. The same season, Popov played in 11 matches and scored five goals. In two consecutive seasons, Popov was third placed in the voting for Young player of the year award in 2005–06 and 2006/07 seasons. In 2007/08 UEFA Cup, Popov scored a brace, in a first leg of second round, in a 3-0 win over Besa Kavajë. Eventually, Litex Lovech advanced to the next round, losing to Hamburg in two's leg. On 18 September 2008, Popov scored a goal in the first round of the UEFA Cup against Aston Villa. In July 2009, Popov was given the captain's armband. At the end of the season, Popov was awarded A League's player of the season after having the most votes in the poll. In August 2010, he went on trial to Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. He impressed the club, whereafter he received a contract offer, but the move collapsed over his work permit rejected by the British Government, having not played enough international matches. On 25 August 2012, Popov joined Russian Premier League club Kuban Krasnodar on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee. According to Chempionat.com, the fee was worth 2 million. He made his debut for the club, coming on as a substitute for Marcos Pizzelli, in a 2-1 win over Dynamo Moscow on 2 September 2012. On 26 October 2012, Popov scored his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Rostov. Less than a month later he scored his first brace, putting two goals past Krylia Sovetov and contributing with an assist in a 4-1 home victory. On 13 April 2013, Popov scored a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw away from home to Terek Grozny. On 4 May, he scored a brace as Kuban beat Rostov 2-0 away from home on. On the last day of the 2012–13 season, Popov scored the only goal in a vital 1-0 home victory over Anzhi Makhachkala, securing Kuban a European debut in the Third Qualifying Round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League and earning them their best ever finish in the top flight at 5th, having the same points as 4th-placed Spartak Moscow. He finished the season with 9 goals as the club's top goalscorer together with Aras Özbiliz. Because of his outstanding performance in the 2012–13 season, Popov was appointed as captain of Kuban Krasnodar for the 2013–2014 season. He captained his team to its first away victory of the season over Russian Premier League newcomer, Tom Tomsk, by contributing with a pair of assists. The match ended with a 1-2 score. His first brace came shortly after, in a historical first ever match in a European championship for Kuban. He netted 2 goals in a 0-2 away victory over Scottish Premier League runners-up Motherwell in the first leg of a qualifying match for the UEFA Europa League. Both goals were assisted by teammate Ibrahima Baldé. This resulted in his jersey being displayed in the National football museum. On 28 April 2014, Ivelin Popov scored an away brace against strong Spartak Moscow in a 0-2 victory. This outstanding performance got him voted as player of week 27 in the Russian Premier League. He continued his good run the week after, which saw him providing 2 assist, marking a 4-0 victory over Krylia Sovetov. The first assist was turned into a goal, scored by fellow Bulgarian teammate Stanislav Manolev, marking his first goal for the club after recently being transferred from PSV Eindhoven. Popov was named man of the match for the second time in a row, earning him a spot in Russian premier league team of the week. He finished his season in Russia having provided 12 assists; making him the joint top assists provider of the season, alongside Danny from Zenit St. Petersburg. He was also included in the team of the season 2013–2014, because of his consistency throughout the whole campaign. On 3 June 2015, it was announced that Popov had signed a long-term contract with Spartak Moscow. It was reported that the signing fee cost the club about €7 million. Popov made his league debut for Spartak as a starter in a 2-2 home draw to Ufa on 17 July. He scored his first two official goals for the club on 23 September, in a 7-0 win away to Volga Nizhny Novgorod in the Round of 32 in the Russian Cup. He followed that with his first league goal for the club, coming against Zenit as Spartak drew 2-2 at home. The goal featured a spectacular lob over Zenit defender Javi García, followed by another lob over the goalkeeper Yuri Lodigin. Popov's performance earned him the Best Player award for the 10th round of the 2015–16 Russian Premier League, as well as the most valuable player award for the month of September. He scored for the third consecutive game on 3 October, netting the only goal in a 1-0 win away to Mordovia Saransk. On 30 April 2017, he provided two assists in a 1-2 away victory over city rivals, CSKA Moscow, which earned him a spot in the Russian Premier League team of the week for matchday 26. On 8 January 2019, he was released from his Spartak contract by mutual consent. On 12 January 2018, he joined FC Rubin Kazan on loan until the end of the 2017–18 season. He scored on his debut for the club, in a 1-1 away draw against Anzhi on 2 March 2018. On 7 April 2018, he scored a brace in a 3-2 home win against Akhmat, which saw him being named Man of the Match for the second match in a row. On 24 January 2019, he signed a 2.5-year contract with Russian club FC Rostov. In August 2007, Dimitar Penev called Popov up to the Bulgaria national team squad for the friendly match with Wales. On 11 February 2009, he scored his first goal for Bulgaria against Switzerland. On 2 April 2009, Popov scored the first of two goals for Bulgaria in the 2-0 win against Cyprus. On 17 September 2010, during a friendly match against Serbia, he became the youngest player to captain the national side. On 9 February 2011, Popov scored twice from the penalty spot in a 2-2 friendly draw with Estonia, but the result was subsequently declared void by FIFA and expunged from the records due to suspicions of match fixing with the involvement of the game officials. He captained the national team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification, providing his team with two goals, including a 25-yard free kick goal against Armenia, throughout a tough campaign, having to face strong national teams like those of Italy, the Czech Republic and Denmark. In 2015, Popov was a crucial figure in the 2-2 home draw versus Italy. He hit the back of the net to tie the score at 1-1 in the 11th minute, raising the spirits of his compatriots after a disappointing own-goal in the 4th minute. This resulted in a series of swift attacks from the home team which saw them grab the lead in the 17th minute. They were able to keep their lead until the 84th minute, but in the end had to settle for a 2-2 draw after a late equalizer. In the next official match, he once again proved his worth after the only goal in a tough but decisive 0-1 away win against Malta, keeping the hopes alive of his national team qualifying for Euro 2016. On 31 August 2017, Ivelin Popov provided two decisive assists in a 3-2 home win against Sweden. He announced his retirement from international football in November 2019. Popov's name became associated with scandal early in his career and became synonymous with irresponsibility and lack of discipline. In April 2007, he was removed from Litex's starting roster due to bad form. In September 2008, Popov was banned from the youth national team following an incident on the team bus, where he threw a bottle at the bus driver–-hitting him on the head–-who then lost control, narrowly avoiding a crash. In September 2010, just days before the Euro 2012 qualifier against England, Popov led a group of teammates out of the training camp in Pravets and took them to Botevgrad so they could celebrate Valeri Bojinov's birthday, where the players consumed large amounts of alcohol. Days later, Bulgaria lost to England 0:4. In September 2011, as Bulgaria was preparing to host England for the second leg of the Euro 2012 qualifier, Popov again led a group of players to a bar, where they drank until 4 am, angering then coach Lothar Matthäus. Bulgaria lost to England 0:3 at home. On 16 November 2014, Popov missed a penalty against Malta in a Euro 2016 qualifier, allowing for the match to end in a 1:1 draw. Following the game, Popov was accused of missing the penalty on purpose. Days later, it came to light that Popov had abused and humiliated the national team masseur on several occasions, forcing him to do pushups in front of the other players. At this point, the executive committee of the Bulgarian Football Union had seen enough and proceeded to ban Popov from the national team for life. Nevertheless, in 2015, newly appointed head coach Ivaylo Petev reinstated Popov to the squad. The captain's band, however, went to midfielder Svetoslav Dyakov. | 1 |
Otakon | Otakon 2017-01-09T03:11:17Z Otakon (/ˈoʊtəkɒn/ OH-tə-kon) is an annual three day anime convention held during July/August at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district (between 1999-2016), starting in 2017, Otakon will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The convention focuses on East Asian popular culture (primarily anime, manga, music, and cinema) and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku. Otakon is one of the longest-running Anime conventions in the United States and is the 5th largest North American anime convention as of 2016. Otakon announced that an additional new convention would be created in Las Vegas, Nevada starting in 2014. It was announced at Otakon 2013's closing ceremonies that the convention will be moving to Washington, D.C. and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center starting in 2017 and continuing until at least 2021. At Otakon 2016, it was revealed that Otakon will be at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center until Otakon 2024. As one of the longest running and largest conventions of its type, Otakon offers a very broad range of programming, exhibits, and other events. Typical Otakon programming includes: Multiple video rooms in which anime and live action East Asian films are shown on big screens throughout the convention. Fan-produced content including fan-parodies and anime music videos (AMVs) are also shown. For several years, Otakon had a dedicated 35 mm film theater, but replaced it in 2008 with an HD theater to take advantage of the wider array of offerings in that format. Panels and workshops on subjects such as voice acting, how to draw manga, Japanese culture, and a variety of other topics. Industry professionals announce new acquisitions, and expert guests discuss or show tricks of their trade and field questions from the audience. Many panels and workshops are conducted by fans rather than pros (ex. Create a Comic Project). Cosplay and a skit-based Masquerade show, which in recent years has taken place inside the Royal Farms Arena. While the idea of a four-day convention has some support among the general membership (especially among younger members), the idea has been summarily dismissed as unworkable by Otakon staff. It was attempted in 1995, over a holiday weekend, back when Otakon fit comfortably in a small hotel, and even then it was an exhausting prospect that didn't pay off. In those days, the entire convention could be set up in a matter of hours, while it currently takes two full days to prepare the site. At its current size and functional requirements, Otakon would face a significant additional expense in running an extra day, and both industry and dealers have said that it would not be worth their time and money to attend a fourth day. Finally, it is clear that few staffers would be able to afford the extra day (most staffers already use as much as a week of vacation time to help run the con). With almost zero support from staff, industry, or dealers, there is virtually no chance that Otakon will ever attempt a four-day convention again. During Otakon 2010, at approximately 2:00 PM on Saturday, the entire Baltimore Convention Center had to be evacuated due to a fire alarm, although there was no fire. Hours of certain events and rooms were adjusted accordingly to accommodate for lost time. This was only the second safety incident of this sort to take place during Otakon. Nine years earlier, in 2001, the convention center was evacuated due to after-effects of the Howard Street Tunnel fire. Residual tripropylene from an earlier train accident reacted with electrical sparks, and the resulting explosions launched manhole covers 4 feet into the air on Saturday, August 11, 2001 25 days after the Howard Street Tunnel fire, very early in the morning of Sunday, August 12, 2001 city workers opened 48 fire hydrants in downtown Baltimore for approximately 1 hour to 90 minutes in an attempt to flush out and recover the remaining traces of tripropylene, as a result, the Baltimore Convention Center was evacuated during this recovery effort causing thousands of attendees to leave the convention center to encounter inches of water rushing down Pratt Street. This incident was spoofed in Otakon's 2008 Opening Animation: in the video, one of the convention's mascots causes a barrage of manhole covers to strike a giant robot menacing the convention center. Otakon has announced that in 2014 a new convention would be held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada where they hope to create a smaller convention and test new ideas. Otakon has been located in the Baltimore Convention Center at least in part for every year beginning in 1999, though it soon expanded to require the entire convention center and more recently, other buildings as well. Events such as the masquerade now place in the Royal Farms Arena, located one block away, and at least some programming takes place in the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel, connected to the Convention Center by its skybridge, since 2009 (see the section below titled "Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel and Otakon" for more details). Since 2014, Otakon began to utilize meeting space within the nearby Hyatt Regency Baltimore hotel (see the section below titled "Hyatt Regency Baltimore and Otakon" for more details) which is connected to the Convention Center via a skywalk that also connects the Convention Center with the Sheraton Inner Harbor hotel, McKeldin Square (which contains a fountain that is linked with the skywalk where Otakon attendees hold photoshoots at) and the Harborplace Light Street Pavilion. Otakon 2016 will be the final year for the Baltimore facilities as Otakon 2017 will be held in Washington, D.C. at the much larger Walter E. Washington Convention Center allowing Otakon to return to having every event under one roof in a single venue which was the idea of moving to Baltimore in 1999. As Otakon has outgrown the convention center alone, it has increasingly made use of the Royal Farms Arena for large events, most notably for the Masquerade. The Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel opened on Friday, August 22, 2008. In 2009, Otakon had been promised a minimum of 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) out of a total 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) by the Hilton Baltimore. and had confirmed that they would use the Hilton for the convention itself; however only a limited number of events and panels took place at the Hilton with the major of events taking place in the more-spacious Baltimore Convention Center. On February 7, 2009, Otakon posted information on its panels for Otakon 2009, confirming that panel space will be in the Baltimore Convention Center and will be expanded into the Hilton Baltimore. Otakon 2009 utilized in the Hilton, the Poe meeting room for its Manga Library and the Key Ballroom for two additional panel rooms and one additional autographs room. Otakon 2010 further expanded into the Hilton, using not only the space used in 2009 but also what essentially amounted to all of the convention space on the second floor of the Hilton. Otakon 2011 further expanded into the Hilton, using the entire space on the second floor, and one room on the first floor of the Hilton for the first time. Otakon 2012 continued the trend of utilizing the convention space at the Hilton Baltimore, using the entire space on the second floor and two rooms on the first floor. Otakon 2012 utilized on the 1st floor Peale for Jamspace and Johnson for the Maid Cafe and utilized on the 2nd floor, Poe for the Manga Library, the entire Holiday Ballroom for a video room, Calloway for a panel room, and the entire Key Ballroom that was divided into three separate rooms, Key 1-6 combined was used as a panel room, Key 8, 11, and 12 combined into a single room also was used as a panel room and Key 7, 9, 10 combined was also used as a panel room. Otakon 2013 continued the trend of utilizing the convention space at the Hilton Baltimore, using the entire space on the second floor and only one room on the first floor (Peale for the Maid Cafe). The 2nd floor layout changed between 2012 and 2013 with the Holiday Ballroom being split into two separate rooms, Holiday 4-6 was used for panels, Holiday 1-3 used for videos, Poe was used for the Manga Library, Calloway was used for the OtaMuseum, and Key 1-6 was used as a panel room, Key 8, 11 and 12 was used as a video room and Key 7, 9, 10 was used as a panel room. Otakon 2014 and 2015 continued the trend of utilizing the convention space at the Hilton Baltimore, again using the entire space on the second floor and using three rooms on the first floor (Peale for Live Programming and Johnson for Maid Cafe in 2014 and 2015 and Ruth for Hiro's Dance Academy in 2015). The 2nd floor layout remained the same between 2013 and 2015. There is a third level of meeting/convention space at the Hilton Baltimore but it has never been utilized for public programming by Otakon between 2009 and 2015. Otakon 2014 utilized for the first time ever, convention space at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore for a new event called Hiro's Lounge held in the 2nd floor Constellation Ballroom. The Hyatt Regency Baltimore hotel is connected to the Baltimore Convention Center via a skywalk system that connects the Convention Center with the Sheraton Inner Harbor hotel, McKeldin Square (which contains a fountain that is linked to the skywalk where Otakon attendees hold photoshoots at) and the Harborplace Light Street Pavilion. Otakon 2015 continued the trend of utilizing the convention space at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore by using 2nd floor meeting rooms Maryland Suites and the Constellation Ballroom. The Constellation Ballroom again was used for Hiro's Lounge (renamed to Hiro's 21) and the Maryland Suites was used for autographs. At Otakon 2013's closing ceremonies, the convention staff officially announced that Otakon will be held in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, citing overcrowding of the BCC. This new venue will be used starting with Otakon 2017 and will last until at least through Otakon 2021. At Otakon 2016, convention staff officially announced that Otakon will remain in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center until Otakon 2024. Otakon is run by the Pennsylvania-based non-profit organization Otakorp, Inc. whose primary purpose "is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture, primarily through its media and entertainment." Otakon is the annual meeting of Otakorp, Inc. Otakon attendees do not purchase "tickets" to Otakon; they actually become a member of the non-profit organization that runs Otakon with their paid attendance to the convention. Everyone who pays the annual membership fee to attend Otakon is also a supporting member for Otakorp and is able to participate in sanctioned events, contests, or giveaways that might occur during the year. All staff are unpaid volunteers (certain staff who meets certain defined requirements are allowed to vote on issues affecting Otakorp and Otakon, for example, in 2013, the voting membership (voting staff) of Otakorp, Inc. voted on the issue of whether to remain in Baltimore after Otakon 2016 or to move to Washington D.C.), although registration tasks are supplemented by temporary workers provided by Visit Baltimore, and certain services such as legal and accounting work are by contract. Otakon also enlists the help of non-staff assistants, who are referred to as gofers. Otakon 2006 listed over 500 staff on its roster, though not all work the convention directly, though in a similar count, at the time immediately following Otakon 2013, Otakorp listed 861 staff on its online roster. Otakorp, Inc. also sponsors film screenings as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC, and assists with programming at other film festivals. Otakorp, Inc. also operates Otakon Vegas, a spin-off convention of Otakon held in Las Vegas, Nevada and the Otakon Matsuri (a free one-day festival held on the Thursday prior to Otakon itself). As of July 30, 2010, Otakon has had a great economic impact with its host, the City of Baltimore. Otakon has had the highest economic impact in Baltimore for 2009, 2008 and 2007 and has been a top convention for Baltimore since 2003. Otakon 2009 had an economic impact of $12.5 million in direct spending and booked over 4,500 hotel rooms. Otakon 2010 had a great impact in terms of food vendors. According to the Baltimore Business Journal on December 10, 2010, Otakon 2010 had 4,575 booked hotel rooms and an estimated economic impact of $15.3 million, up from $12.5 million the year before. Visit Baltimore in their published Annual Reports has listed Otakon multiple times, starting with Otakon 2009 listed as simply "Otakorp (Otakon)" with a reported room nights total of 4,475 and an estimated economic impact of $15,263,859, Otakon 2011 listed as simply "Otakorp, Inc." where Visit Baltimore reported the attendance for Otakon 2011 was 31,000 people, way