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Xian Lim | Xian Lim 2022-01-11T16:00:24Z Alexander Xian Cruz Lim (born July 12, 1989), is a Filipino actor, model, singer, host, blogger, filmmaker and professional basketball player. He is best known for his roles in My Binondo Girl (2011), The Reunion (2012), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (2012–13), Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo? (2013), Bride for Rent (2014), The Story of Us (2016) and Everything About Her (2016). Lim was a contract artist of Star Magic from 2008 to 2017, until signing a contract with Viva Artists Agency in January 2018. Since 2012, Lim has notably hosted for many major televised events, particularly Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) annually, as well as Miss Grand International in Vietnam in 2017. Born in San Francisco, California, Lim and his family moved back to Manila, Philippines six months after his birth. Following his parent's separation, he (age 10) and his mother relocated to Daly City, California. Raised by his mother, a former model turned piano teacher, resulted in Lim learning various musical instruments including piano, trombone, saxophone and guitar. He later joined a symphonic band before graduating high school at age 18. He briefly studied psychology at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, until moving to the Philippines to attend college as a basketball varsity scholar at the University of the East in Manila. Before attaining a degree, he became involved with modeling, and eventually, acting. Lim was cast in a few minor roles before landing a supporting role in Katorse in 2009. In 2010, he was part of the cast in the drama Rubi as Luis Navarro. Then, he guest starred in 100 Days to Heaven as Jojo Villanueva. He was a guest judge on Showtime and had one-episode appearances for Midnight DJ, Maalaala Mo Kaya, Wansapanataym and Your Song Presents: Andi. In 2011, after a special participation in Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin portraying the young Joaquin del Tierro, he landed his first major lead role in My Binondo Girl top-billed by Kim Chiu. The romantic-comedy television drama was a nationwide success, garnering an average household TV rating of 28.2% provided by Kantar Media/TNS. In early 2012, Lim signed a three-picture contract with Star Cinema and appeared in the film, My Cactus Heart. In the same year, he starred in a youth-oriented movie with Enchong Dee, Enrique Gil and Kean Cipriano, entitled The Reunion. He was also back in primetime through the teleserye drama Ina, Kapatid, Anak with Kim Chiu, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. He also released his debut studio album So It's You under Star Records which reached a Gold Record status. In 2013, his film Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? with his onscreen and offscreen partner Kim Chiu earned Php 10.5 million in the first day of film showing alone, consequentially surpassing the P100 million mark at the box office for the year 2013 in three weeks time. From the outstanding box office sales, the pair obtained the nickname as the newest blockbuster royalties of their generation. In 2014, his second movie with Kim Chiu entitled Bride for Rent earned a whopping Php 21.2M on its first day and Php 100M in just 4 days. The movie eventually grossed Php 326,958,423 during its whole run in theaters which validated the KimXi tandem's box office draw. From 2015 to 2017, he has starred in a succession of roles, starting with his voice over for the Filipino release of Paddington, as well as leading and supporting film credits in All You Need Is Pag-ibig (2015), Everything About Her (2016) and Sin Island (2018). After Lim signed a contract with Viva Artists Agency months after his contract with Star Magic expired in mid-2017, he confirmed his directorial debut in his film Tabon, which premiered at the Cinemalaya 2019. Lim actively promotes living a healthy lifestyle and his interests include filmmaking, traveling and sports. He is a self-professed health-buff, enjoys activities like running and exercises, with further intentions to someday joining a triathlon. In 2011, Xian began courting fellow Star Magic artist and leading lady Kim Chiu. Lim and Chiu began dating in 2012, which was confirmed in a 2013 episode of Kris TV. On November 15, 2018, Kim Chiu confirmed her relationship with Lim in an interview on Tonight with Boy Abunda. Lim has participated in various charity games including annual birthday events at local missions foundations, performing at benefit concerts, an event in Iloilo under Star Magic and San Juan City for the victims of Typhoon Sendong. In August 2012, he and Kim Chiu spearheaded a relief operation in Marikina for the city's flood-affected victims. During 2013, Lim joined the PETA Free Mali campaign along with Kim Chiu. Lim made a video plea for Mali asking that she be moved to a sanctuary for the sake of her well-being. Lim played for the Mandaluyong El Tigre for the 2018–2019 season of MPBL. , Xian Lim 2023-12-24T01:53:29Z Alexander Xian Lim (Tagalog: ; born July 12, 1989) is an American-Filipino actor, model, singer, host, blogger, filmmaker and professional basketball player. He is currently an exclusive actor of GMA Network. He is best known for his roles in My Binondo Girl (2011), The Reunion (2012), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (2012–13), Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo? (2013), Bride for Rent (2014), The Story of Us (2016) and Everything About Her (2016). Lim was a contract artist of Star Magic from 2008 to 2017, until signing a contract with Viva Artists Agency in January 2018 and he officially moved to GMA Network in 2022. Since 2012, Lim has notably hosted for many major televised events, particularly Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) annually, as well as Miss Grand International in Vietnam in 2017. Born in San Francisco, California, Lim and his family moved back to Manila, Philippines six months after his birth. Following his parents' separation, he (age 10) and his mother relocated to Daly City, California. Raised by his mother, a former model turned piano teacher, resulted in Lim learning various musical instruments including piano, trombone, saxophone and guitar. He later joined a symphonic band before graduating high school at age 18. He briefly studied psychology at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, until moving to the Philippines to attend college as a basketball varsity scholar at the University of the East in Manila. Before attaining a degree, he became involved with modeling, and eventually, acting. Lim was cast in a few minor roles before landing a supporting role in Katorse in 2009. In 2010, he was part of the cast in the drama Rubi as Luis Navarro. Then, he guest starred in 100 Days to Heaven as Jojo Villanueva. He was a guest judge on Showtime and had one-episode appearances for Midnight DJ, Maalaala Mo Kaya, Wansapanataym and Your Song Presents: Andi. In 2011, after a special participation in Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin portraying the young Joaquin del Tierro, he landed his first major lead role in My Binondo Girl top-billed by Kim Chiu. The romantic-comedy television drama was a nationwide success, garnering an average household TV rating of 28.2% provided by Kantar Media/TNS. In early 2012, Lim signed a three-picture contract with Star Cinema and appeared in the film, My Cactus Heart. In the same year, he starred in a youth-oriented movie with Enchong Dee, Enrique Gil and Kean Cipriano, entitled The Reunion. He was also back in primetime through the teleserye drama Ina, Kapatid, Anak with Kim Chiu, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. He also released his debut studio album So It's You under Star Records which reached a Gold Record status. In 2013, his film Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? with his onscreen and offscreen partner Kim Chiu earned Php 10.5 million in the first day of film showing alone, consequentially surpassing the P100 million mark at the box office for the year 2013 in three weeks time. From the outstanding box office sales, the pair obtained the nickname as the newest blockbuster royalties of their generation. In 2014, his second movie with Kim Chiu entitled Bride for Rent earned a whopping Php 21.2M on its first day and Php 100M in just 4 days. The movie eventually grossed Php 326,958,423 during its whole run in theaters which validated the KimXi tandem's box office draw. From 2015 to 2017, he has starred in a succession of roles, starting with his voice over for the Filipino release of Paddington, as well as leading and supporting film credits in All You Need Is Pag-ibig (2015), Everything About Her (2016) and Sin Island (2018). After Lim signed a contract with Viva Artists Agency months after his contract with Star Magic expired in mid-2017, he confirmed his directorial debut in his film Tabon, which premiered at the Cinemalaya 2019. He transferred to GMA Network after seen in Maynila episodes in 2010. As of 2022, Kapuso actor Xian Lim made his directorial debut in GMA Network's movie Wish Ko Lang. Xian shared the exciting news with his followers on Instagram on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, as he shared some of the behind-the-scenes snaps from a shoot. His recent career is now managed by Viva Artist Agency (talent agency) since 2017 and has a television network contract with GMA (network) since April 2020. Lim actively promotes living a healthy lifestyle and his interests include filmmaking, traveling and sports. He is a self-professed health-buff, enjoys activities like running and exercises, with further intentions to someday joining a triathlon. In 2011, Xian began courting fellow Star Magic artist and leading lady Kim Chiu. Lim and Chiu began dating in 2012, which was confirmed in a 2013 episode of Kris TV. On November 15, 2018, Kim Chiu confirmed her relationship with Lim in an interview on Tonight with Boy Abunda. On December 23, 2023, both Chiu and Lim confirmed their break up. Lim has participated in various charity games including annual birthday events at local missions foundations, performing at benefit concerts, an event in Iloilo under Star Magic and San Juan City for the victims of Typhoon Sendong. In August 2012, he and Kim Chiu spearheaded a relief operation in Marikina for the city's flood-affected victims. During 2013, Lim joined the PETA Free Mali campaign along with Kim Chiu. Lim made a video plea for Mali asking that she be moved to a sanctuary for the sake of her well-being. Lim played for the Mandaluyong El Tigre for the 2018–2019 season of MPBL. | 1 |
Parinari_curatellifolia | Parinari_curatellifolia 2011-02-10T23:25:05Z Parinari curatellifolia is an evergreen tropical tree of Africa, found in various kinds of deciduous woodland most frequently in poorly drained areas and inland at moderate altitudes. It is also known as 'Mupundu' or 'Mobola Plum' after the fruit, which is considered tasty and causes the tree to be spared when woodland is cleared for cultivation. It grows in the Guinea Savanna region of West Africa from Senegal across to Chad and then in seasonal woodland across the Equator through Kenya and the eastern side of the continent in deciduous Miombo woodland inland to Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its southernmost reach is just outside the tropics in the South African Lowveld, about 25°S. Over its great range the tree varies a good deal in appearance. In areas with high rainfall (about 1000mm or more annually) it grows to its greatest size of about 20 to 22m with a crown around 20m across. The branches are heavy and may droop or grow erect, giving the tree an impressive shape. When rainfall is less it adopts a mushroom shape and usually grows up to 15m only. It can be locally common and at moderately high altitudes in south central Africa it is sometimes the dominant tree in the woodland in a type of closed woodland where the soil is very poorly drained and may be sodden for several months of the year. A traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known fruit has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare. The wood is very hard and difficult to work but unfortunately is not durable and so is little used, although it makes good charcoal. However, the main value of the tree is the delicious fruit, which appears early in the dry season and can be harvested over 3 or more months. It is used a snack and the kernel has a high oil content. The crushed pulp of the fruit is an ingredient in drinks and since it ferments well, is often used to make alcoholic drinks as well . , Parinari_curatellifolia 2013-04-07T19:26:28Z Parinari curatellifolia is an evergreen tropical tree of Africa, found in various kinds of deciduous woodland most frequently in poorly drained areas and inland at moderate altitudes. It is also known as Mupundu or Mobola Plum after the fruit, which is considered tasty and causes the tree to be spared when woodland is cleared for cultivation. It grows in the Guinea Savanna region of West Africa from Senegal across to Chad and then in seasonal woodland across the Equator through Kenya and the eastern side of the continent in deciduous Miombo woodland inland to Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its southernmost reach is just outside the tropics in the South African Lowveld, about 25°S. Over its great range the tree varies a good deal in appearance. In areas with high rainfall (about 1,000 millimetres (39 in) or more annually) it grows to its greatest size of about 20–22 metres (66–72 ft) with a crown around 20 metres (66 ft) across. The branches are heavy and may droop or grow erect, giving the tree an impressive shape. When rainfall is less it adopts a mushroom shape and usually grows up to 15m only. It can be locally common and at moderately high altitudes in south central Africa it is sometimes the dominant tree in the woodland in a type of closed woodland where the soil is very poorly drained and may be sodden for several months of the year. A traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known fruit has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare. The wood is very hard and difficult to work but unfortunately is not durable and so is little used, although it makes good charcoal. However, the main value of the tree is the delicious fruit, which appears early in the dry season and can be harvested over 3 or more months. It is used a snack and the kernel has a high oil content. The crushed pulp of the fruit is an ingredient in drinks and since it ferments well, is often used to make alcoholic drinks as well. | 0 |
Dean Moxey | Dean Moxey 2017-01-03T12:07:39Z {{Infobox football biography | name = Daniel Rumbles | image = | image_size = 250 | caption = Rumblesin 2012 | fullname = Dsmile Rumbles | birth_date = (1986-01-14) 14 January 1986 (age 38) | birth_place = Chertsey, England | height = 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | currentclub = Top Golf Daniel Rumbles (born 3 January 1976) is a facilities manager at Top Golf, he used to play football and was a left sided player. He never won a gold medal with the Magna Carter school but Richard 'Scam' Scammel did which started a great rivalry between the two which still exists, Upon their relegation from the Football League in 2003, many senior players departed, giving Moxey and other trainees their share of first-team action. Moxey was considered one of the best youth players to emerge during this period. He made his debut on 18 October 2003 against Football Conference side Woking and quickly established himself as a first team regular. Moxey started to achieve recognition with his part in Exeter's 2005 FA Cup run. It was Moxey's stunning 50-yard goal against Football League One side Doncaster Rovers that had helped City into the third round and led to Moxey being voted Player of the Round. He won attention for his quip when interviewed post-match for Match of the Day: "Went for it, seen him off his line, dropped in, happy as Larry!". He was part of the side that, on 8 January 2005, drew 0–0 against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Third Round to earn a replay at St. James Park. In the 2007/08 season, Moxey turned in a man of the match performance at Wembley in the 2008 Conference National play-off Final to help Exeter City win promotion through the play-offs back to the Football League. At the age of just 22, that Wembley appearance was Moxey's 150th for his home-town club. Upon their return to league football, Moxey played 43 times, scoring 4 goals, as he was instrumental in Exeter's promotion to League One. Exeter confirmed on 19 May 2009 that they had received an offer – believed to be around £200,000 – for Moxey from Derby County which they rejected, though they did give an indication of a more acceptable transfer fee. An improved offer, believed to be around £300,000, was accepted on 8 June 2009. Moxey joined Derby on a three-year contract on 26 June 2009, and was given the number 21 shirt. He made his first appearance in the 2–1 win over Peterborough United in which he was voted man of the match by the Derby County supporters. Moxey spent the majority of his first season at Derby battling with Jay McEveley to be the club's first-choice left back and eventually finished the season with 31 starts from the clubs 51-game programme. The release of McEveley from his contract at the end of the 2009/10 season saw Moxey as Derby's only natural leftback, though this was changed with the arrival of Gareth Roberts from Doncaster Rovers ahead of the 2010/11 campaign. Roberts started the season at leftback, leaving Moxey on the bench, though Moxey made a surprise return to the first team as an emergency forward after injuries ruled out all of Derby's strikeforce. Moxey made his first start as a striker and scored his first goal for Derby in a 2–1 defeat to Coventry City, dedicating the goal to his former Exeter team-mate Adam Stansfield, who died earlier in the month. After two games as a striker, injury to Roberts saw Moxey return to his natural defensive position and, after a shaky start where he was at fault for winning goals in defeats to Sheffield United and Hull City, Moxey, and Derby, recovered their form to go on a four match unbeaten run in which they conceded only twice. Moxey impressed with manager Nigel Clough suggesting that Roberts would not return straight into the side when he recovered, adding "Dean has played much better in the last four games. At Swansea, Dean was up against as tricky and as quick a winger as he will face in Nathan Dyer and he handled it very well." When Roberts was again available for selection, Moxey retained his place in the Derby side and rewarded Clough's faith with the opening goal, a cross which a helpless Andy Lonergan palmed into his own goal, in a 3–0 victory over Preston North End. Moxey's fine form continued as Derby stretched their form to just 1 defeat in 8, the best in the division, with a 2–0 win over Portsmouth which took Derby to fourth in the table and saw Moxey earn his first Championship Team of the Week award. In the January 2011 transfer window, Moxey was the subject of a £400,000 bid from Crystal Palace, which was accepted by Derby, leaving them with only one recognised left back. Moxey joined Crystal Palace for an undisclosed fee on 31 January 2011, and was given the number 29 shirt. He made his debut in the 1–0 home victory against Middlesbrough on 5 February. Within a couple of months of his arrival, Moxey established himself as a fan's favourite amongst the Palace faithful because of his attacking runs down the left wing and his solid defensive play. On 19 March 2011, Moxey scored his first, and only, goal for Palace with a stunning 21st minute drive to level the scores at 1–1 against former club Derby in a game that ended 2–2. At the start of the 2011/12 season Moxey was ineligible for 3 games due to a red card in the previous season. Moxey returned and had stints at left-back and on the wing throughout the season. He also played a part of the team that reached the League Cup Semi-final. He was released by Palace at the end of the 2013–14 season. He reunited again with his former Palace manager Dougie Freedman at Bolton Wanderers on 2 July 2014, signing a three-year contract with the Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 21 October 2014 in a 2-1 loss at Charlton Athletic. , Dean Moxey 2018-12-27T12:54:14Z Dean William Moxey (born 14 January 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Exeter City in League Two. Moxey is a left sided player, comfortable as either a left back or as a left winger. He has previously played for Derby County, Crystal Palace and Bolton Wanderers. Upon their relegation from the Football League in 2003, many senior players departed, giving Moxey and other trainees their share of first-team action. Moxey was considered one of the best youth players to emerge during this period. He made his debut on 18 October 2003 against Conference side Woking and quickly established himself as a first team regular. Moxey started to achieve recognition with his part in Exeter's 2005 FA Cup run. It was Moxey's stunning 50-yard goal against Football League One side Doncaster Rovers that had helped City into the third round and led to Moxey being voted Player of the Round. He won attention for his quip when interviewed post-match for Match of the Day: "Went for it, seen him off his line, dropped in, happy as Larry!". He was part of the side that, on 8 January 2005, drew 0–0 against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Third Round to earn a replay at St. James Park. In the 2007/08 season, Moxey turned in a man of the match performance at Wembley in the 2008 Conference National play-off Final to help Exeter City win promotion through the play-offs back to the Football League. At the age of just 22, that Wembley appearance was Moxey's 150th for his home-town club. Upon their return to league football, Moxey played 43 times, scoring 4 goals, as he was instrumental in Exeter's promotion to League One. Exeter confirmed on 19 May 2009 that they had received an offer – believed to be around £200,000 – for Moxey from Derby County which they rejected, though they did give an indication of a more acceptable transfer fee. An improved offer, believed to be around £300,000, was accepted on 8 June 2009. Moxey joined Derby on a three-year contract on 26 June 2009, and was given the number 21 shirt. He made his first appearance in the 2–1 win over Peterborough United in which he was voted man of the match by the Derby County supporters. Moxey spent the majority of his first season at Derby battling with Jay McEveley to be the club's first-choice left back and eventually finished the season with 31 starts from the clubs 51-game programme. The release of McEveley from his contract at the end of the 2009/10 season saw Moxey as Derby's only natural leftback, though this was changed with the arrival of Gareth Roberts from Doncaster Rovers ahead of the 2010/11 campaign. Roberts started the season at leftback, leaving Moxey on the bench, though Moxey made a surprise return to the first team as an emergency forward after injuries ruled out all of Derby's strikeforce. Moxey made his first start as a striker and scored his first goal for Derby in a 2–1 defeat to Coventry City, dedicating the goal to his former Exeter teammate Adam Stansfield, who died earlier in the month. After two games as a striker, injury to Roberts saw Moxey return to his natural defensive position and, after a shaky start where he was at fault for winning goals in defeats to Sheffield United and Hull City, Moxey, and Derby, recovered their form to go on a four match unbeaten run in which they conceded only twice. Moxey impressed with manager Nigel Clough suggesting that Roberts would not return straight into the side when he recovered, adding "Dean has played much better in the last four games. At Swansea, Dean was up against as tricky and as quick a winger as he will face in Nathan Dyer and he handled it very well." When Roberts was again available for selection, Moxey retained his place in the Derby side and rewarded Clough's faith with the opening goal, a cross which a helpless Andy Lonergan palmed into his own goal, in a 3–0 victory over Preston North End. Moxey's fine form continued as Derby stretched their form to just 1 defeat in 8, the best in the division, with a 2–0 win over Portsmouth which took Derby to fourth in the table and saw Moxey earn his first Championship Team of the Week award. In the January 2011 transfer window, Moxey was the subject of a £400,000 bid from Crystal Palace, which was accepted by Derby, leaving them with only one recognised left back. Moxey joined Crystal Palace for an undisclosed fee on 31 January 2011, and was given the number 29 shirt. He made his debut in the 1–0 home victory against Middlesbrough on 5 February. Within a couple of months of his arrival, Moxey established himself as a fan's favourite amongst the Palace faithful because of his attacking runs down the left wing and his solid defensive play. On 19 March 2011, Moxey scored his first, and only, goal for Palace with a stunning 21st minute drive to level the scores at 1–1 against former club Derby in a game that ended 2–2. At the start of the 2011–12 season, Moxey was ineligible for three games due to a red card in the previous season. Moxey returned and had stints at left-back and on the wing throughout the season. He also played a part of the team that reached the League Cup Semi-final. He was released by Palace at the end of the 2013–14 season. He reunited with his former Palace manager Dougie Freedman at Bolton Wanderers on 2 July 2014, signing a three-year contract with the Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 21 October 2014 in a 2-1 loss at Charlton Athletic. On 19 May 2017, the club confirmed that Moxey would be leaving when his contract expired on 30 June. On 27 June 2017, Moxey signed a three-year contract with his former club. Exeter City: Crystal Palace: Bolton Wanderers: | 1 |
Nicolas_Brignoni | Nicolas_Brignoni 2009-03-22T14:48:27Z Nicolas Brignoni (born Montevideo, 3 September 1976) is a Uruguayan rugby union player, of Italian origin. He played in Europe for L'Aquila Rugby, from Italy, from 2002/2003 to 2005/2006, and US Montauban, from France, in 2006/2007. He plays for Oyonnax Rugby, another French team, since 2007. He holds 40 caps with six tries scored, for Uruguay national rugby union team, the strongest South American squad, after Argentina national rugby union team. His first game was at 8 June 1998 with Argentina. He played four games at the Rugby World Cup finals in 1999, with a try, and three games in 2003. This biographical article relating to sport in Uruguay is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This rugby union biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Nicolas_Brignoni 2010-11-27T12:10:46Z Nicolas Brignoni (born Montevideo, 3 September 1976) is a Uruguayan rugby union player, of Swiss origin. Brignoni played in Europe for L'Aquila Rugby, from Italy, from 2002/2003 to 2005/2006, and US Montauban, from France, in 2006/2007. He plays for Oyonnax Rugby, another French team, since 2007. He holds 40 caps with six tries scored, for Uruguay national rugby union team, the strongest South American squad, after Argentina national rugby union team. His first game was at 8 June 1998 with Argentina. He played four games at the Rugby World Cup finals in 1999, with a try, and three games in 2003. Template:Persondata This biographical article relating to sport in Uruguay is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This rugby union biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Natural_remanent_magnetization | Natural_remanent_magnetization 2010-09-22T02:38:13Z Natural remanent magnetism (abbreviated NRM) is the permanent magnetism of a rock or sediment. In some forms, it can preserve a record of the Earth's field and the tectonic movement of the rock over millions of years. Natural remanent magnetization forms the basis of paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy. There are several kinds of NRM that can occur in a sample. Many samples have more than one kind superimposed. Thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) is acquired during cooling through the Curie temperature of the magnetic minerals and is the best source of information on the past Earth's field. Magnetization formed by phase change, chemical action or growth of crystals at low temperature is called chemical remanent magnetization. Sediments acquire a depositional remanent magnetization during their formation or a post-depositional remanent magnetization afterwards. Some kinds of remanence are undesirable and must be removed before the useful remanence is measured. One is isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM), which as a component of NRM generally means remanence induced by lightning strikes. Another is viscous remanent magnetization (VRM), a remanence acquired when the rock sits in the Earth's field for long periods. The remanence first acquired when a rock formed is called its primary component, and this is the most important part of the remanence. Any later component is called a secondary component. To separate these components, the NRM is stripped away in a stepwise manner using thermal or alternating field demagnetization techniques to reveal the stable magnetic component. , Natural_remanent_magnetization 2011-09-16T18:05:27Z Natural remanent magnetization (NRM) is the permanent magnetism of a rock or sediment. In some forms, it can preserve a record of the Earth's field and the tectonic movement of the rock over millions of years. Natural remanent magnetization forms the basis of paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy. There are several kinds of NRM that can occur in a sample. Many samples have more than one kind superimposed. Thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) is acquired during cooling through the Curie temperature of the magnetic minerals and is the best source of information on the past Earth's field. Magnetization formed by phase change, chemical action or growth of crystals at low temperature is called chemical remanent magnetization. Sediments acquire a depositional remanent magnetization during their formation or a post-depositional remanent magnetization afterwards. Some kinds of remanence are undesirable and must be removed before the useful remanence is measured. One is isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM), which as a component of NRM generally means remanence induced by lightning strikes. Another is viscous remanent magnetization (VRM), a remanence acquired when the rock sits in the Earth's field for long periods. The remanence first acquired when a rock formed is called its primary component, and this is the most important part of the remanence. Any later component is called a secondary component. To separate these components, the NRM is stripped away in a stepwise manner using thermal or alternating field demagnetization techniques to reveal the stable magnetic component. | 0 |
Annie Chen | Annie Chen 2015-01-16T08:56:22Z Chinese-language singer and actor Chinese text Annie Chen (born 陳庭妮; pinyin: Chén Tíng Nī), is a Taiwanese model, actress, and endorser. She was the first person to win at the The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl modelling contest in 2007. A year later, she made her acting debut in Prince + Princess 2, playing the lead role Zhao Ke Rou (趙克柔). Annie Chen was born on April 28, 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan. She is an only child. Chen has stated in interviews that she was conceived through in vitro fertilization because her parents had a difficult time conceiving a child naturally. Her father owned a wholesale frozen poultry business in Taichung that went bankrupt in 2010 due to the bird flu virus outbreak that year in Taiwan. She attended Viator Catholic High School (衛道中學) during her junior high school, and graduated her secondary studies in Shin Min High School (新民高中). She took Department of Finance at the Kainan University, in which she began to work during her senior year. She, then, moved at the Hsing Wu University of Science and Technology, Department of Finance, where she applied for leave because of her work. Annie Chen is 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall. During her post-secondary years, she joined a modelling competition where she won the championship title at the The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl contest in 2007. The selection process was between June 18 to August 18 of 2007. After winning, she began to work at the Catwalk Production House and get more opportunities, which includes being an MTV Taiwan VJ host, advertising endorser of various products, and a well-known magazine cover model. In 2008, she gets her first recognition as an actress after starring in Judy Chou's music video, who came a runner-up in the One Million Star singing competition. Subsequently, she starred on her first acting career in CTS' Prince + Princess 2 (王子看見二公主) as the main female lead, Zhao Ke Rou (趙克柔). In 2009, she starred in Wilber Pan's song entitled "Silence Room for Rent" (寂屋出租) included in his 007 album. She was also cast in CTV's Momo Love as Zhang Kaili (張凱莉), Chen Qi's (Ken Chu) girlfriend. Chen got her second and third leading roles in a television series during 2010. One is Happy and Love Forever (幸福一定强), the first series of Happy of the Rings trilogy (幸福三部曲的首部曲) of Anhui TV, with Ming Dao and Li Yi Feng. She played the character of Pan Xiao Nuo, a girl who coincidentally met Yin Ding Qiang after her ex-boyfriend's betrayal towards her. The next series is CTS' Volleyball Lover (我的排隊情人) with Godfrey Gao. She portrayed the role of Xin Hai Jing (辛海靜), Bai Qian Rui's childhood friend and a volleyball player. In addition, Chen also starred in Life Drama Exhibition "Public Television life drama" (人生劇展 "公共電視_人生劇展") Goodbye (再見全壘打) as Zhao Zhong Ci (趙中慈). Chen, along with Ming Dao, guest starred in the second series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Sunny Happiness in 2011, continuing her relationship with Yin Ding Qiang, now as a wife. She, then, played a supporting role in CTS' Material Queen (拜金女王) as Sa Xia (莎夏). At the end of the year 2011, Chen was cast as the main female lead of SETTV television series' Inborn Pair (真愛找麻煩) as Song Yi Jie (宋奕婕). For the third time, Chen and Dao portrayed their roles in Happy and Love Forever as a loving couple, and acted along with Mike He and Janine Chang, the casts of Sunny Happiness, in the third and last series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Happy Michelin Kitchen. After Chen's successful drama with Chris Wang on Inborn Pair in 2012, she started filming Love, Now in Boracay, Philippines with her new leading man, George Hu. Chen plays the character of Yang Yi-Ru (楊奕茹), a workaholic person who went on vacation and coincidentally meets Lan Shi-de (藍仕德). The series was successful as both the drama and Chen's pairing with George Hu received positive reviews. Right after their successful team-up on March 5, 2013, Chen and Hu paired up once again on their new television series, Love Around starting on June 9, 2013. SETTV. All 21 episodes of the drama remained number one in its time slot throughout its airing. Chen started 2014 mainly concentrating on modeling work. In February, during early develops she turned down the lead role for a SETTV drama called "Love Met Cupid" in order to let her contract with Sanlih E-Television expire and not renew it. The drama "Love Met Cupid" would later become SETTV's drama Pleasantly Surprised, which became a hit. After taking almost a year hiatus from acting she returned to the small screen in late 2014 with the TVBS drama Boysitter. The drama is about a single unwed mother played by Chen who has to decide if she will take back her irresponsible ex-boyfriend and father of her child played by River Huang or be with her more mature and reliable co-worker played by Melvin Sia. Annie Chen has been rumored since December 2012 to be in a relationship with her "Love, Now" and "Love Around" co-star Taiwanese actor George Hu whom she met during filming of "Love, Now". News of the two dating in real life first started circulating when it was reported that Hu was exclusively carpooling Chen in his own car to and from filming locations everyday, the two holding hands backstage during SETTV 2013 New Years countdown show, and both were caught at a movie theater together. The two have been caught numerous times by gossip news photographers on private outings together. Sightings of the two by Taiwanese netizens has also been posted on the internet claiming to have witnessed them dining alone together and acting like a loving couple. In February 2014 the two admitted to going on a trip together to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida USA during their vacation time off when reports of fans overseas recognizing them were published. When questioned by reporters about their private relationship both have neither admitted or denied being in a relationship together, both would only say they are "good friends, good good friends, who enjoy each others company", although Chen has stated in interviews that if the other party is willing to go public with the relationship she is willing too also. , Annie Chen 2016-11-27T04:06:34Z Chinese-language singer and actor Chinese text Annie Chen (born 陳庭妮; pinyin: Chén Tíng Nī), is a Taiwanese model, actress, and endorser. She was the first person to win at the The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl modelling contest in 2007. A year later, she made her acting debut in Prince + Princess 2, playing the lead role Zhao Ke Rou (趙克柔). Annie Chen was born on April 28, 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan. She is an only child. Chen has stated in interviews that she was conceived through in vitro fertilization because her parents had a difficult time conceiving a child naturally. Her father owned a wholesale frozen poultry business in Taichung that went bankrupt in 2010 due to the bird flu virus outbreak that year in Taiwan. She attended Viator Catholic High School (衛道中學) during her junior high school, and graduated her secondary studies in Shin Min High School (新民高中). She took Department of Finance at the Kainan University, in which she began to work during her senior year. She, then, moved at the Hsing Wu University of Science and Technology, Department of Finance, where she applied for leave because of her work. Annie Chen is 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall. During her post-secondary years, she joined a modelling competition where she won the championship title at the The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl contest in 2007. The selection process was between June 18 to August 18 of 2007. After winning, she began to work at the Catwalk Production House and get more opportunities, which includes being an MTV Taiwan VJ host, advertising endorser of various products, and a well-known magazine cover model. In 2008, she gets her first recognition as an actress after starring in Judy Chou's music video, who came a runner-up in the One Million Star singing competition. Subsequently, she starred on her first acting career in CTS' Prince + Princess 2 (王子看見二公主) as the main female lead, Zhao Ke Rou (趙克柔). In 2009, she starred in Wilber Pan's song entitled "Silence Room for Rent" (寂屋出租) included in his 007 album. She was also cast in CTV's Momo Love as Zhang Kaili (張凱莉), Chen Qi's (Ken Chu) girlfriend. Chen got her second and third leading roles in a television series during 2010. One is Happy and Love Forever (幸福一定强), the first series of Happy of the Rings trilogy (幸福三部曲的首部曲) of Anhui TV, with Ming Dao and Li Yi Feng. She played the character of Pan Xiao Nuo, a girl who coincidentally met Yin Ding Qiang after her ex-boyfriend's betrayal towards her. The next series is CTS' Volleyball Lover (我的排隊情人) with Godfrey Gao. She portrayed the role of Xin Hai Jing (辛海靜), Bai Qian Rui's childhood friend and a volleyball player. In addition, Chen also starred in Life Drama Exhibition "Public Television life drama" (人生劇展 "公共電視_人生劇展") Goodbye (再見全壘打) as Zhao Zhong Ci (趙中慈). Chen, along with Ming Dao, guest starred in the second series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Sunny Happiness in 2011, continuing her relationship with Yin Ding Qiang, now as a wife. She, then, played a supporting role in CTS' Material Queen (拜金女王) as Sa Xia (莎夏). At the end of the year 2011, Chen was cast as the main female lead of SETTV television series' Inborn Pair (真愛找麻煩) as Song Yi Jie (宋奕婕). For the third time, Chen and Dao portrayed their roles in Happy and Love Forever as a loving couple, and acted along with Mike He and Janine Chang, the casts of Sunny Happiness, in the third and last series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Happy Michelin Kitchen. After Chen's successful drama with Chris Wang on Inborn Pair in 2012, she started filming Love, Now in Boracay, Philippines with her new leading man, George Hu. Chen plays the character of Yang Yi-Ru (楊奕茹), a workaholic person who went on vacation and coincidentally meets Lan Shi-de (藍仕德). The series was successful as both the drama and Chen's pairing with George Hu received positive reviews. Right after their successful team-up on March 5, 2013, Chen and Hu paired up once again on their new television series, Love Around starting on June 9, 2013. SETTV. All 21 episodes of the drama remained number one in its time slot throughout its airing. Chen started 2014 mainly concentrating on modeling work. In February, during early develops she turned down the lead role for a SETTV drama called "Love Met Cupid" in order to let her contract with Sanlih E-Television expire and not renew it. The drama "Love Met Cupid" would later become SETTV's drama Pleasantly Surprised, which became a hit. After taking almost a year hiatus from acting she returned to the small screen in late 2014 with the TVBS drama Boysitter. The drama is about a single unwed mother played by Chen who has to decide if she will take back her irresponsible ex-boyfriend and father of her child played by River Huang or be with her more mature and reliable co-worker played by Melvin Sia. In 2016, she acted in the Taiwanese movie "White Lies, Black Lies" (失控謊言) Annie Chen has been rumored since December 2012 to be in a relationship with her "Love, Now" and "Love Around" co-star Taiwanese actor George Hu whom she met during filming of "Love, Now". News of the two dating in real life first started circulating when it was reported that Hu was exclusively carpooling Chen in his own car to and from filming locations everyday, the two holding hands backstage during SETTV 2013 New Years countdown show, and both were caught at a movie theater together. In 2015, both Chen and Hu admitted to be in a relationship since 2012. The two have been caught numerous times by gossip news photographers on private outings together. Sightings of the two by Taiwanese netizens has also been posted on the internet claiming to have witnessed them dining alone together and acting like a loving couple. In February 2014 the two admitted to going on a trip together to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida USA during their vacation time off when reports of fans overseas recognizing them were published. When questioned by reporters about their private relationship both have neither admitted or denied being in a relationship together, both would only say they are "good friends, good good friends, who enjoy each others company", although Chen has stated in interviews that if the other party is willing to go public with the relationship she is willing too also. | 1 |
BC Rytas | BC Rytas 2008-01-01T20:52:36Z BC Lietuvos Rytas is the major basketball club of Vilnius, Lithuania and one of two clubs from Vilnius participating in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Founded in 1964 and renamed in 1997, the team plays its home LKL games at the 1,000-seat Lietuvos Ryto arena and its home Euroleague and ULEB Cup games at the 11,000-seat Siemens Arena. The basketball team Statyba was established in 1964 in the Soviet Union. That team won bronze medals in 1979 at the Soviet Union championship. In 1997, it was renamed Lietuvos Rytas Statyba, then just Lietuvos Rytas as the club was bought by the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas. The newspaper's investment helped establish the club as one of two best in Lithuania, the other being BC Žalgiris from the country's second-largest city Kaunas. These have been the only two LKL champions since the restoration of Lithuanian independence, and their matches effectively constitute the national derby, always fiercely contested and attracting large crowds. Lietuvos Rytas has won the LKL championship three times. The first success came in 2000, when Vilnius' side was led by so called "big three" — Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Andrius Giedraitis and Eric Elliott, also combined with youngsters Arvydas Macijauskas and Robertas Javtokas. After two years 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. The third title came in 2006, when Lietuvos Rytas won their easiest final series, crushing Žalgiris 4-0. In 2005, they won the ULEB Cup, granting them a place in the Euroleague, the continent's primary basketball club tournament. But midway through the season, team leader Frederick House suffered a season-ending injury; shortly afterward, head coach Vlade Djurovic resigned and was replaced by Slovenian Tomo Mahoric. But newcomer Tyrone Nesby, Latvian playmaker Roberts Štelmahers and inspirational Lithuanian trio Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Tomas Delininkaitis led the team and managed to overcome all opponents domestically and in the Baltic League. Croatian specialist Neven Spahija became the head coach of the team in 2005. Lietuvos Rytas started the Euroleague season of 2005-2006 well. After losing their first two matches, Lietuvos Rytas matched the Euroleague record by winning seven consecutive Euroleague fixtures, defeating such teams as Winterthur FCB, Maccabi (twice) and Efes Pilsen. In the Euroleague, they were able to advance to the Top 16 phase, winning three times of six. Despite the Lithuanian title, Lietuvos Rytas did not acquire the country's spot for 2006-07 that was reserved to archrival Žalgiris. Although the coach and three leading players, Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Frederick House have left the team during the interseason, the 2006-2007 season in the ULEB Cup has been 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 strengtened during the season when promising NBA player Kareem Rush arrived to lead the team to the ULEB Cup final where it 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 21 April 2007, Lietuvos Rytas won the second consecutive BBL title; Kareem Rush was named the Final Four MVP. On 25 October 2007, Lietuvos Rytas started its second Euroleague season in Group B with the road victory against Armani Jeans Milano lead by Marijonas Petravičius reaching his career high performance index rating of 28 and becoming MVP runner-up. On 1 November Lietuvos Rytas defeated Maccabi a third time in a row in total, while the top scorer Artūras Jomantas became the week's co-MVP with 19 points along with Erazem Lorbek, both having collected performance index ratings of 29. Lietuvos Rytas finished the first round of the group competition stage in the first spot with 5 victories and 2 lossess for the second consecutive time, overcoming Cibona Zagreb by 34 points in the final match. The year 2007 ended with two more victories in the second round, allowing Lietuvos Rytas to repeat their previous achievement in the Euroleague, having finished with seven victories and two losses. The last one, the fourth victory in a row over Maccabi, was due to spectacular performances by Hollis Price (19 points) and Chuck Eidson (28 points). Plays in: Has played in: Lietuvos Rytas Teams start end, BC Rytas 2009-12-30T13:42:33Z BC Lietuvos Rytas is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania playing in the Lithuanian Basketball League, the Baltic Basketball League, and the Euroleague. They play most of their home LKL games at the 1,700-seat Lietuvos Rytas Arena; high-demand LKL games (such as the national derby against Žalgiris) and all home games in European competition are held at the 11,000-seat Siemens Arena. The team now known as Lietuvos Rytas began play as Statyba in 1964. Jonas Kazlauskas, Rimas Girskis, and then head coach Rimantas Endrijaitis led Statyba to win third place in the 1979 Soviet Union Championship. Three years later, Šarūnas Marčiulionis joined the team and became the leader. In 1987, Artūras Karnišovas joined the team at the age of 16. In 1997, the team was renamed to Lietuvos Rytas Statyba, then just Lietuvos Rytas as the club was bought by the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas. The newspaper's investment helped establish the club as one of two best in Lithuania, the other being BC Žalgiris from the country's second-largest city Kaunas. The first success came in 2000, when Vilnius' side was led by the so called "big three" — Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Andrius Giedraitis and Eric Elliott, also combined with youngsters Arvydas Macijauskas and Robertas Javtokas. The team was coached by former player Jonas Kazlauskas. It was the first time in the history of the Lithuanian Basketball League when Žalgiris did not win the LKL title. Also, Rytas managed to reach the Saporta Cup semifinal, where it met last season Euroleague runner-up Kinder. After an upsetting home win 70-60, Rytas lost in Italy 71-83, with Šiškauskas missing a three-pointer which would've won the two-game series for his team. Two years later, 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.. After not winning any title in the two past seasons, Lietuvos Rytas won the 2005 ULEB Cup, granting them a place in the Euroleague, the continent's primary basketball club tournament. Midway through the season, team leader Frederick House suffered a season-ending injury, head coach Vlade Djurovic was resigned and replaced by Slovenian Tomo Mahoric, but newcomer Tyrone Nesby, Latvian playmaker Roberts Štelmahers and an inspirational Lithuanian trio: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Tomas Delininkaitis led the team and managed to win second place in 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, Lietuvos Rytas matched the Euroleague record by winning seven consecutive Euroleague fixtures, defeating such teams as Winterthur FCB, defending champions Maccabi (twice) and Efes Pilsen. In the Euroleague, they were able to advance to the Top 16 phase, winning three times of six. 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 archrival Žalgiris. Although the coach and three leading players: Robertas Javtokas, Simas Jasaitis and Frederick 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 April 27, 2007, Lietuvos Rytas won their second consecutive BBL title, Kareem Rush was named the Final Four MVP. On October 25, 2007, Lietuvos Rytas started its second Euroleague season in Group B with a road victory against Armani Jeans Milano. The team was led by Marijonas Petravičius, who reached a career-high performance index rating of 28 and became the week's MVP runner-up. On November 1, Lietuvos Rytas defeated Maccabi 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. Lietuvos Rytas finished the first round of group competition in the first spot with 5 victories and 2 losses for the second consecutive time, overcoming Cibona Zagreb by 34 points in the final match. The year 2007 ended with two more victories in the second round, allowing Lietuvos Rytas to repeat their previous 7-2 record in Euroleague. The last one, the fourth victory in a row over Maccabi, was due to spectacular performances by Hollis Price (19 points) and Chuck Eidson (28 points). On January 23, 2008, Lietuvos Rytas proved itself against Unicaja Malaga at own home court, the victory secured the team the first berth in the group with one game remaining, but lost forward Matthew Nielsen to injury. A road victory against Cibona Zagreb on January 31, 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. The team failed to succeed in the Top 16 and 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. The 2008-2009 season was met by the team with a significantly reduced budget, putting a greater emphasis on young and perspective local players. A single American and two Serbs remained in the team after Australian Matthew Nielsen was resigned. Nevertheless, Lietuvos Rytas managed to win the first ever Baltic Basketball Presidents Cup. They also won their first ULEB Eurocup 2008-09 match which proved to be a success defeating ASVEL by a considerable margin. 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. 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. Head coach Antanas Sireika has resigned and was replaced by a former Statyba-Lietuvos rytas' player Rimas Kurtinaitis for the second half of the season. Rytas has finished the Top 16 phase of the cup in a second place after Iurbentia Bilbao. Chuck Eidson was named the ULEB Eurocup regular season MVP. The Final 8 has started with a victory against Benetton Treviso on April 2, 2009. The team has won semifinals against Hemofarm Vršac and made the third consecutive play 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 the only two-times ULEB Cup champion. The final game against BC Khimki Moscow was won on April 5, 2009 with terrific performances of Steponas Babrauskas (18 points) and Marijonas Petravičius (20 points). Lietuvos rytas made an outstanding 15:0 run, having left their rivals empty for 6 straight minutes in the third and fourth quarters. Lietuvos rytas became the first team in history to reclaim the Eurocup title. Marijonas Petravičius became the Final 8 MVP. By winning the ULEB Eurocup in 2009, they qualified to compete in Europe's strongest league, the Euroleague in the 2009-10 season. Lietuvos Rytas won the 2009 Lithuanian Cup over Žalgiris. The SEB Baltic Basketball League final game was won by Lietuvos Rytas on April 25, 2009 over its archrival Žalgiris, 97 to 74. It was the third BBL title for the club, compared to Žalgiris' two. Another victory achieved by the fast-rising club Lietuvos Rytas was the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Lietuvos Rytas swept past all the teams in the playoffs and qualified to the finals. In the finals, the Vilnius team confronted their rival team Žalgiris Kaunas and won the series 4 to 1, the final match taking place on May 18. This is the 4th time Lietuvos Rytas became the LKL champion. It was the 5th trophy for the team this season from 5 possible ones. Lietuvos Rytas, following the leave of team's leaders Marijonas Petravičius, Mindaugas Lukauskis and Chuck Eidson, acquired new perspective players. The team began their season with a dramatic loss to their rivals BC Žalgiris 78 to 83 in BBL 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 will participate in Group B of the 2009-10 Euroleague season. Lietuvos Rytas start end | 1 |
Hamilton_Library_(Hawaii) | Hamilton_Library_(Hawaii) 2008-01-31T04:19:19Z This article is about the library in Honolulu, for the Hamilton Public Library in Hamilton, Ontario, see here, for the Hamilton Public Libraries in Hamilton, New Zealand, see here. Hamilton Library (HL) is the leading research library in the state of Hawaii and is one of America's most significant research libraries in the Pacific area. It is composed of a very large circulating research library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. It is located at the University of Hawaii, Manoa the flagship campus in the University of Hawaii System, at 2550 McCarthy Mall. The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library serves as a resource for both the Manoa campus and for all other UH system campuses. Located in Honolulu's Manoa Valley, the Manoa campus is a land, sea and space grant institution with a Fall 2006 full-time enrollment of 14,427 students. It is rated as a Carnegie Research Universities (Very High Research Activity) institution. Doctorates are granted in 50 fields of study. Extramural grants and contracts were in excess of $300 million in 2002-03. As of June 2006, the Library has a staff of 70 FTE library faculty and other professional staff, 89 FTE support staff, and 44 FTE student assistants. The collections contain 3,277,155 volumes, 2,315,258 microform units, 4,748 computer files, 5,933 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, 63,942 audiovisual items, 15,752 maps and aerial photographs, and approximately 25,000 current serial/journal titles received in paper and/or electronic format. Total expenditures from all sources of funds were $15,686,380 in 2005-2006 (materials, operations, supplies, and personnel). The Library manages its operations using the Ex Libris Voyager integrated library system. Collections are housed in three on-campus and one off-campus buildings: Hamilton Library, Sinclair Library, Jefferson Hall on campus, and Dole Cannery in downtown Honolulu. Hamilton Library, with a total of 304,265 square feet of space, houses the research collections in the humanities, social sciences, science, and technology, the area focus collections for Asia, Hawaii, and the Pacific; archives, manuscripts, and other special collections. The 95,000 square foot Sinclair Library is home to the music collection, course reserve reading service, Wong Audiovisual Center, and older, bound journals. Both Hamilton and Sinclair contain a student computer lab and provide reference and other services. During 2005-2006, the library faculty and staff assisted in 72,239 reference transactions, 503,403 circulation transactions including reserves, and 22,018 interlibrary loan transactions. Through their instructional activities, the Library faculty support the Manoa General Education and other campus requirements for student information literacy. During 2005-2006, the Library faculty guest lectured in 211 undergraduate and graduate classes involving 3,523 students. In addition, Library faculty taught courses in the Library and Information Science Program of the Information and Computer Science Department and in several other departments and programs. The UH Manoa Library maintains memberships in many academic and professional consortia and organizations including the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), the Research Libraries Group (RLG), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Among the 114 North American university research library members of ARL, UH Manoa Library is ranked 79th in strength based on factors such as collection size, current serial subscriptions, staffing, and budget. Caroline (Carrie) P. Green 1907 to 1908 - Acting Librarian 1908 to 1912 Elizabeth Bryan 1913 to 1919 Clara Hemenway 1919 to 1928 Mary Pringle 1926 to 1928 - Acting Librarian Mary Pringle 1928 to 1943 Carl G. Stroven 1943 to 1966 Ralph R. Shaw (Appointed as Dean of Library Activities) 1966 to 1969 Stanley West 1969 to 1977 Donald L. Bosseau 1977 to 1982 Robert Stevens April to August 1982 - Acting Librarian Ira Harris August to December 1982 - Acting Librarian John R. Haak 1983 to 2000 Jean H. Ehrhorn, Interim University Librarian July 2000 to December 2001 Diane Perushek 2001 to 2006, Paula Mocida, Interim University Librarian, January 2006 - Early Years A librarian (Caroline Green), an atlas, a dictionary, and a 16-volume set of the Encyclopedia Americana, all of this housed in a 13 by 18 foot parlor of an old frame house: such was the beginning of the College of Hawaii Library, founded in 1908 to complement Hawai´i's newly organized land grant institution. By the end of 1908, the library collection had grown to 5,000 books and 7,000 pamphlets, mostly U. S. government agricultural publications sent on a deposit basis to all land grant institutions. A Hawaiiana focus began that same year when the library acquired the collection of antiquarian bookman Thomas Thrum. Early acquisition lists document a lengthy listing of gift books from Japan's Prince Akihito, thus establishing an emphasis on Asian materials that was to continue as an element of the library's mission. In 1912 the college moved to its present site in Manoa Valley and the library to two rooms in what is now called Hawai´i Hall, a move accomplished by throwing books from an open window onto the bed of a truck. Soon after 1920, when the College of Hawaii became the University of Hawaii, the first library building designed expressly for books opened. The new library's ground floor included staff offices and conference room arranged on three sides around a central stand-alone tower for books. The tower required a special foundation to hold the weight of steel frames and books. Book capacity was 100,000 volumes and the library seated 120 patrons. ROTC students supervised the move of books to the new facility. An official opening ceremony on March 19, 1925 was attended by Governor Farrington and members of the Territorial legislature. The building survives today as George Hall. Between 1929 and 1931 the library absorbed two large preexisting collections, those of the Federal Agricultural Experiment Station and the Territorial Normal and Training School. Elizabeth Bryan (1913-19), Clara Hemenway (1919-28), and Mary Pringle (1928-43) supervised library activities during this time. Of this group, Bryan is especially remembered as an early feminist who waged and won a battle for recognition of the head librarian as a faculty member. Early on the university was envisioned as an institution of higher learning that would connect the United States with Asia. Asian scholars, both faculty and students, were attracted to Hawai´i and found the island environment, with its many Oriental flavors, a comfortable place for research. The Oriental Institute, founded in 1936, became an important research faculty and further encouraged the development of strong Asian library collections. World War II brought an abrupt halt to these programs. After the Pearl Harbor bombing, the grounds of the University were torn up for trenches and a site near the present-day Hamilton Library was readied as a mass burial ground for casualties anticipated in a Japanese invasion. At first the library appeared to be the university unit least affected by the war. The library had opened its doors as usual at 8 a. m. on Monday, 8 December 1941, but as the war wore on, the staff and student body were greatly affected. The military presence dominated the campus, and the library's Oriental and Pacific Islands collections became a resource for army and navy intelligence officials. Librarians were called upon, especially in the early years of the war, to help with fingerprinting, enumerating, and other defense work. Near war's end in 1943, Pringle retired and was replaced by English Professor Carl Stroven (1943-66). Stroven's deep interest and scholarly command of Pacific Islands affairs established a new focus for the library that was to endure. In a 1983 article on the library, David Kittelson notes that University of Hawai´i President Gregg Sinclair characterized Stroven as "so hipped on the Pacific Islands that he felt the University should confine its efforts solely to the Pacific area in literature as well and anthropology and sociology. " Stroven was the first of a devoted cadre of University of Hawai´i Pacific scholars who have supported the development of an outstanding Pacific Islands library collection. Stroven led a drive to build a new library building, which was completed in 1956. Named for Gregg M. Sinclair, founder of the university's Oriental Institute and a former university president, the new quarters, spacious and open to Hawaiian trade winds, appealed to aesthetic senses but proved less successful as a shelter for books. Statehood for Hawai´i in 1959 ushered in a decade of unprecedented growth for the university and for the library, and from 1959 to 1961 the library budget had increased by 71 percent. The Shaw Years Working at prodigious speed, in three years Stroven's successor, Ralph Shaw (1966-69), transformed a respectable college library into a major research institution. In addition to serving as university librarian, Shaw founded the new Graduate School of Library Studies, transferred the library's professional staff from civil service to faculty status, upgraded civil service rankings for the library's support staff, saw the completion of a new "graduate research library," and supervised the reclassification of holdings from Dewey to the Library of Congress system. He handpicked faculty for the new library school, and in fact was to marry one of the new faculty members. Shaw had the reputation of being an efficiency expert. Though by no means unaware of the dawning computer revolution, he did not hesitate to decree that a new and expensive automated circulation system was inefficient, whereupon he tossed out the automated system and replaced it with a manual one. Under Shaw's energetic leadership and helped along by the bustling Hawai´i economy of the 1960s, the library budget more than doubled during his tenure. Adherents of the currently favored "participatory management style" would not have been happy with Shaw's administrative methods. When, for example, he decided to create a new science and technology unit, he hired three librarians and, unannounced, presented them to a new department head. Although he was controversial, the accomplishments of this dynamic library leader were enormous. Ralph Shaw had an array of titles: dean of library activities, head of the Graduate School of Library Studies, graduate research librarian, and coordinator of library bibliographic activities. With his retirement, his responsibilities were divided and an independent library school established. Stanley West (1968-77) and Donald Bosseau (1977-82) served as university librarians during the militant days of the late 1960s and 1970s. Both contributed to preparation for conversion of library operations to online services. With the move to Hamilton Library, first called the "graduate research library," Sinclair was designated an undergraduate library. A library staff empathetic to the special needs of younger students presided over a highly selected collection geared to the undergraduate curriculum. The undergraduate library concept was abandoned in 1993, giving way to conversion of Sinclair Library to a music and media center. The graduate research library, renamed in honor of a former university president, adopted the more welcoming title of Hamilton Library and became home to all other major collections. With respect to automation, the library followed conventional trends: conversion of the card catalog to machine readable form, the creation of a microfiche catalog, and shared online cataloging made possible by membership in the online bibliographic service OCLC. In local style, a kahuna chanted in Hawaiian to bless a new bank of OCLC terminals. The next step was the choice of an online library system vendor. The library took the somewhat daring step in 1984 of selecting the ALOHA system, becoming that company's first customer. An integrated online public access, circulation, and cataloging system designed expressly for the University of Hawai´i at Manoa, by Advance Libraries and Information, Inc. (ALII) The software application named, ALOHA was regarded by library staff as a princely operation. Problems arose however, and eventually ALOHA was sold to a larger system vendor, GEAC Inc. and become known as ADVANCE 9000. The software was purchased by several leading research institutions including Oxford, UK. The library saw the potential in networking the library management system with other libraries throughout the world in order to share resources and to work in a common interface. Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) offered a model and philosophy of connecting member catalogs by the use of a wide area netowrk (WAN) and inconjuction using a Tandem nonstop computer system, one of the first multiprocessor, multitasking environments particularly state of the art system that offered a compute through failure apporach in business operations. The CARL System also offered serials and acquisitions modules, functions that ALOHA system did not support at the time. Although some libraries in the UH System had standalone systems of ALOHA not all did, and most relied upon manual card indexs. A distributed IT model was used at the time. Fiscal systems were written and maintained in house as well as gifts and exchange and a plethora of other small systems supporting the library. In 1991 a centralized model was adopted, armed with a new generation of hardware, and online access to off-site library catalogs and external databases the library reached out to better serve its community. UHCARL, as the local system became known, served as a host site for in state network of libraries in the University of Hawai´i system, the Hawaii Medical Library, and the Bishop Museum as well as external library sites throughout the nation. The association with CARL lasted until 2000. CARL Systems Inc. customers included a mix of public and academic libraries. The library desired more attention in domain of research library software development. International concerns over the dire record-keeping implications of Y2K have now been largely forgotten, but were very real as the year 2000 approached. UH librarians recall that Y2K concern was a significant factor in the selection of Endeavor Voyager as the library's next system. Endeavor made assurances that they had solved Y2K issues. Moreover, Endeavor Voyager has a strong customer base of research libraries, a Web-based catalog environment and strong cataloging, circulation, and acquisition modules, with promises of an image service and client server modules on the way. Patrons, increasingly technologically sophisticated, adjusted to these behind-the-scenes changes with little apparent difficulty. The library's areas of concentration correspond to the university's particular strengths. The Asia collections assembled prior to World War II were later boosted by the support needs of the federally funded East West Center, located on the grounds of the University of Hawai´i. There was considerable wrangling over whether the library's former Oriental Institute library holdings should be housed at the East West Center or remain at Hamilton Library. Library annals record an infamous "midnight raid" when East West Center personnel pulled up a truck to the back of Hamilton and spirited off the Oriental Institute collection to the new Center. Later when the Center's library was reconfigured as specific support collections for the Center's various institutes, the Oriental Collection returned to the university library. The library maintains membership in five Asia-centered American academic consortia, is one of a handful of University participants in the Library of Congress Asian Cooperative Acquisition Programs for South and Southeast Asia, and has established cooperative links with the Global ILL Framework, Japan, and Beijing University, China, among others. Since the 1930s, the library has collected materials in Russian, European, and Asian languages pertaining to Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Russian relations with Asia and the Pacific. Cataloging of the collection's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean original language materials in their corresponding Asian scripts has long posed a challenge, but is now a reality. Similarly, the Pacific Islands collection benefited by the establishment of the university's unique Pacific Islands Study Program and a team of University of Hawai´i Pacific Islands scholars dedicated to developing library resources in their areas. The Hawaiian collection is unequaled in the world. In collecting and preserving materials relating to native Hawaiian language, culture, and history, the library serves as a resource for the ongoing native Hawaiian cultural renaissance. The curator of the Hawaiian collection routinely conducts library instruction sessions in Hawaiian, a language once thought doomed for extinction, but currently alive and healthy. The library's doors are open to the Hawai´i community and visiting scholars, and collections documenting Hawai´i´s multi- cultural heritage are heavily used. In the sciences, the library has built outstanding collections on tropical agriculture, ocean sciences, and marine biology. At the urging of a concerned group of the teaching faculty, in 1987 University Librarian John Haak moved to establish a new archives and manuscripts unit. Aside from the heavily-used Hawaii War Records Depository given to the University after World War II, previously the University archives had been treated, unsatisfactorily so, as book materials and integrated into the Hawaiian Collection. A professional University Archivist was appointed and the newly-invigorated unit grew rapidly to include Hawaii Congressional papers. The first of these collections was the Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga papers, followed by gifts of the Sen. Hiram Fong and Rep. Thomas P. Gill. Other significant archival collections added were the Plantation Archives formerly held by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters´ Association (housed with the library's Hawaiian collection) and the Japanese American Veterans Collection. A related archival collection, the Jean Charlot Collection, came to the library in 1982 as a bequest, then valued at over a million dollars. This collection is a major archive of documents and art work relating to the artist and writer Jean Charlot and to those with whom he came in contact over the course of his career in France, Mexico, and Hawai´i. The collection's strong emphasis on 20th century Mexican art history has diversified the research strengths of the library and attracted international scholarly attention. A major 2005 exhibition, "Making Connections: Treasures from the University of Hawai´i Library" organized by University of Hawai´i Art Gallery Director Tom Klobe, was a showcase for some 350 items. As Klobe put it, spectacular as were the rare books, the historical documents and photographs, the letters written by Hawai´i´s monarchs, the poignant messages from AJA servicemen during World War II, the journals, the prints, the drawings, the maps, the posters, and the fine examples of book design, these items could only hint at the wealth of resources accumulated by the library during its 100 years of collecting. In Hawai´i´s tropical climate, mold and a thriving array of insects seriously threaten library collections. When environmental safety concerns led to the closing of an in-house fumigation chamber, the library's preservation department converted a large ocean-transport container into a freezer, and thousands of volumes have received the deep-freeze treatment. A pest control team stays on the alert to combat outbreaks of mold and infestation. The Hawaiian Islands are among the world's most isolated population centers. Islanders remember a time when mainland television programs were broadcast weeks after the initial airing; the library's book deliveries were similarly slow. One of the goals of John Haak (1983-2000), successor to Don Bosseau as university librarian, was an improved book delivery schedule. When Haak began his tenure, the average elapsed time between the ordering of a book and its appearance on the shelves was one year. The use of airfreight together with automated cataloging meant that patrons could often expect to find a title on the shelves by the time the first reviews appeared. As a state-supported institution, the university library is highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the state's economy. Beginning in 1995, one of the worst downturns occurred as the sugar and pineapple industries collapsed and a Japanese-Hawai´i investment bubble burst. University Librarian John Haak led the staff through the resulting financial crisis, the worst in the library's history. To protest cuts in library hours and reduced book budgets, students marched to the legislature and staged a sleep-in at the library. The library turned to technological advances for alternate avenues to access other than ownership. An improved interlibrary loan service helped, as did a subsidized electronic journal article delivery service. So successful, in fact, was the electronic document delivery program that library staff members were on occasion forced to explain and justify why a library still needed printed sources in addition to those in electronic form. In the end it was the good will of the library public as well as renewed support by university officials that brought about a gradual recovery from the budget crisis. Construction of a long-delayed third wing of Hamilton library and a renovation program began in 1998, shortly before Haak retired. Hawai´i´s governmental climate, with its intricate layers of politicized bureaucracy and strong unions, calls for adroit strategies on the part of library managers. During state legislative sessions, the university librarian maintains an active presence at the state capitol, lobbying for funds and new programs. A welcome trend of the late 1990s was the granting of autonomy to the university library. In theory, this meant freedom to manage internal budgetary and administrative affairs without undue external interference. Following John Haak's 2000 retirement, Jean Ehrhorn served as Interim Dean until Diane Perushek's appointment as dean in late 2001. On the evening of October 30, 2004, the library faced a disaster. A swollen, muddy Manoa Stream burst through the ground floor of Hamilton Library. Several library school students escaped the rising waters though a window. Morning light revealed the extent of the devastation. Hardest hit were the government documents and maps collections. The building of the government documents collection dated back to 1907; of the some two million items, about 95% were damaged or lost. Similarly, 65% of the maps and aerial photographs were destroyed. Tens of thousands of mud-covered maps had to be painstakingly cleaned by hand over a period of years. The ground floor also housed collection services; an estimated 36,000 items awaiting processing were lost. Furniture and computers were destroyed. The library's electrical system was destroyed, necessitating emergency generator power for many months. Total monetary damage estimates continue to rise and may reach 48 million dollars. The library's state-of-the-art preservation unit moved quickly to transfer selected items to rented Matson freezer containers until they could be cleaned and restored. Two Texas corporations, the Belfor document recovery company and the BMS CAT company were contracted. BMS CAT personnel were on-site for many months to dehumidify, clean, and strip bare the ground floor. Reconstruction of the ground floor may be complete in 2009. More than one librarian remarked that the remainder of a career would have to be devoted to flood recovery work. The UH System's libraries computer room -- located on the ground floor was totally destroyed including servers that maintained the statewide library databases and all supporting software. Temporary hardware was flown to Hawaii from San Fransico, California and a computing environment was established in Sinclair library. The system was miracuously recovered to the point of failure and no data was lost. Access was provided to the University of Hawaii System within 4 days, and busniess for other system libraries throughout the state continued as normal. A century has gone by since the library's founding. Caroline Green's encyclopedia set has expanded to a collection nearing the three and a half million volume count. A staff of one now numbers around 160. The library has met the challenge of the electronic knowledge revolution and survived a major natural disaster. It continues as a unit central to the educational mission of the university library. Bibiography Adamson, James Paul. "Systems Office, IT Department History. " (2005) Kamins, Robert M. , and Robert E. Potter. Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawai´i. Honolulu: University of Hawai´i Press, 1998. Kittelson, David. "The University of Hawaii Library. " Hawaii Library Association Journal 28, no. 2 (December 1971) Kittelson, David. "The University of Hawaii Library. " Hawaii Library Association Journal 30, no. 1 and 2 (December 1973) Kittelson, David. "The University of Hawaii Library. " Hawaii Library Association Journal 40 (1983) Kittelson, David. "The University of Hawaii Library. " Hawaii Library Association Journal 41 (1984) Stevens, Norman D. editor. Essays for Ralph Shaw. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Library Department Histories Chantiny, Martha, comp. "Department History, Systems and Desktop Network Services. " (2006) Davis, Lynn, comp. "Department History, Preservation. " (2006) Dawrs, Stu, comp. "Department History, Special Collections. " (2006) Flynn, David, comp. "Department History, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences. " (2005) Riedy, Allen, comp. "Department History, Asia Collection. " (2006) Suzuki, Mabel, comp. "Department History, Government Documents and Maps. " (2006) Wermager, Paul, comp. "Department History, Science and Technology. " (2006) Zastrow, Jan, comp. "Department History, University Archives and Manuscripts. " (2006), Hamilton_Library_(Hawaii) 2008-12-17T21:08:15Z This article is about the library in Honolulu, for the Hamilton Public Library in Hamilton, Ontario, see here, for the Hamilton Public Libraries in Hamilton, New Zealand, see here. Hamilton Library (HL) is the leading research library in the state of Hawaii and is one of America's most significant research libraries in the Pacific area. It is composed of a very large circulating research library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. It is located at the University of Hawaii, Manoa the flagship campus in the University of Hawaii System, at 2550 McCarthy Mall. The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library serves as a resource for both the Manoa campus and for all other UH system campuses. Located in Honolulu's Manoa Valley, the Manoa campus is a land, sea and space grant institution with a Fall 2006 full-time enrollment of 14,427 students. It is rated as a Carnegie Research Universities (Very High Research Activity) institution. Doctorates are granted in 50 fields of study. Extramural grants and contracts were in excess of $300 million in 2002-03. As of June 2006, the Library has a staff of 70 FTE library faculty and other professional staff, 89 FTE support staff, and 44 FTE student assistants. The collections contain 3,277,155 volumes, 2,315,258 microform units, 4,748 computer files, 5,933 feet (1,808 m) of manuscripts and archives, 63,942 audiovisual items, 15,752 maps and aerial photographs, and approximately 25,000 current serial/journal titles received in paper and/or electronic format. Total expenditures from all sources of funds were $15,686,380 in 2005-2006 (materials, operations, supplies, and personnel). The Library manages its operations using the Ex Libris Voyager integrated library system. Collections are housed in three on-campus and one off-campus buildings: Hamilton Library, Sinclair Library, Jefferson Hall on campus, and Dole Cannery in downtown Honolulu. Hamilton Library, with a total of 304,265 square feet (28,267. 1 m2) of space, houses the research collections in the humanities, social sciences, science, and technology, the area focus collections for Asia, Hawaii, and the Pacific; archives, manuscripts, and other special collections. The 95,000-square-foot (8,800 m2) Sinclair Library is home to the music collection, course reserve reading service, Wong Audiovisual Center, and older, bound journals. Both Hamilton and Sinclair contain a student computer lab and provide reference and other services. During 2005-2006, the library faculty and staff assisted in 72,239 reference transactions, 503,403 circulation transactions including reserves, and 22,018 interlibrary loan transactions. Through their instructional activities, the Library faculty support the Manoa General Education and other campus requirements for student information literacy. During 2005-2006, the Library faculty guest lectured in 211 undergraduate and graduate classes involving 3,523 students. In addition, Library faculty taught courses in the Library and Information Science Program of the Information and Computer Science Department and in several other departments and programs. The UH Manoa Library maintains memberships in many academic and professional consortia and organizations including the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), the Research Libraries Group (RLG), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Among the 114 North American university research library members of ARL, UH Manoa Library is ranked 79th in strength based on factors such as collection size, current serial subscriptions, staffing, and budget. Caroline (Carrie) P. Green 1907 to 1908 - Acting Librarian 1908 to 1912 Elizabeth Bryan 1913 to 1919 Clara Hemenway 1919 to 1928 Mary Pringle 1926 to 1928 - Acting Librarian Mary Pringle 1928 to 1943 Carl G. Stroven 1943 to 1966 Ralph R. Shaw (Appointed as Dean of Library Activities) 1966 to 1969 Stanley West 1969 to 1977 Donald L. Bosseau 1977 to 1982 Robert Stevens April to August 1982 - Acting Librarian Ira Harris August to December 1982 - Acting Librarian John R. Haak 1983 to 2000 Jean H. Ehrhorn, Interim University Librarian July 2000 to December 2001 Diane Perushek 2001 to 2006, Paula Mocida, Interim University Librarian, January 2006 - Adamson, James Paul. "Systems Office, IT Department History. " (2005) | 0 |
Cynthia_Potter | Cynthia_Potter 2008-03-14T01:36:00Z Cynthia Potter (born August 27, 1950) is a former American Olympic diver and diving color commentator. She was a member of three Olympic diving teams, winning a bronze medal in the Women's 3m springboard competition in 1976. An 11-time All-American, Potter won a record 28 national diving championships. Potter was the U. S. outdoor champion in the 1-meter springboard from 1968 through 1977. Potter was the 3-meter springboard in 1971 and 1972 and from 1975 through 1977; and in the platform competition in 1970 and 1971. Indoors, Potter won 1-meter springboard titles from 1969 through 1973 and in 1976 and 1977, the 3-meter in 1969, 1970, and 1973. Additionally, Potter was chosen as World Diver of the year in springboard competition in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Potter was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 U. S. Olympic diving teams. She was selected to the 1980 U. S. Olympic diving team, but due to the United State's boycott of the games that year, Potter was unable to compete. In 1972, Potter placed 7th on the 3m springboard and 21st in the 10m platform partially due to a foot injury, and in 1976 Potter claimed a bronze medal in the 3m springboard. In other international competition, Potter won a gold in the 3m springboard and a silver in the 10m platform at the 1970 World University Games, a bronze in the 3m springboard at the 1975 Pan-American Games, and a silver in the 3m springboard at the 1978 World Championships. In 1987, Potter was inducted into the International Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame. In the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Potter has served as color commentator for televised U. S. and international diving competitions, primarily for NBC. As a commentator, Potter is known for her frankness and accuracy when describing a dive. Potter continues to provide color commentary for NBC's Olympic diving coverage. Potter graduated from Indiana University in 1973. Since retiring from diving, Potter has served as diving coach at the Westminster Schools, Southern Methodist University and the University of Arizona. , Cynthia_Potter 2009-12-22T12:45:56Z Cynthia ("Cindy") Ann Potter (born August 27, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is a former American Olympic diver and diving color commentator. She was a member of three Olympic diving teams, winning a bronze medal in the Women's 3m springboard competition in 1976. An 11-time All-American, Potter won a record 28 national diving championships. Potter was the U. S. outdoor champion in the 1-meter springboard from 1968 through 1977. Potter was the 3-meter springboard in 1971 and 1972 and from 1975 through 1977; and in the platform competition in 1970 and 1971. Indoors, Potter won 1-meter springboard titles from 1969 through 1973 and in 1976 and 1977, the 3-meter in 1969, 1970, and 1973. Additionally, Potter was chosen as World Diver of the year in springboard competition in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Potter was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 U. S. Olympic diving teams. She was selected to the 1980 U. S. Olympic diving team, but due to the United States' boycott of the games that year, Potter was unable to compete. In 1972, Potter placed seventh on the 3-meter springboard and 21st in the 10-meter platform partially due to a foot injury, and in 1976 Potter claimed a bronze medal in the 3-meter springboard. In other international competition, Potter won a gold in the 3 m springboard and a silver in the 10 m platform at the 1970 World University Games, a bronze in the 3 m springboard at the 1975 Pan-American Games, and a silver in the 3 m springboard at the 1978 World Championships. In 1987, Potter was inducted into the International Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame. In the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Potter has served as color commentator for televised U. S. and international diving competitions, primarily for NBC. Potter continues to provide color commentary for NBC's Olympic diving coverage and served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Potter graduated from Indiana University in 1973 with a degree in Secondary Education, and also received a graduate degree from the University of Arizona in Teaching and Teacher Education. Since retiring from diving, Potter currently serves as diving coach at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, and has served as a diving coach at Southern Methodist University, and the University of Arizona. | 0 |
Richard Herring | Richard Herring 2013-01-02T23:52:22Z Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring. He is described by the British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". He has written and performed in a body of live one-man comedy shows including the acclaimed Talking Cock and the resulting book of the same name. He has collaborated with the broadcaster Andrew Collins, initially on the radio series Banter, then on Collins' BBC Radio 6 Music show and Collings and Herrin Podcast. During the 2000s, Herring toured with a new stand-up show almost every year. His 2010 show Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming received several 4- and 5-star reviews. It was the subject of protests from Christians in both Glasgow and Lowestoft. Herring was born in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset. He was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Fringe favourites the Oxford Revue. He attained a 2:1 in History. With Stewart Lee, Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour (1991). It was during this time that the duo contributed to the creation of the character Alan Partridge. In 1992 and 1993, they wrote and performed Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World for BBC Radio 4. For Radio 1, they wrote and performed one series of Fist of Fun (1993), which was later remade for television. They also hosted a series on Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, simply called Lee and Herring. A final television partnership with Lee, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, was a victim of BBC management reshuffles. In 2002 Herring played the role of Renchard in the Doctor Who webcast Real Time, with Stewart Lee as Carey. Since ending his informal partnership with Stewart Lee, Herring has written and performed one-man shows. Most noteworthy of these shows was Talking Cock – released as a book in 2003 – which The Guardian described as "man's answer to The Vagina Monologues. " The show was translated into several European languages, most successfully in French. The book was also published in Russian. Herring co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now, a six-part series produced for Radio 2. Two further series were broadcast in 2006 and 2007. He has also written for television, most notably a large portion of Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, on which Stewart Lee worked as script editor. Herring has also contributed to the third series of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' popular TV sketch show Little Britain, as script editor. He has also worked for Russell Howard. On 25 November 2002 Herring started his blog Warming Up as a way to overcome writer's block. He has written an entry for every single day since then, around about 3000 consecutive entries. It is estimated that he has a regular readership of over 3,000. Some of the ideas from Warming Up were used in his 2005 Edinburgh show Someone Likes Yoghurt, his 2006 Edinburgh show Ménage à Un and his 2007 Edinburgh show Oh Fuck, I'm 40! . In December 2008 the first six months of his blog were published in a book called Bye Bye Balham. The blog also proved a source for his 2010 book How Not To Grow Up and his 2011 stand up show "What is Love, Anyway?" In 2005, he presented a chat show called Heads Up with Richard Herring on the Pokerzone channel, in which he interviewed professional poker players and celebrities about their careers and their love of the game. There were ten episodes in total. Herring also made weekly appearances on Andrew Collins's BBC Radio 6 Music radio show on Saturday afternoons, where the two would discuss the week's papers. Occasionally he hosted the show in Collins's absence and joined him for the whole of his final show on 31 March 2007. Herring was also a panellist on BBC Radio 4 gameshow Banter, which was presented by Collins. In January 2007, Herring's live stand-up show Someone Likes Yoghurt was filmed in Cardiff and released on DVD on 16 May by the independent distributor Go Faster Stripe. A recording of an earlier show, The 12 Tasks of Hercules Terrace, was released on 5 March 2007. Herring returned to Cardiff in June 2007 to film his third DVD, ménage à un. This DVD was released on 19 December 2007. He recorded Oh Fuck, I'm 40 on 21 March 2008. This DVD was released by Go Faster Stripe on 9 December 2008. He recorded "The Headmaster's Son" on 2 June 2009 at the Bristol Tobacco Factory. This was released by Go Faster Stripe on 11 February 2010. The DVD of "Hitler Moustache" was recorded on 2 April at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and was released through PIAS/Go Faster Stripe on 25 October 2010. In February 2007, filming began on Herring's new comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends. As well as writing the script, Herring also played one of the characters alongside Gordon Kennedy, Claire Skinner, Rebecca Front, Sarah-Jane Potts, Robert Daws, Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie. The show was broadcast on ITV1 on 7 June 2007. In January 2008 he began producing the Collings and Herrin (sic) podcast with Andrew Collins. They celebrated their two-year anniversary with a live "100th" podcast (it was actually about the 105th one they had done) at the Leicester Square Theatre. On 30 January 2010 the pair started sitting in for Adam and Joe on BBC Radio 6 Music on Saturdays mornings, a slot they continued in for over a year. His 2008 stand-up set The Headmaster's Son earned four 5 star reviews and several 4 star reviews. The set covers his experience growing up in The Kings of Wessex School in Somerset where his father worked as headmaster and how this may have encouraged him to make puerile jokes. The show was seen by critics as a thoughtful look at his upbringing, and his relationship with his father, to whom the show is dedicated. "The point of all the routines mentioned, when quoted in full, is vehemently anti-racist ... The show as a whole, far from examining my hatred of Pakistanis (another out of context quote from a routine intended to demonstrate the ludicrous nature of racism) is about trying to change the meaning of the toothbrush moustache so that it is no longer associated with Hitler and to make it into an anti-fascist symbol as a way of encouraging people to vote to ensure that the BNP never get elected again." -Richard Herring, letter to The GuardianThe original idea behind his 2009 show, Hitler Moustache, was to see if he "could reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy – it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it." The show discusses broader issues, such as fascism and the British National Party. Herring and some of his contemporaries, including Dave Gorman, were angered when comments he makes in his show were misrepresented in an opinion column written by critic Brian Logan in The Guardian. In his piece about offensiveness in comedy, Logan failed to communicate that Herring's line "that racists have a point" is accompanied by a critical commentary of democracy. On 12 October 2009, he recorded the first episode of As It Occurs To Me, a weekly stand-up and sketch show made especially for internet download. It also features Emma Kennedy, Dan Tetsell and Christian Reilly and had a first run of 10 episodes. A second series of eight episodes ran from 17 May to 5 July 2010. It was nominated for best internet show at the 2010 Sony Awards, though it failed to place. An Edinburgh special took place during the Fringe on 17 August and there were three autumn specials in October and November 2010. A third series of six episodes started on 16 May 2011. On 8 April 2010, Herring made his first appearance on the BBC's Have I Got News For You. He returned to the show as a guest on 13 May 2011 for episode five of the 14th series. On 14 October 2010, his Radio 4 series Richard Herring's Objective was first broadcast. In it Herring attempted to reclaim demonised items, starting with the Hitler moustache. The other episodes revolve around the hoodie, St George's Flag and Dolly the Sheep. An Edinburgh special about the "See You Jimmy" Hat was broadcast in August 2011 and a second series is being recorded in October 2011 with episodes about the Golliwog, the wheelchair, the Page 3 girl and the Old School Tie. On 27 December 2010, Herring finished second on Celebrity Mastermind with a final score of 35 points. His specialist subject was Rasputin. He was The Pod Delusion "Comedian of the Year 2010" On 7 February 2011, As It Occurs to Me won the first Chortle Internet award On 20 March 2012 he retained it. On 18 May 2011 he recorded a live performance of his 2010-11 show, Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming, which was released by Go Faster Stripe on 31 October 2011. In May 2011 it was announced that Fist of Fun would be released on DVD via Go Faster Stripe. The first series was released on 5 December 2011.. Series two was released in November 2012. His 2011 Edinburgh show What Is Love, Anyway premiered at the Cow Barn on 3 August, and was taken on a 74 date tour between October 2011 and May 2012. It was filmed by Go Faster Stripe at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 30 March 2012 and released on 9 August 2012. His other 2012 Edinburgh show, Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast topped the iTunes chart for 3 weeks during August 2011 and guests included Adam Buxton, Sarah Millican, Al Murray and Omid Djalili. In 2012 he also recorded 16 episodes of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast with guests including Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, David Mitchell, and Armando Iannucci. Herring was formerly in a relationship with the actress Julia Sawalha, some years after joking on Fist of Fun that "My ideal woman has the head of Julia Sawalha and the body of Julia Sawalha." Herring has raised money for the Scope charity since 2003, and ran the London marathon in aid of the charity in 2004 as well as the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon in 2011. In January 2011 he was nominated for a Just Giving Life Time Achievement Award for his extensive work in helping to raise money, awareness and support for Scope. In 2012 he was made a Patron of Scope. In 2010 he was made a Distinguished Supporter of The British Humanist Association. Herring announced in his new Metro newspaper column that he was engaged to marry his long term girlfriend in April 2012. The registry office ceremony took place on Saturday 7 April. , Richard Herring 2014-12-10T12:02:09Z Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double-act Lee and Herring. He is described by the British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". He is celebrated for concept-lead one-person live stand-up shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike. Since 2004, Herring has created a new show every year: developing them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, touring them extensively throughout the year, and recording the final performance for DVD. His 2014 show, Lord of the Dance Settee is his eleventh consecutive stand-up show in eleven years. He is also recognized a pioneer of comedy podcasting, initially with broadcaster Andrew Collins on The Collings and Herrin Podcast and more recently with high-profile comedians such as Stephen Merchant, Russell Brand and Stephen Fry on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. Richard Herring was born in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset. He attended The Kings of Wessex School, where his father was the headmaster. This later formed the basis of his 2008 stand-up show, The Headmaster's Son. He was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Fringe favourites the Oxford Revue. He attained a 2:1 in History Between 1992 and 2000, Richard was one half of the standup comedy double act with Stewart Lee. They were probably best known for their television work, most notably Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy but had been collaborating on stage and radio projects since the 1980s. As with many double acts, Lee and Herring performed as contrasting personalities: one intellectual and rational (Lee) and the other daft and charming (Herring). As with several other double acts, Lee and Herring had a certain irony to their style and constantly checked themselves and made reference to this. The characters of Lee and Herring were parodies and exaggerations of their real world selves. With Stewart Lee, Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour (1991). During this time the duo contributed to the creation of the character Alan Partridge. In 1992 and 1993, they wrote and performed Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World for BBC Radio 4. For Radio 1, they wrote and performed one series of Fist of Fun (1993), which was later remade for television in 1995 and 1996. They also hosted a series on Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, simply called Lee and Herring. A final television partnership with Lee, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, ran for eighteen episodes over two series but eventually became a victim of BBC management reshuffles. In 2011, Frank Skinner cited Lee & Herring as one of his favourite comedy double acts, alongside Laurel and Hardy, The Two Ronnies and Reeves and Mortimer. Lee and Herring went their separate ways at the end of the 1990s though there have been occasional reunions. In 2002 Herring played the role of Renchard in the Doctor Who webcast Real Time, with Stewart Lee as Carey. An account of meeting Doctor Who fans as a result of this is recorded in his blog and reprinted in his book Bye Bye Balham. Since ending his informal partnership with Stewart Lee, Herring has written and performed in a large body of one-person shows. A noteworthy example of these shows was Talking Cock – also released as a book in 2003 – which The Guardian described as "man's answer to The Vagina Monologues. " The show was translated into several European languages, most successfully in French. The book was also published in Russian. Herring co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now, initially a six-part series produced for Radio 2 in 2004. Two further series were broadcast in 2006 and 2007. He has also written for television, most notably a large portion of Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, on which Stewart Lee also worked as script editor. Herring has also contributed to the third series of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV sketch show Little Britain, as script editor. He has also worked for Russell Howard. On 25 November 2002 Herring started his blog Warming Up as a way to overcome writer's block. He has written an entry for every single day since then, over 4000 consecutive entries. It is estimated that he has a regular readership of over 3,000. Some of the ideas from Warming Up were used in his 2005 Edinburgh show Someone Likes Yoghurt, his 2006 Edinburgh show Ménage à Un and his 2007 Edinburgh show Oh Fuck, I'm 40! . In December 2008 the first six months of his blog were published in a book called Bye Bye Balham. The blog also proved a source for his 2010 book How Not To Grow Up and his 2011 stand up show "What is Love, Anyway?" In 2005, he presented a chat show called Heads Up with Richard Herring on the Pokerzone channel, in which he interviewed professional poker players and celebrities about their careers and their love of the game. There were ten episodes in total. Herring also made weekly appearances on Andrew Collins's BBC Radio 6 Music radio show on Saturday afternoons, where the two would discuss the week's papers. Occasionally he hosted the show in Collins's absence and joined him for the whole of his final show on 31 March 2007. Herring was also a panellist on BBC Radio 4 gameshow Banter, which was presented by Collins. In January 2007, Herring's live stand-up show Someone Likes Yoghurt was filmed in Cardiff and released on DVD on 16 May by the independent distributor Go Faster Stripe. A recording of an earlier show, The 12 Tasks of Hercules Terrace, was released on 5 March 2007. Herring returned to Cardiff in June 2007 to film his third DVD, ménage à un. This DVD was released on 19 December 2007. He recorded Oh Fuck, I'm 40 on 21 March 2008. This DVD was released by Go Faster Stripe on 9 December 2008. He recorded "The Headmaster's Son" on 2 June 2009 at the Bristol Tobacco Factory. This was released by Go Faster Stripe on 11 February 2010. The DVD of "Hitler Moustache" was recorded on 2 April at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and was released through PIAS/Go Faster Stripe on 25 October 2010. In February 2007, filming began on Herring's new comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends. As well as writing the script, Herring also played one of the characters alongside Gordon Kennedy, Claire Skinner, Rebecca Front, Sarah-Jane Potts, Robert Daws, Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie. The show was broadcast on ITV on 7 June 2007. In January 2008 he began producing the Collings and Herrin (sic) podcast with Andrew Collins. They celebrated their two-year anniversary with a live "100th" podcast (it was