above the officially reported attendance count of 29,337 people, reported room nights total of 5,740 and a reported estimated economic impact of $11,300,000 a significant decline between 2009 and 2011 (2010's information wasn't reported in the FY 2011 annual report), Otakon 2012 listed simply as "Otakorp, Inc." where Visit Baltimore reported the attendance for Otakon 2012 as 27,000 people, way below the officially reported attendance count of 30,785, reported room nights total of 5,740 and a reported estimated economic impact of $10,634,730 a decline of $665,270, Otakon 2013 listed simply as "Otakorp, Inc. (Otakon)" where Visit Baltimore reported a start date for Otakon 2013 as Monday, August 5, 2013 instead of the correct start of Friday, August 9, 2013, reported attendance as 25,000, way below the officially reported attendance count of 34,211, reported room nights total of 5,450 and a reported estimated economic impact of $5,099,611 (A picture of Otakon was also featured in the FY2014 annual report in which Otakon 2013 was listed), a significant decline of $5,535,119, Otakon 2014 listed as "Otakorp, Inc. (Otakon 2014) with the correct start date of Friday, August 8, 2014 reported attendance for Otakon 2014 was 33,852 which was much closer to the officially reported attendance count of 33,929, reported room nights total of 9,255 and a reported estimated economic impact of $10,252,139, a significant increase of $5,152,528, and as of November 18, 2016, the latest listing is for Otakon 2015 listed simply as "Otakorp, Inc. (Otakon)" where Visit Baltimore reported a start date of Otakon 2015 as Friday, July 17, 2015 a full week prior to the correct start date of Friday, July 24, 2015, reported attendance for Otakon 2015 was 26,877 which correctly matches the officially reported attendance count, and an estimated economic impact of $10,993,850, a slight increase of $741,711. Seeing how the actual year is one year behind the fiscal year that Visit Baltimore uses for their convention reporting, and that Otakon has been listed annually since their FY2012 annual report, it likely means that the Visit Baltimore FY2017 report that will be released sometime in 2017 will list the information for the final Otakon (Otakon 2016) held in Baltimore for the foreseeable future. In 2011, Visit Baltimore (Baltimore City's tourism agency) awarded Otakon with a "Customer of the Year" award for "hosting their annual tradeshow and convention in Baltimore since 1999. They have demonstrated ongoing commitment to Baltimore, bringing more than 27,000 attendees to the city every year, a much-anticipated event by the local community and media" and that Otakon "have also selected Baltimore as the host destination through 2016." At Otakon 2012 Otakon officially announced a partnership with indie game development studio, Studio Nasu, to develop an official video game, Crisis Heart Brawlers: Clash at Otakon! to be released to celebrate the 20th anniversary at Otakon 2013. The game was successfully funded on Saturday, September 22, 2012 with 531 backers and a total amount of $33,642. In March 2013, the game had missed its deadline of release and in August 2013 failed to fulfill a promised Thursday release party before Otakon 2013 with the developer gone silent about the status of the game. On July 30, 2014, Otakorp, Inc. terminated the business relationship with Studio Nasu and revoked all intellectual property rights. At the convention feedback panel of Otakon 2014, the president of Otakorp, Jennifer Piro said that there cannot be any more comments on the subject as it has become a pending legal matter. 39°17′07″N 76°37′02″W / 39.28538°N 76.61734°W / 39.28538; -76.61734, Otakon 2018-12-10T01:56:37Z Otakon (/ˈoʊtəkɒn/ OH-tə-kon) is an annual three-day anime convention held during July/August. From 1999 to 2016, it took place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district; in 2017, it moved to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The convention focuses on East Asian popular culture (primarily anime, manga, music, and cinema) and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku. Otakon is one of the longest-running anime conventions in the United States and is the 9th largest North American anime convention as of 2017. Otakon is run by the Pennsylvania-based non-profit organization Otakorp, Inc. whose primary purpose "is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture, primarily through its media and entertainment". Typical Otakon programming includes anime and live action East Asian films shown on big screens in multiple video rooms. Fan-produced content including fan-parodies and anime music videos (AMVs) are also shown. For several years, Otakon had a dedicated 35 mm film theater, but replaced it in 2008 with an HD theater to take advantage of the wider array of offerings in that format. Panels and workshops are held on subjects such as voice acting, how to draw manga, and Japanese culture. Industry professionals announce new acquisitions, and expert guests discuss or show tricks of their trade and field questions from the audience. Many panels and workshops are conducted by fans rather than pros (ex. Create a Comic Project). The convention also includes cosplay and a skit-based Masquerade show, which in recent years had taken place inside the Royal Farms Arena. The first Otakon was held at a Days Inn in State College, Pennsylvania in 1994; 350 people attended. From 1999 to 2016, Otakon was held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2011, the Baltimore city tourism agency, Visit Baltimore, gave Otakon a "Customer of the Year" award for "demonstrat ongoing commitment to Baltimore, bringing more than 27,000 attendees to the city every year, a much-anticipated event by the local community and media". Otakon has been a top convention for Baltimore since 2003. Otakon 2009 had an economic impact of $12.5 million in direct spending and booked over 4,500 hotel rooms. According to the Baltimore Business Journal on December 10, 2010, Otakon 2010 had 4,575 booked hotel rooms and an estimated economic impact of $15.3 million, up from $12.5 million the year before; in particular it had significant impact on food vendors. Beginning in 2017, Otakon moved to Washington, DC, to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. From 2014 to 2018, a spin-off convention also run by Otakorp had been held in January at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2018, shortly after the end of Otakon Vegas 2018, Otakorp, Inc. announced on the Otakon Vegas website that Otakon Vegas was going on hiatus for an undetermined amount of time and that Otakon Vegas 2018 would be the last Otakon Vegas held. Otakorp, Inc. described Otakon Vegas as being an "experiment" and stated that they were "taking some time to examine the results of this experiment, to rethink and reorganize the show logistics, and to determine how best to bring the show forward. " They left the door open for a future Otakon Vegas by concluding that they "hope to return to Vegas in the future. "" 39°17′07″N 76°37′02″W / 39.28538°N 76.61734°W / 39.28538; -76.61734 | 1 |
Edward_Abbott_(jurist) | Edward_Abbott_(jurist) 2009-02-14T23:01:21Z Edward Abbott (1766 – 31 July 1832) was a soldier, politician, judge-advocate and public servant who served at Parramatta, the Hawkesbury River and Norfolk Island in the colony of New South Wales, now part of present-day Australia. He also served at the settlements of Launceston and Hobart in Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian State of Tasmania), which was part of New South Wales until 1825, when VDL became a self-governing colony. Abbott was born in 1766 in Montreal, Canada. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1785 and joined the New South Wales Corps in October 1789 (commonly known in Australia as the "Rum Corps"). He arrived in Sydney in June 1790, and served as an officer on Norfolk Island until 1794. In that year, he returned to Sydney (then called Port Jackson) and took command of the detachment of soldiers at the settlement at Hawkesbury River. He was promoted to captain in 1795 but had to return to England in 1796 due to illness. He returned to Sydney in 1799 and served in both Sydney and Norfolk Island again. In 1803 he took command of the detachment at the settlement at Parramatta, and the governor appointed him a magistrate. During his command in 1804, he helped quell an "Irish" insurrection, for which Governor Philip King gave him a grant of land. In 1808, Abbott was transferred to Sydney by Major George Johnston to assist in the opposition to Governor William Bligh. He apparently took no active part in the coup (the "Rum Rebellion") which removed Bligh, but approved of the governor's arrest. Johnston offered the position of deputy judge advocate to Abbott. This position was the senior judicial position in the colony which was held at the time by a non-lawyer, Richard Atkins. Biographer W A Townsley states that Abbott declined the appointment. Historian John Bennett notes that Abbott did take up the offer of the appointment before Charles Grimes took over that office. Abbott was promoted to Major in May 1808. He returned to England in 1810 where he resigned from the army. In February 1814 Abbott was commissioned as the second deputy judge advocate of Van Diemen's Land. He was however to be first to be able to constitute the newly established Lieutenant Governor's Court in 1815. This new court was the first superior civil court to sit permanently in the settlement and it was an important step in bringing normality to the commercial life of the colony. Abbott sailed for Hobart Town in the Emu in February 1815 but was unable to commence his duties as his commission had not arrived. However, he was commissioned as a magistrate, and sat in the Court of Petty Sessions dealing with less serious criminal charges. To complicate matters further, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Davey proclaimed martial law in April of that year. Abbott opposed the imposition of martial law and declined to open the new court as the institution of martial law was incompatible with holding a court under civil law. Nevertheless, Abbott sat on several court-martials arising out of the declaration of martial law. Abbott travelled to Sydney to obtain documents on the practice of his new court. His court was a sister court to the Governors Court in New South Wales and could be expected to have the same practices and procedures. When he returned in November, martial law had ended and the new court was formally opened. Governor Lachlan Macquarie considered Abbott's appointment unwise. However, Abbott was considered a very successful deputy judge advocate. He simplified procedures in the new court and administered justice rather than legal principles and applied common sense. Abbott was novel in his approach to the law and, unlike other English courts at the time, did not take a portion of the fees charged for going to court. The office of deputy judge advocate and the Lieutenant Governor's Court were abolished on the establishment of the new Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land. Abbott was offered the appointment as a commissioner of the Court of Requests. He declined the appointment and instead returned to England and accepted a pension. In 1825, Abbott was appointed as the civil commandant at Port Dalrymple, a settlement now known as the city of Launceston, displacing Lieutenant-Colonel William Balfour. Abbott was also appointed to the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land. Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur protested Abbott's appointment to the Colonial Office in London. In response, Abbott lost his appointment as commandant and as a Legislative Councillor, and he was appointed instead as a commissioner in the Court of Requests, an appointment he had previously declined. Abbott died in 1832, survived by his wife and sons. His son Edward worked as Abbott's clerk in the court and later became a member of the new House of Assembly in Van Diemen's Land and also the Legislative Council. , Edward_Abbott_(jurist) 2010-11-22T08:26:40Z Edward Abbott (1766 – 31 July 1832) was a soldier, politician, judge-advocate and public servant who served at Parramatta, the Hawkesbury River and Norfolk Island in the colony of New South Wales, now part of present-day Australia. He also served at the settlements of Launceston and Hobart in Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian State of Tasmania), which was part of New South Wales until 1825, when VDL became a self-governing colony. Abbott was born in 1766 in Montreal, Canada. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1785 and joined the New South Wales Corps in October 1789 (commonly known in Australia as the "Rum Corps"). He arrived in Sydney in June 1790, and served as an officer on Norfolk Island until 1794. In that year, he returned to Sydney (then called Port Jackson) and took command of the detachment of soldiers at the settlement at Hawkesbury River. He was promoted to captain in 1795 but had to return to England in 1796 due to illness. He returned to Sydney in 1799 and served in both Sydney and Norfolk Island again. In 1803 he took command of the detachment at the settlement at Parramatta, and the governor appointed him a magistrate. During his command in 1804, he helped quell an "Irish" insurrection, for which Governor Philip King gave him a grant of land. In 1808, Abbott was transferred to Sydney by Major George Johnston to assist in the opposition to Governor William Bligh. He apparently took no active part in the coup (the "Rum Rebellion") which removed Bligh, but approved of the governor's arrest. Johnston offered the position of deputy judge advocate to Abbott. This position was the senior judicial position in the colony which was held at the time by a non-lawyer, Richard Atkins. Biographer W A Townsley states that Abbott declined the appointment. Historian John Bennett notes that Abbott did take up the offer of the appointment before Charles Grimes took over that office. Abbott was promoted to Major in May 1808. He returned to England in 1810 where he resigned from the army. In February 1814 Abbott was commissioned as the second deputy judge advocate of Van Diemen's Land. He was however to be first to be able to constitute the newly established Lieutenant Governor's Court in 1815. This new court was the first superior civil court to sit permanently in the settlement and it was an important step in bringing normality to the commercial life of the colony. Abbott sailed for Hobart Town in the Emu in February 1815 but was unable to commence his duties as his commission had not arrived. However, he was commissioned as a magistrate, and sat in the Court of Petty Sessions dealing with less serious criminal charges. To complicate matters further, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Davey proclaimed martial law in April of that year. Abbott opposed the imposition of martial law and declined to open the new court as the institution of martial law was incompatible with holding a court under civil law. Nevertheless, Abbott sat on several courts-martial arising out of the declaration of martial law. Abbott travelled to Sydney to obtain documents on the practice of his new court. His court was a sister court to the Governors Court in New South Wales and could be expected to have the same practices and procedures. When he returned in November, martial law had ended and the new court was formally opened. Governor Lachlan Macquarie considered Abbott's appointment unwise. However, Abbott was considered a very successful deputy judge advocate. He simplified procedures in the new court and administered justice rather than legal principles and applied common sense. Abbott was novel in his approach to the law and, unlike other English courts at the time, did not take a portion of the fees charged for going to court. The office of deputy judge advocate and the Lieutenant Governor's Court were abolished on the establishment of the new Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land. Abbott was offered the appointment as a commissioner of the Court of Requests. He declined the appointment and instead returned to England and accepted a pension. In 1825, Abbott was appointed as the civil commandant at Port Dalrymple, a settlement now known as the city of Launceston, displacing Lieutenant-Colonel William Balfour. Abbott was also appointed to the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land. Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur protested Abbott's appointment to the Colonial Office in London. In response, Abbott lost his appointment as commandant and as a Legislative Councillor, and he was appointed instead as a commissioner in the Court of Requests, an appointment he had previously declined. Abbott died in 1832, survived by his wife and sons. His son Edward worked as Abbott's clerk in the court and later became a member of the new House of Assembly in Van Diemen's Land and also the Legislative Council. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Vuze,_Inc. | Vuze,_Inc. 2008-08-03T18:41:05Z Vuze, Inc. (formerly Azureus, Inc. ) is a company formed by some of the core developers of the open source BitTorrent client Azureus. Based in Palo Alto, California, it bills itself as "the company behind Azureus". In January 2007, the company launched an Azureus-powered open entertainment platform called Vuze (formerly Zudeo), which is intended to enable content providers to easily distribute their content over the Internet. The company claimed to have "distribution deals with 12 television, film and media companies" and now seems to have deals with over 100 content providers around the world. Vuze attracts and features high quality content from a growing roster of global television networks (BBC, Showtime, PBS, A&E, National Geographic & more), premier production studios and thousands of maverick content creators. Vuze also provides viewers with access to a world of high-res content that can be viewed in DVD-quality and HD, right on a computer monitor or connected TV. In November 2007, Vuze filed a petition with the U. S. Federal Communications Commission to restrict Internet traffic throttling by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Vuze filed its “Petition for Rulemaking” to urge the FCC to adopt regulations limiting Internet traffic throttling, a practice by which ISPs block or slow the speed at which Internet content, including video files, can be uploaded or downloaded. In December 2007, Vuze secured $20 million in its C round of funding. This round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Greycoft Partners, BV Capital, and Jarl Mohn participating. As a result of the investment, TiVo Co-Founder and former CEO Mike Ramsay joined the Vuze Board of Directors. On 2007-06-12, it was reported that Azureus, Inc. is being sued by the French music industry group Société des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) under the new provisions of copyright law passed by the French Parliament in 2006. The new copyright provisions, abbreviated to DADVSI, was designed to bring France in line with the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty. The software developers could face criminal penalties including up to three years in prison and a €300,000 fine if the case is successfully prosecuted in French courts. On 2006-12-20, the BBC announced that hundreds of episodes of its programs will be made available through Vuze. This article about a technological corporation or company is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Vuze,_Inc. 2010-03-11T12:14:03Z Vuze, Inc. (formerly Azureus, Inc. ) is a company formed by some of the core developers of the open source BitTorrent client Azureus. Based in Redwood City, California, it bills itself as "the company behind Azureus". In January 2007, the company launched an Azureus-powered open entertainment platform called Vuze (formerly Zudeo), which is intended to enable content providers to easily distribute their content over the Internet. The company claimed to have "distribution deals with 12 television, film and media companies" and now seems to have deals with over 100 content providers around the world. Vuze attracts and features high quality content from a growing roster of global television networks (BBC, Showtime, PBS, A&E, National Geographic & more), premier production studios and thousands of maverick content creators. Vuze also provides viewers with access to a world of high-res content that can be viewed in DVD-quality and HD, right on a computer monitor or connected TV. In November 2007, Vuze filed a petition with the U. S. Federal Communications Commission to restrict Internet traffic throttling by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Vuze filed its “Petition for Rulemaking” to urge the FCC to adopt regulations limiting Internet traffic throttling, a practice by which ISPs block or slow the speed at which Internet content, including video files, can be uploaded or downloaded. In December 2007, Vuze secured $20 million in its C round of funding. This round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Greycoft Partners, BV Capital, and Jarl Mohn participating. As a result of the investment, TiVo Co-Founder and former CEO Mike Ramsay joined the Vuze Board of Directors. On 2007-06-12, it was reported that Azureus, Inc. is being sued by the French music industry group Société des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) under the new provisions of copyright law passed by the French Parliament in 2006. The new copyright provisions, abbreviated to DADVSI, was designed to bring France in line with the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty. The software developers could face criminal penalties including up to three years in prison and a €300,000 fine if the case is successfully prosecuted in French courts. On 2006-12-20, the BBC announced that hundreds of episodes of its programs will be made available through Vuzer (restricted by DRM). | 0 |