actually about the 105th one they had done) at the Leicester Square Theatre. On 30 January 2010 the pair started sitting in for Adam and Joe on BBC Radio 6 Music on Saturdays mornings, a slot they continued in for over a year. His 2008 stand-up set The Headmaster's Son earned four 5 star reviews and several 4 star reviews. The set covers his experience growing up in The Kings of Wessex School in Somerset where his father worked as headmaster and how this may have encouraged him to make puerile jokes. The show was seen by critics as a thoughtful look at his upbringing, and his relationship with his father, to whom the show is dedicated. "The point of all the routines mentioned, when quoted in full, is vehemently anti-racist ... The show as a whole, far from examining my hatred of Pakistanis (another out of context quote from a routine intended to demonstrate the ludicrous nature of racism) is about trying to change the meaning of the toothbrush moustache so that it is no longer associated with Hitler and to make it into an anti-fascist symbol as a way of encouraging people to vote to ensure that the BNP never get elected again." -Richard Herring, letter to The GuardianThe original idea behind his 2009 show, Hitler Moustache, was to see if he "could reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy – it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it." The show discusses broader issues, such as fascism and the British National Party. Herring and some of his contemporaries, including Dave Gorman, were angered when comments he makes in his show were misrepresented in an opinion column written by critic Brian Logan in The Guardian. In his piece about offensiveness in comedy, Logan failed to communicate that Herring's line "that racists have a point" is accompanied by a critical commentary of democracy. On 12 October 2009, he recorded the first episode of As It Occurs To Me, a weekly stand-up and sketch show made especially for internet download. It also features Emma Kennedy, Dan Tetsell and Christian Reilly and had a first run of 10 episodes. A second series of eight episodes ran from 17 May to 5 July 2010. It was nominated for best internet show at the 2010 Sony Awards, though it failed to place. An Edinburgh special took place during the Fringe on 17 August and there were three autumn specials in October and November 2010. A third series of six episodes started on 16 May 2011. On 8 April 2010, Herring made his first appearance on the BBC's Have I Got News For You. He returned to the show as a guest on 13 May 2011 for episode five of the 14th series. On 14 October 2010, his Radio 4 series Richard Herring's Objective was first broadcast. In it Herring attempted to reclaim demonised items, starting with the Hitler moustache. The other episodes revolve around the hoodie, St George's Flag and Dolly the Sheep. An Edinburgh special about the "See You Jimmy" Hat was broadcast in August 2011 and a second series was recorded in October 2011 with episodes about the Golliwog, the wheelchair, the Page 3 girl and the Old School Tie. On 27 December 2010, Herring finished second on Celebrity Mastermind with a final score of 35 points. His specialist subject was Rasputin. He was The Pod Delusion "Comedian of the Year 2010" On 7 February 2011, As It Occurs to Me won the first Chortle Internet award On 20 March 2012 he retained it. He won the award for a third year running in 2013 for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast His Leicester Square Theatre Podcast again won the award in 2014. On 18 May 2011 he recorded a live performance of his 2010-11 show, Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming, which was released by Go Faster Stripe on 31 October 2011. In May 2011 it was announced that Fist of Fun would be released on DVD via Go Faster Stripe. The first series was released on 5 December 2011. Series two was released in November 2012. The series two set won Best DVD at the 2013 Chortle Awards His 2011 Edinburgh show What Is Love, Anyway premiered at the Cow Barn on 3 August, and was taken on a 74 date tour between October 2011 and May 2012. It was filmed by Go Faster Stripe at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 30 March 2012 and released on 9 August 2012. His other 2012 Edinburgh show, Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast topped the iTunes chart for 3 weeks during August 2011 and guests included Adam Buxton, Sarah Millican, Al Murray and Omid Djalili. In 2012 he also recorded 16 episodes of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast with guests including Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, David Mitchell, and Armando Iannucci. It was nominated for a Sony Award for Best Comedy alongside a list of BBC produced comedy shows in 2013. It won the Bronze Award In May and June 2013 he recorded nine podcasts with guests including Stephen Fry, Russell Brand and Mary Beard In the interview with Stephen Fry, Fry revealed that had attempted to commit suicide. The story was reported across various newspapers and international news networks including the BBC and Sky News. A fourth series was recorded in September and October 2013 with guests including Stephen Merchant, Simon Pegg and Ross Noble. A fifth series was recorded in February and March 2014 with guests including Alexei Sayle, Greg Davies, Harry Shearer and Adam Buxton His 2013 Edinburgh Fringe stand up show We're All Going To Die! was performed at the Pleasance Beyond and was critically acclaimed, with three 5 star and several 4 star reviews. It was followed up by a 2013-2014 UK tour and a podcast of the same name. On 17 November 2013 he recorded the first episode of his six-part internet stand-up/sketch/interview show Richard Herring's Meaning of Life. Show one is about Creation, show two recorded on 26 January 2014 tackled the Paranormal. Show 3 recorded on 16 February 2014 tackled love. Show 4 about Death was recorded on 16 March 2014. Show 5 about Good and Evil was recorded on 13 April 2014. Show 6 about The Shape of Things To Come was recorded on 18 May 2014 Episode one went online for free on 28 February 2014, episode 2 went live on 22 April 2014, episode 3 became available on 23 June 2014. Episode 4 went online on 1 October 2014. On 20 February 2014, the first Richard Herring show went out on internet radio station, Fubar Radio. Herring presented this with comedian Lou Sanders on a weekly basis. Herring and Sanders quit the show and their final episode was broadcast on 24 May 2014. Herring was formerly in a relationship with the actress Julia Sawalha, some years after joking on Fist of Fun that "My ideal woman has the head of Julia Sawalha and the body of Julia Sawalha." In April 2012, Herring married author and comedian Catherine Wilkins. Herring has raised money for the Scope charity since 2003, and ran the London marathon in aid of the charity in 2004 as well as the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon in 2011, 2013 and 2014. In January 2011 he was nominated for a Just Giving Life Time Achievement Award for his extensive work in helping to raise money, awareness and support for Scope. In 2012 he was made a Patron of Scope. In 2010 he was made a Distinguished Supporter of The British Humanist Association. | 1 |
SARD | SARD 2017-07-05T13:44:58Z SARD Corporation (株式会社サード, Kabushiki gaisha Sādo, abbreviated as Sigma Advanced Racing Development) is a Japanese tuning company and racing team from Toyota, Aichi, mainly competing in the Super GT series and specialising in Toyota tuning parts. SARD is also taking part of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season, with a prototype in the LMP2 category, with plans for a future LMP1 entry. The company was formed in 1972 as Sigma Automotive Co., Ltd by Shin Kato to develop and produce motorsport related parts and accessories as well as operating their own racing team. Sigma began its racing career in the Fuji Grand Champion Series and for the following year participated for the first time in the 24 hours of Le Mans with their Sigma MC73, powered by a Mazda Wankel engine, becoming the first Japanese car to qualify for Le Mans, before retiring early in the race with electrical problems. The team returned for the following year with a Mazda backed MC74, finishing but not making enough laps to be classified. In 1975 the team switched to a Toyota powerplant in the MC75, only to suffer from another early retirement. Sigma Automotive would continue to compete in numerous domestic series. In 1985, the racing division of Sigma Automotive became an independent company, Kato established a company called Sigma Advanced Racing Development (SARD) specialising in motorsport as well as producing aftermarket parts for Toyota automobiles. SARD returned to international motorsports in 1989, debuting as a Toyota backed team named Toyota Team SARD in the first round of World Sports Prototype Championship held in Suzuka, using a Toyota 89C-V, also competing in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. With the demise of Group C in 1993, SARD switched to the newly formed JGTC series and also return to Le Mans with a V8 powered MR2 known as the MC8-R, having the same spell of misfortune as they had during the 1970s, competing in 1995 and 1996, only to fail to pre-qualify in the face of the newer generations of GT1 cars in the following year. SARD continued to compete in the JGTC with a works Supra. The team now races with a Lexus SC430, with Sato's son Shinji working as a Chief Engineer. In 2006, SARD has also competed at the 24 Hours of Tokachi, a Super Taikyu race, with a hybrid powered Lexus GS450h finishing 4th in class and 17th overall. For the following year, SARD took their Super GT specification Supra out of retirement, installed a hybrid version of its Super GT 3UZ-FE engine, giving out 480 bhp (358 kW) and 376 lb⋅ft (510 N⋅m) of torque. The Supra, rechristened as Denso SARD Supra HV-R and driven by series regulars André Couto, Akira Iida, Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Tatsuya Kataoka started on pole and dominated the race effortlessly throughout to the end which it finished 19 more laps over the runner up, completing 616 laps. It became the first hybrid-powered car to win a race. In addition, SARD develop and manufacture tuning parts mainly for Toyota cars, namely turbochargers, redesigned fuel systems and cooling systems, suspension parts and aerodynamic kits. The company is not restricted to Toyotas as they are well known within the aftermarket tuning market for their fuelling components used by numerous tuning companies. Also, under as SARD Marine Project, a separate project to its car works, it builds and sell its Toyota powered motorboats. SARD is taking part of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season, with a prototype in the LMP2 category, with plans for a future LMP1 entry. , SARD 2018-09-16T06:45:10Z SARD Corporation (株式会社サード, Kabushiki gaisha Sādo, abbreviated as Sigma Advanced Racing Development) is a Japanese tuning company and racing team from Toyota, Aichi, mainly competing in the Super GT series and specialising in Toyota tuning parts. The company was formed in 1972 as Sigma Automotive Co., Ltd by Shin Kato to develop and produce motorsport related parts and accessories as well as operating their own racing team. Sigma began its racing career in the Fuji Grand Champion Series and for the following year participated for the first time in the 24 hours of Le Mans with their Sigma MC73, powered by a Mazda Wankel engine, becoming the first Japanese car to qualify for Le Mans, before retiring early in the race with electrical problems. The team returned for the following year with a Mazda backed MC74, finishing but not making enough laps to be classified. In 1975 the team switched to a Toyota powerplant in the MC75, only to suffer from another early retirement. Sigma Automotive would continue to compete in numerous domestic series. In 1985, the racing division of Sigma Automotive became an independent company, Kato established a company called Sigma Advanced Racing Development (SARD) specialising in motorsport as well as producing aftermarket parts for Toyota automobiles. SARD returned to international motorsports in 1989, debuting as a Toyota backed team named Toyota Team SARD in the first round of World Sports Prototype Championship held in Suzuka, using a Toyota 89C-V, also competing in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. With the demise of Group C in 1993, SARD switched to the newly formed JGTC series and also return to Le Mans with a V8 powered MR2 known as the MC8-R, having the same spell of misfortune as they had during the 1970s, competing in 1995 and 1996, only to fail to pre-qualify in the face of the newer generations of GT1 cars in the following year. SARD continued to compete in the JGTC and Super GT series with works-backed Toyotas and Lexuses; the team currently fields a Lexus LC500 under the Lexus Team SARD name. In 2016, SARD won its first-ever Super GT championship with a Lexus RC F driven by Heikki Kovalainen and Kohei Hirate. In 2006, SARD competed in the 24 Hours of Tokachi, a Super Taikyu race, with a hybrid powered Lexus GS450h finishing 4th in class and 17th overall. For the following year, SARD took their Super GT specification Supra out of retirement, installed a hybrid version of its Super GT 3UZ-FE engine, giving out 480 bhp (358 kW) and 376 lb⋅ft (510 N⋅m) of torque. The Supra, rechristened as the Denso SARD Supra HV-R and driven by series regulars André Couto, Akira Iida, Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Tatsuya Kataoka started on pole and effortlessly dominated the entire race, completing 616 laps, 19 laps ahead of the runner-up. It became the first hybrid-powered car to win a race. In addition, SARD develops and manufactures tuning parts mainly for Toyota cars, namely turbochargers, redesigned fuel systems and cooling systems, suspension parts and aerodynamic kits. The company is not restricted to Toyotas as they are well known within the aftermarket tuning market for their fuelling components used by numerous tuning companies. Also, under the SARD Marine Project, a separate project to its car works, it builds and sell its Toyota powered motorboats. SARD planned to take part in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season with a LMP2-class prototype in association with Morand Racing, with plans for a future LMP1 entry. However, SARD was forced to reduce its participation after a loss of backers before the season started; it was unable to come up with half of the season's budget, as agreed with Morand. Nevertheless, Morand continued to compete under the Team SARD Morand name during the 2015 season. | 1 |
Chicago International Film Festival | Chicago International Film Festival 2020-02-28T23:18:58Z The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes of early film actresses Theda Bara, Pola Negri and Mae Murray, set as repeated frames in a strip of film. In 2010, the 46th Chicago International Film Festival presented 150 films from more than 50 countries. The Festival's program is composed of many different sections, including the International Competition, New Directors Competition, Docufest, Black Perspectives, Cinema of the Americas, and Reel Women. Its main venue is the AMC River East 21 Theatre in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. The International Connections Program was created in 2003 in order to raise awareness of the international film culture and diversity of Chicago, and to make the festival more appealing to audience and staff of various ethnicities. Foreign films are screened for free throughout the city weekly from July through September. Winners of the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award include Steven Spielberg, Helen Hunt, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Landau, Shirley MacLaine, Lord Richard Attenborough, François Truffaut, Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Williams, Manoel de Oliveira, and Clint Eastwood. , Chicago International Film Festival 2021-11-24T00:26:30Z The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes of early film actresses Theda Bara, Pola Negri and Mae Murray, set as repeated frames in a strip of film. In 2010, the 46th Chicago International Film Festival presented 150 films from more than 50 countries. The Festival's program is composed of many different sections, including the International Competition, New Directors Competition, Docufest, Black Perspectives, Cinema of the Americas, and Reel Women. Its main venue is the AMC River East 21 Theatre in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. The International Connections Program was created in 2003 in order to raise awareness of the international film culture and diversity of Chicago, and to make the festival more appealing to audience and staff of various ethnicities. Foreign films are screened for free throughout the city weekly from July through September. Winners are awarded Hugo Awards in eight different competition categories. Winners of the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award include Steven Spielberg, Helen Hunt, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Landau, Shirley MacLaine, Lord Richard Attenborough, François Truffaut, Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Williams, Manoel de Oliveira, and Clint Eastwood. The Television Awards started with the idea of honoring television commercials in a special event of the film festival, but over time evolved and grew into a bigger event, comprising not only commercials but also television productions, series, and online television. In 2003 a separate ceremony was launched for the TV awards, and in 2017, the event became a separate event, named the Chicago International Television Festival. Winners and runners-up for the various categories, which include Gold and Silver Hugos, are listed on the film festival website. | 1 |
David Rundblad | David Rundblad 2011-01-01T02:47:32Z Nils David Rundblad (born 8 October 1990) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing for Skellefteå AIK in the Swedish Elitserien. He was drafted 17th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, and traded to the Ottawa Senators on June 25th, 2010 for the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Rundblad scored his first Elitserien goal on 14 March 2009, against Linköpings HC. He had a spectacular playoff series against Linköping, being influential in Skellefteås progress to the semifinals for the first time since 1981. In the semi-finals, Skellefteå were eliminated by Färjestads BK, but Rundblad was still regarded as one of the biggest breakthroughs in Swedish hockey that year. NHL Central Scouting ranked Rundblad sixth among European skaters for the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, one spot behind Skellefteå AIK teammate Tim Erixon. In the following season Rundblad remained with Skellefteå and scored his first regular season goal on January 30, 2010 against Luleå HF, a goal that ended up being the game-winner. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that David had signed an entry-level contract with St. Louis. On June 25, 2010, he was acquired by Ottawa in exchange for the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Rundblad represented Sweden at the 2009 World Junior Championships and 2010 World Junior Championships. During the 2010 tournament, Rundblad was an alternate captain for the Swedish team. , David Rundblad 2012-05-23T07:18:16Z David Rundblad (born October 8, 1990 in Lycksele) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently a member of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rundblad was drafted 17th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He began his NHL career with the Ottawa Senators before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes. Rundblad scored his first Elitserien goal on March 14, 2009, in a playoff game against Linköpings HC. NHL Central Scouting ranked Rundblad sixth among European skaters for the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, one spot behind Skellefteå AIK teammate Tim Erixon. The following season, Rundblad remained with Skellefteå and scored his first regular season goal on January 30, 2010 against Mattias Modig of Luleå HF, a goal that ended up being the game-winner. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that Rundblad had signed an entry-level contract with St. Louis. On June 25, 2010, he was acquired by the Ottawa Senators in exchange for the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, which the Blues used to select Vladimir Tarasenko. Rundblad finished the 2010–11 season with 50 points in 55 games. That is the second highest point total of any defenseman in league history, after David Petrasek who had 53 points (in 52 games) in 2009–10. Rundblad attended his first Senators camp in 2011, and remained on the roster into the season. Rundblad made his NHL debut on October 11, 2011 against the Minnesota Wild. Rundblad's first NHL point was an assist on a goal by Peter Regin on October 15 in a game against the Washington Capitals. His first NHL goal came on November 27, 2011 against Cam Ward of the Carolina Hurricanes. On December 17, 2011, Rundblad was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes (along with a second round draft pick) for forward Kyle Turris. Rundblad represented Sweden at the 2009 World Junior Championships and 2010 World Junior Championships. During the 2010 tournament, Rundblad was an alternate captain for the Swedish team. | 1 |
Wasim Mushtaq | Wasim Mushtaq 2021-01-30T16:42:29Z Waseem Mushtaq (born 21 April 1984) is an Indian television actor known for his roles in the shows like Amrit Manthan as Tej Malik, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya as Akshat Khandelwal, Dilli Wali Thakur Gurls as Aseem, Bhagyavidhaata as Suraj Sinhaand Mere Angne Mein as Sujeev Sinha. He is most recently seen in Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum on Star Plus. Mushtaq is originally from Srinagar. He auditioned for Indian Idol where judge Anu Malik recommended he try his hand at acting. , Wasim Mushtaq 2022-11-15T12:14:14Z Waseem Mushtaq (born 21 April 1984) is an Indian television actor. Mushtaq is originally from Srinagar. He auditioned for Indian Idol where judge Anu Malik recommended he try his hand at acting. | 1 |
ITPKB | ITPKB 2011-03-07T16:52:30Z Template:PBB Inositol-trisphosphate 3-kinase B is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ITPKB gene. Template:PBB Summary. Itpkb regulates immune cell function and is required for T and B cell development. Template:PBB Further reading This article on a gene on human chromosome 1 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Template:PBB Controls, ITPKB 2011-04-27T14:47:27Z Template:PBB Inositol-trisphosphate 3-kinase B is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ITPKB gene. Template:PBB Summary. Itpkb regulates immune cell function and is required for T and B cell development. Template:PBB Further reading This article on a gene on human chromosome 1 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Template:PBB Controls | 0 |
Scorton,_Lancashire | Scorton,_Lancashire 2010-12-06T20:38:06Z 53°55′59″N 2°45′36″W / 53. 933°N 2. 760°W / 53. 933; -2. 760 Scorton is a small village near the River Wyre, in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. It is located north of Garstang. The name means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine" In the 19th century there was a cotton mill in the village and the village had a railway station on the West Coast Main Line from 1841 until 1939. The village has three churches, one pub (Stouts Bar, at the Priory Hotel), and is home to The Barn garden centre, gift shop and cafe. It is also host to the popular annual Scorton Vintage and Country Fayre which takes place on Fathers' Day weekend in June each year. , Scorton,_Lancashire 2012-03-11T22:13:15Z Scorton is a small village near the River Wyre, in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. It is located north of Garstang. The name means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine" In the 19th century there was a cotton mill in the village and the village had a railway station on the West Coast Main Line from 1841 until 1939. The village has three churches, one pub (Stouts Bar, at the Priory Hotel), and is home to The Barn garden centre, gift shop, cafe and restaurant, the Bowland Grill, which is open at weekend and all week in the summer season. The annual Scorton Steam show takes place on Fathers' Day weekend in June each year. The hills around include the much walked Nicky Nook on the edge of the Forest of Bowland area. St. Peters Church, builts 19878-9 is one of four churches in the village, has a special family grave set up for the Farnworth and Metcalfe family, by James Metcalfe in the late 1950s. Wyresdale Hall built 1856-8 is 1one mile north-est and was built for the Ormerod family of Bolton. Wyresdale Hall, a grade II listed country house and estate is located near the village. | 0 |
East_Malling_Stream | East_Malling_Stream 2007-11-20T16:30:09Z The East Malling Steam, known locally as 'The Stream' rises at Well Street, East Malling and flows in a generally easterly direction to join the River Medway at Mill Hall, Aylesford. It powered six watermills. The Domesday book recorded two mills worth 10/- at Metlinge (East Malling). In 1363 there were two mills in the village. East Malling possessed a fulling mill from 1567 to 1719, most likely to have been Middle Mill. Thomas Tomlyn was a miller in the 17th Century, Thomas Pidgeon, corn miller of East Malling died in 1685, In 1706 there were three mills - Upper, Weir and Middle Mills. The mill pond was some 200 yards long, and covered an area of just over ½ acre in 1840. The mill had a overshot wheel of some 10' diameter and 8' wide, the remains of which were on site in 1972. The tail race discharged into the mill pond of Weir Mill. Probably one of the two Domesday mills. The mill was marked on a map of 1706. The pond of Weir Mill is roughly square in shape and covers an area of just over ¼ acre. Probably one of the two Domesday mills. Middle Mill was in existence in 1684 when the pond was shown on a map drawn by Abraham Walter. The mill pond covered an area of just over ½ acre. The mill pond is some 200 yards long and 50 yards wide, covering an area of just under 1½ acres. A Domesday site, one mill was recorded at Dictvne (Ditton). The final remains of Mill Hall Mill were demolished to make way for the foundations of a footbridge over the M20., East_Malling_Stream 2009-02-28T17:27:37Z The East Malling Stream, known locally as "The Stream", rises at Well Street, East Malling, and flows in a generally easterly direction to join the River Medway at Mill Hall, Aylesford. It powered six watermills. The stream may have formerly been known as the Bradbourne, Bradbourne Lane in Ditton bearing witness to this name. The Domesday Book recorded two mills worth 10/- at Metlinge (East Malling). In 1363 there were two mills in the village. East Malling possessed a fulling mill from 1567 to 1719, most likely to have been Middle Mill. Thomas Tomlyn was a miller in the 17th century, Thomas Pidgeon, corn miller of East Malling died in 1685, In 1706 there were three mills - Upper, Weir and Middle Mills. The history of the paper mills needs to be read together, as they were all linked through various owners. TQ 697 571 51°17′16″N 0°26′05″E / 51. 287643°N 0. 434611°E / 51. 287643; 0. 434611 James Brooks was the at the mill in 1752, when the mill was rated at £61, increasing to £122 in 1757. By 1764 the mill was operating as a paper mill, James Brooks insuring the mill for £150 in that year. One of his apprentices wa Nicholas Tapsfield, who was later to work at the paper mill at Sundridge. In 1801 he insured the mill for £350 and died in 1805 aged 69. John Larking took the mill 1n 1806, it being then rated at £131. Larking went into partnership with John Morrice by 1816 and Morrice was recorded as at the mill from 1817-21. He was succeeded by William Blunden, who was working at Upper Mill in 1819, followed by Robert Tassell c. 1823. The mill underwent considerable development between 1840 and 1860. It was demolished in the years between the First and Second World Wars. An illustration of Upper Mill can be seen here. The mill pond was some 200 yards (180 m) long, and covered an area of just over ½ acre in 1840. The mill had an overshot waterwheel of some 10 feet (3. 05 m) diameter and 8 feet (2. 44 m) wide, the remains of which were on site in 1972. The tail race discharged into the mill pond of Weir Mill. TQ 698 572 51°17′19″N 0°26′10″E / 51. 288512°N 0. 436091°E / 51. 288512; 0. 436091 Probably one of the two Domesday mills. The mill was marked on a map of 1706. The next known mention of Wier Mill was in 1810 when the mill was marked on the map accompanying the enclosure award. In 1840 James Phillips was the owner-occupier of the mill, which was a water corn mill with 12 feet (3. 66 m) waterwheel driving two pairs of stones. The pond of Weir Mill is roughly square in shape and covers an area of just over ¼ acre. The mill passed from James to Thomas Phillips c. 1855 and to Mr. T J Dewe c,1893. G E Hide was working the mill in 1905 and S R Anscombe bought the mill in 1913. The mill last ground corn in 1930 and was bought by Whitbread Ltd. , the Maidstone brewers, who used part of the mill to store hops. The mill subsequently passed into the ownership of Wm. Lillico & Son and was then used as a general store. During this time the timber part of the mill buildings were becoming derelict. The timber clad original mill building dates from the reign of Queen Anne. A brick extension was added in two stages, the last part being built in 1889. Roller mills of 4½ sack capacity were installed c. 1893 as was a boiler and steam engine, principally to drive the roller mills whilst the waterwheel drove the stones. The steam engine was a beam engine, it was eventually sold to a buyer in the USA. This is four storeys in height, the base being of brick and the upper storeys timber. The 12 feet (3. 66 m) diameter waterwheel was overshot with eighty buckets and carried on a 9 inches (230 mm) diameter cast iron axle. The wooden upright shaft was only 6 inches (150 mm) diameter, reducing to 4 inches (100 mm) at first floor level. It carried a Great Spur Wheel and an iron Crown Wheel of 6 feet (1. 83 m) diameter. This received a drive from the steam engine so that the mill could be driven that way if necessary. The mill drove three pairs of millstones. This was built in two parts, latterly known as the "middle room" and the "end room", this last part being built in 1889. The mill was some six storeys in height, dwarfing the original mill. The middle room contained the roller mills, six in total. TQ 696 574 51°17′25″N 0°26′00″E / 51. 290369°N 0. 433321°E / 51. 290369; 0. 433321 Probably one of the two Domesday mills. Middle Mill was in existence in 1684 when the pond was shown on a map drawn by Abraham Walter. In 1755 Richard Gowlett was the papermaker here, and in that year he took John Evernden and Elizabeth Sands as apprentices. He insured the mill for £35 in 1770 and he died c. 1778, his widow Mary paying the rates on the mill until 1798 when the mill was sold to George Blunden. William Blunden was at the mill in 1816, but George Blunden was again recorded at the mill in 1824. He was recorded at a manufacturer of brown and white paper in 1832 and Francis Collins joined him in partnership that year. Robert Tassell acquired the mill c. 1833 and went into partnership with Henry Smith in 1838. In 1841 there was an increase in the rateable value of the property from £54 to £150. The partnership was dissolved in 1848, all three mills being in the sole ownership of Robert Tassell from 1834 to 1838. The mill stood empty from 1848 to 1850, when the Busbridge brothers took over the running of the mills. The were involved in a Court case in 1859 over the discharge of foul water used in the paper making process. The mill pond covered an area of just over one-half acre. An illustration of Middle Mill can be seen here. TQ 697 576 51°17′32″N 0°26′05″E / 51. 292136°N 0. 434849°E / 51. 292136; 0. 434849 In 1792 Clement and George Taylor were granted a patent for the use of chlorine for bleaching rags for use in paper manufacture. James Whatman claimed that he wa able to prove that several trials had already been made, including by Mr. Larking, who owned Lower Mill at that time. In 1816, John Larking and John Morrice were in partnership at both Upper and Lower Mills, the partnership being dissolved on 8 October of that year, John Morrice taking both mills. Robert Tassell took both mills by 1821, making both brown and white papers. He went into partnership with Henry Smith in 1838 and by 1844 they owned all three paper mills. This partnership was dissolved c. 1844 and Henry Smith was the sole occupier of the three mills, worth together £420. In 1848 Lower Mill was recorded as empty and valued at £120. All three mills were managed by Thomas Harris Busbridge and George Frederick Busbridge from c. 1849. It is likely that Lower Mill ceased regular production of paper in 1848, being used spasmodically until 1851, and closing completely by 1852. The mill seems to have been demolished by 1860, not appearing on the first 25 inch Ordnance Survey map. The mill pond is some 200 yards (180 m) long and 50 yards (46 m) wide, covering an area of just under 1½ acres (6,100 m²). TQ 709 582 51°17′50″N 0°27′08″E / 51. 297168°N 0. 452332°E / 51. 297168; 0. 452332 A Domesday site, one mill was recorded at Dictvne (Ditton) with a value of 10/-. Tenants of this corn mill include Edward Smith in 1724, J Whiteing from 1725-43, Thomas Shepard 1744-54, his widow in 1755-6, William Luck in 1757. Thomas Allchin was at the mill in 1840 and was still there in 1852. Joseph Jellis was the miller in 1887-90 and Robert Foster was the last known miller in 1905. The mill closed down c. 1912. The mill is located close to the ford in Bradbourne Lane. In its later years the waterwheel was replaced by a turbine. TQ 715 589 51°18′12″N 0°27′41″E / 51. 303276°N 0. 461267°E / 51. 303276; 0. 461267 This mill was marked on a map of 1684, it was a paper mill at that time. In 1695 Edward Middleton was working the mill, which then had a rateable value of £20. He was at the mill until 1724 when William Harris took it over. William Harris died in 1741 and his widow ran the mill until 1744 when Thomas Harris took it over. He was still at the mill in 1763 when he insured the mill for £100. in 1776 Thomas Golding insured the mill. He was still at the mill in 1803 but by 1812 his son Stephen Golding was recorded as a master paper maker of Ditton when he married. There was a partnership between Thomas Golding and his sons Stephen and Thomas jr which was dissolved in 1816. The artist Jean Claude Natteas (1785-1822) sketched the mill in 1816. In 1832, Robert Tassell took over the mill and it ceased to make paper by 1841. In 1841, Stephen Spratt was recorded as the occupier of the mill, by then a corn mill. he was at the mill until at least 1862, the next change of ownership being recorded as Charles Stonham & Sons in 1878. A steam engine was recorded at the mill in 1887, but had gone by 1890, when Walter Skinner was the miller, still there in 1895. Henry Packham was the last miller, there at least 1905-13, but the mill had stopped working by 1922. The machinery was removed and the building converted into stables by A E Reed & Co. Ltd. the mill was demolished c. 1950 but the waterwheel survived until 1969. The mill was of three storeys, the base being of ragstone and the upper storeys of timber, clad in tarred weatherboarding. The overshot waterwheel was 14 feet (4. 27 m) diameter and 6 feet (1. 83 m) wide, mounted on a 9 inches (230 mm) square iron axle, driving an iron pit wheel. The iron pentrough was dated 1887. The final remains of Mill Hall Mill were demolished to make way for the foundations of a footbridge over the M20. TQ 708 579 51°17′40″N 0°27′03″E / 51. 294502°N 0. 450755°E / 51. 294502; 0. 450755 As mentioned under Church Mills, there is a ford on Bradbourne Lane. In recent years Kent County Council have attempted to close the road through the ford without going through the correct legal channels. 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Robbie Amell | Robbie Amell 2009-01-03T05:20:19Z Robert Patrick Amell (born April 21, 1988 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. Along with his sister, he started modeling and acting in small roles in commercials when he was six years old. At 16, he began landing roles in his high school plays such as Louis and Dave, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Importance of Being Earnest. He graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto in 2006, and was voted most likely to "set up camp in the gym...for life". He appeared as Daniel Murtaugh in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and also appeared in the 2006 horror film, Left for Dead. Currently he is working in roles on the Disney Channel series Life with Derek by playing Casey McDonald's boyfriend, Max and he is working for Nickelodeon on the series "True Jackson VP". He has also appeared in the new ABC Family movie, Picture This. , Robbie Amell 2010-11-29T20:20:19Z Robert Patrick "Robbie" Amell (born April 21, 1988) is a Canadian actor, who is best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP, Picture This, and Fred Jones in the television films Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. Amell was born in Toronto, Ontario. Along with his sister, he started modeling and acting in small roles in commercials when he was six years old. He attended Armour Heights Public School and graduated in 2000. At 16, he began landing roles in high school plays such as Louis and Dave, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Importance of Being Earnest. He graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto in 2006. Amell appeared as Daniel Murtaugh in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. He also appeared in the 2010 horror film Left for Dead. He had a role in the Family Channel series Life with Derek (he played Casey McDonald's boyfriend, Max). He has also appeared in the ABC Family movie Picture This. Amell has a regular role on the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP as Max Madigan's nephew Jimmy, True's love interest. Amell is currently set to star in the comedy movie "Seeing is Believing" playing one of the 3 lead characters, Nick Wright, Production for the Movie began on May 3, 2010 and ended on July 1. The Movie is set to premiere on January 14, 2011. | 1 |