Cognizant | Cognizant 2005-03-21T09:17:17Z Cognizant began its software services business in 1993 as the in-house technology development center for The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. In 1996, the Company became a division of Cognizant Corporation, after the split-up of the D&B Corp. In June 1998, Cognizant Corporation was again spun-off into many independent companies, and Cognizant Technology Solutions was formed as a division of IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. In June 1998, the Company completed its initial public offering and was listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol CTSH. In November 2002, IMS Health divested its majority interest in Cognizant through a tax-free split-off,thereby making Cognizant a truly widely-held company traded on the NASDAQ. For more details visit www.cognizant.com, Cognizant 2006-12-30T15:31:29Z Cognizant redirects here. For a definition of the word see the entry for cognizant at Wiktionary Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an information technology services company based in the United States but with significant operations in India. Cognizant started in 1994, as Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software - the in-house technology development center for the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. Initially a joint venture between Dun & Bradstreet (76%) and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (24%), it soon became a 100% subsidiary of D&B Corp. In 1996, the company became a division of the Cognizant Corporation, after the split-up of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. In June 1998, Cognizant Corporation was again split into independent companies, and Cognizant Technology Solutions was formed as a division of IMS Health, a provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The same year, the company completed its initial public offering and was listed on the NASDAQ. In November 2002, IMS Health divested its majority interest in Cognizant through a tax-free split-off. Although it is headquartered in New Jersey, most of Cognizant Technology Solutions' employees are based in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It also has offices in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Cognizant has 38,000 employees. . It also became first company in the world to be certified for CMMI-Level5 as per latest model. Cognizant has aligned its businesses vertically and has clients in Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing & Logistics, Information, Media & Entertainment, Telecom, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, Hospitality and New Tech. Cognizant's revenue for the second quarter of year 2006 was $336 million, and the company guided that it would end 2006 with $1.38 billion in revenue. Its primary competitors are other IT services companies such as Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services. After result of 2nd Quarter, Cognizant emerged as the 4th biggest IT service company in India. After the close of trading on November 16, 2006 Cognizant moved from the S&P 400 to the S&P 500. giants | 1 |
Helena Paparizou discography | Helena Paparizou discography 2009-01-27T20:41:53Z This page includes the discography of the Greek artist Elena Paparizou. All the albums listed underneath were released and charted in Greece and Cyprus. ! width="25"|CYP |- |-bgcolor="#F0F8FF" align="center" |align="left"|2003 |align="left"|"Anapandites Kliseis" |align="left"|Protereotita |1 |1 |Gold |- |-align="center" |align="left"|2005 |align="left"|"My Number One" |align="left"|Protereotita: Euro Edition |1 |1 |Platinum |-bgcolor="#F0F8FF" align="center" |align="left"|2005 |align="left"|"Mambo!" |align="left"|Iparhi Logos |1 |1 |Platinum |- |-align="center" |align="left"|2007 |align="left"|"Fos" |align="left"|Iparhi Logos: Platinum Edition | 1 | - | Gold |-bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center" style="font-size:smaller;" ! align="left"| ! align="left" width="230"| ! align="left" width="220"| ! width="25"|GRE ! width="25"|CYP ! width="25"| |-align="center" | |width="240"| ! align="left" width="230"|Number one hits ! width="30"|4 ! width="30"|3 |-align="center" | |align="left" width="240"| ! align="left" width="230"|Top ten hits ! width="30"|4 ! width="30"|3 ! width="30"| |- |} Songs released as radio singles. , Helena Paparizou discography 2010-12-26T13:55:26Z This page includes the discography of the Greek singer Elena Paparizou, who has been certified by the IFPI Greece for the sales of at least 220,000 albums in Greece during her solo career, and an additional 60,000 in singles sales. All the albums listed underneath were released and charted in Greece and Cyprus. Songs released as radio singles. | 1 |
Charles_Fernley_Fawcett | Charles_Fernley_Fawcett 2008-01-22T17:36:50Z Charles Fernley Fawcett (1918 – ) is a wrestler, resistance worker, soldier, airman, film star and co-founder of the International Medical Corps. Charles Fawcett was born in Virginia, but grew up in South Carolina, USA. He had two sisters and one brother. Their mother died when Charles was five years old, and their father died two years later. When he graduated from high school, Fawcett went to Washington and ended up wrestling to make a living. Then in 1937 he boarded a ship outside Montreal bound for France, where he worked as an artist’s model and again as a wrestler. After the outbreak of World War II he tried to join US Intelligence but his services were declined, so he briefly joined the French Ambulance Corps. He was on his way to North Africa to join the Free French when he heard about Varian Fry, who would go on to rescue over 2,000 Jews from Vichy France with the help of a handful of people, Fawcett among them. Among the most famous people they rescued were Franz Werfel, Marc Chagall, Heinrich Mann and Hannah Arendt. “I went to see him and he wasn’t very interested until I told him I’d been a professional wrestler. He said, ‘Maybe we could use you to sort of keep order. Anybody who’s not supposed to be there, you can get rid of them’,” Fawcett recalled in an interview with Dr Stephen D Smith in 1998. “Fry was perhaps one of the most idealistic men I had ever known and certainly the most unassuming. We got rid in a hurry of his little bow-tie and striped suit. Out of place completely in Marseilles. Maybe one of the reasons he got away with a lot was because he looked so innocent. ” Through a string of paper marriages, Fawcett helped numerous Jewish girls to escape the Nazis. Eventually, he had to flee France at several hours’ notice after a tip-off that the Gestapo was coming to arrest him. Having left France, he flew in the RAF during the Battle of Britain, and later fought with the French Foreign Legion. After the war, he combined a cinematic career with smuggling refugees to safety from civil conflict, organising earthquake relief teams, fighting in several wars, and co-founding the International Medical Corps. For more information on Charles Fawcett in the context of his work with Varian Fry, see http://www. varianfry. org/sauvage_fry_oxford_en. htm For a comprehensive filmography (Fawcett is credited in sixty films), see: http://www. imdb. com/name/nm0269485/, Charles_Fernley_Fawcett 2009-09-07T17:18:32Z Charles Fernley Fawcett (2 December 1915 – 3 February 2008) was a wrestler, resistance worker, soldier, airman, film star, film maker, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal. Charles Fernley Fawcett was born in Waleska, Georgia, where his mother had been caught in a snow storm and died when he was six. His family was of old Virginian stock, whose family tree included Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Having been orphaned at an early age, Fawcett and his younger brother and two sisters grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, in the care of their aunt. Here he attended Greenville high school for three years where he learned to wrestle and play American football. Aged 15, Fawcett became involved in an affair with his best friend's mother. He remarked "If that's child molestation, I would wish this curse on every young boy. " The end of the affair made Fawcett contemplate suicide, and he left the United States to travel to the far East, working his passage on a number of steamships. By 1937 he had returned to America, and Fawcett stayed for a time in New York, before making his way to Washington D. C. , where he was taken in by his cousin, who happened to be an assistant United States Postmaster General. Here he ended up wrestling to make a living. Then in 1937 he boarded a ship outside Montreal bound for France, where he worked as an artist’s model and again as a wrestler. After the outbreak of World War II he tried to join US Intelligence but his services were declined, so he briefly joined the Section Volontaire des Américains - the ambulance corps. He was on his way to North Africa to join the Free French when he heard about Varian Fry, who would go on to rescue over 2,000 Jews from Vichy France with the help of a handful of people, Fawcett among them. Among the most famous people they rescued were Franz Werfel, Marc Chagall, Heinrich Mann and Hannah Arendt. “I went to see him and he wasn’t very interested until I told him I’d been a professional wrestler. He said, ‘Maybe we could use you to sort of keep order. Anybody who’s not supposed to be there, you can get rid of them’,” Fawcett recalled in an interview with Dr Stephen D Smith in 1998. “Fry was perhaps one of the most idealistic men I had ever known and certainly the most unassuming. We got rid in a hurry of his little bow-tie and striped suit. Out of place completely in Marseilles. Maybe one of the reasons he got away with a lot was because he looked so innocent. ” Towards the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women in three months. This enabled the women, who had formerly been imprisoned in concentration camps, to leave France with an American visa. Eventually, he had to flee France at several hours’ notice after a tip-off that the Gestapo was coming to arrest him. Having left France, he flew in the RAF during the Battle of Britain, and later fought with the French Foreign Legion. After the war, he pursued a cinematic career, in which he performed in over 100 films, working with such stars as Errol Flynn, Alan Ladd, and Robert Taylor. He combined this with smuggling refugees to safety from civil conflict, organizing earthquake relief teams, fighting in several wars, and co-founding the International Medical Corps. Fawcett's first wife, with whom he had a daughter, died in 1956. In 1991, he married again, when after a 30 year engagement he married April Ducksbury, a British model agency executive, and settled in London. In 1979 he went to assist in training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, who were fighting the Soviet Union. Film footage he shot whilst in Afghanistan was critical in securing American aid to the Mujahideen. He spent the rest of his life in Chelsea, London with his wife April Ducksbury. Here he acquired a taste for music, and wrote songs. In 2006, Fawcett was nominated for recognition as Righteous Among the Nations at the annual British Holocaust commemoration. Charles Fawcett died on February 3, 2008 in London, England at the age of 92. | 0 |
Augustin_Kontchou_Kouomegni | Augustin_Kontchou_Kouomegni 2008-12-21T08:14:05Z Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni (born 1945) is a Cameroonian political figure who served in the government from 1990 to 2001. Kouomegni was born in Nkongsamba. He was Secretary-General of the National Federation of Cameroonian Students from 1968 to 1969, and in 1988 he became President of the Cameroonian Association of Political Science. He was first appointed to the government as Minister of Information and Culture in 1990. Following student protests in April 1991, which were broken up by force, Kouomegni claimed that there were "none dead" ("zéro mort"); the opposition, challenging this claim, turned it into an anti-government slogan. He served as Minister of Information until he was appointed as Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman in the government named on April 9, 1992. He held this post during the controversial October 1992 presidential election, which was officially won by President Paul Biya, although the opposition alleged fraud. When the main opposition candidate, John Fru Ndi, was placed under house arrest amidst violence and a state of emergency in the Northwest Province in late October 1992, Kouomegni said that "if was free, it would be a danger to the entire country". Following the election, Kouomegni was promoted to the rank of Minister of State, while retaining the communication portfolio, on November 27, 1992. After five years in that position, he was named Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on December 7, 1997. He served as Foreign Minister for over three years until he was replaced by François-Xavier Ngoubeyou in the government named on April 27, 2001. On September 13, 2005, Kouomegni was installed as President of the Council of Administration of the University of Douala. This article about a Cameroonian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Augustin_Kontchou_Kouomegni 2010-08-11T22:31:11Z Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni (born 1945) is a Cameroonian political figure who served in the government of Cameroon from 1990 to 2001. As Minister of Information and then Minister of Communication, Kontchou was a prominent and controversial figure, reviled by the opposition, during the political turmoil of the early 1990s. Later, he was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2001 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Douala from 2005 to 2008. Kontchou was born in Nkongsamba. He was Secretary-General of the National Federation of Cameroonian Students from 1968 to 1969, and in 1988 he became President of the Cameroonian Association of Political Science. He was first appointed to the government as Minister of Information and Culture on 7 December 1990. Following student protests in April 1991, which were broken up by force, Kontchou claimed that there were "none dead" ("zéro mort"); the opposition, challenging this claim, turned it into an anti-government slogan. He served as Minister of Information until he was appointed as Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman in the government named on April 9, 1992. He held this post during the controversial October 1992 presidential election, which was officially won by President Paul Biya, although the opposition alleged fraud. Both before and after the election, he frequently appeared on Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) to defend Biya and criticize the opposition, although he ignored a challenge by Bernard Muna, the campaign manager for opposition candidate John Fru Ndi, to participate in a live televised debate. According to Muna, Kontchou "effectively control and manipulate" the media and used it to "deceive the people". When Fru Ndi was placed under house arrest amidst violence and a state of emergency in the Northwest Province in late October 1992, Kontchou said that "if was free, it would be a danger to the entire country". Following the election, Kontchou was promoted to the rank of Minister of State, while retaining the communication portfolio, on November 27, 1992. After five years in that position, he was named Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on December 7, 1997. He served as Foreign Minister for over three years until he was replaced by François-Xavier Ngoubeyou in the government named on April 27, 2001. On September 2, 2005, Kontchou was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Douala; he was installed in that post on September 13. Kontchou remained Chairman of the Board of Directors for over three years before Biya dismissed him in late December 2008. This article about a Cameroonian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Graphic_Communications_Conference | Graphic_Communications_Conference 2012-10-27T19:26:01Z The Graphic Communications Conference (affiliated with the Teamsters Union)represents more than 60,000 workers in all craft and skill areas in the printing and publishing industry. Every day, GCC members help print, produce and design numerous publications, including The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Newsday, Elle and Cosmopolitan magazines, Harper Collins and Penguin books, brochures for Chevrolet, Harry Potter books and catalogs for L. L. Bean. GCC Teamsters work in desktop publishing and electronic color prepress. They operate web and sheetfed, offset, letterpress, rotogravure, silkscreen and other specialty presses. They handle binding, finishing and shipping of finished products. They produce inks, paper and packaging materials made of paper, plastic, cardboard and metal. They are also journalists, graphic artists, typesetters, sales people and support staff. The conference was created after the Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU) voted to join forces with Teamsters in late 2004. The merger enables the now-stronger Teamsters Union to represent even more workers in printing and related industries. For example, the GCC and the Teamsters Newspaper Division represent different but complimentary types of hardworking employees at many major newspapers, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Columbus Dispatch and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey. Teamsters Union, Graphic_Communications_Conference 2013-09-13T06:32:08Z The Graphic Communications Conference (affiliated with the Teamsters Union) represents more than 60,000 workers in all craft and skill areas in the printing and publishing industry. The Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 767M is the successor union of several merged printers' locals spanning back into the late 1800s. The local unions have been affiliated with different international unions over time. Every day, GCC members help print, produce and design numerous publications, including The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Newsday, Elle and Cosmopolitan magazines, Harper Collins and Penguin books, brochures for Chevrolet, Harry Potter books and catalogs for L. L. Bean. GCC Teamsters work in desktop publishing and electronic color prepress. They operate web and sheetfed, offset, letterpress, rotogravure, silkscreen and other specialty presses. They handle binding, finishing and shipping of finished products. They produce inks, paper and packaging materials made of paper, plastic, cardboard and metal. They are also journalists, graphic artists, typesetters, sales people and support staff. The conference was created after the Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU) voted to join forces with Teamsters in late 2004. The merger enables the now-stronger Teamsters Union to represent even more workers in printing and related industries. For example, the GCC and the Teamsters Newspaper Division represent different but complimentary types of hardworking employees at many major newspapers, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Columbus Dispatch and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey. George Tedeschi currently serves as President. This article related to a United States labor union is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
JM de Guzman | JM de Guzman 2018-01-01T15:28:54Z Michaela de Guzman (born March 2, 1997), popularly known by his screen name Michy de Guzman, is a Filipino ], , model and Self-proclaimed singer. He is currently a student at Bulacan State University]]. JM de Guzman's mother is Han Carteciano Gob while his father is Ronniel De Guzman. JM started his career as a print and TV model. He was a cast in Ang TV 2 (as JM "Butik" de Guzman), where his batchmates include Shaina Magdayao and Denise Laurel. During his elementary and high school years, he studied at Lourdes School of Quezon City. In 2005, he was accepted at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where he took up Certificate in Theater Arts, majoring in Performance Studies. He apprenticed as an actor and production staff under the university's college-based theater group, Dulaang UP. In 2006, he joined the UP Wrestling Club and eventually became its president and a decorated athlete. He won medals in various competitions sanctioned by the Wrestling Association of the Philippines, wherein he represented the UP Wrestling Club or the Quezon City Wrestling Team. In 2007, he won a silver medal for Quezon City during the Philippine Olympic Festival – National Capital Region qualifying round. He also competed in amateur mixed martial arts (MMA) as representative of S.P.R.A.W.L. - MMA Team. He logged a 1-1 fight record: he lost his match in the 2007 URCC University and won in the 2009 S.P.R.A.W.L and BRAWL amateur MMA event. He was also elected as the Deputy Grand Triskelion of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity, UP Diliman chapter. De Guzman auditioned and was later cast in the 2009 Cinemalaya film Last Supper Number 3. The independent film was where Direk Lauren Dyogi, business unit head of ABS-CBN. Dyogi found him and asked to audition for Midnight Phantom. He passed the audition and starred as the best friend of Rafael Rosell who plays the title role. He was cast in the new PHR series Alyna and paired with his Midnight Phantom co-actor Charee Pineda who has been claimed having chemistry by the fans. His biggest break so far is playing the lead role as Gabriel Maglayon, originally played by actor Rico Yan, in ABS-CBN's 2011 remake of Mula Sa Puso. Upon getting the role, De Guzman has proven that he is one of the most-promising young actors these days, as he also present a very good chemistry with the cast, especially with Lauren Young, who plays Via Pereira, his character's love interest in the series. Now a contract artist of Star Magic, he played the lead role of "Angelito" in Angelito: Batang Ama, paired with Charee Pineda, which aired from November 2011 to April 2012. With the success of Angelito: Batang Ama, De Guzman was paired up again with Pineda for the follow-up teleserye entitled Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto that aired from July 2012 to December 2012. On December 6, 2017, he decided for his return to Star Magic. De Guzman is a cousin of fellow singer Klarisse de Guzman, first runner-up of The Voice of the Philippines (season 1). In late 2013 to 2014, De Guzman underwent rehab due to drug abuse and entered a rehab facility for 17 months. Prior to that, he was in a relationship with actress Jessy Mendiola for 2 years. They broke up some time in 2013 citing De Guzman's drug abuse as the main contributor of the break-up. The premature cancellation of his show Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto was said to be caused by De Guzman's eventual erratic behavior on set. His supposed portrayal of Pedro Calungsod for the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival entry film Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir was also cancelled and was replaced by actor Rocco Nacino to take on the titular role. In late 2014, after De Guzman's completion of his rehabilitation and a hiatus for over a year, he made a showbiz comeback and rekindled his relationship with Mendiola which lasted for 5 months before breaking up for the second time. His reported problematic attitude on the set of the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival entry Walang Forever led to his replacement in the movie by actor Jericho Rosales. In 2015, after a series of disturbing and cryptic messages posted on his Instagram account, De Guzman later apologized and stated via Instagram post that Mendiola was not the reason for their second breakup nor she and station ABS-CBN would be blamed for his recent actions and behavior. He further claimed that he has been recently struggling with anxiety attacks, depression and bipolar disorder. Don't Give Up On Us (David Soul) Have I Told You Lately (Rod Stewart) Lost In Space (Lighthouse Family) Stupidest (JM de Guzman) Tensionado (Silent Sanctuary) Terrified (Katharine McPhee) Warrior (JM De Guzman) The Man who can't be moved (The Script) | 2016 || 14th Gawad Tanglaw Awards || Best Supporting Actor || Imbisibol || style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="yes table-yes2 notheme"|Won, JM de Guzman 2019-12-17T06:14:14Z Juan Miguel Gob de Guzman (born September 9, 1988), popularly known by his screen name JM de Guzman, is a Filipino actor, mixed martial artist, model and singer. He is currently working as an exclusive talent of Star Magic. JM de Guzman's mother is Han Carteciano Gob while his father is Ronniel De Guzman. JM started his career as a print and TV model. He was a cast in Ang TV 2 (as JM "Butik" de Guzman), where his batchmates include Shaina Magdayao and Denise Laurel. During his elementary and high school years, he studied at Lourdes School of Quezon City. In 2005, he was accepted at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where he took up Certificate in Theater Arts, majoring in Performance Studies. He apprenticed as an actor and production staff under the university's college-based theater group, Dulaang UP. In 2006, he joined the UP Wrestling Club and eventually became its president and a decorated athlete. He won medals in various competitions sanctioned by the Wrestling Association of the Philippines, wherein he represented the UP Wrestling Club or the Quezon City Wrestling Team. In 2007, he won a silver medal for Quezon City during the Philippine Olympic Festival – National Capital Region qualifying round. He also competed in amateur mixed martial arts (MMA) as representative of S.P.R.A.W.L. - MMA Team. He logged a 1-1 fight record: he lost his match in the 2007 URCC University and won in the 2009 S.P.R.A.W.L and BRAWL amateur MMA event. He was also elected as the Deputy Grand Triskelion of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity, UP Diliman chapter. De Guzman auditioned and was later cast in the 2009 Cinemalaya film Last Supper Number 3. The independent film was where Direk Lauren Dyogi, business unit head of ABS-CBN. Dyogi found him and asked to audition for Midnight Phantom. He passed the audition and starred as the best friend of Rafael Rosell who plays the title role. He was cast in the new PHR series Alyna and paired with his Midnight Phantom co-actor Charee Pineda who has been claimed having chemistry by the fans. His biggest break so far is playing the lead role as Gabriel Maglayon, originally played by actor Rico Yan, in ABS-CBN's 2011 remake of Mula Sa Puso. Upon getting the role, De Guzman has proven that he is one of the most-promising young actors these days, as he also present a very good chemistry with the cast, especially with Lauren Young, who plays Via Pereira, his character's love interest in the series. Now a contract artist of Star Magic, he played the lead role of "Angelito" in Angelito: Batang Ama, paired with Charee Pineda, which aired from November 2011 to April 2012. With the success of Angelito: Batang Ama, De Guzman was paired up again with Pineda for the follow-up teleserye entitled Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto that aired from July 2012 to December 2012. His last appearance in ABS-CBN in the 2015 romantic comedy series All of Me with Albert Martinez, Yen Santos and Arron Villaflor. De Guzman's Star Magic talent contract expired on November 16, 2015. After a two-year hiatus, ABS-CBN promoted de Guzman's return starting December 6, 2017, before signing his contract to Star Magic. In February 2018, he became a member of the acoustic group ASAP Jambayan, replacing Kaye Cal who left the group after prior commitments. In 2018, he was cast as leading man in PHR series Araw Gabi and paired with former Girltrends member Barbie Imperial who has been claimed having a strong chemistry with him, form a loveteam called "JuanBie" by fans. On November 11, 2018, he interpreted Sa Mga Bituin Na Lang Ibubulong for Himig Handog 2018, composed by Kyle Raphael Borbon. However, due to sickness, he was unable to participate on the Grand Finals of Himig Handog 2018, being substituted by Jason Dy during the live finale performance on ASAP. De Guzman is a cousin of fellow singer Klarisse de Guzman, first runner-up of The Voice of the Philippines (season 1). In late 2013 to 2014, De Guzman underwent rehab due to drug abuse and entered a rehab facility for 17 months. Prior to that, he was in a relationship with actress Jessy Mendiola for 2 years. They broke up some time in 2013 citing De Guzman's drug abuse as the main contributor of the break-up. The premature cancellation of his show Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto was said to be caused by De Guzman's eventual erratic behavior on set. His supposed portrayal of Pedro Calungsod for the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival entry film Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir was also cancelled and was replaced by actor Rocco Nacino to take on the titular role. In late 2014, after De Guzman's completion of his rehabilitation and a hiatus for over a year, he made a showbiz comeback and rekindled his relationship with Mendiola which lasted for 5 months before breaking up for the second time. His reported problematic attitude on the set of the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival entry Walang Forever led to his replacement in the movie by actor Jericho Rosales. In 2015, after a series of disturbing and cryptic messages posted on his Instagram account, De Guzman later apologized and stated via Instagram post that Mendiola was not the reason for their second breakup nor she and station ABS-CBN would be blamed for his recent actions and behavior. He further claimed that he has been recently struggling with anxiety attacks, depression and bipolar disorder. | 1 |
Kyle Waddell | Kyle Waddell 2022-02-27T18:31:28Z Kyle Waddell (born 15 December 1993 in Bellshill) is a Scottish curler from Hamilton, Scotland. He plays on third position in the team of Ross Paterson. In June 2017 it was announced that British Curling had selected Smith's rink to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, after they were ranked as the top British team in the 2016-17 World Curling Tour. Waddell is the grandson of 1979 European champion Jimmy Waddell. His younger brother Craig is also a curler who currently plays lead on his team. They also played together in the 2019 European championships. , Kyle Waddell 2023-11-25T17:31:28Z Kyle Waddell (born 15 December 1993 in Bellshill) is a Scottish curler from Hamilton, Scotland. He currently skips his own team. In 2018, he competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, placing fifth. He has represented Scotland at three European Curling Championships and three World Junior Curling Championships, winning gold at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships as a member of the Kyle Smith rink. During his junior career, Waddell played second for the Kyle Smith rink. The team represented Scotland at three World Junior Curling Championships from 2012 to 2014. In 2012, the team, consisting of Thomas Muirhead, Kerr Drummond and Hammy McMillan Jr. went 7–2 through the round robin before losing the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game to Norway's Markus Høiberg. However, they avenged this loss in the bronze medal game when they defeated the same Norwegian team to finish third. In 2013, the team, now with Cammy Smith playing lead instead of Drummond, topped the round robin with an 8–1 record. They then beat Canada's Matt Dunstone in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game and then defeated Russia's Evgeny Arkhipov to secure the gold medal. It was Scotland's first time winning the event since 1996. At the 2014 World Junior Curling Championships, the team, now with Duncan Menzies at alternate instead of McMillan went 6–3 in the round robin, but were able to defeat Norway in the 1 vs. 2 game to once again qualify for the final. There, they were bested by Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller, settling for silver. Waddell was also part of the Smith rink that earned a silver medal for Great Britain at the 2013 Winter Universiade. After a 6–3 record in the round robin, they lost to Sweden's Oskar Eriksson in the final. Following juniors, Waddell continued to curl with the Smith rink. The team immediately found success on the World Curling Tour, reaching the finals of the Dumfries Curling Challenge, the Mercure Perth Masters and the European Masters during the 2014–15 season. Team Smith competed in their first Grand Slam of Curling event at the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2 where they reached the semifinals. They also made the semifinals of the Swiss Cup Basel before being eliminated by the Brad Gushue rink. In October, the team won the qualifier for the 2015 European Curling Championships, defeating the Tom Brewster rink in the best-of-three final. They would go on to miss the playoffs at the Europeans after losing in a tiebreaker to Sweden's Niklas Edin. The 2015–16 season also marked Team Smith's first tour win together at the Edinburgh International where they defeated Jaap van Dorp to claim the title. The 2016–17 season was a breakthrough season for the Smith rink, beginning at the Oakville Fall Classic where they captured the event title. They also reached the semifinals at the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, the Swiss Cup Basel and the Red Deer Curling Classic. In Grand Slam play, the team in four events. The team's best finish came at the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge where they made it all the way to the final before being defeated by the Edin rink. They also made the semifinals at the 2017 Players' Championship but were again eliminated by Team Edin. At the Scottish Men's Curling Championship, they finished third after losing both the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game and semifinal to the David Murdoch and Bruce Mouat rinks respectively. They ended their season at the 2017 Euronics European Masters where they beat the Edin rink in the final. In June 2017, it was announced that British Curling had selected the Smith rink to represent Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The team were chosen as they were the top ranked British team on the 2016–17 World Curling Tour rankings, despite having never won the Scottish Men's Championship. They were also chosen over the Murdoch, Mouat and Tom Brewster rinks, which caused controversy due to the Murdoch rink winning the 2017 Scottish Championship. However, because they missed out on the playoffs at the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship, the advantage was ultimately handed to the Smith rink. Leading up to the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Smith rink did not have the best season on tour. They failed to make it past the quarterfinals in any of their fall events and missed the playoffs at both the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge and the 2017 Masters. Due to their selection as the British Olympic team, they already qualified to represent Scotland at the 2017 European Curling Championships. There, the team went 6–3 through the round robin, qualifying for the playoffs. They then defeated the higher seeded Switzerland's Peter de Cruz rink before losing in the final to the Edin rink, earning the silver medal. Before the Games, they played in three more tour events, with their best finish coming at the German Masters where they lost in the final to Marc Pfister. At the Olympics, the team had mixed results throughout the round robin, ultimately finishing tied for third with a 5–4 record. This put them into a tiebreaker against the Swiss de Cruz rink, which they lost 9–5, eliminating them from contention. Immediately following the Games, the team played in a best-of-three playoff against the Mouat rink to determine who would represent Scotland at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, which the Mouat rink won two games to one. In their final event of the season, Team Smith reached the quarterfinals of the 2018 Players' Championship, where they once again were defeated by the Edin rink. Following the season, Waddell left the Smith rink and joined the newly formed Ross Paterson rink at third for the 2018–19 season. The team also included second Duncan Menzies and lead Michael Goodfellow. The Paterson rink had a successful first season on tour. In their first few events together, they reached the semifinals of the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the Red Deer Curling Classic as well as the final of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic where they were defeated by the Glen Muirhead rink in an all-Scottish final. Team Paterson played in six of the seven Grand Slam events during the season, finding the most success at the 2018 National where they defeated Team Bruce Mouat in the final, in the first all-Scotland Grand Slam final. They also made the playoffs at two other Slams, reaching the semifinals of the 2019 Players' Championship and the quarterfinals of the 2018 Masters. At the Scottish Championship, the team finished in third place after losing in the semifinal to the Muirhead rink. Team Paterson were selected to represented Scotland at the third leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup. There, they finished in third place after finishing the round robin with a 5–1 record. They also qualified for the grand final of the Curling World Cup, where they again finished in third. In their second season together, the Paterson rink found more success on tour, making the finals of both the Swiss Cup Basel and the Aberdeen International Curling Championship. In October, they defeated both the Mouat and Muirhead rinks to earn the right to represent Scotland at the 2019 European Curling Championships. There, the team finished with a 5–4 round robin record, enough to qualify for the playoffs. They then lost to Sweden in the semifinal before defeating Denmark to claim the bronze medal. In Grand Slam play, the team played in three events, only making the playoffs at the 2019 Masters. They finished third at the Scottish championship. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were a limited number of tour events held during the 2020–21 season. Team Paterson did play in a series of domestic events put on by the British Curling Association, finishing third at all three events hosted. After the season, Michael Goodfellow retired from competitive curling and Waddell's brother, Craig Waddell, joined the team as their new lead. During the 2021–22 season, Team Paterson reached the finals of the KW Fall Classic where they were beaten by the Ross Whyte rink. They played in two Grand Slams, finishing winless at both the 2021 Masters and the 2021 National. In February, the team went 8–2 during the round robin at the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships and later defeated the Whyte rink in the championship final. They were also picked to represent Scotland at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship after being selected over the Bruce Mouat rink that won silver at the 2022 Winter Olympics, a decision that caused controversy due to how it was handled. For the championship, the team altered their lineup, with Waddell being named as the team's skip while Paterson continued to throw fourth stones. At the Worlds, the team qualified for the playoffs with a 7–5 record. They then lost in the qualification game to the United States' Korey Dropkin, settling for fifth place. In June 2022, both Paterson and Menzies announced their retirement from elite level curling. Waddell then formed his own team with third Craig Waddell, second Mark Taylor and lead Gavin Barr for the 2022–23 season. Waddell is the grandson of 1979 European champion Jimmy Waddell. His younger brother Craig is also a curler who currently plays third on his team. They also played together in the 2019 European Championships. Waddell studied at University of the West of Scotland's Hamilton Campus graduating with a BSc (Hons) Sport Development in 2016. Waddell is employed as a Protection Specialist. | 1 |