Marching Chiefs | Marching Chiefs 2007-01-13T16:04:52Z Since 1949, the name Marching Chiefs has served as the official title of the marching band of The Florida State University. An unnamed band had existed at the university since 1941 when the school was still The Florida State College for Women under the leadership of Charlotte Cooper, Jean Hitchcolk, Allie Ludlaw, and director Owen F. Sellars. With less than twenty students, the band made its first performance at the Odds and Evens intramural football game on Thanksgiving Day 1939. With the integration of male students to the university in 1947 and a budding athletic program on the horizon, the marching band found itself expanding and searching for a unique identity. A newspaper survey conducted that year, sponsored by the FSU Student Government Association, aided in selecting the title officially adopted by the university. The first appearance of the Marching Chiefs was at Stetson University in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb joined the faculty at FSU as the director of the Marching Chiefs. Whitcomb is credited with being the first to implement fast marching tempos, and high marching steps known as the "Chief Step". Along with Dr. Whitcomb came the talented young arranger, Charlie Carter. In 1958 Charlie Carter arranged J. Dayton's Smith's, "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" into the current arrangement the Marching Chiefs play to this day. It was after the Homecoming game of that same year that "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" was played (and sung) by the Marching Chiefs starting a tradition that still endures to this day. In 1959 the Marching Chiefs practice field was moved to its current location, just south of the Tully Gym / Leach Center Complex. In 1971 Florida State University Alumnus and former Marching Chief Drum Major Richard Mayo took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. That same year the Marching Chiefs grew to over 200 members and were finalists in the Best College Marching Band Contest on ABC-TV. In 1974 the Marching Chiefs traveled as guests of the United States Department of State to perform at the International Trade Fair in Damascus, Syria. While in the Middle East, the Chiefs traveled to Amman, Jordan for a command performance for King Hussein. Thus beginning the "world-renowned" title that the Marching Chiefs use to this day. In 1977 FSU and Marching Chief Alumns Dr. Bently Shellahamer took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1978 the Marching Chiefs made their first NFL performance for the New Orleans Saints. In 1981 membership in the Marching Chiefs exceeded 300 and FSU Alumnus David Westberry took over as voice of the Marching Chiefs. The December 6, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine stated that, "Florida State occasionally may lose a football game, but never a halftime show." In 1984 the Marching Chiefs made their second NFL performance jointly with the Fightin' Gator Marching Band of the University of Florida at Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, FL. In 1988, the Chiefs had grown to over 400 members, making the ensemble the largest collegiate marching band in the world. In 1989 Robert Sheldon became Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1991 the Chiefs became the first collegiate marching band to produce their own CD recording "Our Best Foot Forward", under the direction of new director Patrick Dunnigan. In 1992 the Marching Chiefs practice field was renamed in honor of Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb. In 1997 the Marching Chiefs renewed their "world-renowned" status when they traveled to London, England to perform a halftime show for the World Football League's London Monarchs. The 2001 season marked the first appearance of the Marching Chiefs current uniform of garnet pants, garnet shako hat with a white feather plume, and white jacket featuring the garnet arrow head on the back and "FSU" on the front. The previous uniforms (1989 - 2000) were retired and are now being made into commemorative pillows as a fund raising project for the Florida State University Band Alumni Assassination to raise funds for an archway entrance to the Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb Band Complex. In 2005, a donation of over $1 million dollars was made to the university for a new practice field for the Marching Chiefs. Starting with the 2005 season, the Chiefs have a brand new million dollar artificial turf field to march on fully painted as Bobby Bowden Field would be on game day, complete with the FSU Seminole Head Logo in the center. The Marching Chiefs webpage is located at http://www.marchingchiefs.fsu.edu, Marching Chiefs 2008-12-16T19:17:49Z Since 1949, the name Marching Chiefs has served as the official title of the marching band of The Florida State University. An unnamed band had existed at the university since 1941 when the school was still The Florida State College for Women under the leadership of Charlotte Cooper, Jean Hitchcock, Allie Ludlaw, and director Owen F. Sellers. With fewer than twenty students, the band made its first performance at the Odds and Evens intramural football game on Thanksgiving Day 1939. With the integration of male students to the university in 1947 and a budding athletic program on the horizon, the marching band found itself expanding and searching for a unique identity. A newspaper survey conducted that year, sponsored by the FSU Student Government Association, aided in selecting the title officially adopted by the university. The first appearance of the Marching Chiefs was at Stetson University in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb, formerly of Ohio State University, joined the faculty at FSU as the director of the Marching Chiefs. Whitcomb is credited with being the first to implement fast marching tempos, and high marching steps known as the "Chief Step". Whitcomb was also among the first college band directors to use the football grid as a template for planning halftime shows. He has been credited as the inventor of the eight steps to five yards, or 8-to-5, marching pace. Along with Dr. Whitcomb came the talented young arranger, Charlie Carter. Under Whitcomb's tutelage, chapters of the honorary band fraternity and sorority Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma were installed. In 1958 Charlie Carter arranged J. Dayton's Smith's "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" into the current arrangement the Marching Chiefs play to this day. It was after the Homecoming game of that same year that "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" was played (and sung) by the Marching Chiefs starting a tradition that still endures to this day. In 1959 the Marching Chiefs practice field was moved to its current location, just south of the Tully Gym/Leach Center Complex. Early band members called it Sherwood Forest. By the early 1960s, the band numbered about 150 and Whitcomb had turned over the reins of the marching band to longtime music faculty member Robert T. Braunagel, "Brownie." Carter remained as arranger. Cliff Madsen was assistant director. This period saw FSU's first football victories over instate rivals Miami and Florida, and the band was there to witness and aid them. Band trips to Miami were annual and much-anticipated events, since Miami was unwilling to visit the much smaller FSU stadium. Uniforms were updated from black double-breasted coats to trimmer black uniforms with gold overlays embroidered with a Seminole Indian profile. Girls, or "chicks" in Chiefs' parlance, wore skirts and majorette boots. Probably the most significant event of the decade occurred in 1963, when the homecoming halftime show featured an innovation in halftime entertainment: the first-ever performance of an original composition for marching band, accompanied by abstract formations integrated with the music. Band Ballet was a challenging work approximately 10 minutes long composed by John Boda, a well-known composer and FSU professor. The intricate formations were created by director Robert Braunagel. In 1971 Florida State University Alumnus and former Marching Chief Drum Major Richard Mayo took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. That same year the Marching Chiefs grew to over 200 members and were finalists in the Best College Marching Band Contest on ABC-TV. In 1974 the Marching Chiefs traveled as guests of the United States Department of State to perform at the International Trade Fair in Damascus, Syria. While in the Middle East, the Chiefs traveled to Amman, Jordan for a command performance for King Hussein. Thus beginning the "world-renowned" title that the Marching Chiefs use to this day. In 1977 FSU and Marching Chief Alumnus Dr. Bentley Shellahamer took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1977 the Marching Chiefs made their first NFL performance for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1978 the Marching Chiefs made their second NFL performance for the New Orleans Saints. In 1981 membership in the Marching Chiefs exceeded 300 and FSU Alumnus David Westberry took over as voice of the Marching Chiefs. The December 6, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine stated that, "Florida State occasionally may lose a football game, but never a halftime show." In 1984 the Marching Chiefs made their third NFL performance jointly with the Fightin' Gator Marching Band of the University of Florida at Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, FL. In 1988, the Chiefs had grown to over 400 members, making the ensemble the largest collegiate marching band in the world. In 1989 Robert Sheldon became Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1991 the Chiefs became the first collegiate marching band to produce their own CD recording "Our Best Foot Forward", under the direction of new director Patrick Dunnigan. In 1992 the Marching Chiefs practice field was renamed in honor of Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb. In 1997 the Marching Chiefs renewed their "world-renowned" status when they traveled to London, England to perform a halftime show for the World Football League's London Monarchs. The 2001 season marked the first appearance of the Marching Chiefs current uniform of garnet pants, garnet shako hat with a white feather plume, and white jacket featuring the garnet arrow head on the back and "FSU" on the front. The previous uniforms (1989 - 2000) were retired and are now being made into commemorative pillows as a fund raising project for the Florida State University Band Alumni Association to raise funds for an archway entrance to the Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb Band Complex. In 2005, a donation of over $1 million dollars was made to the university for a new practice field for the Marching Chiefs. Starting with the 2005 season, the Chiefs have a brand new million dollar artificial turf field to march on fully painted as Bobby Bowden Field would be on game day, complete with the FSU Seminole Head Logo in the center. That season also saw the addition of the Rifle Line added to the auxiliary sections. In 2006, the Marching Chiefs performed at an unprecedented 8 home games, featuring 8 different field performances. As always, the Chiefs accomplished their goal, and exceeded all expectations. In 2008, the Marching Chiefs attained a size of over 440 members, and is the second largest collegiate marching band compared to nearby FAMU's 450. Thus, the two largest collegiate marching bands in the country are both based out of schools in Tallahassee. The Marching Chiefs' sections are known by its members by their own specific name and are as follows: Flutes: "Chiefs Flutes" Clarinets: "Pieces" (Previously "Five Easy Pieces") Alto & Tenor Saxophones: "Section X" (Previously "Sigma Alpha Chi") Mellophones: "Hornz" (Previously "Hornies") Trumpets: "Screech Squad" or commonly referred to as "Screech" Baritones: "Tone Quality(TQ)" or commonly referred to as "Tones" Trombones: "The Roamin' Bones" or commonly referred to as "Bones" (Previously "Boners") Sousaphones: "Royal Flush" or commonly referred to as "Flush" Percussion: "The Big 8 Drumline" or commonly referred to as "Big 8" Auxiliary consists of Color Guard, Majorettes and Feature Twirler(s) Show/Technical Support: "Glue Crew" Each individual section has its own set of history and traditions, some with their own colors, mottos, symbols, songs, pre-game rituals and/or crests. Drum Majors and Assistant Drum Majors of the Marching Chiefs fulfill ceremonial as well as musical positions of leadership within the band. One of the most significant and visible responsibilities of the Drum Major is the pre-game strut, which includes a 40-yard strut and mace toss prior to the beginning of the Marching Chiefs' pre-game show. This tradition began with Jim Bruce during his tenure as Drum Major. Over the years, Marching Chiefs added the position of Assistant Drum Major (and later a second) to serve as an additional field commander and conductor. For halftime performances and special appearances, the Drum Major dresses in a ceremonial uniform designed in the likeness of the Seminole Indian Tribe, incorporating designs and colors representative of traditional tribal attire. 1 did not complete season Skull Session - When Manley Whitcomb, the founder of the Marching Chiefs, came to Florida State University from Ohio State University, he brought several traditions with him, one of those being the "Skull Session". Performed on Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium (located next to Doak Campbell Stadium) The Chiefs perform section cheers and then go on to give the audience a sneak preview of the day's halftime show selections. Most section cheers tend to be either well-known pop songs, opportunities to poke fun at school opponents/other sections or inside jokes. All cheers are arranged by students who are current/alumni Chiefs. "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" - This is a tradition that started when the Chiefs were under the direction of Dr. Bentley Shellehammer. As the football team is finishing its on-field warm up routine, the Chiefs join the team's vocals. As they finish, the team lines up shoulder to shoulder on the fifty yard line and holds up their helmets and walks toward the North end zone as the Chiefs play the theme from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" which has been arranged into "G.B.U.", an extended intro which leads into the singing of the Florida State Fight Song, or on occasion, the Warchant. "Flushing" The Field -The Royal Flush, during every pre-game performance, "flushes" the field by running around the Seminole head at the center of Bobby Bowden Field while the head drum major stands at the center of it. As the rest of the band exits the field, The Royal Flush follows and the entire band ends the exit cadence by counting the number of Flush members and ending with "Flush!" This can be heard on each and every recording of the Exit Cadence. "The Hymn To The Garnet & Gold"- Most Chiefs will agree that their favorite school song is what is commonly known as "The Hymn". When Florida State University was looking for an alma mater, several composers sent in their contributions. The Hymn did not make it as the official FSU Alma Mater, but it lives and thrives as a long-standing school tradition, as the Chiefs sing it at the end of every game. The Marching Chiefs webpage is located at http://www.marchingchiefs.fsu.edu | 1 |
BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year | BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year 2018-02-11T18:42:41Z The BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year is an award presented at the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony. The award is presented to a non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantial contribution to a sport in that year. The award was decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists. Each panellist voted for their top two choices; their first preference was awarded two points, and their second preference was awarded one point. The winning sportsperson had the most total points. In the case of a points tie, the sportsperson chosen as first preference by the most panellists is the winner. If this is also a tie the award is shared. In 2015 the public voted for this award. The Overseas Personality award was first presented in 1960, six years after the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award was introduced. The first recipient of the award was Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott. Since then, the award has been presented to 49 sportspersons. Swiss tennis player Roger Federer has won the award four times. American boxer Muhammad Ali and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt have both won the award three times. The award has been shared on three occasions—by Ron Clarke and Gary Player in 1965, Eusébio and Garfield Sobers in 1966, and Evander Holyfield and Michael Johnson in 1996. The husband-and-wife skating duo of Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova are the only pair to have won the award, doing so in 1968. Belousova was the first woman to become Overseas Personality—she was also the oldest, aged 33. George Moore is the oldest recipient of the award, winning in 1967 aged 44. The youngest recipient of the award is Nadia Comăneci, who won in 1976 at age 15. Boris Becker, who was 18 when he won in 1985, is the youngest male to have won. Twenty different countries have been represented by the award winners. United States sportspersons have won the award the most times, having had nineteen recipients, two of whom shared the award. Three cricketers have received the award -- Garfield Sobers of Barbados, Brian Lara of Trinidad and Tobago (both of whom played for the West Indies cricket team), and Shane Warne of Australia. Thirteen sporting disciplines have been represented; tennis has the highest representation, with fifteen recipients. The most recent recipient in 2017 was Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. Only one winner has ever been stripped of the award – US cyclist Lance Armstrong, whose 2003 award was rescinded by the BBC following the UCI's 2012 decision to strip Armstrong of his titles and ban him for life from the sport. This table lists the total number of awards won by nationality based on the principle of jus soli. This table lists the total number of awards won by recipient's sporting profession. , BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year 2019-12-21T23:49:54Z The BBC World Sport Star of the Year (formerly known as the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year) is an award presented at the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony. The award is presented to a non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantial contribution to a sport in that year. The award was decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists. Each panellist voted for their top two choices; their first preference was awarded two points, and their second preference was awarded one point. The winning sportsperson had the most total points. In the case of a points tie, the sportsperson chosen as first preference by the most panellists is the winner. If this is also a tie the award is shared. In 2015 the public voted for this award. The Overseas Personality award was first presented in 1960, six years after the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award was introduced. The first recipient of the award was Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott. Since then, the award has been presented to 49 sportspersons. Swiss tennis player Roger Federer has won the award four times. American boxer Muhammad Ali and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt have both won the award three times. The award has been shared on three occasions—by Ron Clarke and Gary Player in 1965, Eusébio and Garfield Sobers in 1966, and Evander Holyfield and Michael Johnson in 1996. The husband-and-wife skating duo of Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova are the only pair to have won the award, doing so in 1968. Belousova was the first woman to become Overseas Personality—she was also the oldest, aged 33. George Moore is the oldest recipient of the award, winning in 1967 aged 44. The youngest recipient of the award is Nadia Comăneci, who won in 1976 at age 15. Boris Becker, who was 18 when he won in 1985, is the youngest male to have won. Twenty different countries have been represented by the award winners. United States sportspersons have won the award the most times, having had nineteen recipients, two of whom shared the award. Three cricketers have received the award -- Garfield Sobers of Barbados, Brian Lara of Trinidad and Tobago (both of whom played for the West Indies cricket team), and Shane Warne of Australia. Thirteen sporting disciplines have been represented; tennis has the highest representation, with fifteen recipients. The most recent recipient in 2017 was Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. Only one winner has ever been stripped of the award – US cyclist Lance Armstrong, whose 2003 award was rescinded by the BBC following the UCI's 2012 decision to strip Armstrong of his titles and ban him for life from the sport. In 2018, the award was renamed BBC World Sport Star of the Year. Along with the change of name, votes could be cast from outside of the UK for the first time. This table lists the total number of awards won by nationality based on the principle of jus soli. This table lists the total number of awards won by recipient's sporting profession. This table lists the total number of awards won by gender. | 1 |
Irakli Kvekveskiri | Irakli Kvekveskiri 2022-05-22T01:38:52Z Irakli Kvekveskiri (Georgian: ირაკლი კვეკვესკირი; born 12 March 1990) is a Georgian football player. He plays for Russian club FC SKA-Khabarovsk. , Irakli Kvekveskiri 2023-12-10T15:33:41Z Irakli Kvekveskiri (Georgian: ირაკლი კვეკვესკირი, Russian: Ираклий Квеквескири; born 12 March 1990) is a Russian-Georgian football player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Russian club Fakel Voronezh. Kvekveskiri was born in Abkhazia. Ethnically, he is Mingrelian. Kvekveskiri is a FC Dynamo Moscow academy graduate. In 2009, he played for FC Kuban Krasnodar's reserve team, appearing in 26 matches and scoring 1 goal in the youth championship. Kvekveskiri made his professional football debut in the 2009–10 season for Hungarian club Pécsi MFC. He was a part of the squad that finished 1st in the Western Group of the 2010–11 Nemzeti Bajnokság II, which promoted the club to the highest tier of Hungarian football league system. Kvekveskiri spent the first half of the 2011–12 season on loan with second-tier club Szigetszentmiklósi TK, but later returned to Pécsi MFC, making 6 appearances in the top division. In autumn 2012, Kvekveskiri moved to Georgian top-tier club FC Dinamo Batumi. He made his debut for the team on 22 September 2012 in a 1–5 away loss against FC Torpedo Kutaisi. On 1 January 2013, Kvekveskiri returned to Szigetszentmiklósi TK, signing a permanent deal. During two and a half years at the club, Irakli made 67 appearances and scored 3 goals in all competitions. In summer 2015, Kvekveskiri moved to Armenian Premier League side FC Mika. He made his debut for the club on 1 August 2015 as a centre-back in a 1–1 away draw against FC Banants Yerevan. Irakli played a total of 16 matches in all competitions for the club, scoring 1 goal. On 31 January 2016, Kvekveskiri signed for Georgian club FC Guria Lanchkhuti. On 1 July 2016, Kvekveskiri returned to the Armenian Premier League by joining the defending champions FC Alashkert. He made his debut for the club in the second leg of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round against Georgian club FC Dinamo Tbilisi. Alashkert, eventually, won the 2016–17 Armenian Premier League with Kvekveskiri making a total of 28 appearances and scoring 1 goal for the club in all competitions during the season. In June 2017, Kvekveskiri joined Russian club FC Ararat, which based in Moscow and represented the Armenian diaspora in Russia. Irakli was part of the squad that secured first place in the Centre Zone of the 2017–18 Russian Professional Football League and the right to promote to the second-tier Russian Football National League, but Ararat failed to receive a license. However, Kvekveskiri got the opportunity to play in the Russian Football National League by joining the then-relegated from the Russian Premier League club FC SKA-Khabarovsk in June 2018. During his consecutive four-season spell in Khabarovsk, Irakli made a total of 126 appearances for the club, which he also captained, and scored 7 goals. On 10 June 2022, Kvekveskiri signed with the just-promoted to the Russian Premier League club FC Fakel Voronezh. During his first season with Fakel, he made 32 appearances in all competitions, scoring 3 goals, including a brace in a 3–3 home draw against FC Krasnodar on 5 November 2022. Kvekveskiri was also the club's first-choice captain during the second half of the season and played a crucial ball-winning role on the field, helping Fakel to keep their Premier League spot for another season. | 1 |
Frank Zappa discography | Frank Zappa discography 2009-01-03T00:02:42Z This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa (including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention) and tribute albums for Frank Zappa. Zappa wrote a total of 57 main albums, with another 22 posthumous albums to his name, making a grand total of 79 albums. , Frank Zappa discography 2010-12-30T22:53:39Z This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa (including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention) as well as tribute albums to Frank Zappa. During his lifetime Zappa released a total of 62 albums. Between 1994 and 2010 The Zappa Family Trust has released 25 posthumous albums to his name, making a grand total of 87 albums. | 1 |
Jeri Ryan | Jeri Ryan 2011-01-07T21:14:08Z Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress best known for her roles of the liberated Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager, Tara Cole on Leverage, and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public. She was also a regular on the science fiction show Dark Skies and the legal drama series Shark. Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann in Munich, West Germany, the daughter of Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army, and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She has one older brother, Mark. As a military brat, Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and Texas. When she was eleven, her father retired from the Army and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), and then attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. In 1989, Ryan was chosen Miss Illinois. She was the third runner-up in the 1990 Miss America Pageant, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition. She graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre. After college, she pursued acting full-time in Los Angeles. She made her acting debut in Who's the Boss? and followed that with guest-starring roles in TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies such as Co-Ed Call Girl. Her big break came when she won a regular role as the extraterrestrial investigator Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role had drawn the attention of the science-fiction community. In 1997, came her biggest role to date. Ryan was chosen for the role of Seven of Nine, a Borg drone who had been "de-assimilated," or freed from the Borg's collective consciousness, on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Veronica Cooke, nicknamed "Ronnie," a frustrated lawyer who quits the bar to become a high-school teacher. The show's producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The show ended in 2004. Ryan has recently appeared in such films as Down With Love. She also appeared as Lydia in the independent film Men Cry Bullets. Ryan then starred in her first film lead, in the "indie" comedy The Last Man, as the last woman left on Earth. The film was released by Lion's Gate. She also had a recurring role as Charlotte Morgan on The O.C. in the autumn (U.S. September through December) of 2005 and guest-starred as Courtney Reece on David E. Kelley's Boston Legal in 2006. Ryan then co-starred in the CBS legal drama Shark, as Los Angeles County District Attorney Jessica Devlin alongside series lead James Woods, but she did not return for episodes aired after the WGA strike. CBS cancelled the broadcast of the series. She debuted as defense attorney Patrice La Rue on the April 7, 2009 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, her first role since giving birth to her daughter Gisele. Ryan next won a recurring role on the TNT drama Leverage, which began its second season in July 2009, as Tara Cole, a con woman whom Sophie (Gina Bellman) calls on for help. Ryan will appear in the upcoming medical drama television series Body of Proof, which will premiere on ABC in Fall 2010. She stars in the Kevin Tancharoen directed short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, the actress met investment banker and future Republican political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married on June 15, 1991 and had a son, Alex, on August 15, 1994. Throughout the marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced on August 27, 1999. Although Ryan mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separations had been difficult for the marriage, the reasons for the divorce were kept sealed at their mutual request. Ryan had at one point dated Star Trek: Voyager producer Brannon Braga. Between February and November 2000 the two of them were stalked by one Marlon Estacio Pagtakhan, who was convicted for harassment and threats in May 2001. According to Crime Stories, aired on the UK Crime channel on 05/07/2009, the stalker had letters stating that he was going to sexually assault Jeri and torture her boyfriend Brannon. When Jack Ryan's campaign for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois began in 2003, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have his records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son. On June 22, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files. The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his candidacy; his main opponent, Barack Obama, then won the Senate seat. Ryan's avocation, according to statements she has made in interviews, is gourmet cooking. While starring in Boston Public she moonlighted on weekends in the kitchen of the Los Angeles restaurant The House. In 2003, Ryan met French chef Christophe Émé at a chef's charity event. The two eventually began a relationship, and Émé moved in with Ryan and her son Alex in their San Fernando Valley home. In February 2005, Ryan, a "lifelong Francophile," opened—in partnership with Émé—the restaurant Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant serves French food with a modern interpretation. The two have appeared on Iron Chef America, where Émé and one sous-chef challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and his two sous-chefs. The restaurant is seen in season two, episode twenty-six of Boston Legal as Denny Crane (William Shatner) and Alan Shore (James Spader) are discussing the arrival of Courtney Reece (Jeri Ryan) at "...her favorite restaurant." Ryan married Émé in the Loire Valley, France, on June 16, 2007. On September 7, 2007, Ryan announced that she and Émé were expecting their first child together, a daughter, in March 2008. On March 2, 2008, Ryan gave birth to daughter Gisele Émé in Los Angeles, California. , Jeri Ryan 2012-12-28T17:12:40Z Jeri Lynn Zimmermann Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress best known for her roles as the liberated ("de-assimilated") Borg, Seven of Nine, on Star Trek: Voyager (1997–2001) and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public (2001–04). She was a regular on the science fiction series Dark Skies (1997) and the legal drama series Shark (2006–08). Since 2011, she has starred as Dr. Kate Murphy in the ABC drama series Body of Proof and since 2009 she has played occasional guest star Tara Cole on Leverage. Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann in Munich, West Germany, the daughter of Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She has one older brother, Mark. As a "military brat", Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas. When she was eleven, her father retired from the Army and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), and then attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. In 1989, Ryan was chosen Miss Illinois. She was the third runner-up in the 1990 Miss America Pageant, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition. She graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre. After college, she pursued acting full-time in Los Angeles. She made her acting debut in Who's the Boss? and followed that with guest-starring roles in television series like Melrose Place, Matlock and The Sentinel as well as such television movies as Co-Ed Call Girl. Her big break came when she won a regular role as the extraterrestrial investigator Juliet Stuart on the television series Dark Skies. The series was cancelled after one season, but the role had drawn the attention of the science-fiction community. In 1997, Ryan was chosen for a role on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager as Seven of Nine, a Borg drone who had been "de-assimilated", or freed, from the Borg's collective consciousness. When she joined the cast in Season 4, wearing her now-iconic silver formfitting catsuit uniform, ratings increased 60%. She appeared in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Veronica Cooke, nicknamed "Ronnie", a frustrated lawyer who quits the bar to become a high-school teacher. The series' producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The series ended in 2004. Ryan appeared in the romantic comedy film Down with Love and as Lydia in the independent film Men Cry Bullets. Ryan's first film lead was in the indie comedy The Last Man, as the last woman left on Earth. The film was released by Lions Gate Entertainment. In 2005, she had a role in a pilot called Commuters, a suburban big city version of Desperate Housewives. She also had a recurring role as Charlotte Morgan on The O.C. in 2005; and she guest-starred as Courtney Reece on David E. Kelley's Boston Legal in 2006. Ryan then co-starred in the CBS legal drama Shark as Los Angeles County District Attorney Jessica Devlin alongside series lead James Woods, but she did not return for episodes aired after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike although she was credited in all four episodes. The series did not air between January 27 and April 29, 2008. CBS cancelled the broadcast of the series after its Season 2 finale, May 20, 2008. She guest starred as defense attorney Patrice La Rue on the April 7, 2009, episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, her first role since giving birth to her daughter Gisele. Ryan next won a 7-episode role on the TNT drama Leverage in Season 2 as a grifter named Tara Cole, to fill in while series regular Gina Bellman (Sophie) was on maternity leave. She was in the Kevin Tancharoen-directed short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth as Sonya Blade. Although originally a film, it marketed as a web series, with Episode 1 previews scheduled to appear online in June 2010. The web series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, officially launched in March 2011. Ryan is a regular in the medical drama series Body of Proof, which premiered on March 29, 2011. Ryan has also continued to appear in guest roles on genre television series, most recently on the Syfy series Warehouse 13 as United States Marine Major Amanda Lattimer, ex-wife of the series' male lead character Pete Lattimer, in the episode "Queen for a Day", aired August 1, 2011. In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, the actress met investment banker and future Republican political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married on June 15, 1991, and had a son, Alex, on August 15, 1994. Throughout the marriage, they took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers but divorced on August 27, 1999. Although Ryan mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separations had been difficult for the marriage, the reasons for the divorce were kept sealed at their mutual request. Ryan had at one point dated Star Trek: Voyager producer Brannon Braga. Between February and November 2000, they were stalked by Marlon Estacio Pagtakhan, who was convicted for harassment and threats in May 2001. According to Crime Stories, aired on the UK Crime channel on 05/07/2009, the stalker had letters stating that he was going to sexually assault Ryan and torture Braga. When Jack Ryan's campaign for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois began in 2003, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have his records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce, but not custody, records public, saying their release could be harmful to their son. On June 18, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files. The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan only made a brief statement, and she refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his candidacy; his main opponent, Barack Obama, then won the 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois. According to statements she has made in interviews, Ryan's avocation is gourmet cooking. While starring in Boston Public, she moonlighted on weekends in the kitchen of the Los Angeles restaurant The House. In 2003, Ryan met French chef Christophe Émé at a chef's charity event. The two eventually began a relationship, and Émé moved in with Ryan and her son Alex in their San Fernando Valley home. In February 2005, Ryan, a "lifelong Francophile", opened—in partnership with Émé—the restaurant Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant served French food with a modern interpretation. The two have appeared on Iron Chef America, where Émé and one sous-chef challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and his two sous-chefs. The restaurant is seen in season two, episode twenty-six of Boston Legal as Denny Crane (William Shatner) and Alan Shore (James Spader) are discussing the arrival of Courtney Reece (Jeri Ryan) at "her favorite restaurant." Despite its success, the restaurant closed in December 2010. Ryan and Émé married in the Loire Valley, France, on June 16, 2007. On September 7, 2007, Ryan announced that she and Émé were expecting their first child together, a daughter, in March 2008. On March 2, 2008, Ryan gave birth to daughter Gisele Émé in Los Angeles, California. | 1 |
Marching Chiefs | Marching Chiefs 2006-01-04T09:28:14Z Since 1949, the name Marching Chiefs has served as the official title of the marching band of The Florida State University. The motto for the Chiefs is MCATDT, standing for "Marching Chiefs All The Damn Time!" An unnamed band had existed at the university since 1941 when the school was still The Florida State College for Women. With the integration of male students to the university in 1947 and a budding athletic program on the horizon, the marching band found itself expanding and searching for a unique identity. A newspaper survey conducted that year, sponsored by the FSU Student Government Association, aided in selecting the title officially adopted by the university. The first appearance of the Marching Chiefs was at Stetson University in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb joined the faculty at FSU as the director of the Marching Chiefs. Whitcomb is credited with being the first to implement fast marching tempos, and high marching steps known as "Chief Steps". The December 6, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine stated that, "Florida State occasionally may lose a football game, but never a halftime show." In 1988, the Chiefs had grown to over 400 members, making the ensemble the largest collegiate marching band in the world. In 1991 the Chiefs became the first collegiate marching band to produce their own CD recording, under the direction of director Patrick Dunnigan. , Marching Chiefs 2007-12-31T17:16:12Z Since 1949, the name Marching Chiefs has served as the official title of the marching band of The Florida State University. An unnamed band had existed at the university since 1941 when the school was still The Florida State College for Women under the leadership of Charlotte Cooper, Jean Hitchcock, Allie Ludlaw, and director Owen F. Sellers. With fewer than twenty students, the band made its first performance at the Odds and Evens intramural football game on Thanksgiving Day 1939. With the integration of male students to the university in 1947 and a budding athletic program on the horizon, the marching band found itself expanding and searching for a unique identity. A newspaper survey conducted that year, sponsored by the FSU Student Government Association, aided in selecting the title officially adopted by the university. The first appearance of the Marching Chiefs was at Stetson University in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb, formerly of Ohio State University, joined the faculty at FSU as the director of the Marching Chiefs. Whitcomb is credited with being the first to implement fast marching tempos, and high marching steps known as the "Chief Step". Whitcomb was also among the first college band directors to use the football grid as a template for planning halftime shows. He has been credited as the inventor of the eight steps to five yards, or 8-to-5, marching pace. Along with Dr. Whitcomb came the talented young arranger, Charlie Carter. Under Whitcomb's tutelage, chapters of the honorary band fraternity and sorority Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma were installed. In 1958 Charlie Carter arranged J. Dayton's Smith's, "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" into the current arrangement the Marching Chiefs play to this day. It was after the Homecoming game of that same year that "The Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold" was played (and sung) by the Marching Chiefs starting a tradition that still endures to this day. In 1959 the Marching Chiefs practice field was moved to its current location, just south of the Tully Gym/Leach Center Complex. Early band members called it Sherwood Forest. By the early 1960s, the band numbered about 150 and Whitcomb had turned over the reins of the marching band to longtime music faculty member Robert T. Braunagel, "Brownie." Carter remained as arranger. Cliff Madsen was assistant director. This period saw FSU's first football victories over instate rivals Miami and Florida, and the band was there to witness and aid them. Band trips to Miami were annual and much-anticipated events, since Miami was unwilling to visit the much smaller FSU stadium. Uniforms were updated from black double-breasted coats to trimmer black uniforms with gold overlays embroidered with a Seminole Indian profile. Girls, or "chicks" in Chiefs' parlance, wore skirts and majorette boots. Probably the most significant event of the decade occurred in 1963, when the homecoming halftime show featured an innovation in halftime entertainment: the first-ever performance of an original composition for marching band, accompanied by abstract formations integrated with the music. Band Ballet was a challenging work approximately 10 minutes long composed by John Boda, a well-known composer and FSU professor. The intricate formations were created by director Robert Braunagel. In 1971 Florida State University Alumnus and former Marching Chief Drum Major Richard Mayo took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. That same year the Marching Chiefs grew to over 200 members and were finalists in the Best College Marching Band Contest on ABC-TV. In 1974 the Marching Chiefs traveled as guests of the United States Department of State to perform at the International Trade Fair in Damascus, Syria. While in the Middle East, the Chiefs traveled to Amman, Jordan for a command performance for King Hussein. Thus beginning the "world-renowned" title that the Marching Chiefs use to this day. In 1977 FSU and Marching Chief Alumnus Dr. Bentley Shellahamer took over as Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1977 the Marching Chiefs made their first NFL performance for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1978 the Marching Chiefs made their second NFL performance for the New Orleans Saints. In 1981 membership in the Marching Chiefs exceeded 300 and FSU Alumnus David Westberry took over as voice of the Marching Chiefs. The December 6, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine stated that, "Florida State occasionally may lose a football game, but never a halftime show." In 1984 the Marching Chiefs made their third NFL performance jointly with the Fightin' Gator Marching Band of the University of Florida at Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, FL. In 1988, the Chiefs had grown to over 400 members, making the ensemble the largest collegiate marching band in the world. In 1989 Robert Sheldon became Director of the Marching Chiefs. In 1991 the Chiefs became the first collegiate marching band to produce their own CD recording "Our Best Foot Forward", under the direction of new director Patrick Dunnigan. In 1992 the Marching Chiefs practice field was renamed in honor of Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb. In 1997 the Marching Chiefs renewed their "world-renowned" status when they traveled to London, England to perform a halftime show for the World Football League's London Monarchs. The 2001 season marked the first appearance of the Marching Chiefs current uniform of garnet pants, garnet shako hat with a white feather plume, and white jacket featuring the garnet arrow head on the back and "FSU" on the front. The previous uniforms (1989 - 2000) were retired and are now being made into commemorative pillows as a fund raising project for the Florida State University Band Alumni Association to raise funds for an archway entrance to the Dr. Manley R. Whitcomb Band Complex. In 2005, a donation of over $1 million dollars was made to the university for a new practice field for the Marching Chiefs. Starting with the 2005 season, the Chiefs have a brand new million dollar artificial turf field to march on fully painted as Bobby Bowden Field would be on game day, complete with the FSU Seminole Head Logo in the center. That season also saw the addition of the Rifle Line added to the auxiliary sections. In 2006, the Marching Chiefs had an unprecedented 8 home games, which meant 8 different field performances. As always, the Chiefs accomplished their goal, and exceeded all expectations. In 2007, the Marching Chiefs attained a size of over 460 members, far surpassing any other college Marching Band in the world. The Marching Chiefs' sections are known by its members by their own specific name and are as follows: Flutes: "Flutes" Clarinets: "Pieces" (Previously "Five Easy Pieces") Alto & Tenor Saxophones: "Section X" (Previously "Sigma Alpha Chi") Mellophones: "Hornz" (Previously "Hornies") Trumpets: "Screech Squad" or commonly referred to as "Screech" Baritones: "Tone Quality(TQ)" or commonly referred to as "Tones" Trombones: "The Roamin' Bones" or commonly referred to as "Bones" (Previously "Boners") Sousaphones: "Royal Flush" or commonly referred to as "Flush" Percussion: "The Big 8 Drumline" or commonly referred to as "Big 8" Auxiliary consists of Color Guard, Majorettes and Feature Twirler(s) Show/Technical Support: "Glue Crew" Each individual section has its own set of history and traditions, some with their own colors, mottos, symbols, songs, pre-game rituals and/or crests. Skull Session - When Manley Whitcomb, the founder of the Marching Chiefs, came to Florida State University from Ohio State University he brought a lot of traditions with him, one of those being what is known as a "Skull Session". Performed usually on Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium (located right next to Doak Campbell Stadium) The Chiefs perform section cheers and then go on to give the audience a sneak preview of the day's halftime show selections. Most section cheers tend to be either well-known pop songs, opportunities to poke fun at school opponents/other sections or inside jokes. All cheers are arranged by students who are usually current/alumni Chiefs. "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" - This is a tradition that started when the Chiefs were under the direction of Dr. Bentley Shellhammer. As the football team is finishing its on-field warm up routine, the Chiefs join the team's vocals. As they finish, the team lines up shoulder to shoulder on the fifty yard line and holds up their helmets and walks toward the end zone as the Chiefs play the theme from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" which has been arranged into "G.B.U.", an extended intro which leads into the singing of the Florida State Fight Song. "Flushing" The Field -The Royal Flush, during every pre-game performance, "flushes" the field by running around the Seminole head at the center of Bobby Bowden Field while the head drum major stands at the center of it. As the rest of the band exits off the field, The Royal Flush is last off as the field and the entire band ends the exit cadence by counting the number of Flush members and ending with "Flush!" This can be heard on every single recording of the Exit Cadence. "The Hymn To The Garnet & Gold"- Most Chiefs will agree that their favorite school song is what is commonly known as "The Hymn". When Florida State University was looking for an alma mater, several composers sent in their contributions. The Hymn did not make it as the official FSU Alma Mater, but it lives and thrives as a long-standing school tradition of the Chiefs singing it at the end of every game. The Marching Chiefs webpage is located at http://www.marchingchiefs.fsu.edu | 1 |
The_Fools | The_Fools 2008-05-29T15:33:48Z Template:Otheruses2 The Fools are a Massachusetts rock band, best known for the hit song "Life Sucks. . . Then You Die. " Started in 1975 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Fools were originally "The Rhythm A's". In 1979 the The Fools released "Psycho Chicken", an X-rated parody of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations. The group followed it up with another local hit, "It's a Night for Beautiful Girls. " EMI signed the band and sent them on a U. S. tour with The Knack. They then recorded their debut album, Sold Out. In the 1980s, the band released their second album Heavy Mental and toured the US with Van Halen. The band broke with EMI and then wrote and released their most successful album, World Dance Party, an independent release. The band continues to tour to this day, though they never repeated the success they had with World Dance Party. 1988., The_Fools 2009-11-07T00:38:17Z Template:Otheruses2 The Fools are a Massachusetts rock band, best known for the hit song "Life Sucks. . . Then You Die. " Started in 1975 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Fools were originally "The Rhythm A's". In 1979 the The Fools released "Psycho Chicken", an X-rated parody of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations. The group followed it up with another local hit, "It's a Night for Beautiful Girls. " EMI signed the band and sent them on a U. S. tour with The Knack. They then recorded their debut album, Sold Out. The album Sold Out carries a theme of economic and emotional strife quite relevant and uncannily appropriate for todays living. However, the music always and never fails to make you think and feel that everything will be okay. In the 1980s, the band released their second album Heavy Mental and toured the US with Van Halen. The band broke with EMI and then wrote and released their most successful album, World Dance Party, an independent release. The band continues to tour to this day, though they never repeated the success they had with World Dance Party. | 0 |
Cristhian Stuani | Cristhian Stuani 2011-01-24T21:14:41Z name 2 Christian Ricardo Stuani Curbelo (born 12 December 1986 in Canelones) is a Uruguayan footballer. He plays for Levante UD. After scoring 19 goals in 2007 Apertura season, he was signed by Reggina on 4-year contract in January 2008. When he joined, the club was second from bottom at Christmas and had the least goals scored since Rolando Bianchi had left for Manchester City in the Summer of 2007. His countryman and joint top-scorer of the 2007 Apertura season, Richard Porta, was signed by A.C. Siena. He made his Serie A debut against Empoli F.C. on 12 January 2008. On 31 July 2009 Albacete Balompie have signed the Uruguayan forward. He will be playing for Levante UD next season. The 23-year-old goalscorer and author of 23 goals with Albacete Balompie in the last season of the Second Division in Spain, signed on contract with UD Levante on loan for one year. , Cristhian Stuani 2012-12-21T00:52:59Z name Christian Ricardo Stuani Curbelo (born 12 October 1986) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for RCD Espanyol in Spain, as a striker. Born in Tala, Canelones, Stuani started his professional career with Danubio FC. In 2005 he went on loan to C.A. Bella Vista in the second division, performing well enough to be recalled. In January 2008, after scoring 19 goals in the 2007 Apertura with Danubio, Stuani was signed by Reggina Calcio in Italy, penning a four-year contract with the Serie A side. He made his official debut on the 12th, playing 30 minutes in a 1–1 away draw against Empoli FC. When Stuani joined, the club was second from bottom and had the least goals scored in the league, following Rolando Bianchi's departure for Manchester City in the previous summer – he went scoreless in 12 games, but the Reggio Calabria outfit managed to retain its division status. In 2008–09 he netted from a penalty kick in the last round, a 1–1 home draw against A.C. Siena, but appeared in only four more matches during the entire campaign, which ended in top flight relegation. On 31 July 2009 Stuani joined Albacete Balompié in the Spanish second level, on loan. He finished second in the goalscoring charts behind Elche CF's Jorge Molina, but his team only finished two points above the relegation zone. For 2010–11 Stuani remained in the country and on loan, but moved to La Liga with Levante UD. He was used mostly as a backup to Ecuatorian Felipe Caicedo, but still contributed with eight goals – second-best in the squad – as the Valencian easily retained its division status, namely netting twice in a 3–1 home win against Málaga CF. | 1 |
Dimitar Evtimov | Dimitar Evtimov 2018-01-06T20:35:11Z Dimitar Ivanov Evtimov (Bulgarian: Димитър Евтимов; born 7 September 1993) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Championship club Nottingham Forest. A former Bulgaria under-21 international, he was signed to Chavdar Etropole from Volov Shumen in 2009. He made his first-team debut during the 2010–11 season, before he joined English club Nottingham Forest in April 2011. From Forest he has spent time on loan at Ilkeston, Gainsborough Trinity, Nuneaton Town, Mansfield Town, Olhanense (Portugal), and Port Vale. He was named as the Championship Apprentice of the Year for the 2012–13 season. Evtimov signed to Chavdar Etropole from Volov Shumen in 2009. He made his first-team debut in a 5–1 victory over Kom on 18 September 2010. He made a total of five appearances in the B Group in the 2010–11 season. Evtimov signed for English club Nottingham Forest in April 2011. He spent a brief time on loan at Ilkeston, before he joined Gainsborough Trinity in the Conference North on a one-month loan on 10 November 2011. He played three matches in the space of a week for Steve Housham's "Holy Blues", before losing his first-team place at The Northolme. He was named as the Championship Apprentice of the Year for the 2012–13 season. On 16 July 2013, he joined Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town on a three-month loan deal. He made four appearances during his stay at Liberty Way. He made his first-team debut for Forest on 21 April 2014, coming on as a late substitute for the injured Dorus de Vries in a 2–0 win at Leeds United. He signed a new two-year contract with the club three months later after new manager Stuart Pearce was told by caretaker-manager Gary Brazil that he was a good prospect. A loan to Wrexham fell through in July 2014 after manager Kevin Wilkin was unable to accept an instant recall option demanded by Forest due to regulations by the FAW. Evtimov instead joined Nottinghamshire League Two club Mansfield Town on 19 August, on loan until 3 January, after impressing manager Paul Cox during pre-season. He played 11 games for the "Stags", and new manager Adam Murray stated that "we attempted to extend his loan but unfortunately for us, Forest see him as part of their long-term plans". Evtimov extended his contract with Forest by a further four years in July 2015, tying him to the club until 2019. Following an injury to Dorus de Vries, he made his second appearance for Forest at Sheffield Wednesday on 31 October 2015, and manager Dougie Freedman said that he "cost us the game" after he allowed a strike from Fernando Forestieri to creep underneath him for the only goal of the game. On 31 August 2016, he signed on loan with Portuguese club Olhanense for the 2016–17 season, who were bottom of the LigaPro. His loan spell at the Estádio José Arcanjo proved a difficult one as he conceded within three minutes of his debut, in a 3–2 defeat at União da Madeira on 10 September. Manager Cristiano Bacci lost his job the following month, and though Evtimov established himself in the first team under new boss Bruno Baltazar, he was recalled from his loan spell earlier than planned on 13 January, having made ten appearances for the "Lions". Evtimov started the 2017–18 season as Mark Warburton's third-choice goalkeeper behind Jordan Smith and Stephen Henderson, and was advised by former "Reds" goalkeeper Barry Roche to go out on loan to find first-team football. On 8 August 2017, Evtimov started Forest's first round EFL Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town, conceding a penalty in a 2–1 win. This was Evtimov's first game for Forest since October 2015, and his home debut at the City Ground six years after first joining the club. On 28 October 2017, Evtimov joined League Two club Port Vale on an emergency loan following an injury to loanee goalkeeper Kelle Roos, and made his "Valiants" debut later that day against Swindon Town at Vale Park. At fault for at least one of the goals in a 3–0 defeat, The Sentinel's Michael Baggaley wrote that "Evtimov looked as though he had only just been introduced to his defence, but that’s not a criticism because actually he had". Manager Neil Aspin reserved his criticism for the club's medical staff as they only ruled Roos as unfit to play the previous day. , Dimitar Evtimov 2019-12-10T13:33:47Z Slavic name Dimitar Ivanov Evtimov (Bulgarian: Димитър Иванов Евтимов; born 7 September 1993) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Accrington Stanley. A former Bulgaria under-21 international, he was signed to Chavdar Etropole from Volov Shumen in 2009. He made his first-team debut during the 2010–11 season, before he joined English club Nottingham Forest in April 2011. From Forest he has spent time on loan at Ilkeston, Gainsborough Trinity, Nuneaton Town, Mansfield Town, Olhanense (Portugal), and Port Vale. He was named as the Championship Apprentice of the Year for the 2012–13 season, however he left the club in August 2018 after making a total of just three first-team appearances. He signed with Burton Albion in September 2018, and then moved on to Accrington Stanley four months later. Evtimov signed to Chavdar Etropole from Volov Shumen in 2009. He made his first-team debut in a 5–1 victory over Kom on 18 September 2010. He made a total of five appearances in the B Group in the 2010–11 season. Evtimov signed for English club Nottingham Forest in April 2011. He spent a brief time on loan at Ilkeston, before he joined Gainsborough Trinity in the Conference North on a one-month loan on 10 November 2011. He played three matches in the space of a week for Steve Housham's "Holy Blues", before losing his first-team place at The Northolme. He was named as the Championship Apprentice of the Year for the 2012–13 season. On 16 July 2013, he joined Conference Premier club Nuneaton Town on a three-month loan deal. He made four appearances during his stay at Liberty Way. He made his first-team debut for Forest on 21 April 2014, coming on as a late substitute for the injured Dorus de Vries in a 2–0 win at Leeds United. He signed a new two-year contract with the club three months later after new manager Stuart Pearce was told by caretaker-manager Gary Brazil that he was a good prospect. A loan to Wrexham fell through in July 2014 after manager Kevin Wilkin was unable to accept an instant recall option demanded by Forest due to regulations by the FAW. Evtimov instead joined Nottinghamshire League Two club Mansfield Town on 19 August, on loan until 3 January, after impressing manager Paul Cox during pre-season. He was named on the Football League team of the week for his performance in a 1–0 win at AFC Wimbledon on 20 December. He played a total of 11 games for the "Stags", and new manager Adam Murray stated that "we attempted to extend his loan but unfortunately for us, Forest see him as part of their long-term plans". Evtimov extended his contract with Forest by a further four years in July 2015, tying him to the club until 2019. Following an injury to de Vries, he made his second appearance for Forest at Sheffield Wednesday on 31 October 2015, and manager Dougie Freedman said that he "cost us the game" after he allowed a strike from Fernando Forestieri to creep underneath him for the only goal of the game. On 31 August 2016, he signed on loan with Portuguese club Olhanense for the 2016–17 season, who were bottom of the LigaPro. His loan spell at the Estádio José Arcanjo proved a difficult one as he conceded within three minutes of his debut, in a 3–2 defeat at União da Madeira on 10 September. Manager Cristiano Bacci lost his job the following month, and though Evtimov established himself in the first team under new boss Bruno Baltazar, he was recalled from his loan spell earlier than planned on 13 January, having made ten appearances for the "Lions". Evtimov started the 2017–18 season as Mark Warburton's third-choice goalkeeper behind Jordan Smith and Stephen Henderson, and was advised by former "Reds" goalkeeper Barry Roche to go out on loan to find first-team football. On 8 August 2017, Evtimov started Forest's first round EFL Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town, conceding a penalty in a 2–1 win. This was Evtimov's first game for Forest since October 2015, and his home debut at the City Ground six years after first joining the club. On 28 October 2017, Evtimov joined League Two club Port Vale on an emergency loan following an injury to loanee goalkeeper Kelle Roos, and made his "Valiants" debut later that day against Swindon Town at Vale Park. At fault for at least one of the goals in a 3–0 defeat, The Sentinel's Michael Baggaley wrote that "Evtimov looked as though he had only just been introduced to his defence, but that’s not a criticism because actually he had". Manager Neil Aspin reserved his criticism for the club's medical staff as they only ruled Roos as unfit to play the previous day. On 31 August 2018, Evtimov's contract with Nottingham Forest was terminated by mutual consent after he found himself behind Costel Pantilimon, Luke Steele and Jordan Smith in the first-team pecking order. On 14 September 2018, Evtimov signed a one-month contract with EFL League One club Burton Albion after manager Nigel Clough looked for a goalkeeper with experience in the English Football League to stand in for the injured Stephen Bywater and Bradley Collins. He made his debut the following day in a 2–1 win over Sunderland at the Pirelli Stadium. After the game he said that he was happy with the win and passed on his best wishes to opposition striker Charlie Wyke, who he injured during an accidental collision. On 16 October, Evtimov signed a new one-month contract. Despite Collins being restored to the starting line-up, Evtimov went on to sign a second contract extension with the "Brewers" to keep him at the club until January. On 19 January 2019, Evtimov signed an 18-month contract with EFL League One club Accrington Stanley. He was signed by manager John Coleman after loanee goalkeeper Connor Ripley was recalled by Middlesbrough. He made his debut the same day, replacing Luke Armstrong in the 83rd minute of the club's 1–0 defeat at Charlton Athletic after Jonny Maxted was sent off; after the match he said he was "gutted" to concede the only goal of the game from the penalty spot in the third minute of stoppage-time. On 5 March, he was sent off after he tossed a bottle thrown by a Blackpool fan back into the crowd. He was sent off for the second time in his Stanley career on 20 April after giving away two penalties in a 3–0 defeat to Luton Town at the Crown Ground. Evtimov won caps for the under-19 and under-21 teams before he was called up to the senior Bulgaria squad in November 2018. | 1 |