Paul_Piticco | Paul_Piticco 2007-11-04T04:11:17Z Paul Piticco is the founder of the Secret Service Artist Management and the director of Dew Process, a Brisbane-based independent record label. Through Secret Service Artist Management, Piticco manages successful Australian artists such as Bernard Fanning, The Grates, Drag, Powderfinger, and The Predators. He is involved in the live music arena through Splendour in the Grass, a music festival held in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia since 2001. Piticco is currently co-promoting the Across the Great Divide Tour, a tour headlined by popular Australian bands Powderfinger and Silverchair promoting reconciliation in Australia. , Paul_Piticco 2007-11-07T13:50:12Z Paul Piticco is the founder of Secret Service Artist Management, a musician management company and live music organiser, as well as the director of Dew Process, an independent record label. Both organisations are based in Piticco's home town of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Secret Service Artist Management, and Piticco, manage numerous Australian musicians including Bernard Fanning, The Grates, Drag, Powderfinger, and The Predators. They also distribute the music of international artists through Australia and New Zealand. The Secret Service, along with Byron Bay's Village Sounds, are responsible for the management of Splendour in the Grass, a live music festival held annually in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, since 2001. Secret Sounds has also brought several international musicians to Australia for concerts, including Coldplay, Bryan Wilson, and Sonic Youth. In 2007, Piticco co-promoted the Across the Great Divide Tour, a tour headlined by popular Australian bands Powderfinger and Silverchair promoting reconciliation in Australia. The tour is carbon neutral, and aims to reduce the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-indegenous Australians. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Spen_Whittaker | Spen_Whittaker 2008-06-28T04:36:02Z Spen Whittaker (born Accrington in 1871) known as "Spen", was the manager of Burnley from 1903 to 1910. His reign as Burnley manager was to come to a tragic end in April 1910. Whittaker was on his way to London by train to register the signing of a new player. When the train stopped in Crewe, it was reported that a man had fallen from a carriage some distance outside the town. When the body was discovered it was found to be that of Whittaker. The fall resulted in the death of the Burnley manager, and a benefit match against Manchester United at Turf Moor was arranged for Whittaker's wife and family. , Spen_Whittaker 2013-03-17T19:09:44Z Spen Whittaker (born Accrington in 1871) known as "Spen", was the manager of Burnley from 1903 to 1910. His reign as Burnley manager was to come to a tragic end in April 1910. Whittaker was on his way to London by train to register the signing of a new player. When the train stopped in Crewe, it was reported that a man had fallen from a carriage some distance outside the town. When the body was discovered it was found to be that of Whittaker. The fall resulted in the death of the Burnley manager, and a benefit match against Manchester United at Turf Moor was arranged for Whittaker's wife and family. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Scott Brown (footballer, born April 1985) | Scott Brown (footballer, born April 1985) 2016-01-10T21:59:57Z Scott Peter Andrew Brown (born 26 April 1985) is an English footballer who plays for Aberdeen. A goalkeeper, he is a product of the Wolverhampton Wanderers youth academy and played in the League of Wales for Welshpool Town before signing for Bristol City and then at the start of the 2005–06 season joining Cheltenham Town. Brown served as an understudy to Shane Higgs whilst at Cheltenham, but as Higgs picked up some injuries, Brown had been promoted to first choice goalkeeper at the club. Scott is the son of a professional tennis coach, Peter Brown. Brown was given the number 1 shirt for the 2009–10 season following the departure of Shane Higgs, and has since been in terrific form, helping Cheltenham scrape away from the relegation battle, albeit on the last day of the season. Brown found appearances in 2011–12 more difficult to come by after the loan signing of future England international, Jack Butland, who initially joined Cheltenham after an injury to Brown. Despite Butland's presence, Brown was handed a new two-year contract at the end of the season, expiring in June 2014. For the next two seasons, Brown remained unchallenged for the number 1 shirt. He has remained as dedicated as ever to the Robins to the point of publicly criticising two unnamed players after a defeat against Rochdale in April 2014, who admitted to manager Mark Yates in training, that they had not been trying. Brown went on to say that "I could bring my mate from the pub along and even he would run around and try his best." Cheltenham chairman, Paul Baker, commended Brown and promised to take action. Brown was offered a new contract at the end of the 2013–2014 season, after being with Cheltenham for 10 years. However he opted to sign for Scottish club Aberdeen in May 2014. He made his Aberdeen debut on 23 September, in a 4–0 win against Livingston in the Scottish League Cup. His first league appearance came on 24 October 2014, as Aberdeen beat Motherwell 1–0., Scott Brown (footballer, born April 1985) 2017-10-24T21:05:51Z Scott Peter Andrew Brown (born 26 April 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for League Two club Wycombe Wanderers. He had previously spent ten years with Cheltenham Town, before leaving in 2014 for Aberdeen. Brown is a product of the Wolverhampton Wanderers youth academy and played in the League of Wales for Welshpool Town before signing for Bristol City and then at the start of the 2005–06 season joining Cheltenham Town. He served as an understudy to Shane Higgs whilst at Cheltenham, but as Higgs picked up some injuries, Brown had been promoted to first choice goalkeeper at the club. Brown was given the number 1 shirt for the 2009–10 season following the departure of Shane Higgs, and has since been in terrific form, helping Cheltenham scrape away from the relegation battle, albeit on the last day of the season. Brown found appearances in 2011–12 more difficult to come by after the loan signing of future England international, Jack Butland, who initially joined Cheltenham after an injury to Brown. Despite Butland's presence, Brown was handed a new two-year contract at the end of the season, expiring in June 2014. For the next two seasons, Brown remained unchallenged for the number 1 shirt. He has remained as dedicated as ever to the Robins to the point of publicly criticising two unnamed players after a defeat against Rochdale in April 2014, who admitted to manager Mark Yates in training, that they had not been trying. Brown went on to say that "I could bring my mate from the pub along and even he would run around and try his best." Cheltenham chairman, Paul Baker, commended Brown and promised to take action. Brown was offered a new contract at the end of the 2013–14 season, after being with Cheltenham for 10 years. However he opted to sign for Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen in May 2014 because of the better chances at higher club level he could get. He made his Aberdeen debut on 23 September, in a 4–0 win against Livingston in the Scottish League Cup. His first league appearance came on 24 October 2014, as Aberdeen beat Motherwell 1–0. Brown's instatement as first choice goalkeeper coincided with an excellent run of form for Aberdeen; his eight clean-sheets in a row was part of a winning run that took them to the top of the table in January. However, lapses in important defeats in the league cup semi-final and in a top-of-the-table match against Celtic, which effectively ended Aberdeen's trophy chances, led to Jamie Langfield taking over in goal. Brown took the starting place back for the final eight matches of the season as Aberdeen comfortably achieved Europa League qualification. He was released at the end of the 2015–16 season. On 26 July 2016 it was announced that Brown had signed a two-year deal with Wycombe Wanderers. On 21 November he joined National League side Eastleigh on a short-term loan. On 9 January 2017, Brown re-joined his former club Cheltenham Town on loan until the end of the 2016–17 season. Brown made his debut for Cheltenham Town on 14 January 2017 in a 3–0 home win against Accrington Stanley. Scott is the son of a professional tennis coach, Peter Brown. | 1 |
Prostitution_in_Hungary | Prostitution_in_Hungary 2009-05-31T21:44:58Z Prostitution in Hungary has been legalized and regulated by the government since 1999. Under the law, prostitutes are basically professionals who engage in sexual activities in exchange for money. The government allows this activity as long as they pay taxes and keep legal documents. Often called the world's oldest profession, prostitution in Hungary has been present throughout the country's history. For much of the time, however, it has been an underground and illegal activity, as it still remains in many other parts of the world. In the modern era, Hungary was confronted with excessive tax evasion, and the overall well-being of sex workers was also problematic. For this reason, the government legalized prostitution in 1999. According to the law, local authorities are obliged to mark zones for legal prostitution if there is profound local need. Most local authorities deny the existence of such need, and they often refuse to designate such zones. The trade union of Hungarian prostitutes is still fighting for the zones. There are strict conditions under which prostitutes are to operate, keeping distance away from schools or churches. The Hungarian Prostitutes' Interest Protection Association (in Hungarian: Magyarországi Prostituáltak Érdekvédelmi Egyesülete) was founded in 2000 by Ágnes Földi. It serves as a trade union and lobbying organization to prostitutes in Hungary. According to its website, the "Association has established the expert co-operation with the task of giving a helping hand to the prostitutes in their re-adaption into the society. " Among its main goals, the organization pledges to help prostitutes to spend the least amount of time as sex workers, return to society successfully, and prevent the spread of the activity to other aspects of life. Additionally, the association also provides counseling, routine health checks, legal advice, and it serves as an outreach program to which prostitutes are encouraged to turn when facing difficulties. In 2002, homosexual and transgender prostitutes also joined the organization in order to effectively lobby the government. Due to regulation, which mandates those engaged in prostitution to subject themselves to periodical health checks, the trade union provides such services. Most attention is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as Chlamydia, Hepatitis B, HIV, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea (Tripper). These checks cost approximately US$90, and they are valid for three months. Template:Prostitution in Europe, Prostitution_in_Hungary 2010-03-25T22:28:58Z Prostitution in Hungary has been legalized and regulated by the government since 1999. Under the law, prostitutes are basically professionals who engage in sexual activities in exchange for money. The government allows this activity as long as they pay taxes and keep legal documents. Often called the world's oldest profession, prostitution in Hungary has been present throughout the country's history. For much of the time, however, it has been an underground and illegal activity, as it still remains in many other parts of the world. In the modern era, Hungary was confronted with excessive tax evasion, and the overall well-being of sex workers was also problematic. For this reason, the government legalized prostitution in 1999. According to the law, local authorities are obliged to mark zones for legal prostitution if there is profound local need. Most local authorities deny the existence of such need, and they often refuse to designate such zones. The trade union of Hungarian prostitutes is still fighting for the zones. There are strict conditions under which prostitutes are to operate, keeping distance away from schools or churches. It is illegal to lend a flat to a prostitute, or to run brothels. The Hungarian Prostitutes' Interest Protection Association (in Hungarian: Magyarországi Prostituáltak Érdekvédelmi Egyesülete) was founded in 2000 by Ágnes Földi. It serves as a trade union and lobbying organization to prostitutes in Hungary. According to its website, the "Association has established the expert co-operation with the task of giving a helping hand to the prostitutes in their re-adaption into the society. " Among its main goals, the organization pledges to help prostitutes to spend the least amount of time as sex workers, return to society successfully, and prevent the spread of the activity to other aspects of life. Additionally, the association also provides counseling, routine health checks, legal advice, and it serves as an outreach program to which prostitutes are encouraged to turn when facing difficulties. In 2002, homosexual and transgender prostitutes also joined the organization in order to effectively lobby the government. Due to regulation, which mandates those engaged in prostitution to subject themselves to periodical health checks, the trade union provides such services. Most attention is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as Chlamydia, Hepatitis B, HIV, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea (Tripper). These checks cost approximately US$90, and they are valid for three months. Hungary is a source, transit, and destination country for women trafficked from Romania and Ukraine to Hungary and through Hungary to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, and the United Arab Emirates for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Internal trafficking of women for sexual exploitation also occurres. Experts noted a significant increase in trafficking within the country, mostly women from eastern Hungary trafficked to Budapest and areas along the Austrian border. Roma women and girls who grow up in Hungarian orphanages are highly vulnerable to internal sex trafficking. According to government officials and NGOs, the majority of traffickers are individuals or small, family-based groups. Organized crime syndicates transported many of the trafficking victims to or through the country for forced prostitution. The US State Department report on Human rights in Hungary states the Government of Hungary does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. | 0 |
Miss North Carolina USA | Miss North Carolina USA 2009-02-03T20:29:02Z The Miss North Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. This state is part of the RPM Productions group. In 2005, Miss North Carolina USA Chelsea Cooley won the Miss USA crown and place in the top 10 at Miss Universe. Cooley is the first former Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title, although not the first to have competed at Miss Teen USA. The second Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title was Erin O' Kelley in 2007. She went on to place in the top 15 at Miss USA 2007. Similar to the Miss Utah USA titleholders, both Cooley and Kelley placed at Miss USA, eclipsing their teen performances. Two Miss North Carolina USAs have also competed at Miss America. 1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant Productions states, Miss North Carolina USA 2010-11-19T15:23:09Z The Miss North Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. This state is part of the RPM Productions group. In 2005, Miss North Carolina USA Chelsea Cooley won the Miss USA crown and placed in the top 10 at Miss Universe. Cooley is the first former Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title, although not the first to have competed at Miss Teen USA. The second Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title was Erin O' Kelley in 2007. She went on to place in the top 15 at Miss USA 2007. Similar to the Miss Utah USA titleholders, both Cooley and Kelley placed at Miss USA, eclipsing their teen performances. In 2009, Kristen Dalton became the second woman from North Carolina to be crowned Miss USA. Two Miss North Carolina USAs have also competed at Miss America. 1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant Productions states | 1 |
Lucy Worsley | Lucy Worsley 2012-03-02T20:03:54Z Dr Lucy Worsley (born 1973) is a British historian and curator. Worsley was born and grew up in Reading. Her father is a geologist and Emeritus Professor at Reading University. Before going to University she attended St Bartholomew's School, Newbury. She graduated from New College, Oxford in 1995 with a first-class honours BA degree in Ancient and Modern History and in 2001 was awarded a D.Phil from the University of Sussex for a thesis on The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593-1676. In 2005 she was elected a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; she was also appointed visiting professor at Kingston University. Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity looking after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens. She is currently overseeing the £12 million refurbishment of the Historic Royal Palaces, state apartments and gardens. In 2011 she presented the four-part television series If Walls Could Talk exploring the history of British homes, from peasant's cottages to palaces; and the three-part series Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency. She lives by the Thames in South London with her partner, the architect Mark Hines. , Lucy Worsley 2013-11-30T17:34:48Z Lucy Worsley (born 18 December 1973) is an English historian, curator and television presenter on history. Worsley is currently Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, an independent charity responsible for palaces not in current use by the royal family, but is perhaps better known as a presenter of television series on historical topics, including Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency (2011), Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls (2012) and A Very British Murder (2013). Lucy Worsley was born in Reading, but when she was a week old went to live in Canada. Her father is a geologist and expert in glaciers and permafrost and an emeritus professor at Reading University; her mother is a consultant in educational policy and practice. Before going to university Worsley attended St Bartholomew's School, Newbury. She graduated from New College, Oxford in 1995 with a first-class honours BA degree in Ancient and Modern History. From 1996 to 2002, Worsley was an Inspector of Historic Buildings for English Heritage in the East Midlands region. During that time she studied the life of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle and wrote the English Heritage guide to his home, Bolsover Castle. In 2001 she was awarded a D.Phil from the University of Sussex for a thesis on "The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676". The thesis later became her book Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses During 2002–2003, she was Major Projects and Research Manager for Glasgow Museums, before becoming Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity looking after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens. She is currently overseeing the £12 million refurbishment of the Kensington Palace state apartments and gardens. In 2005 she was elected a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; she was also appointed visiting professor at Kingston University. In 2011 she presented the four-part television series If Walls Could Talk exploring the history of British homes, from peasant's cottages to palaces; and the three-part series Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency. In 2012 she co-presented the three-part television series Antiques Uncovered, with antiques and collectibles expert Mark Hill, and (broadcast at the same time) Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, a three-part series on the lives of women after the Civil War and the Restoration of Charles II. Later that year she presented a documentary on Dorothy Hartley's Food in England as part of the BBC Four "Food and Drink" strand. Her most recent BBC series, A Very British Murder, examines the "morbid national obsession" with murder. The series examines a number of cases from the 19th century, beginning with the Ratcliff Highway murders which gained national attention in 1811, the Red Barn Murder of 1826 and the "Bermondsey Horror" case of Frederick and Maria Manning in 1849. Worsley lives by the River Thames in south London with her husband, the architect Mark Hines, whom she married in November 2011. With reference to having children, Worsley says she has been "educated out of normal reproductive function". As a tv presenter, she is known for having a rhotacism, a minor speech impediment which affects her pronunciation of "r". When she made the move from BBC Four to BBC Two for the TV series Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History she had help from a speech and language therapist to help with her pronunciation (but to no avail.) Her trademark hair clip was also removed. In her teens Worsley represented Berkshire at cross-country and is still a keen runner. | 1 |
Tafton-Wrightsville,_Arkansas | Tafton-Wrightsville,_Arkansas 2010-09-26T06:44:19Z Tafton-Wrightsville is an area in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. It is in the Little Rock-North Little Rock Metropolitan area, southeast of Little Rock. It combines Tafton and Wrightsville to make Tafton-Wrightsville. It has almost 2,000 people as of 2006. It is one of the many growing areas in Arkansas. It is partly incorporated and partly Unincorporated. It is about 2. 3 Sq. miles. About 24% Whites and 75% is blacks. It serves a radio station. 34°36′32″N 92°13′01″W / 34. 609°N 92. 217°W / 34. 609; -92. 217 , Tafton-Wrightsville,_Arkansas 2020-12-28T10:10:54Z Tafton-Wrightsville is an area in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. It is in the Little Rock-North Little Rock Metropolitan area, southeast of Little Rock. It combines Tafton and Wrightsville to make Tafton-Wrightsville. It has almost 2,000 people as of 2006. It is one of the many growing areas in Arkansas. It is partly incorporated and partly Unincorporated. It is about 2. 3 Sq. miles. About 24% Whites and 75% is blacks. It serves a radio station. 34°36′32″N 92°13′01″W / 34. 609°N 92. 217°W / 34. 609; -92. 217 This article about a location in Pulaski County, Arkansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Radio_Nueva_Vida | Radio_Nueva_Vida 2007-12-23T01:02:55Z Radio Nueva Vida (New Life) is a Spanish-Christian radio network located in California, United States. It is owned and operated by The Association for Community Education, Inc. a California non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization established in 1981. Radio Nueva Vida does not affiliate itself with any church. This network of stations has the capacity of broadcasting all over the US via a satellite provider, and over the Internet. Radio Nueva Vida began broadcasting on January 18, 1987 after building radio station KMRO 90. 3 FM in Camarillo, California. In 1996 additional full-service stations were added to the network to serve Bakersfield and Kern County on 90. 9 FM and Fresno and surrounding Counties on 980 AM. It added additional FM repeater stations, which cover the cities of: Salinas, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Victorville, Indio, Palm Springs, Soledad, Los Banos, San Fernando Valley, Colton, Coachella, Desert Center, Lancaster, Santa Barbara, King City, Santa Maria and Redmond, Oregon. In September 2000 Radio Nueva Vida launched it's coverage to the cities of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, on KLTX 1390 AM. Later followed KEZY 1240 AM which covers San Bernardino and Riverside, and then San Diego and Tijuana, B. C. Mexico on KSDO 1130 AM. Radio Nueva Vida's programming is Spanish-Christian format of music and talk. It's 'In House' programs target the Hispanic community and its current needs. The Sembrador Informativo is the monthly newsletter mailed to its supporters and listeners. Radio Nueva Vida - a non-profit organization- is listener supported and its listeners supporters are called Sembradores (Seed Sowers). Radio Nueva Vida has produced a number of large gatherings entitled: Encounters with God at The Forum in Los Angeles, El Toreo of Tijuana and in Bakersfield, Fresno, San Bernardino and San Diego. , Radio_Nueva_Vida 2009-11-28T05:44:42Z Radio Nueva Vida (New Life) is a Spanish-Christian radio network located in California, United States. It is owned and operated by The Association for Community Education, Inc. a California non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization established in 1981. Radio Nueva Vida does not affiliate itself with any church. This network of stations has the capacity of broadcasting all over the US via a satellite provider, and over the Internet. Radio Nueva Vida began broadcasting on January 18, 1987 after building radio station KMRO 90. 3 FM in Camarillo, California. In 1996 additional full-service stations were added to the network to serve Bakersfield and Kern County (KGZO 90. 9 FM) and Fresno and surrounding counties (KEYQ 980 AM). It added additional FM repeater stations, which cover the cities of: Salinas, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Victorville, Indio, Palm Springs, Soledad, Los Banos, San Fernando Valley, Colton, Coachella, Desert Center, Lancaster, Santa Barbara, King City, Santa Maria and Redmond, Oregon. In 2000 and 2001, Nueva Vida underwent a major expansion acquiring three full-power AM stations, all in California, that had been broadcasting in English. They were KLTX 1390AM (Long Beach/Los Angeles area), KEZY 1240AM (Riverside/San Bernardino and the Inland Empire), and KSDO 1130AM (San Diego). All three stations had been owned by major corporations, KLTX and KEZY by Salem Communications and KSDO by Chase Media with a joint sales agreement with Clear Channel Communications. Radio Nueva Vida's programming is Spanish-Christian format of music and talk. It's 'In House' programs target the Hispanic community and its current needs. The Sembrador Informativo is the monthly newsletter mailed to its supporters and listeners. Radio Nueva Vida - a non-profit organization- is listener supported and its listeners supporters are called Sembradores (Seed Sowers). The sembradores are recluted twice a year by the people that manage this broadcast, they (the sembradores) are encouraged to cooperate with whatever amount of money that one can provide, there's no minimun amount required in order to become a sembrador. Radio Nueva Vida has produced a number of large gatherings entitled: Encounters with God at The Forum in Los Angeles, El Toreo of Tijuana and in Bakersfield, Fresno, San Bernardino and San Diego. | 0 |
Mohan_Joshi_Hazir_Ho! | Mohan_Joshi_Hazir_Ho! 2009-10-09T18:30:21Z Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (Summons for Mohan Joshi ) is a 1984 Hindi art film, made by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, based on his own story. The film is a comic satire on a judicial system, where cases drag on for decades, where plaintives either die or loose hope and money, while the corrupt run scot free, thanks to their nexus with corrupt lawyers. The film won the 1984 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare. An old couple, Mohan Joshi (Bhisham Sahni) and his wife (Dina Pathak) decides to sue their landlord (Amjad Khan) for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers (Naseeruddin Shah and Satish Shah), while Rohini Hattangadi is the opposition lawyer. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless. In the end when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, Kapadia's men prop up the place thus convincing the judge that all is well with the chawl. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself. The film provides deep insight into the struggles of Indian 'middle class', which rarely gets space on the film screen. , Mohan_Joshi_Hazir_Ho! 2011-05-31T16:31:17Z Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (Summons for Mohan Joshi ) is a 1984 Hindi art film, made by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, based on his own story, during the Parallel Cinema period of Indian cinema. The film is a comic satire on a judicial system, where cases drag on for decades, where plaintives either die or lose hope and money, while the corrupt run scot free, thanks to their nexus with corrupt lawyers. The film won the 1984 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare. An old couple, Mohan Joshi (Bhisham Sahni) and his wife (Dina Pathak) decides to sue their landlord (Amjad Khan) for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers (Naseeruddin Shah and Satish Shah), while Rohini Hattangadi is the opposition lawyer. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless. In the end when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, Kapadia's men prop up the place thus convincing the judge that all is well with the chawl. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself. The film provides deep insight into the struggles of Indian 'middle class', which rarely gets space on the film screen. The film was shot at Kamithapura, Bapty Road, & Duncan Road ( Two Tanks / Do Tanki) at Mumbai's middle class Hindu Muslim Locality. | 0 |
Keiran Murtagh | Keiran Murtagh 2010-01-06T17:37:54Z Kieran Murtagh (born 29 October 1988) is an English footballer currently playing for Yeovil Town. Kieran joined Conference South side Fisher Athletic in November 2007, in his only season at the London club in a season where he made 21 appearances and scored one goal. He was made Fisher's young player of the year for the 2007/08 season. Murtagh was much sought-after at the end of 2007/08, having impressed many with his performances for Fisher Athletic. Even though he had trials for Premier League and Championship clubs, Fulham and Nottingham Forest respectively, he signed for League One club Yeovil. After being tracked he was finally signed on a two year contract, on 12 June 2008. He made his debut for Yeovil Town as a substitute in the 1–1 home draw against Walsall, on 9 August 2008. In his first season with Yeovil he made 26 appearances, including many impressive performances of maturity above his age. Murtagh scored his first goal, with a thirty-yard strike, against Huddersfield in a 2–1 defeat 29 August 2009., Keiran Murtagh 2011-12-30T08:42:16Z Keiran Zac Murtagh (born 29 October 1988) is an English born Antigua and Barbudan international footballer who plays for Woking on loan from Cambridge United as a midfielder. Murtagh joined Conference South side Fisher Athletic in November 2007, in his only season at the London club in a season where he made 21 appearances and scored one goal. He was made Fisher's young player of the year for the 2007–08 season. Murtagh was much sought-after at the end of 2007–08, having impressed many with his performances for Fisher Athletic. Even though he had trials for Premier League and Championship clubs, Fulham and Nottingham Forest respectively, he signed for League One club Yeovil. After being tracked he was finally signed on a two year contract, on 12 June 2008. He made his debut for Yeovil Town as a substitute in the 1–1 home draw against Walsall, on 9 August 2008. In his first season with Yeovil he made 26 appearances. Murtagh scored his first goal, with a thirty-yard strike, against Huddersfield in a 2–1 defeat 29 August 2009. He was offered a new contract on 13 May 2010, but rejected it in favour of a move to Wycombe Wanderers where he signed a one-year contract. On 31 January 2011, Murtagh signed a one-month loan deal with Conference South club Woking, subsequently extended for a further month. He was recalled to his parent club on 23 March to provide cover in their midfield. On 10 June 2011, Murtagh signed a two-year deal with Conference National side Cambridge United. On 29 December 2011, it was announced that Murtagh would join former club Woking on loan until the end of the season. Murtagh although born in England represented the Republic of Ireland U17 side while playing for Charlton Athletic. On 25 November 2010, Murtagh was called up to the Antigua and Barbuda squad for the 2010 Caribbean Championship. He made his début in the 3–1 defeat against Jamaica on 27 November. player national team statistics |- |2010||2||0 |- |2011||3||1 |- ! Total||5||1 |} | 1 |
Mark Bonnar | Mark Bonnar 2006-10-21T09:29:07Z Mark Bonnar (b. 19 November, 1968) is a Scottish actor who is best known is playing Bruno Jenkins in Casualty and he also been in Afterlife, Taggart and Wire in the Blood. It has been annouced that he will be appearing in The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe in 2007. Bonnar, Mark, Mark Bonnar 2007-09-19T10:04:12Z Mark Bonnar (b. 19 November, 1968) is a Scottish actor who is best known is playing Bruno Jenkins in Casualty. He has also acted in Afterlife, Taggart and Wire in the Blood. he has appeared in The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe in 2007. His theatre performances include Philistines at the Lyttelton, National Theatre in May 2007; Phil in Mammals, a national tour in 2006; David in A Girls In A Car With A Man at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in December 2004; Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Salisbury Playhouse in September 2004; Cyrano de Bergerac at the National Theatre in 2004 and Parade at the Donmar Warehouse in September 2007. | 1 |
Wave_radar | Wave_radar 2008-09-27T16:30:27Z Ocean surface waves can be measured by several radar remote sensing techniques. Several instruments based on a variety of different concepts and techniques are available to the user and these are all often called wave radars. This article (see also Grønlie 2004), gives a brief description of the most common ground-based radar remote sensing techniques. Instruments based on radar remote sensing techniques have become of particular interest in applications where it is important to avoid direct contact with the water surface and avoid structural interference. A typical case is wave measurements from an offshore platform in deep waters with the presence of high currents making the mooring of a wave buoy enormously difficult. Another interesting case is a ship in transit where having instruments in the sea is highly impractical and interference from the ships hull must be avoided. woops haha Basically there are two different classes of radar remote sensors for ocean waves. Microwave radars may be used in two different modes; The radar footprint (the radial and azimuthal extent of the surface area to be illuminated by the radar) must be small in comparison with all ocean wavelength of interest. The radar spatial resolution is determined by the bandwidth of the radar signal (see radar signal characteristics)and the beamwidth of the radar antenna. The beam of a microwave antenna is dispersive, consequently the resolution becomes a function of range. The beam of an IR radar (laser) is non dispersive, the radar footprint is therefore independent of range. HF radars utilize the Bragg scattering mechanism and do always operate at very low grazing angles. Due to the low frequency of operation the radar waves are backscattered directly from the gravity waves and surface ripple need not be present. Radar transceivers may be coherent or non-coherent. Coherent radars measure Doppler-modulation as well as amplitude modulation, while non-coherent radars only measure amplitude modulation. Consequently, a non-coherent radar echo contains less information about the sea surface properties. Examples of non-coherent radars are conventional marine navigation radars. The radar transmitter waveform may be either unmodulated continuous wave, modulated or pulsed. An unmodulated continuous wave radar has no range resolution, but can resolve targets on the basis of different velocity, while a modulated or pulsed radar can resolve echoes from different ranges. The radar waveform plays a very important role in radar theory (Plant and Shuler, 1980)). An excellent survey of different radar techniques for remote sensing of waves is given by Tucker (1991). Laser altimeters are small and light weight and operates in the infra-red (IR) frequency band. They operate in vertical mode and normally use pulsed waveforms to perform direct measurements of sea surface elevation which easily can be converted to wave amplitude. Microwave range finders also operate in vertical mode at GHz frequencies and is not as affected by fog and water spray as the laser altimeter. A continuous wave frequency modulated (CWFM) or pulsed radar waveform is normally used to provide range resolution. The beam is dispersive, hence the size of the footprint increases linearly with range. One example of a microwave range finder is the Miros SM-094 which is designed for wave and water level (and tide) measurements. This sensor is applied as air gap (bridge clearance) sensor in NOAAs PORTS system. Another example is the Saab wave radar REX which is a derivative of a Saab tank radar. An array of three vertical radars in a triangular configuration can be used to measure a directional wave spectrum. Algorithms and signal processing software similar to what is used in the processing of heave, pitch, roll buoys. A commercial system called “Directional WaveGuide” is available from the Dutch companies Enraf and Radac. Marine navigation radars (X band) provide sea clutter images which contain a pattern resembling a sea wave pattern. By digitizing the radar video signal it can be processed by a digital computer. Sea surface parameters may be calculated on the basis of these digitized images. The marine navigation radar operates in low grazing angle mode and wind generated surface ripple must be present. The marine navigation radar is non-coherent and is a typical example of an indirect wave sensor, because there is no direct relation between wave height and radar back-scatter modulation amplitude. An empirical method of wave spectrum scaling is normally employed. Marine navigation radar based wave sensors are excellent tools for wave direction measurements. A marine navigation radar may also be a tool for surface current measurements. Point measurements of the current vector as well as current maps up to a distance of a few km can be provided (Gangeskar, 2002). Miros WAVEX has its main area of application as directional wave measurements from moving ships. Another example of a marine radar based system is OceanWaves WamosII. The range gated pulsed Doppler microwave radar operates the in low grazing angle mode. By using several antennas it may be used as a directional wave sensor, basically measuring the directional spectrum of the horizontal water particle velocity. The velocity spectrum is directly related to the wave height spectrum by a mathematical model based on linear wave theory and accurate measurements of the wave spectrum can be provided under most conditions. As measurements are taken at a distance from the platform on which it is mounted, the wave field is to a small degree disturbed by interference from the platform structure. Miros Wave and current radar is the only available wave sensor based on the range gated pulsed Doppler radar technique. This radar also uses the dual frequency technique (see below) to performs point measurements of the surface current vector The dual frequency microwave radar transmits two microwave frequencies simultaneously. The frequency separation is chosen to give a “spatial beat” length which is in the range of the water waves of interest. The dual frequency radar may be considered a microwave equivalent of the high frequency (HF) radar (see below). The dual frequency radar is suitable for the measurement of surface current. As far as wave measurements are concerned, the back-scatter processes are too complicated (and not well understood) to allow useful measurement accuracy to be attained. The HF radar is well established as a powerful tool for sea current measurements up to a range of about 30 km. It operates in the MHz frequency band corresponding to a radar wavelength in the range of 10 to 300m. The Doppler shift of the first order Bragg lines of the radar echo is used to derive sea current estimates in very much the same way as for the dual frequency microwave radar. Two radar installations are normally required, looking at the same patch of the sea surface from different angles. CODAR Ocean Sensors (COS). Microwave range finders: The range gated pulsed Doppler microwave radar:, Wave_radar 2009-06-26T12:37:17Z Wind waves can be measured by several radar remote sensing techniques. Several instruments based on a variety of different concepts and techniques are available to the user and these are all often called wave radars. This article (see also Grønlie 2004), gives a brief description of the most common ground-based radar remote sensing techniques. Instruments based on radar remote sensing techniques have become of particular interest in applications where it is important to avoid direct contact with the water surface and avoid structural interference. A typical case is wave measurements from an offshore platform in deep waters with the presence of high currents making the mooring of a wave buoy enormously difficult. Another interesting case is a ship in transit where having instruments in the sea is highly impractical and interference from the ships hull must be avoided. Basically there are two different classes of radar remote sensors for ocean waves. Microwave radars may be used in two different modes; The radar footprint (the radial and azimuthal extent of the surface area to be illuminated by the radar) must be small in comparison with all ocean wavelength of interest. The radar spatial resolution is determined by the bandwidth of the radar signal (see radar signal characteristics)and the beamwidth of the radar antenna. The beam of a microwave antenna is dispersive, consequently the resolution becomes a function of range. The beam of an IR radar (laser) is non dispersive, the radar footprint is therefore independent of range. HF radars utilize the Bragg scattering mechanism and do always operate at very low grazing angles. Due to the low frequency of operation the radar waves are backscattered directly from the gravity waves and surface ripple need not be present. Radar transceivers may be coherent or non-coherent. Coherent radars measure Doppler-modulation as well as amplitude modulation, while non-coherent radars only measure amplitude modulation. Consequently, a non-coherent radar echo contains less information about the sea surface properties. Examples of non-coherent radars are conventional marine navigation radars. The radar transmitter waveform may be either unmodulated continuous wave, modulated or pulsed. An unmodulated continuous wave radar has no range resolution, but can resolve targets on the basis of different velocity, while a modulated or pulsed radar can resolve echoes from different ranges. The radar waveform plays a very important role in radar theory (Plant and Shuler, 1980)). An excellent survey of different radar techniques for remote sensing of waves is given by Tucker (1991). Laser altimeters are small and light weight and operate in the infra-red (IR) frequency band. They operate in vertical mode and normally use pulsed waveforms to perform direct measurements of sea surface elevation which easily can be converted to wave amplitude. Microwave range finders also operate in vertical mode at GHz frequencies and is not as affected by fog and water spray as the laser altimeter. A continuous wave frequency modulated (CWFM) or pulsed radar waveform is normally used to provide range resolution. The beam is dispersive, hence the size of the footprint increases linearly with range. One example of a microwave range finder is the Miros SM-094 which is designed for wave and water level (and tide) measurements. This sensor is applied as air gap (bridge clearance) sensor in NOAAs PORTS system. Another example is the Saab wave radar REX which is a derivative of a Saab tank radar. An array of three vertical radars in a triangular configuration can be used to measure a directional wave spectrum. Algorithms and signal processing software similar to what is used in the processing of heave, pitch, roll buoys. A commercial system called “Directional WaveGuide” is available from the Dutch companies Enraf and Radac. Marine navigation radars (X band) provide sea clutter images which contain a pattern resembling a sea wave pattern. By digitizing the radar video signal it can be processed by a digital computer. Sea surface parameters may be calculated on the basis of these digitized images. The marine navigation radar operates in low grazing angle mode and wind generated surface ripple must be present. The marine navigation radar is non-coherent and is a typical example of an indirect wave sensor, because there is no direct relation between wave height and radar back-scatter modulation amplitude. An empirical method of wave spectrum scaling is normally employed. Marine navigation radar based wave sensors are excellent tools for wave direction measurements. A marine navigation radar may also be a tool for surface current measurements. Point measurements of the current vector as well as current maps up to a distance of a few km can be provided (Gangeskar, 2002). Miros WAVEX has its main area of application as directional wave measurements from moving ships. Another example of a marine radar based system is OceanWaves WaMoS II. The range gated pulsed Doppler microwave radar operates the in low grazing angle mode. By using several antennas it may be used as a directional wave sensor, basically measuring the directional spectrum of the horizontal water particle velocity. The velocity spectrum is directly related to the wave height spectrum by a mathematical model based on linear wave theory and accurate measurements of the wave spectrum can be provided under most conditions. As measurements are taken at a distance from the platform on which it is mounted, the wave field is to a small degree disturbed by interference from the platform structure. Miros Wave and current radar is the only available wave sensor based on the range gated pulsed Doppler radar technique. This radar also uses the dual frequency technique (see below) to perform point measurements of the surface current vector The dual frequency microwave radar transmits two microwave frequencies simultaneously. The frequency separation is chosen to give a “spatial beat” length which is in the range of the water waves of interest. The dual frequency radar may be considered a microwave equivalent of the high frequency (HF) radar (see below). The dual frequency radar is suitable for the measurement of surface current. As far as wave measurements are concerned, the back-scatter processes are too complicated (and not well understood) to allow useful measurement accuracy to be attained. The HF radar is well established as a powerful tool for sea current measurements up to a range of about 30 km. It operates in the MHz frequency band corresponding to a radar wavelength in the range of 10 to 300m. The Doppler shift of the first order Bragg lines of the radar echo is used to derive sea current estimates in very much the same way as for the dual frequency microwave radar. Two radar installations are normally required, looking at the same patch of the sea surface from different angles. CODAR Ocean Sensors (COS). Microwave range finders: The range gated pulsed Doppler microwave radar: X-band based wave sensors: | 0 |