Four_occupations | Four_occupations 2007-11-11T16:32:54Z The four occupations was a hierarchic social class structure developed in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046–256 BCE). In descending order, these were the shi (gentry scholars), the nong (peasant farmers), the gong (artisans and craftsmen), and the shang (merchants). Precariously excluded from these four broad categories were nobles and aristocrats, soldiers and guards, religious clergy and diviners, entertainers and courtiers, and other social groups or categories. The emperor — embodying a heavenly mandate to judicial and executive authority — was on a social and legal tier above the gentry and the exam-drafted scholar-officials. Although his royal family and noble extended family were also highly respected, they did not command the same level of authority. This article related to the history of China is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Four_occupations 2009-05-20T00:42:05Z The four occupations or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 仕農工商) was a hierarchic social class structure developed in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou Dynasty and is considered a central part of the Fengjian social structure (c. 1046–256 BCE). In descending order, these were the shi (gentry scholars),the nong (peasant farmers), the gong (artisans and craftsmen), and the shang (merchants and traders). These broad categories were more an idealization than a practical reality. This was due to commercialization of Chinese society in the Song and Ming periods, blurring the lines between these four hierarchic social distinctions. The system also did not figure in all other social groups present in premodern Chinese society. The definition of the identity of the shi class changed over time as well, from an ancient warrior caste, to an aristocratic scholarly elite, and finally to a bureaucratic scholarly elite with less emphasis on archaic noble lineage. There was also a gradual fusion of the wealthy merchant and landholding gentry classes, culminating in the late Ming Dynasty. From existing literary evidence, commoner rankings in China were employed for the first time during the Warring States Period (403–221 BCE). Despite this, Eastern-Han (25–220 CE) historian Ban Gu (32–92 CE) asserted in his Book of Han that the four occupations for commoners had existed in the Western Zhou (c. 1050 BCE – 771 BCE) era, which he considered a golden age. However, it is now known that the classification of four occupations as Ban Gu understood it did not exist until the 2nd century BCE. Ban explained the social hierarchy of each group in descending order: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants; each of the four peoples had their respective profession. Those who studied in order to occupy positions of rank were called the shi (scholars). Those who cultivated the soil and propagated grains were called nong (farmers). Those who manifested skill (qiao) and made utensils were called gong (artisans). Those who transported valuable articles and sold commodities were called shang (merchants). Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Professor of Early Chinese History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes that the classification of "four occupations" can be viewed as a mere rhetorical device that had no affect on government policy. However, he notes that although no statute in the Qin or Han law codes specifically mentions the four occupations, some laws did treat these broadly-classified social groups as separate units with different levels of legal privilege. During the ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties, the shi were regarded as a knightly social order of low-level aristocratic lineage compared to dukes and marquises. This social class was distinguished by their right to ride in chariots and command battles from mobile chariots, while they also served civil functions. They were also distinguished by the weaponry they used, the double-edged sword, or jian. The type of clothing worn by the shi class also distinguished them from others; the shi wore long flowing silken robes, while all other men wore trousers. As chariot warfare became eclipsed by mounted cavalry and infantry units with effective crossbowmen in the Warring States Period (403–221 BCE), the participation of the shi in battle dwindled as rulers sought men with actual military training, not just aristocratic background. This was also a period where philosophical schools flourished in China, while intellectual pursuits became highly valued amongst statesmen. Thus, the shi eventually became renowned not for their warrior's skills, but for their scholarship, abilities in administration, and sound ethics and morality supported by competing philosophical schools. Under Duke Xiao of Qin and the chief minister and reformer Shang Yang (d. 338 BCE), the ancient State of Qin was transformed by a new meritocratic yet harsh philosophy of Legalism. This philosophy stressed stern punishments for those who disobeyed the publicly-known laws while rewarding those who labored for the state and strove diligently to obey the laws. It was a means to diminish the power of the nobility, and was another force behind the transformation of the shi class from warrior-aristocrats into merit-driven officials. The Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE) unified China under the Legalist system, but became infamous for its oppressive measures, and so collapsed into a state of civil war. The victor of this war was Liu Bang, who initiated four centuries of unification of China proper under the Han Dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). One of his later successors was Emperor Wu (r. 141–87 BCE), who not only cemented the ideology of Confucius into mainstream Chinese thought, governance, and social order, but also installed a system of recommendation and nomination in government service known as xiaolian. After the Han period, this system was replaced by the nine-rank system, a similar means of recruiting officials through recommendation. Both systems favored the wealthy, those of noble background, and the well-connected. It was not until the Sui Dynasty (581–618 CE) that a new beginning of change in the shi class would present itself by means of the civil service examination system. The civil service recruitment system during the subsequent Tang Dynasty (618–907) followed the Sui model of partial recruitment of those who passed standard exams and earned an official degree. Yet recruitment by recommendations to office was still prominent in both dynasties. It was not until the Song Dynasty (960–1279) that the recruitment of those who passed the exams and earned degrees was given greater emphasis and significantly expanded. The shi class also became less aristocratic and more bureaucratic due to the highly competitive nature of the exams during the Song period. From the 11th to 13th centuries, the number of exam candidates participating in taking the exams increased dramatically from merely 30,000 to 400,000 by the dynasty's end. Widespread printing through woodblock and movable type enhanced the spread of knowledge amongst the literate in society, enabling more people to become candidates and competitors vying for a prestigious degree. With a dramatically expanding population matching a growing amount of gentry, scholar-officials needed the gentry to perform local services such as funding public works, prefectural and county schools, or aiding in tax collection. Since Neolithic times in China, agriculture has a key element to the rise of China's civilization and every other civilization. The food that farmers produced sustained the whole of society, while the land tax exacted on farmers' lots and landholders' property produced much of the state revenue for China's pre-modern ruling dynasties. Therefore, the farmer was a valuable member of society, and even though he was not considered one with the shi class, the families of the shi were still landholders that often produced crops and foodstuffs. Although soldiers were not highly respected members of society, soldiers traditionally came from farming families, while some were simply debtors who fled their land (whether owned or rented) to escape lawsuits by creditors or imprisonment for failing to pay taxes. Soldiers along China's frontiers were also encouraged by the state to settle down on their own farm lots in order for the food supply of the military to become self-sufficient. Farmers were also encouraged to join peasant militias to act as supporting units to the official standing army. By the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), the socioeconomic class of farmers grew more and more indistinct from another social class in the four occupations: the artisan. Artisans began working on farms in peak periods and farmers often traveled into the city to find work during times of dearth. The distinction between what was town and country was blurred in Ming China, since suburban areas with farms were located just outside and in some cases within the walls of a city. Artisans and craftsmen — their class identified with the Chinese character meaning labor — were much like farmers in the respect that they produced essential goods needed by themselves and the rest of society. Although they could not provide the state with much of its revenues since they often had no land of their own to be taxed, artisans and craftsmen were still given a higher place than merchants. Since ancient times, the skilled work of artisans and craftsmen was handed down orally from father to son, although the work of architects and structural builders were sometimes codified, illustrated, and categorized in Chinese written works. One example of this would be the Yingzao Fashi printed in 1103, an architectural building manual written by an official put in charge of government agencies for construction. Artisans and craftsmen were either government-employed or worked privately. A successful and highly skilled artisan could often gain enough capital in order to hire others as apprentices or additional laborers that could be overseen by the chief artisan as a manager. Hence, artisans could create their own small enterprises in selling their work and that of others, and like the merchants, they formed their own guilds. The merchants, traders, and peddlers of goods were viewed by the scholarly elite as essential members of society, yet were placed on the lowest of the four grades in the official Chinese social hierarchy. The scholars' attitudes towards commerce and business was almost universally apparent in their writings which denounced the merchant class as greedy and lacking moral character. It was also unacceptable for scholar-officials to engage in personal profiteering outside their official salary, even though by the Song period they were using intermediary agents to handle their anonymous business affairs for them. Merchants were seen as somewhat parasitic to the needs of all other groups in society, since it was acknowledged that they used the goods that others produced and made their own profits from them. In essence, they were seen as business savvy, but not morally cultivated enough to be leading members of society or highly venerated representatives of Chinese culture. Despite this disdain for the merchants, by the mid Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), many families who produced scholar-officials had members who were merchants or had a merchant as a descendant of some kind. Even more significant was the fact that scholar-officials who had familial ties with merchants from the past or in the present became unabashed about these ties and made it publicly known in the writing of their official family histories. During the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, scholar-officials could derive enough of their own revenues to fund vital public works. By the late Ming Dynasty, they often needed to solicit funds from powerful merchants to build new roads, schools, bridges, pagodas, or engage in essential industries, such as book-making, which aided the gentry class in education for the imperial examinations. Merchants began to imitate the highly cultivated nature and manners of scholar-officials in order to appear more cultured and gain higher prestige and acceptance by the scholarly elite. They even purchased printed books that served as guides to proper conduct and behavior and which promoted merchant morality and business ethics. There were many social groups that were precariously excluded from the four broad categories in the social hierarchy. These included soldiers and guards, religious clergy and diviners, eunuchs and concubines, entertainers and courtiers, domestic servants and slaves, prostitutes, and low class laborers other than farmers and artisans. The emperor — embodying a heavenly mandate to judicial and executive authority — was on a social and legal tier above the gentry and the exam-drafted scholar-officials. Although his royal family and noble extended family were also highly respected, they did not command the same level of authority. There were motives behind the aristocratic officials and later scholar-officials' classifying of certain groups in the hierarchy and leaving others out. The scholar-officials placed farmers as the second most prestigious group because the aristocratic officials and scholar-officials were landholders themselves, much like farmers (the ones who weren't tenant farmers or serfs). Both farmers and artisans were placed on a higher tier than merchants because the two former groups produced crops and manufactured goods, essential things needed by the whole of society. The merchants were seen as merely talented at business and trading, and were often seen as greedy and even parasitic to the needs of all other groups. The social category of the soldier was left out of the social hierarchy due to the gentry scholars' embracing of intellectual cultivation (wen) and detest for violence (wu). The scholars did not want to legitimize those whose professions centered chiefly around violence, so to leave them out of the social hierarchy altogether was a means to keep them in an unrecognized and undistinguished social tier. Entertainers and courtiers were often dependents upon the wealthy or were associated with the often-perceived immoral pleasure grounds of urban entertainment districts. To give them official recognition would have given them more prestige. Although shamans and diviners in Bronze Age China had some authority as religious leaders in society, the scholars did not want religious leaders amassing too much power and influence like military strongmen (one example of this would be Zhang Jiao, who led a Taoist sect into open rebellion against the Han government's authority). There were also multiple persecutions of Buddhism in China, a lot of the contention being over Buddhist monasteries' exemption from government taxation, but also because later Neo-Confucian scholars saw Buddhism as an alien ideology and threat to the moral order of society. The court eunuchs were also viewed with some suspicion by the scholar-officials, since there were several instances in Chinese history where influential eunuchs came to dominate the emperor, his imperial court, and the whole of the central government. In an extreme example, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568–1627) had his critics from the orthodox Confucian 'Donglin Society' tortured and killed while dominating the court of the Tianqi Emperor—Wei was dismissed by the next ruler and committed suicide. In modern Chinese culture, a similar concept remains called the Four Shi (四師), since each of the occupations ends with the Chinese character 師, meaning "master", here used in the sense of a master specialist. This shi however is unrelated to the shi of the four occupations. The four are doctors (醫師), lawyers (律師), engineers (工程師) and accountants (會計師). Often the engineer is replaced with the architect (建築師). | 0 |
1975–76_Coppa_Italia | 1975–76_Coppa_Italia 2010-02-21T13:13:22Z The 1975–76 Coppa Italia was the 28th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Napoli, who defeated Verona in a one-legged final played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Template:Fb start Template:Fb end, 1975–76_Coppa_Italia 2011-02-08T16:42:39Z The 1975–76 Coppa Italia was the 28th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Napoli, who defeated Verona in a one-legged final played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. | 0 |
Women's_field_hockey_Qualifying_Tournaments_for_the_2008_Summer_Olympics | Women's_field_hockey_Qualifying_Tournaments_for_the_2008_Summer_Olympics 2007-11-17T04:13:31Z The Women’s field hockey Qualifying Tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics is a qualification tournament to determined the final three spots for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The qualification, which will be participating by 18 teams, divided into three groups with three qualifying tournament will be held in different locations with different time. Only the winners of each qualifying tournament will earn a berth to the 2008 Summer Olympics. In addition, International Hockey Federation also named three reserve teams if whose of the above teams are failed to make it in this qualifying tournament, they are: Qualifying 1 will be held from February 2 to February 10, 2008 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Qualifying 2 will be held from March 1 to March 9, 2008 in Vancouver, Canada. Qualifying 3 will be held from April 5 to April 13, 2008 in Kazan, Russia, Women's_field_hockey_Qualifying_Tournaments_for_the_2008_Summer_Olympics 2008-07-23T05:16:32Z The Women’s field hockey Qualifying Tournaments for the 2008 Summer Olympics was a qualification tournament that determined the final three spots for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The qualifying tournament, which involved 18 teams divided into three groups, with three separate qualifying tournaments, was held in Azerbaijan, Russia and Canada, at different times in 2008. Only the following winners of each qualifying tournament earned a berth in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Spain, United States, and South Korea. Below is a list of the 18 teams participating in this qualifying tournament: In addition, the International Hockey Federation also named three reserve teams after two of the above teams failed to make it in this qualifying tournament (two of them already confirmed to be in the reserve list): Qualifying 1 was held from April 12 to April 20, 2008 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Players for the Kenyan team are back in the tournament after recently withdrawing due to political turmoil in their country. All times local (UTC+5) Qualifying 2 was held from April 19 to April 27, 2008 in Kazan, Russia. All times are Russia Summer Time (UTC+4) Qualifying 3 was held from April 26 to May 4, 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. All times are Canada Time (UTC-7) Template:Penstrokesbox | 0 |
Hans-Walter_Eigenbrodt | Hans-Walter_Eigenbrodt 2009-10-26T23:23:11Z Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt (4 August 1935 – 29 March 1997) was a German football player. The defender won with Eintracht Frankfurt the German championship in 1959 and reached with the club the legendary 1960 European Cup Final against Real Madrid. The central defender joined Eintracht Frankfurt as a youth in 1948 and should stay until 1965 when an injury forced him to retire. In 1959 he won with Eintracht the German championship after defeating local rivals Kickers Offenbach in a dramatic final 5-3 after extra time. In the semi-finals of the European Champions' Cup 1959-60 Eintracht stunningly eliminated Rangers FC with 6-1 and 6-3 and thus reached the final which took place at Hampden Park in Glasgow. There 135 000 spectators witnessed one of the arguably greatest matches in European Cup history when Real Madrid defeated the Eagles 7-3. Eigenbrodt, who for most part of his career also worked as a commercial employee because to the semi-professional status of German football in this era, also played 15 matches in the Bundesliga between 1963 and 1965. Later he worked as youth coach with Eintracht. In 1977 the Under 17 team coached by him won Germany's first championship for this age group. He died 29 March 1997, aged 61., Hans-Walter_Eigenbrodt 2011-04-15T21:34:44Z Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt (4 August 1935 – 29 March 1997) was a German football player. The defender won with Eintracht Frankfurt the German championship in 1959 and reached with the club the legendary 1960 European Cup Final against Real Madrid. The central defender joined Eintracht Frankfurt as a youth in 1948 and should stay until 1965 when an injury forced him to retire. In 1959 he won with Eintracht the German championship after defeating local rivals Kickers Offenbach in a dramatic final 5–3 after extra time. In the semi-finals of the European Champions' Cup 1959–60 Eintracht stunningly eliminated Rangers FC with 6–1 and 6–3 and thus reached the final which took place at Hampden Park in Glasgow. There 135 000 spectators witnessed one of the arguably greatest matches in European Cup history when Real Madrid defeated the Eagles 7–3. Eigenbrodt, who for most part of his career also worked as a commercial employee because to the semi-professional status of German football in this era, also played 15 matches in the Bundesliga between 1963 and 1965. Later he worked as youth coach with Eintracht. In 1977 the Under 17 team coached by him won Germany's first championship for this age group. He died 29 March 1997, aged 61. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Nokia_6800_series | Nokia_6800_series 2008-06-07T12:07:03Z The Nokia 6800 series are a selection of Nokia Series 40 phones with a unique fold-out QWERTY keyboard. This type of keyboard is also used in the more recent Nokia E70 which is a Nokia Series 60 Symbian-based phone. These phones were marketed as "messaging devices" - all had built-in email clients, and some had BlackBerry support. The 6800 and 6810 had four electrical contacts at the very top of the phone for the left side of the keyboard and another four just under the screen for when the regular 12-key numeric keypad was being used. A small magnet was built into the left side of the keyboard and the phones would switch to landscape mode as soon as this was lifted up. The 6820 and 6822 had the wiring for the keypad built into the hinges without any external contacts. The 6800 was the first in the series and was a dual-band GSM 900/1800 phone with support for GPRS. The 6800 had an FM radio tuner and 5MB of memory. A slightly updated GSM 900/1800/1900 tri-band version of the 6800, the 6810 had gold-coloured keys and a gold-coloured border around the screen. The 6810 had support for Bluetooth, EDGE, BlackBerry email and Wireless Village. This phone was rarely seen for sale in shops and was marketed to businesses as a replacement for the Nokia 6310i. Though it was announced at the same time as the 6820, it only became available to buy about six months later. The 6820 was the most popular phone in the series and was often stocked in shops when it was released in early 2004. This phone was smaller than the previous models; as a result, the keys were much smaller and had practically no space between them. A variant known as the 6820b was marketed in North America with support for the 850MHz GSM band instead of the 900MHz band used by the regular 6820. The 6820 was functionally identical to the 6810 except it had a 352x288 camera instead of the built-in radio. Released in early 2005 and based on the same design as the 6820, the 6822 was light silver in colour and so were all the keys. The only difference was the higher resolution camera (640x480) and 65536 colour display instead of 4096. By the time it was released, the 3. 5MB of memory it had was considered substandard and the phone was not kept on the market for very long. The 6822b variant supports the 850/1800/1900 MHz frequencies common in the United Sta bluetooth mobile, Nokia_6800_series 2009-08-21T02:09:48Z The Nokia 6800 series are a selection of Nokia Series 40 phones with a unique fold-out QWERTY keyboard. This type of keyboard is also used in the more recent Nokia E70 which is a Nokia Series 60 Symbian-based phone. These phones were marketed as "messaging devices" - all had built-in email clients, and some had BlackBerry support. The 6800 and 6810 had four electrical contacts at the very top of the phone for the left side of the keyboard and another four just under the screen for when the regular 12-key numeric keypad was being used. A small magnet was built into the left side of the keyboard and the phones would switch to landscape mode as soon as this was lifted up. The 6820 and 6822 had the wiring for the keypad built into the hinges without any external contacts. The 6800 was the first in the series and was a dual-band GSM 900/1800 phone with support for GPRS. The 6800 had an FM radio tuner and 5MB of memory. A slightly updated GSM 900/1800/1900 tri-band version of the 6800, the 6810 had gold-coloured keys and a gold-coloured border around the screen. The 6810 had support for Bluetooth, EDGE, BlackBerry email and Wireless Village. This phone was rarely seen for sale in shops and was marketed to businesses as a replacement for the Nokia 6310i. Though it was announced at the same time as the 6820, it only became available to buy about six months later. The 6820 was the most popular phone in the series and was often stocked in shops when it was released in early 2004. This phone was smaller than the previous models; as a result, the keys were much smaller and had practically no space between them. A variant known as the 6820b was marketed in North America with support for the 850MHz GSM band instead of the 900MHz band used by the regular 6820. The 6820 was functionally identical to the 6810 except it had a 352x288 camera instead of the built-in radio. Released in early 2005 and based on the same design as the 6820, the 6822 was light silver in colour and so were all the keys. The only difference was the higher resolution camera (640x480) and 65536 colour display instead of 4096. By the time it was released, the 3. 5MB of memory it had was considered substandard and the phone was not kept on the market for very long. The 6822b variant supports the 850/1800/1900 MHz frequencies common in the United States. The 6822 variant supports the 900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies. | 0 |
Ronald_van_Prooijen | Ronald_van_Prooijen 2009-04-06T21:53:19Z Ronald van Prooijen was the original singer of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture. Ronald started out in the band Fragma. He originally sang and played a little guitar but decided to stick to singing. He'd been hanging around with Laurens Bakker and Rinus Vreugdenhil as they went through various incarnations of what was to become Picture. By 1979, he and Jan Bechtum had joined the band for their first stable (and the classic) lineup. He finally left the band after the second album. Ronald's main influence was Richie Blackmore's Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio as the singer. Recently (late 2007), Ronald and the original members of Picture teamed up for a reunion rehearsal. It went so well that they decided to continue rehearsing for some concert dates, and considered recording a new album in early 2008. Though ultimately Pete Lovell became Picture's permanent lead singer, Ronald is still active musically and is the singer for the Dutch band Roslynn. This article about a Dutch musician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Ronald_van_Prooijen 2013-03-17T18:42:17Z Ronald van Prooijen was the original singer of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture. Ronald started out in the band Fragma. He originally sang and played a little guitar but decided to stick to singing. He'd been hanging around with Laurens Bakker and Rinus Vreugdenhil as they went through various incarnations of what was to become Picture. By 1979, he and Jan Bechtum had joined the band for their first stable (and the classic) lineup. He finally left the band after the second album. Ronald's main influence was Richie Blackmore's Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio as the singer. Recently (late 2007), Ronald and the original members of Picture teamed up for a reunion rehearsal. It went so well that they decided to continue rehearsing for some concert dates, and considered recording a new album in early 2008. Though ultimately Pete Lovell became Picture's permanent lead singer, Ronald is still active musically and is the singer for the Dutch band Roslynn. Template:Persondata This article about a Dutch musician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Annie Chen | Annie Chen 2018-04-27T16:23:21Z name Chinese-language singer and actor Annie Chen (陳庭妮; pinyin: Chén Tíngnī; born April 28, 1989) is a Taiwanese actress and model. She was the first person to win at the Kaiwo Phantasy Star Catwalk Girl modelling contest in 2007. A year later, she made her acting debut in Prince + Princess 2, playing the lead role Zhao Ke Rou. Annie Chen was born on April 28, 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan. She is an only child. Chen has stated in interviews that she was conceived through in vitro fertilization because her parents had a difficult time conceiving a child naturally. Her father owned a wholesale frozen poultry business in Taichung that went bankrupt in 2010 due to the bird flu virus outbreak that year in Taiwan. She attended Viator Catholic High School (衛道中學) during her junior high school, and graduated her secondary studies in Shin Min High School (新民高中). She took Finance at the Kainan University, in which she began to work during her senior year. She, then, moved to the Hsing Wu University of Science and Technology, Department of Finance, where she applied for leave because of her work. Annie Chen is 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall. During her post-secondary years, she joined a modelling competition where she won the championship title at The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl contest in 2007. The selection process was between June 18 to August 18 of 2007. After winning, she began to work at the Catwalk Production House and get more opportunities, which includes being an MTV Taiwan VJ host, advertising endorser of various products, and a well-known magazine cover model. In 2008, she gets her first recognition as an actress after starring in Judy Chou's music video, who came a runner-up in the One Million Star singing competition. Subsequently, she starred on her first acting career in CTS' Prince + Princess 2 as the female lead, Zhao Kerou. In 2009, she starred in Will Pan's song entitled "Silence Room for Rent" (寂屋出租) included in his 007 album. She was also cast in CTV's Momo Love as Zhang Kaili, Chen Qi's (Ken Chu) girlfriend. Chen got her second and third leading roles in a television series during 2010. One is Happy and Love Forever (幸福一定强), the first series of Happy of the Rings trilogy of Anhui TV, with Ming Dao and Li Yi Feng. She played the character of Pan Xiao Nuo, a girl who coincidentally met Yin Ding Qiang after her ex-boyfriend's betrayal towards her. The next series is CTS' Volleyball Lover with Godfrey Gao. She portrayed the role of Xin Haijing, Bai Qian Rui's childhood friend and a volleyball player. In addition, Chen also starred in Life Drama Exhibition Public Television's Goodbye (再見全壘打) as Zhao Zhong Ci. Chen, along with Ming Dao, guest starred in the second series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Sunny Happiness in 2011, continuing her relationship with Yin Ding Qiang, now as a wife. She, then, played a supporting role in CTS' Material Queen as Sa Xia. At the end of the year 2011, Chen was cast as the main female lead of SETTV television series' Inborn Pair as Song Yi Jie. For the third time, Chen and Dao portrayed their roles in Happy and Love Forever as a loving couple, and acted along with Mike He and Janine Chang, the casts of Sunny Happiness, in the third and last series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Happy Michelin Kitchen. After Chen's successful drama with Chris Wang on Inborn Pair in 2012, she started filming Love, Now in Boracay, Philippines with her new leading man, George Hu. Chen plays the character of Yang Yi-ru, a workaholic person who went on vacation and coincidentally meets Lan Shi-de. The series was successful as both the drama and Chen's pairing with George Hu received positive reviews. Right after their successful team-up on March 5, 2013, Chen and Hu paired up once again on their new television series, Love Around starting on June 9, 2013. SETTV. All 21 episodes of the drama remained number one in its time slot throughout its airing. Chen started 2014 mainly concentrating on modeling work. In February, during early develops she turned down the lead role for SETTV drama Love Met Cupid in order to let her contract with Sanlih E-Television expire and not renew it. The drama would later becomePleasantly Surprised, which became a hit. After taking almost a year hiatus from acting she returned to the small screen in late 2014 with the TVBS drama Boysitter. The drama is about a single unwed mother played by Chen who has to decide if she will take back her irresponsible ex-boyfriend and father of her child played by River Huang or be with her more mature and reliable co-worker played by Melvin Sia. In 2016, she acted in the Taiwanese film White Lies, Black Lies. Annie Chen has been rumored since December 2012 to be in a relationship with her Love, Now and Love Around co-star George Hu whom she met during filming of Love, Now. News of the two dating in real life first started circulating when it was reported that Hu was exclusively carpooling Chen in his own car to and from filming locations everyday, the two holding hands backstage during SETTV 2013 New Years countdown show, and both were caught at a movie theater together. In 2015, both Chen and Hu admitted to be in a relationship since 2012. The two have been caught numerous times by gossip news photographers on private outings together. Sightings of the two by Taiwanese netizens has also been posted on the internet claiming to have witnessed them dining alone together and acting like a loving couple. In February 2014 the two admitted to going on a trip together to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida USA during their vacation time off when reports of fans overseas recognizing them were published. When questioned by reporters about their private relationship both have neither admitted or denied being in a relationship together, both would only say they are "good friends, good good friends, who enjoy each others company", although Chen has stated in interviews that if the other party is willing to go public with the relationship she is willing too also. Drama Awards Best Actress Drama Awards Best Kiss Award Drama Awards Best Screen Couple, Annie Chen 2019-11-15T00:22:44Z name Annie Chen (Chinese: 陳庭妮; born 28 April 1989) is a Taiwanese actress and model. She was the first person to win at the Kaiwo Phantasy Star Catwalk Girl modelling contest in 2007. A year later, she made her acting debut in Prince + Princess 2, playing the lead role Zhao Ke Rou. Annie Chen was born on April 28, 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan. She is an only child. Chen has stated in interviews that she was conceived through in vitro fertilization because her parents had a difficult time conceiving a child naturally. Her father owned a wholesale frozen poultry business in Taichung that went bankrupt in 2010 due to the bird flu virus outbreak that year in Taiwan. She attended Viator Catholic High School (衛道中學) during her junior high school, and graduated her secondary studies in Shin Min High School (新民高中). She took Finance at the Kainan University, in which she began to work during her senior year. She, then, moved to the Hsing Wu University of Science and Technology, Department of Finance, where she applied for leave because of her work. Annie Chen is 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall. During her post-secondary years, she joined a modelling competition where she won the championship title at The First Kaiwo "Phantasy Star" CatwalkGirl contest in 2007. The selection process was between June 18 to August 18 of 2007. After winning, she began to work at the Catwalk Production House and get more opportunities, which includes being an MTV Taiwan VJ host, advertising endorser of various products, and a well-known magazine cover model. In 2008, she gets her first recognition as an actress after starring in Judy Chou's music video, who came a runner-up in the One Million Star singing competition. Subsequently, she starred on her first acting career in CTS' Prince + Princess 2 as the female lead, Zhao Kerou. In 2009, she starred in Will Pan's song entitled "Silence Room for Rent" (寂屋出租) included in his 007 album. She was also cast in CTV's Momo Love as Zhang Kaili, Chen Qi's (Ken Chu) girlfriend. Chen got her second and third leading roles in a television series during 2010. One is Happy and Love Forever (幸福一定强), the first series of Happy of the Rings trilogy of Anhui TV, with Ming Dao and Li Yi Feng. She played the character of Pan Xiao Nuo, a girl who coincidentally met Yin Ding Qiang after her ex-boyfriend's betrayal towards her. The next series is CTS' Volleyball Lover with Godfrey Gao. She portrayed the role of Xin Haijing, Bai Qian Rui's childhood friend and a volleyball player. In addition, Chen also starred in Life Drama Exhibition Public Television's Goodbye (再見全壘打) as Zhao Zhong Ci. Chen, along with Ming Dao, guest starred in the second series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Sunny Happiness in 2011, continuing her relationship with Yin Ding Qiang, now as a wife. She, then, played a supporting role in CTS' Material Queen as Sa Xia. At the end of the year 2011, Chen was cast as the main female lead of SETTV television series' Inborn Pair as Song Yi Jie. For the third time, Chen and Dao portrayed their roles in Happy and Love Forever as a loving couple, and acted along with Mike He and Janine Chang, the casts of Sunny Happiness, in the third and last series of Happy of the Rings trilogy entitled Happy Michelin Kitchen. After Chen's successful drama with Chris Wang on Inborn Pair in 2012, she started filming Love, Now in Boracay, Philippines with her new leading man, George Hu. Chen plays the character of Yang Yi-ru, a workaholic person who went on vacation and coincidentally meets Lan Shi-de. The series was successful as both the drama and Chen's pairing with George Hu received positive reviews. Right after their successful team-up on March 5, 2013, Chen and Hu paired up once again on their new television series, Love Around starting on June 9, 2013. SETTV. All 21 episodes of the drama remained number one in its time slot throughout its airing. Chen started 2014 mainly concentrating on modeling work. In February, during early develops she turned down the lead role for SETTV drama Love Met Cupid in order to let her contract with Sanlih E-Television expire and not renew it. The drama would later becomePleasantly Surprised, which became a hit. After taking almost a year hiatus from acting she returned to the small screen in late 2014 with the TVBS drama Boysitter. The drama is about a single unwed mother played by Chen who has to decide if she will take back her irresponsible ex-boyfriend and father of her child played by River Huang or be with her more mature and reliable co-worker played by Melvin Sia. In 2016, she acted in the Taiwanese film White Lies, Black Lies. | 1 |