Steve-O | Steve-O 2008-01-03T19:05:25Z Steve-O (born Stephen Gilchrist Glover on June 13, 1974 in Wimbledon, London, UK) is a daredevil performer and television personality. He is best known as one of the performers on the TV series Jackass, Wildboyz, and Dr. Steve-O. Steve-O was born to an American father and a Canadian mother in England, where his family was based for many years due to his father's business interests, graduating from The American School in London in 1992 before moving to the US. He briefly attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He dropped out after one year to later attend the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and make videos of his stunts. Though he was not selected to join The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus after graduating Clown College, he did work as a clown in a circus at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop flea market. While performing in the flea market circus, Steve-O began sending videos of himself to Big Brother Magazine editor and future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine, which led to his involvement in the television series Jackass and its hit movie spin-offs, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, and Jackass 2.5. On July 31, 2002, Steve-O was arrested in Los Angeles on obscenity and assault charges for performing his now infamous stunt, The Butterfly (in which he staples his scrotum to his leg) POOP at the Abyss, a nightclub in Houma, Louisiana, and for being a principal to a second-degree battery, both of which occurred at the nightclub on July 11, 2002. After posting a $150,000 bond in the Los Angeles court system, he was allowed to return to Louisiana where he turned himself in to the local authorities. Steve-O was released from Louisiana's custody with a $35,000 bond on August 14, 2002. The Louisiana courts had originally set his bond at $1.12 million, but it was reduced after he convinced them he wasn't a flight risk. Steve-O was required to return to Los Angeles on August 16, 2002, and prove that he turned himself in to Louisiana authorities. The arraignment was originally scheduled for September 16, 2002, however Steve-O was granted a continuance extending it until December 16, 2002, and then granted a second continuance extending it to February 10, 2003. Finally on March 24, 2003, Steve-O made a deal with Louisiana prosecutors placing him on supervised probation for one year, requiring him to make a charitable donation of $5,000 to a shelter for battered women and children, and forbidding him from ever performing in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana again. The Abyss nightclub was in danger of losing their liquor license as a result of the events on the night of July 11, 2002. They were allowed to keep it until the trial against Steve-O was complete. On May 22, 2003 Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to a comment he made during an interview about smuggling drugs in to the country, remarking that he swallowed a condom containing cannabis to get it past the authorities. Steve-O reached a plea bargain with the Swedish prosecutors and was released on May 27, 2003 after paying a 45,000 Kronor (about $6,700 dollars) fine. As part of the plea bargain Steve-O admitted to possessing one ecstasy tablet and five grams of marijuana, although he claimed he had no knowledge of where the ecstasy came from. On July 19, 2003, Steve-O was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct for urinating on potato chips in public during a Lollapalooza tour concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Steve-O claimed he was kicked off the tour by Lollapalooza producers because of the incident. Steve-O was again seen urinating in public at the March 5, 2006 Key Club Party for the Oscars, urinating on the red carpet outside the club, and then "stripping off to his birthday suit." November 2, 2005 Steve-O was seen by reporters, and later officers in the Los Angeles Police Department, exiting a nightclub with a bag of marijuana. Though the officers confronted Steve-O they made no attempt to arrest him. The incident was documented on video tape by the reporters and resulted in an administrative investigation within the LAPD to see if the officers at the scene were negligent. Steve-O attended the "Rock The Bells" Hip-Hop Festival in San Bernardino, California in August 2006 to some controversy. The Concert was headlined by the Wu-Tang Clan and the event was organized as a tribute to clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard. While on stage with the Wu-Tang Clan, Steve-O exclaimed that he shared the same cell with O.D.B, albeit at different times. He proceeded to show his affection for ODB by getting nude, tucking his penis between his legs and doing a back flip. This upset Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, and he threatened to assault him if he didn't apologize while tempers flared. On September 26, 2005, a heavily intoxicated Steve-O appeared on Too Late with Adam Carolla. He had originally planned on getting drunk, having a policeman give him a Breathalyzer test, and then pulling a cloth out from under a table of food. Unfortunately, the plan fell through at the last second as Steve-O had already consumed a large amount of alcohol. On the show Steve-O yelled obscenities, attempted to tackle Adam Carolla, broke a glass table with his foot, inadvertently cutting his leg, and was taken away by security at the end of the segment. In the following segment Adam attempted to perform the stunt Steve-O had planned. Despite the turmoil, on October 17, 2005, Steve-O appeared again on Too Late. His second appearance was no less chaotic, with Steve-O lighting a table on fire, breaking the replacement for the glass table he had broken previously, and ended with him stapling his scrotum to his thigh. Following the departure of Adam Carolla from Loveline, Steve-O periodically guest co-hosted in his place and was being considered, among many others, as a possible replacement. Loveline producers eventually chose KROQ DJ Stryker to replace Carolla on the show. While guest co-hosting on May 23, 2006, Steve-O announced he had been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a serious cardiac condition which can be life threatening. Steve-O claimed his doctor told him he was dying and had "the heart of a 90 year old man" also adding without treatment he "wouldn't live past 40." On June 16, 2006, however, Steve-O announced his heart was perfectly fine on Radio Bam after visiting a heart specialist who said that his original doctor misread the results of a test. On July 18, 2006, Steve-O became a late contestant on the British reality show Love Island broadcast on ITV from Fiji in an effort to boost ratings. Despite stating he has stopped drinking he asked for beer while on the show, on July 19, 2006 he abruptly left Love Island because he was not allowed the beer and chocolate which he requested. On October 10, 2006, Steve-O appeared on Tom Green Live, an Internet talk-show hosted by comedian Tom Green, along side guests Jukka Hildén and Carson Daly in which he discussed his hatred for current U.S. President George W. Bush and organized religion. Steve-O also spoke out about his feelings towards his clown college alma mater, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, for abusing the animals used in the circus. He took calls from viewers while repeatedly huffing medical-grade compressed nitrous oxide (commonly called "whippits"), smoking, drinking alcohol and eating hash brownies. The show ran for three times its normal length, ending with Steve-O collapsing on the floor after drinking a bottle of Italian salad dressing and vomiting violently. On March 27, 2006, Jackass co-stars Steve-O and Chris Pontius visited The Dean Blundell Show, a morning show on Toronto radio station CFNY (102.1 The Edge), to promote their "Don't Try This At Home" tour. During the interview, Pontius and Steve-O said multiple expletives on the air. Steve-O also proceeded to urinate on the floor and perform a stunt called "Unwrapping the Mummy" all in front of a live studio audience. Hosts Dean Blundell, Jason Barr, and Todd Shapiro were suspended for the week following the appearance, after the contents of the show received attention from the public, and garnered many complaints. , Steve-O 2009-12-31T09:15:19Z Stephen Gilchrist "Steve-O" Glover (born June 13, 1974) is an American daredevil and television personality. He is best known as one of the performers on the TV series Jackass and Wildboyz. Steve-O was born in the London suburb of Wimbledon to an American father and a Canadian mother. His family was based in England for many years due to his father's presidency of the South American division of Pepsi-Cola. During his childhood Steve-O lived in a number of countries, including Brazil - speaking his first words in Portuguese - and Venezuela. His first hometown in the United States was Darien, Connecticut at age 4, moving to Miami two years later. At age 9 his family returned to London, leaving three years later for Canada. Subsequently, the family returned to London once again. Steve-O graduated from Leggett Valley High School in 1992 before moving to the United States. He attended the Mendocino College in Ukiah,Ca, but dropped out after one year due to poor grades and lack of interest in school. He then attended and graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. After graduation he was not selected to join the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, but worked as a clown in a circus at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop flea market. He filmed his stunts, including his clown performances, throughout this period. Like fellow Jackass star Bam Margera, Steve-O is also an avid heavy metal fan. He has a tattoo of an inverted Christian cross on his left shoulder. While performing in the flea market circus, Steve-O began sending videos of himself to Big Brother Magazine editor and future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. Tremaine recruited Steve-O for MTV's television series Jackass, which became an instant hit. From this popularity, MTV decided to release three movies based on the series: Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006) and direct-home release Jackass 2.5 (2007). Both Jackass: The Movie and Jackass Number Two became box office hits. In 2001, he released Don't Try This at Home on DVD, which contained material MTV censored. It went on to sell 140,000 copies. He toured promoting the DVD doing stunts, which was filmed and released as Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour The tour gained national attention after Steve-O was arrested on July 31, 2002 in Los Angeles on obscenity and assault charges for stapling his scrotum to his leg, and for being a principal to a second-degree battery, during a performance at a nightclub in Houma, Louisiana on July 11, 2002. After several delays, in March 2003 Steve-O made a deal with Louisiana prosecutors placing him on supervised probation for one year, requiring him to make a charitable donation of $5,000 to a shelter for battered women and children and forbidding him from ever performing in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana again. In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera. On May 22, 2003 Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to a comment he made during an interview about smuggling drugs into the country, remarking that he swallowed a condom containing cannabis to get it past the authorities. Steve-O reached a plea bargain with the Swedish prosecutors and was released on May 27, 2003 after paying a 45,000 Kronor (about $6,700 dollars) fine. As part of the plea bargain Steve-O admitted to possessing one ecstasy tablet and five grams of marijuana, although he claimed he had no knowledge of where the ecstasy came from. The Swedish arrest was included in the third installment of the DVD series titled Steve-O: Out on Bail. Two months later on July 19, 2003, Steve-O was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct for urinating on potato chips in public during a Lollapalooza tour concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Steve-O claimed he was kicked off the tour by Lollapalooza producers because of the incident. Steve-O was again seen urinating in public at the March 5, 2006 Key Club Party for the Oscars, urinating on the red carpet outside the club and then stripping off to his "birthday suit." After the Jackass show ended, he co-starred with Chris Pontius on MTV's Wildboyz, which lasted several seasons until 2006. The two performed stunts and acts with animals, often putting themselves in situations for which they are not trained. In mid 2005, Steve-O launched his own shoe company called Sneaux Shoes. Television commercials promoting the shoe company include such acts as Steve-O jumping into garbage, getting his foot bitten by an alligator and drinking rotten milk. His slogan is "They're darn good shoes." On March 27, 2006, Jackass co-stars Steve-O and Chris Pontius visited The Dean Blundell Show, a morning show on Toronto radio station CFNY (102.1 The Edge), to promote their "Don't Try This At Home" tour. Steve-O urinated on the floor and performed a stunt called "Unwrapping the Mummy" all in front of a live studio audience. Hosts Dean Blundell, Jason Barr, and Todd Shapiro were suspended for the week following the appearance, after many complaints. In April 2006, Steve-O later sued manager Nick Dunlap and attorney Jason Berk accusing them of lying to him to fund their lifestyles. On July 18, 2006, Steve-O became a late contestant on the British reality show Love Island broadcast on ITV from Fiji in an effort to boost ratings. Despite stating he has stopped drinking he asked for beer while on the show, on July 19, 2006 he abruptly left Love Island because he was not allowed the beer and chocolate which he requested. In November 2006, he went on a drug binge after being misdiagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a serious heart condition. He was later examined by heart specialists who concluded he was in good health. In 2007, Steve-O starred in his own television show called Dr. Steve-O on the USA Network. In the show, he helped make show guests cool and "de-wussify" them. That same year he appeared in Jackass 2.5, which mainly consisted of material that didn't appear in the second Jackass movie. Additionally, he appeared with some Jackass alumni in National Lampoon's TV: The Movie. On February 5, 2008, Steve-O appeared on The Howard Stern Show with Howard Stern, Robin Quivers and Artie Lange on Sirius Satellite radio to promote his upcoming rap album Hard As a Rock. Another mix-CD released by Steve-O is called The Dumbest Asshole In Hip Hop. On February 23, 2008 Steve-O joined the rest of the Jackass crew for the Jackass MTV 24 Hour Takeover, which promoted JackassWorld.com. During the live broadcast Steve-O was kicked out of MTV studios on the request of executives for his behavior and intoxication. Eventually, he was allowed back in. On March 9, 2008, Steve-O's friends, including co-star Johnny Knoxville, physically removed him from his house and forced him to check into Thalians Mental Health Center due to ongoing drug abuse problems. Steve-O was placed on a 72 hour psychiatric hold which was later lengthened to 14 days due to an alleged suicide attempt. In a mass e-mail addressed to his friends, Steve-O expressed that he previously had thought that his drug abuse and bipolarity as a "good thing," but that he now realizes that his drug abuse was hurting those he loved most. On June 4, 2008, Steve-O pleaded guilty to felony possession of cocaine. He avoided jail by the successful completion of his treatment program. In July, after 115 days of sobriety, Steve-O announced he was "back in the loony bin". He returned to the mental institution, he said, because "I've had horrible mood swings and severe depression. My brain is fucked up from using so much cocaine, ketamine, PCP, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs." In March 2009, Steve-O was on the 8th season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Lacey Schwimmer. After the first week, he complained of pinched nerves and back spasms and did not compete in the second week after injuring his back further by falling on his microphone pack during dress rehearsal. The judges based their scores on his performance at the dress rehearsal. He was eventually eliminated in the sixth week of the competition. On May 3, 2009, MTV premiered a documentary titled Steve-O: Demise and Rise about how his life was affected by the use of drugs and alcohol. The show featured home-made video footage of Steve using drugs and vandalizing his apartment. In an August 2009 interview with Johnny Knoxville for The Times-Picayune, Knoxville on the topic of Steve-o's recovery and rehabilitation said "He's taking to sobriety like he took to drugs and alcohol, I'm very proud of him. I think we'll see him doing some stuff here really soon. As a matter of fact, I know we are." And later stated "Something's coming. We're pretty excited". Later, he added: "I think it'll be a big year next year, but I don't want to talk about it yet." Then in November 2009, Steve-O announced on his website the release of a new DVD titled Steve-O: Pounding Out Randoms, which only 1000 copies have been made. Steve-O will be part of Jackass 3D, the second sequel of the Jackass series. The movie will be filmed in 3D starting in January 2010, specifically starting on January 25, 2010. Filming locations are expected to include Knob Lick, Mianus, Fukang, Buttzville and Gayville. In December 2009, Paramount issued a press release that it will be released October 15, 2010. TV Movies DVDs Music | 1 |
Chronology_Volume_1 | Chronology_Volume_1 2009-08-13T14:47:43Z Chronology, Volume 1 (1996-2000) is the first of two greatest hits albums released by the Christian rock band Third Day in March 2007 as a two-disc CD/DVD. Songs featured on this album were taken from their debut album Third Day (1996) 13. through their platinum-selling Offerings: A Worship Album (2000). Bonus Tracks Music Videos: Dove Award Performances: "Bootleg/Archive" videos: , Chronology_Volume_1 2010-07-15T16:53:13Z Chronology, Volume 1 (1996-2000) is the first of two greatest hits albums released by the Christian rock band Third Day in March 2007 as a two-disc CD/DVD. Songs featured on this album were taken from their debut album Third Day (1996) 13. through their platinum-selling Offerings: A Worship Album (2000). Bonus Tracks Music Videos: Dove Award Performances: "Bootleg/Archive" videos: | 0 |
Monteverdi_High_Speed | Monteverdi_High_Speed 2009-11-06T12:25:47Z The Monteverdi High Speed was a grand tourer automobile built by Monteverdi in Basel, Switzerland from 1967 to 1970. Contemporary rivals included the British Jensen Interceptor. This car was designed by the Italian design house Frua and was actually built by Fissore of Italy from 1969. They redesigned the car in 1972 and again in 1975. This article about a classic post-war automobile produced between 1945 and 1975 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Monteverdi_High_Speed 2011-04-05T16:29:24Z The Monteverdi High Speed was a grand tourer automobile built by Monteverdi in Basel, Switzerland from 1967 to 1970. Contemporary rivals included the British Jensen Interceptor. This car was designed by the Italian design house Frua and was actually built by Fissore of Italy from 1969. They redesigned the car in 1972 and again in 1975. The convertible version of the High Speed 375 was known as the Palm Beach. The car had a 7,206 cc Chrysler V-8 engine that developed 380 to 402 bhp. This article about a classic post-war automobile produced between 1945 and 1975 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Pinkalicious | Pinkalicious 2018-01-04T16:14:21Z The Pinkalicious book series is a series of books written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. The first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, were co-written with her sister, Elizabeth Kann. Goldalicious, Silverlicious, Emeraldalicious, and Aqualicious have all been number one. The stories center on a girl named Pinkalicious and are told in first-person narrative. Pinkalicious, as her name implies, has a love for things that are pink, whether they are at school, home, or outdoors. The books are based on Victoria's two daughters and their love for the color pink. All of the books have been featured on the New York Times bestseller list. Shanea Goldizen of Library Point describes Pinkalicious as '...a colorful, scrumptious feast for the eyes and will keep your kids reading and re-reading...' Publishers Weekly found that'the artwork creates visual interest to keep pink-loving gals involved in this tale of wonderful-to-wretched excess. ' In 2007, Pinkalicious was adapted into 50-minute musical. In Pinkalicious the Musical, Pinkalicious cannot stop eating pink cupcakes despite her parents warning her. After eating too many sends her to the doctor, she is diagnosed with "Pinkititis", an illness that turns her completely pink. She doesn't seem to mind, since it's her favorite color, but, when it goes too far, she must figure out a way to stop it. The musical is currently on tour across North America. There is also a children's television series, based on the books, in the works. Pinkalicious & Peterrific follows her and her brother Peter. The series is slated to air on PBS Kids on February 19, 2018., Pinkalicious 2019-12-05T16:48:41Z The Pinkalicious book series is a series of books written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. The first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, were co-written with her sister, Elizabeth Kann. The stories center on a girl named Pinkalicious Pinkerton (her real last name is never mentioned) and are told in first-person narrative. They are also about her younger brother, Peter. They live in Pinkville and both love the color pink. The books are based on Victoria's two daughters and their love for the color pink. Shanea Goldizen of Library Point describes Pinkalicious as '...a colorful, scrumptious feast for the eyes and will keep your kids reading and re-reading...' Publishers Weekly found that'the artwork creates visual interest to keep pink-loving gals involved in this tale of wonderful-to-wretched excess. ' In 2007, Pinkalicious was adapted into a 50-minute musical. In Pinkalicious the Musical, Pinkalicious cannot stop eating pink cupcakes despite her parents warning her. After eating too many, she is diagnosed by a doctor with "Pinkititis", an illness that turns her completely pink. She doesn't seem to mind, because it is her favorite color. But when it goes too far, she must figure out a way to stop it. Pinkalicious & Peterrific is a children's television series that features Pinkalicious and her brother Peter. The series premiered on PBS Kids on February 19, 2018, and is produced by WGBH in Boston in association with Sixteen South. | 1 |
Dave Bautista | Dave Bautista 2005-01-11T11:30:32Z David Bautista best known as Batista (born January 18, 1969 in Washington, DC) is a professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand. Batista began his WWE career alongside Reverand D'Von known as Deacon Batista on the SmackDown! brand. Soon after, he went to RAW and joined Triple H and Ric Flair and (then member) Randy Orton to become part of Evolution. Of Filipino and Greek heritage, he is wedded with two daughters. His wife Angie is a survivor of ovarian cancer. , Dave Bautista 2006-12-31T21:58:31Z David Michael Bautista, Jr. (born January 18 1969) better known as Dave Batista or simply by his ring name Batista, is an American professional wrestler. Batista is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its SmackDown brand where he is the reigning World Heavyweight Champion. Batista tried out at the WCW Power Plant but was told he would never make it in the wrestling business by Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker. He then went to the WWF who sent him to work with Afa Anoai. He wrestled in Anoai's WXW promotion under the name Kahn. He made his Ohio Valley Wrestling debut in 2000, joining forces with Synn. During his tenure in OVW he was called Leviathan. As a member of the Disciples of Synn stable he would go undefeated until being beaten at an OVW supercard, Christmas Chaos by WWF's Kane (with help from Stone Cold Steve Austin). He would later go on to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship from 'The Machine' Doug Basham. After losing the belt to The Prototype, Synn felt Batista was getting too independent and "sold" him to Reverend D-Von to begin his WWE (then still WWF) career. He began his WWE career on the May 9, 2002 episode of SmackDown! as Deacon Bautista, a heel enforcer for Reverend D-Von on the SmackDown! franchise. Batista made his WWE match debut in a tag match teaming with D-Von against Randy Orton and Faarooq with Batista pinning Orton after using his spinebuster. Over a sequence of weeks, Orton would try to beat D-Von and Batista with different partners, but ultimately losing each time to Batista's spinebuster. After splitting with D-Von (and defeating D-Von after a Batista Bomb), he went to RAW and was rebranded as Dave Batista (or simply Batista). After establishing himself as a monster through a series of squash matches, including one where he maliciously and relentlessly attacked Tajiri, sending him to the hospital for a long recovery (kayfabe), he aligned himself with Ric Flair and feuded with Kane, getting a couple of wins over Kane. Batista's pay-per-view debut was at Armageddon 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he defeated Kane, only after heavy interference from Flair. In January 2003, Batista joined with Triple H, Ric Flair, and Randy Orton to form the stable Evolution. However, Batista was sidelined for much of 2003 after he tore his right triceps at a house show in a tag team match against the Dudley Boyz that saw his tag team partner, Randy Orton break his foot as well. During his recuperation after surgery to reattach his triceps, Dave was out jogging with his wife in the rain when he slipped, retearing his triceps. He faced another setback when after his second surgery to reattach his triceps he suffered an infection that required a third surgery to clean out the infection. He made his return on the October 20, 2003 episode of RAW, interfering in a match between Goldberg and Shawn Michaels and "shattering" Goldberg's ankle by inserting it in a folding chair and then jumping off the second rope on to the chair. After the interference, Evolution came out and Triple H rewarded Batista with a guaranteed payment of $100,000 after the briefcase was stolen by Mark Jindrak and Garrison Cade. On the November 10, 2003 episode of RAW, Goldberg defeated Batista by disqualification when Triple H interfered and attempted to hit him with a sledgehammer. At Armageddon 2003, Batista took part in two matches, losing to Shawn Michaels in a singles match but winning a tag team turmoil match along with Ric Flair, eliminating the Dudley Boyz to become one-half of the World Tag Team Champions. By the end of the PPV, all four members of Evolution held championships on RAW, with Triple H winning the World Heavyweight Championship and Randy Orton winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship. They held the titles until the February 16, 2004, episode of RAW, when they were defeated by Booker T and Rob Van Dam. They later regained the titles for a short period. In late 2004, after Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Championship, Triple H evicted him from the group, claiming that the title which Orton held was rightfully his. It was Batista who delivered an electric chair to Orton after Triple H gave Orton a "thumbs up" before turning it into a "thumbs down." Between SummerSlam 2004 and roughly before the period he began his program with Triple H, Dave suffered an embarrassing losing streak. Triple H would jokingly taunt Dave for this over the latter part of 2004. In fact, Dave's struggles seemingly culminated when Dave was pinned by mid-card wrestler Maven on the October 25, 2004 edition of RAW. At the 2004 Survivor Series, Triple H, Batista, Gene Snitsky, and Edge were to face-off against Maven, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, and Randy Orton in an 8-Man Elimination Tag Match for control of RAW over the following month (the members of the winning team would each be the RAW general manager for a week). Prior to the pay-per-view, Edge, Snitsky, and Triple H all had an argument in the locker room regarding Triple H's championship, with each wrestler claiming that they should hold the title. Batista, who was present at that time, did not say a word but rather took a brief look at the belt as everybody was leaving the locker room, adding into the growing fan speculation and interest in his character. They ended up losing, causing much unrest within Evolution. In the first week following Survivor Series, Triple H had offered Maven a spot in Evolution (rather than have Maven challenge him for the World Title) which was turned down. Throughout the next two months, the relationship between Batista and Triple H began to deteriorate. After a loss to Chris Jericho by disqualification, Batista was verbally insulted by Triple H. Batista teased leaving Evolution that night, but he declared that he was still part of Evolution and that they tricked everyone. Still, Dave began behaving more like a face in the next few weeks, despite Evolution's heelish tactics. One particular moment showed a disgusted Batista as Triple H and Ric Flair boasted about how they had intimidated and/or beat up Jim Ross, Danny Hodge, and Stacy Keibler. He continued to show his loyalty to Triple H and Evolution by running down to the ring and assisting him in matches. However, despite this, fans started cheering for Batista. As 2005 began, Batista's growing popularity was becoming more and more evident, especially to Triple H. Triple H soon realized the possibility of Batista, much like Randy Orton the year before, becoming a threat to his World Heavyweight Championship. Triple H suggested that Dave not enter the Royal Rumble, claiming that it would be selfish of him to do so, and to simply focus on Triple H retaining the title. After defeating La Resistance in a handicap match, Dave entered anyway and went on to win the Royal Rumble, last eliminating John Cena, earning the right to participate in the main event of WrestleMania 21 against the World Champion of his choice. In an attempt to persuade Batista to challenge WWE Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield rather than Triple H, Triple H concocted a scheme that saw him attempt to have Batista run over in a limousine resembling the one used by Layfield. Initially, Dave didn't want help from Evolution and wanted to confront JBL by himself. Triple H insisted that Evolution stick together and accompanied Dave anyway. In fact, it was Triple H that saved Dave from the oncoming vehicle. Batista became aware of the plot while sneakily eavesdropping on fellow Evolution members, and on the February 21 episode of RAW he signed a contract guaranteeing him a match with World Champion Triple H at WrestleMania 21, thus leaving Evolution and officially turning face for the first time in WWE. He emphasized his departure by powerbombing Triple H through the table used for the contract signing. Batista initially pretended that he would sign with SmackDown!, giving Triple H and Flair the "thumbs up," but turned it into a "thumbs down" before attacking the pair, much to the delight of the crowd, who became unglued upon the thumbs-down. Batista went on to win the World Heavyweight Championship on April 3, 2005 at WrestleMania 21. The show ended with confetti falling through the air as Batista celebrated his title win with the fans chanting his name. At Backlash, on May 1 2005, Batista once again faced Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. Batista retained the title but continued to feud with Triple H. Along the way, he even helped commentator Jim "J.R." Ross gain an upset victory over Triple H on RAW. On May 23, 2005, Batista successfully defeated Edge to retain his title. After the match, Batista was betrayed by Ric Flair, who helped Triple H viciously attack the champion. During the brutal attack, Triple H challenged Batista to Hell in a Cell, setting up a match at Vengeance 2005. Batista survived the pedigree and won the match, retaining his title yet again. With this win, Batista became the first wrestler to pin Triple H in a Hell in a Cell match. This also made him the first wrestler to defeat Triple H at three consecutive pay-per-views. On June 30, 2005 Batista was revealed as the last pick in the 2005 WWE Draft Lottery, making a surprise appearance while John "Bradshaw" Layfield was celebrating his victory in a six-man elimination match to win the new SmackDown! Championship. With this, Batista became the first World Heavyweight Champion after its post-WCW/Alliance re-incarnation on SmackDown! . With Batista as the new face of SmackDown!, there was no need for the new belt and a feud between Batista and JBL was set up. They faced off at the Great American Bash on July 24, 2005 where JBL defeated Batista by DQ after the referee saw Batista use a steel chair. They had a rematch at SummerSlam on August 21, 2005 in a No-Holds-Barred match which saw Batista pin JBL following a powerbomb on the steel steps. The feud culminated in a match between the two on the first episode of SmackDown! broadcast after the show's move to Friday nights, with Batista retaining the title in JBL's signature bull rope match. Soon after retaining the title in a feud with Eddie Guerrero, WWE.com reported that Batista suffered a muscle tear in his back at the taping for the November 11, 2005 edition of SmackDown! due to a double chokeslam from The Big Show and Kane. Plans had been made for Batista to defend the title in a triple threat match with Eddie Guerrero and Randy Orton on the November 18, 2005 episode, but the match didn't take place due to the unexpected death of Eddie Guerrero on November 13, 2005. Batista paid homage to Eddie Guerrero during the SmackDown! and RAW tribute shows dedicated to Guerrero's memory. Batista was great friends with Eddie Guerrero Batista would lead Team SmackDown! against Team RAW in an interbrand feud before 2005's Survivor Series. The feud would see the Big Show and Kane chokeslamming Batista several more times in the weeks leading up to Survivor Series in an on-camera explanation for Batista's injury. Batista would help his team win the Survivor Series main event. On the December 2, 2005 edition of Friday Night SmackDown! , Batista saved Rey Mysterio from a double team attack by RAW 's reigning World Tag Team Champions The Big Show and Kane. It was later announced that Mysterio would team with Batista to face Big Show and Kane at Armageddon 2005, a SmackDown! exclusive pay-per-view. On the December 16, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, Batista and Mysterio received a title shot at the WWE Tag Team Champions MNM. The two defeated MNM to become champions in a match which they dedicated to Eddie Guerrero. With Batista and Mysterio becoming the WWE Tag Team Champions, the clash with the Big Show and Kane at Armageddon turned into a Champions vs. Champions encounter. At Armageddon on December 18, 2005, Batista and Mysterio lost to Kane and Big Show when Kane pinned Mysterio after a chokeslam. On the December 30, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, MNM defeated Batista and Mysterio after help from the returning Mark Henry to regain the WWE Tag Team Championships. During the interference, Henry attacked Batista, lifted him up, and gave him the World's Strongest Slam. On January 9, 2006, WWE.com announced that Batista had torn his right tricep following a match with Mark Henry at a live event on January 8, 2006 in Verona, New York. The following day, WWE.com announced that, due to his injury, Batista was forced to vacate the World Heavyweight Championship at the SmackDown! tapings in Philadelphia on January 10, 2006, two days after surpassing Triple H's previous mark of 280 days for longest reigning champion. Later that night, Kurt Angle defeated the final contestant, Mark Henry, to become the new World Heavyweight Champion after winning a battle royal. (These events were aired on the January 13, 2006 edition of SmackDown!.) Dave went on to have successful surgery on his arm on January 12, 2006. On February 19, 2006, Batista made an appearance at No Way Out 2006 and told the crowd that once his arm had healed he would return to regain his World Heavyweight Championship. At WrestleMania 22, Batista once again made a brief appearance. This time he interrupted a Randy Orton interview, putting SmackDown! on notice; the World Heavyweight Championship would return to him by WrestleMania 23. Batista made his official return during the July 7, 2006 edition of SmackDown! in Philadelphia immediately calling out and entering into a feud with the man who put him out with the arm injury, Mark Henry. At Saturday Night's Main Event, Batista won his first televised match since his return, a six man tag match with Rey Mysterio and Lashley taking on King Booker, Finlay and Mark Henry. In a bizarre twist of fate, during the match Mark Henry was legitimately injured, and was ruled out of the scheduled match between the two at The Great American Bash (thus further delaying by at least eight months a potential feud between the two, which was already delayed by Batista's injury). Batista would put out an open challenge to replace the injured Henry which was answered by Mr. Kennedy. Batista would lose this match via DQ for failing to stop choking Mr. Kennedy into the turnbuckle with his boot, but continued to attack Kennedy which resulted in Mr. Kennedy suffering a laceration on his forehead so severe that it exposed his cranium and required 20 stitches to close. Batista would go on to lose another match with Kennedy via count out in a rematch on SmackDown! before finally defeating Kennedy by pinfall on the August 4, 2006 edition of SmackDown!. During this time Batista would try to regain a world title, facing both Big Show for his ECW World Heavyweight Championship during an ECW show, and King Booker for his World Heavyweight Championship during SummerSlam and SmackDown!. Batista won these matches but not the titles as the contests ended via disqualification. Batista continued on as a top contender to the World Title; competing against King Booker on several occasions while feuding with Finlay, before finally defeating King Booker to regain the World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series 2006; in the same arena where he surrendered the title. Batista would continue to feud with Finlay and King Booker over the title throughout the rest of 2006. Bautista is of Greek and Filipino heritage. His year of birth was disputed for several years. His website originally listed him as being born in 1969, while several contradictory news reports, as well as the IMDB, had claimed that he was actually born in 1966. In addition, Obsessed with Wrestling claimed for a time that, when Bautista re-signed with WWE in January 2005, he revealed that he had been working under a fake age (a common practice in the entertainment field) and admitted that he was actually thirty-nine years old (and would therefore have been born in 1966). However, this claim was later removed. In March 2006, Bautista stated in an interview that he was born in 1969. Bautista married second wife Angie, a Filipina survivor of ovarian cancer, in October 1998. In the August 2006 edition of WWE magazine Bautista revealed that he and his wife are currently separated. Bautista has two daughters and a step daughter from his first marriage . Bautista has numerous tattoos, including a large Chinese dragon on his back, red Kanji lettering on his upper left biceps which says "Angel" in tribute to his wife Angie, a signature design on his upper right biceps, and a small Sun on his stomach which encircles his belly button. He recently added a tattoo on his arm of the flags of the Philippines and Greece merged into one. In an edition of SmackDown! magazine (Now WWE Magazine), he stated that he collected lunchboxes. This collection started when he bought his wife an ET lunchbox and she did not want to break it, so he bought a second one. Bautista can breakdance. This was shown in a commercial promoting WWE SummerSlam 2004 where he did his take on a "floor routine" (basically mocking the floor routines shown at the Olympic Games). Bautista has torn his right triceps three times, and has had four surgeries on it (three reattachments, one to clean up due to infection). Bautista guest starred in the eighth episode of Season 6 of the American drama action/adventure, CW Network television series Smallville, playing a villain named Aldar from the Phantom Zone who could suck the bones out of people. Batista was in and out of trouble during his childhood in Washington D.C. and Virginia. One of his more infamous scrapes with the law involved his stealing automobiles when he was 13. Before getting into professional wrestling, he worked as a bouncer in various clubs, and was once arrested for brawling with a man even though his actions were taken in self-defense. In 2005, Batista gave two controversial interviews to the British tabloid newspaper The Sun. In the first interview, Batista, then wrestling on the RAW brand of WWE, criticized SmackDown!, stating, "I've watched their tapings live and it seems like a lot of the guys couldn't care less. There's a lack of passion and pride." In the second interview, Batista acknowledged that his statements had attracted considerable backstage heat from members of the SmackDown! brand. He then went on to claim, "there are guys on both shows who are lazy, couldn't care less and show no dedication." He then criticized rival wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, claiming, "I've also seen clips of their car wreck matches with A.J. Styles doing his stunts. That's not wrestling. Wrestling is storytelling." In April 2006, Styles responded to Batista's comments, quipping, "I think it's funny that a guy who takes a bump and tears his back tells me that I don't know how to wrestle." At a 2006 SummerSlam pay-per-view commercial shoot, it was reported that Batista got into a real-life fistfight with Booker T (Booker T had a noticeable black eye at the next SmackDown taping). The incident was reported on WWE.com, with both men telling their sides of the story. | 1 |
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