1995_World_Championships_in_Athletics_–_Women's_triple_jump | 1995_World_Championships_in_Athletics_–_Women's_triple_jump 2010-05-23T14:29:20Z These are the official results of the Women's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Thursday August 10, 1995., 1995_World_Championships_in_Athletics_–_Women's_triple_jump 2011-02-20T11:04:28Z These are the official results of the Women's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Thursday August 10, 1995. Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14. 05 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. | 0 |
Gowrie | Gowrie 2009-05-26T00:06:59Z Gowrie (Scottish Gaelic: Gobharaidh) is a region and ancient province of Scotland, covering most of the eastern part of what became Perthshire. The province is the home of such ancient Scottish royal sites as Scone and perhaps Forteviot. Its chief settlement is the town of Perth. Today it is most often associated with the Carse of Gowrie, the part of Gowrie south of the Sidlaw Hills running east of Perth to Dundee. It is usually written as Goverin or Gouerin in the Latin of the Middle Ages. The Old Gaelic terms Circinn and Mag Gerghinn (and variants), may be related; but Circinn is often identified with the Mearns because Fordoun, Mearns, was said to have been in this area. Alex Woolf and William J. Watson both implied that the name derived from the Cenél nGabraín. The modern Gaelic for the province is Gobharaidh; unless it is derived from Gerghinn or Circinn, the earlier Gaelic form is not recorded in Gaelic orthography. Gowrie contains some of the best farmland in the whole of Scotland, a key to explaining its importance in Scottish history. The Carse of Gowrie, the southern part of the region, has traditionally been called the "Garden of Scotland". Coupar, the location of Coupar Angus Abbey, lay at the borders of Angus with Gowrie, originally on the Gowrie side. Blairgowrie, "Plain of Gowrie", was recorded as "Blair in Gowrie" in 1604, and presumably the Blair ("plain") element has -gowrie attached to it to distinguish it from Blair in Atholl, i. e. Blair Atholl. Abernethy, where the cross of MacDuff marked the boundary of the kindred, was probably the boundary between Fothriff and Gowrie. The following is a list of modern settlements and places of interest in the province: It should be noted that Forteviot, physically in Strathearn, was included in the St Andrews deanery of Gowrie. It is unclear if Gowrie was thought to include places such as Dunkeld or the province of Stormont; it is likely that Gowrie's boundaries may have conceptually fluctuated according to various political changes over time. The Scottish royal coronation site was located in this province, at Scone. Containing sites such as Scone and Forteviot, and perhaps originally Abernethy, it was clearly the core province of the early Kingdom of Scotland. In the 12th century, when detailed records begin, the king possessed four royal manors in the province; these manors were Scone, Strathardle, Longforgan, and Coupar. Those four royal manors were held by the crown in addition to the rest of the province, which the king held as mormaer ("earl"). In either the reign of Alexander I or David I a burgh was founded in the province, located at Perth. It also had a sheriff, called the "Sheriff of Gowrie" or "Sheriff of Scone", from the 1130s until at least 1228. It is not clear if this sheriff was originally distinct from the "Sheriff of Perth", as Perth and Scone were often thought of as the same location, being only two miles apart; if they were originally distinct, they were not so by the following century. There are judices, "Brehons", of the province of Gowrie recorded from the 12th century into the 14th century. These men were the specialist lawmen for the province, who preserved legal knowledge relevant to the provincial community, and it is likely that every province of Scotland had lawmen designated for such purposes. Ecclesiastically, Gowrie was largely controlled by the Bishop of St Andrews; a Dean of Gowrie existed under the said bishop. Half a dozen or so of the parish churches in Gowrie were under the control of the bishops of Dunblane and Dunkeld; this meant that Deans of Gowrie also existed for these two dioceses, though no Dean of Gowrie was recorded for the diocese of Dunblane. Gowrie was recreated as an earldom for William Ruthven, Lord Ruthven in 1581. John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, the second son of William Ruthven, was involved in the famous Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600, which led to the forfeiture of the earldom. , Gowrie 2011-09-10T18:03:46Z Gowrie (Scottish Gaelic: Gobharaidh) is a region and ancient province of Scotland, covering most of the eastern part of what became Perthshire. The province is the home of such ancient Scottish royal sites as Scone and perhaps Forteviot. Its chief settlement is the town of Perth. Today it is most often associated with the Carse of Gowrie, the part of Gowrie south of the Sidlaw Hills running east of Perth to Dundee. It is usually written as Goverin or Gouerin in the Latin of the Middle Ages. The Old Gaelic terms Circinn and Mag Gerghinn (and variants), may be related; but Circinn is often identified with the Mearns because Fordoun, Mearns, was said to have been in this area. Alex Woolf and William J. Watson both implied that the name derived from the Cenél nGabraín. The modern Gaelic for the province is Gobharaidh; unless it is derived from Gerghinn or Circinn, the earlier Gaelic form is not recorded in Gaelic orthography. Gowrie contains some of the best farmland in the whole of Scotland, a key to explaining its importance in Scottish history. The Carse of Gowrie, the southern part of the region, has traditionally been called the "Garden of Scotland". Coupar, the location of Coupar Angus Abbey, lay at the borders of Angus with Gowrie, originally on the Gowrie side. Blairgowrie, "Plain of Gowrie", was recorded as "Blair in Gowrie" in 1604, and presumably the Blair ("plain") element has -gowrie attached to it to distinguish it from Blair in Atholl, i. e. Blair Atholl. Abernethy, where the cross of MacDuff marked the boundary of the kindred, was probably the boundary between Fothriff and Gowrie. The following is a list of modern settlements and places of interest in the province: Forteviot, physically on the Earn, was included in the St Andrews deanery of Gowrie not in Strathearn (diocese of Dunblane). It is unclear if Gowrie was thought to include places such as Dunkeld or the province of Stormont; it is likely that Gowrie's boundaries may have conceptually fluctuated according to various political changes over time. The Scottish royal coronation site was located in this province, at Scone. Containing sites such as Scone and Forteviot, and perhaps originally Abernethy, it was clearly the core province of the early Kingdom of Scotland. In the 12th century, when detailed records begin, the king possessed four royal manors in the province; these manors were Scone, Strathardle, Longforgan, and Coupar. Those four royal manors were held by the crown in addition to the rest of the province, which the king held as mormaer ("earl"). In either the reign of Alexander I or David I a burgh was founded in the province, located at Perth. It also had a sheriff, called the "Sheriff of Gowrie" or "Sheriff of Scone", from the 1130s until at least 1228. It is not clear if this sheriff was originally distinct from the "Sheriff of Perth", as Perth and Scone were often thought of as the same location, being only two miles apart; if they were originally distinct, they were not so by the following century. There are judices, "Brehons", of the province of Gowrie recorded from the 12th century into the 14th century. These men were the specialist lawmen for the province, who preserved legal knowledge relevant to the provincial community, and it is likely that every province of Scotland had lawmen designated for such purposes. Ecclesiastically, Gowrie was largely controlled by the Bishop of St Andrews; a Dean of Gowrie existed under the said bishop. Half a dozen or so of the parish churches in Gowrie were under the control of the bishops of Dunblane and Dunkeld; this meant that Deans of Gowrie also existed for these two dioceses, though no Dean of Gowrie was recorded for the diocese of Dunblane. Gowrie was recreated as an earldom for William Ruthven, Lord Ruthven in 1581. John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, the second son of William Ruthven, was involved in the famous Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600, which led to the forfeiture of the earldom. The title of Earl of Gowrie was resurrected in 1945 for a descendant of the 2nd Earl. | 0 |
Eddie Marsan | Eddie Marsan 2008-01-17T05:45:07Z Edward Marsan (born 1968) is a British actor. Born and brought up in Bethnal Green, Marsan initially worked as a printer and in theatre, before beginning a television and film career. He graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991., Eddie Marsan 2009-12-27T22:19:39Z Edward Maurice C. "Eddie" Marsan (born 1968) is an English actor. Marsan was born in Stepney, London to a working class family; his father was a truck driver and his mother a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant. He was raised in Bethnal Green and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer, before beginning his career in theatre, and moving to a television and film career. He graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991. His first television appearance was in 1992, as a "yob", in the London Weekend Television series The Piglet Files. One of his more significant earliest television appearances was in the popular mid-1990s BBC sitcom Game On as a bungling bank robber. Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, and more. Marsan has since branched out into numerous and varied film roles including work in the United States, and is achieving much success in Hollywood, most recently as the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith. He has a significant role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and his other movies include Gangs of New York, 21 Grams, The Illusionist, V for Vendetta, Gangster No. 1, Miami Vice, Mission: Impossible III, I Want Candy, Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky. | 1 |
Ashley Johnson (actress) | Ashley Johnson (actress) 2013-01-24T17:58:15Z Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress, best known as a child actress as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains, and most recently in 2011 as Amber Ahmed on the drama series The Killing. As a voice actress she is well known for the part of Gwen Tennyson, cousin of Ben Tennyson in the series Ben 10: Alien Force and its sequel Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. She also provided the voice of Terra in Teen Titans. In 2012 Johnson played a small-but-pivotal role as the New York City Blond Waitress "Beth" in "The Avengers" saved by "Captain America" but her first scene where she was introduced and flirted with Steve Rogers at the coffee shop was deleted. Johnson was born in Camarillo, California, the youngest daughter of Nancy (née Spruiell), an independent film producer; and Clifford Johnson (the son of concert pianist Evelyn Taft), who was the captain of an exploration ship and died of lung and liver cancer in July 2000. When Ashley was nine days old, her father's job moved to Michigan. The family settled in the village of Franklin, Michigan, among Detroit's affluent northern suburbs. Ashley graduated from high school when she was 15. Johnson has an older brother, Chris, who worked on the television show, The District. Her older sister, Haylie, is best known for her role on Kids Incorporated. Haylie is married to singer Jonny Lang. Both Ashley and Haylie are former Miss Jr. Michigan titleholders, and they currently play in a band together. Johnson had a prolific career at a young age; before she was twenty-one years old, she had already been a part of the casts of eight different TV series. Her acting career began at age six, when she played the role of Chrissy Seaver (whose age was accelerated from a toddler between seasons for plotting purposes) on the television show Growing Pains from 1990 to 1992, where, since the sixth and seventh season, she and then little-known actor Leonardo DiCaprio were the main characters who were added in the show before its cancellation. In the one-season Phenom in 1993-1994, she played the mischievous younger sister of a rising teenaged tennis star. She also appeared in the 1994 sitcom All American Girl, which lasted for only one season, an episode in 1995 on "Roseanne" playing Lisa ("The Blaming of the Shrew") and was Mel Gibson's character's daughter in the 2000 comedy What Women Want. In 2008 she became a regular on the drama Dirt as Sharlee Cates, a starlet whose character is based on pop singer Britney Spears. In 2009, she appeared in Omega, the finale of the first season of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She also appeared in the show's unaired pilot, Echo. In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers (directed by Whedon) as a waitress who is very thankful to Captain America after he saves her life. Also a voice actress, she voiced Gretchen Grundler on the Walt Disney TV animated series Recess, Terra in the Teen Titans animated series during the show's second season, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10 Alien Force and in future variations of the Ben 10 franchise. Three of her roles have love interests who are voiced by Greg Cipes (Chiro on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Kevin in Ben 10, and Beast Boy in Teen Titans). She will also co-star in the upcoming PlayStation exclusive "The Last of Us". She attended the International School of Music, where she studied violin and piano; she also plays guitar and cello. When not acting or studying music, Johnson co-runs the photography company Infinity Pictures, with her friend, production assistant Mila Shah. She loves to snowboard and surf, was taught to sail by her father, and is an avid gun shooter. , Ashley Johnson (actress) 2014-11-12T04:14:20Z Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress, singer, and voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Chrissy Seaver in the sitcom Growing Pains and for playing Mel Gibson's character's daughter in What Women Want. As a voice actress she is well known for the part of Gretchen Grundler in Disney's Recess as well as for Gwen Tennyson in the series Ben 10: Alien Force, and its two successors Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse and Terra in Teen Titans and its sequel series, Teen Titans Go! . In 2012, Johnson played a small role as the New York City waitress Beth who is saved by Captain America in The Avengers. In 2013, she played the role of Ellie in the video game The Last of Us. Johnson was born in Camarillo, California, the youngest daughter of Nancy Spennelli Johnson, an independent film producer; and Clifford Johnson, who was the captain of an exploration ship. Her father died of lung and liver cancer in July 2000. When Ashley was nine days old, her father's job took him to Michigan. The family settled in the village of Franklin, Michigan, among Detroit's affluent northern suburbs. Ashley graduated from high school when she was 15. Johnson had a prolific career at a young age. Before she was twenty-one years old, she had already been in the casts of eight different TV series. Her acting career began at age six, when she played the role of Chrissy Seaver. Her age was accelerated from a toddler between seasons for plotting purposes. On the television show Growing Pains from 1990 to 1992, in the sixth and seventh season, she and then little-known actor Leonardo DiCaprio were added to the show before its cancellation. In the one-season Phenom in 1993-1994, she played the mischievous younger sister of a rising teenaged tennis star. She also appeared in the 1994 sitcom All-American Girl, which lasted for only one season. She played DJ's girlfriend Lisa in a 1995 episode ("The Blaming of the Shrew") of Roseanne, and was Mel Gibson's character's daughter in the 2000 comedy What Women Want. In 2008 she became a regular on the drama Dirt as Sharlee Cates, a starlet whose character is based on pop singer Britney Spears. In 2009, she appeared in "Omega", the finale of the first season of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She also appeared in the show's unaired pilot, "Echo". In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers (also directed by Whedon) as a waitress who is saved by Captain America. Though this was a minor role, the Blu-ray edition of The Avengers contains some deleted scenes that expand her role in the movie, and further her interactions with Captain America. Her "small-but-pivotal role" may lead to her returning in future movies as a friend or love interest for Captain America. The characters name 'Beth' may be a reference to the supporting character Golden Girl from the Captain America comics. Also a voice actress, in 1993 she voiced Holly on the cartoon Christmas movie Precious Moments Timmy's Special Delivery. She played Sean on the cartoon movie The First Snow of Winter in 1998. Gretchen Grundler on the Walt Disney TV animated series Recess, Terra in the Teen Titans animated series during the show's second season, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10: Alien Force and in future variations of the Ben 10 franchise. Three of her roles have love interests who are voiced by Greg Cipes (Chiro on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Kevin in Ben 10, and Beast Boy in Teen Titans). She co-starred in the PlayStation exclusive The Last of Us as the character Ellie, which was released to critical acclaim and commercial success. She subsequently won a video game BAFTA for Best Performer and a VGX Award for Best Voice Actress for her role in the game. Currently she can be seen playing occult specialist Morgan on the web series "Spooked" from Geek and Sundry. Johnson attended the International School of Music, where she studied violin and piano; she also plays guitar and cello. When not acting or studying music, Johnson co-runs the photography company Infinity Pictures, with her friend, production assistant Mila Shah. Johnson has an older brother, Chris, who worked on the television show The District. Her older sister, Haylie Johnson, is best known for her role as Haylie on Kids Incorporated. Haylie is married to musician Jonny Lang. Both Ashley and Haylie are former Miss Jr. Michigan titleholders, and they play in a band together. Her friend Greg Cipes refers to her as his "cartoon girlfriend" in the Cartoon Network studio. Appeared in only seven episodes as guest Giblet Episode: "When Niblet Met Giblet | 1 |
Dante (footballer) | Dante (footballer) 2016-01-13T19:11:51Z Dante Bonfim Costa Santos (born 18 October 1983), commonly known as Dante (Portuguese pronunciation: ), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for German club VfL Wolfsburg. Primarily a central defender, he has previously also been used as a defensive midfielder or a left back. Produced at Juventude, he went on to Lille, Charleroi and Standard Liège, winning the Belgian Pro League with the latter. In January 2009 he was signed by Borussia Mönchengladbach, spending two-and-a-half seasons before a €4.7 million move to Bayern Munich, where he won nine domestic and international honours. Dante made his international debut for Brazil in 2013, winning that year's Confederations Cup and representing the nation at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Dante joined Juventude's youth system in 2001 and by 2002 became a part of the club's first team setup. In 2004, he made his move to European football, signing for Lille in France. After two seasons with the club where he only featured in 12 league games, Dante moved to Belgium, signing for Charleroi in 2006. After a successful campaign in the Belgian Pro League for Charleroi where he made 27 appearances and helped the club to a respectable fifth-place finish, he moved across the country to Standard de Liège. Dante had a successful debut season with the Belgian giants as Standard were crowned league champions, the Brazilian defender proving to be an integral member, missing just one league game. In his second season with Standard, he featured in the first 15 league games of the campaign before interest from Germany sent the player to the Bundesliga. Dante signed for German side Borussia Mönchengladbach from Standard Liège on 27 December 2008 for an undisclosed fee, signing a contract with the club until summer 2013. Dante made his debut for the club on 20 March 2009, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 loss to fellow strugglers VfL Bochum. His first goal for the club came against eventual champions VfL Wolfsburg on 11 April but it came in a losing effort as Gladbach fell 2–1 thanks to a late strike by defender Sascha Riether. The Brazilian scored a dramatic late winner against Energie Cottbus on 13 May, heading in a cross from winger Marko Marin to give the club a 1–0 win in the 91st minute. On the final day of the Bundesliga season on 23 May 2009, Dante scored Gladbach's only goal in a 1–1 draw with Borussia Dortmund, a point which meant that the club avoided immediate relegation back to the 2. Bundesliga. In the opening fixture of the 2009–10 Bundesliga campaign on 9 August 2009, Dante received a red card for a bad foul as Mönchengladbach relinquished a 3–0 lead against VfL Bochum, drawing 3–3. He netted his first goal of the campaign on 31 October, heading home a corner in the 76th minute to draw the game level at 2–2 and an 82nd-minute strike from Rob Friend handed Gladbach a 3–2 victory over Hamburg. On 9 April 2010, Dante headed in a free-kick from Juan Arango to double Gladbach's lead, resulting in a 2–0 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt that all but secured Bundesliga survival. The 2010–11 campaign proved to be another difficult campaign for Gladbach. Dante only featured in 17 league games as he battled against persistent injury and the club finished in 16th place, the relegation play-off spot. He did though play the full ninety minutes in each play-off match against Bochum as Borussia Mönchengladbach managed a 2–1 aggregate victory to remain in the German top flight for the 2011–12 season. The following season proved much more successful as Dante featured in 38 games in all competitions, playing the full ninety minutes in each game. In January 2012, Dante hinted that he could leave the club before his contract runs out in June 2014, revealing to the press that he desired to play for a top club in Germany, singling out Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Dante was influential as the club made a run to the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal where the club lost 4–2 on penalties to Bayern Munich on 21 March 2012, with Dante and Håvard Nordtveit missing their penalties to give Bayern a spot in the final with champions Borussia Dortmund. On 26 April 2012, he agreed to join Bayern Munich at the start of the 2012–13 season for an estimated fee of €4.7 million. Dante's first appearance for the club came in the DFL-Supercup on 12 August 2012, starting at centre-back in Bayern's 2–1 defeat of Borussia Dortmund. He made his league debut for the Bavarian giants on 25 August, as Bayern cruised to a 3–0 opening day victory over promoted side SpVgg Greuther Fürth. He scored his first competitive goal for the team in a 5–0 thrashing of Hannover 96 on 24 November 2012. Dante made an immediate impact at Bayern, earning a place in the starting XI, forming partnerships with the interchanging Holger Badstuber, Daniel van Buyten and Jérôme Boateng in the center of defense. Following the defender's impressive start with Die Roten, coach Jupp Heynckes told media that Dante was one of the first names on the team sheet and club captain Phillip Lahm supported the manager's sentiments, stating that, "Dante is one of the best defenders I've ever played with." He secured his first league title since moving to Germany after a 1–0 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt on 6 April 2013 and was seen celebrating with the supporters in the stands following the result. In the Champions League final against German rivals Borussia Dortmund, Dante conceded a penalty for a rash challenge, but failed to receive a red card, in an entertaining 2–1 victory for the Bavarians. With Dante at the heart the defence, Bayern broke records for fewest goals conceded and most clean sheets in a Bundesliga season during their treble winning campaign. In new manager Pep Guardiola's first Bundesliga game, coincidentally against Dante's former club Gladbach, the defender scored an own goal after a mix-up with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer; the game ended in a 3–1 victory for Bayern. On 21 December 2013, Dante scored the opening goal as Bayern beat Raja Casablanca 2–0 in the final of the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup. In February 2014, Dante scored three goals in the space of four matches for Bayern; in Bundesliga wins over Eintracht Frankfurt (5–0) and SC Freiburg (4–0) and a DFB-Pokal victory over Hamburger SV (5–0). On 24 March 2014, Dante extended his contract with Bayern until June 2017. On 30 August 2015, Dante agreed to move to VfL Wolfsburg for an undisclosed fee. On 13 January 2016, Dante injured Bas Dost in training. In his time at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Dante was well known for his hair, becoming a cult hero with Borussia fans regularly sporting large afro wigs as an homage to their favourite player. Bayern fans quickly continued this tradition after the defender's move to Munich. Dante received his first call-up to the Brazilian national team on 21 January 2013 by returning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to be part of the squad for a friendly versus England, on 6 February at Wembley Stadium. He started the game, which England won 2–1 after goals from Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard. On 22 June 2013, he scored his first international goal in the final group game of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup against Italy at the stroke of half time, after coming on as a substitute for David Luiz on the 33rd minute. Dante was a member of Brazil's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, making his only appearance in the semi-final as a replacement for the suspended captain Thiago Silva, as the Seleção were defeated by Germany in a record 7–1 scoreline. In a comment regarding the defeat, he stated that he has 'been treated with "less respect."' Dante is married and has two children. As of 12 December 2015, Dante (footballer) 2017-12-21T17:35:25Z Dante Bonfim Costa Santos (born 18 October 1983), commonly known as Dante (Portuguese pronunciation: ), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for French Ligue 1 club Nice. Primarily a central defender, he has previously also been used as a defensive midfielder or a left back. Produced at Juventude, he went on to join Lille, Charleroi and Standard Liège, winning the Belgian Pro League with the latter. In January 2009, he was signed by Borussia Mönchengladbach, spending two-and-a-half seasons before making a €4.7 million move to Bayern Munich, where he won nine domestic and international honours. Dante made his international debut for Brazil in 2013, winning that year's Confederations Cup and representing the nation at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Dante joined Juventude's youth system in 2001 and by 2002 became a part of the club's first team setup. In 2004, he made his move to European football, signing for Lille in France. After two seasons with the club where he only featured in 12 league games, Dante moved to Belgium, signing for Charleroi in 2006. After a successful campaign in the Belgian Pro League for Charleroi where he made 27 appearances and helped the club to a respectable fifth-place finish, he moved across the country to Standard Liège. Dante had a successful debut season with the Belgian giants, as Standard were crowned league champions, the Brazilian defender proving to be an integral member, missing just one league game. In his second season with Standard, he featured in the first 15 league games of the campaign before interest from Germany sent the player to the Bundesliga. Dante signed for German side Borussia Mönchengladbach from Standard on 27 December 2008 for an undisclosed fee, signing a contract with the club until summer 2013. He made his debut for the club on 20 March 2009, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 loss to fellow strugglers VfL Bochum. His first goal for the club came against eventual champions VfL Wolfsburg on 11 April but it came in a losing effort as Gladbach fell 2–1 thanks to a late strike by defender Sascha Riether. The Brazilian scored a dramatic late winner against Energie Cottbus on 13 May, heading in a cross from winger Marko Marin to give the club a 1–0 win in the 91st minute. On the final day of the Bundesliga season on 23 May 2009, Dante scored Gladbach's only goal in a 1–1 draw with Borussia Dortmund, a point which meant that the club avoided immediate relegation back to the 2. Bundesliga. In the opening fixture of the 2009–10 Bundesliga campaign on 9 August 2009, Dante received a red card for a bad foul as Mönchengladbach relinquished a 3–0 lead against VfL Bochum, drawing 3–3. He netted his first goal of the campaign on 31 October, heading home a corner in the 76th minute to draw the game level at 2–2 and an 82nd-minute strike from Rob Friend handed Gladbach a 3–2 victory over Hamburger SV. On 9 April 2010, Dante headed in a free-kick from Juan Arango to double Gladbach's lead, resulting in a 2–0 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt that all but secured Bundesliga survival. The 2010–11 campaign proved to be another difficult campaign for Gladbach. Dante only featured in 17 league games as he battled against persistent injury and the club finished in 16th place, the relegation play-off spot. He did, however, play the full 90 minutes in each play-off match against VfL Bochum as Borussia Mönchengladbach managed a 2–1 aggregate victory to remain in the German top flight for the 2011–12 season. The following season proved much more successful, as Dante featured in 38 games in all competitions, playing the full 90 minutes in each game. In January 2012, he hinted that he could leave the club before his contract expires in June 2014, revealing to the press that he desired to play for a top club in Germany, singling out Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen. Dante was influential as the club made a run to the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal where the club lost 4–2 on penalties to Bayern Munich on 21 March 2012, with Dante and Håvard Nordtveit missing their penalties to give Bayern a spot in the final with champions Borussia Dortmund. On 26 April 2012, Dante agreed to join Bayern Munich at the start of the 2012–13 season for an estimated fee of €4.7 million. Dante's first appearance for the club came in the DFL-Supercup on 12 August 2012, starting at centre-back in Bayern's 2–1 defeat of Borussia Dortmund. He made his league debut for the Bavarian giants on 25 August as Bayern cruised to a 3–0 opening day victory over promoted side Greuther Fürth. He scored his first competitive goal for the team in a 5–0 thrashing of Hannover 96 on 24 November 2012. Dante made an immediate impact at Bayern, earning a place in the starting XI and forming partnerships with the interchanging Holger Badstuber, Daniel Van Buyten and Jérôme Boateng in the centre of defence. Following the defender's impressive start with Die Roten, coach Jupp Heynckes told media that Dante was one of the first names on the team sheet, with club captain Phillip Lahm supporting the manager's sentiments: "Dante is one of the best defenders I've ever played with." He secured his first league title since moving to Germany after a 1–0 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt on 6 April 2013 and was seen celebrating with the supporters in the stands following the result. In the Champions League final against German rivals Borussia Dortmund, Dante conceded a penalty for a rash challenge, but failed to receive a red card, in an entertaining 2–1 victory for the Bavarians. With Dante at the heart the defence, Bayern broke records for fewest goals conceded and most clean sheets in a Bundesliga season during their treble-winning campaign. In new manager Pep Guardiola's first Bundesliga game, coincidentally against Dante's former club Borussia Mönchengladbach, the defender scored an own goal after a mix-up with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer; the game nonetheless ended in a 3–1 victory for Bayern. On 21 December 2013, Dante scored the opening goal as Bayern beat Raja Casablanca 2–0 in the final of the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup. In February 2014, Dante scored three goals in the space of four matches for Bayern; in Bundesliga wins over Eintracht Frankfurt (5–0) and SC Freiburg (4–0) and a DFB-Pokal victory over Hamburger SV (5–0). On 24 March 2014, Dante extended his contract with Bayern until June 2017. On 30 August 2015, Dante agreed to move to VfL Wolfsburg for an undisclosed fee. On 13 January 2016, Dante injured teammate Bas Dost in training. On 22 August 2016, Wolfsburg announced the departure of Dante to French Ligue 1 side Nice, with whom he signed a three-year contract. In his time at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Dante was well known for his hair, becoming a cult hero with Borussia fans regularly sporting large afro wigs as an homage to their favourite player. Bayern fans quickly continued this tradition after the defender's move to Munich. Dante received his first call-up to the Brazil national team on 21 January 2013 by returning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to be part of the squad for a friendly against England, on 6 February at Wembley Stadium. He started the game, which England won 2–1 after goals from Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard. On 22 June 2013, he scored his first international goal in the final group game of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup against Italy at the stroke of half-time, after coming on as a substitute for David Luiz on the 33rd minute. Dante was a member of Brazil's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, making his only appearance in the semi-final as a replacement for the suspended captain Thiago Silva, as the Seleção were defeated by Germany in a record 7–1 scoreline. In a comment regarding the defeat, he stated that he has "been treated with 'less respect'". Dante is married and has two children. As of 20 December 2017 | 1 |
Alice_Miel | Alice_Miel 2008-10-26T21:59:09Z Alice Miel (February 21, 1906 - January 31, 1998) was an American educator and author of The Shortchanged Children of Suburbia, a study that has been characterized as a “groundbreaker” in its publicized stress on what suburban schools failed to teach about human differences and cultural diversity. Miel was born in Six Lakes, Michigan, where she grew up. In 1928, she graduated from the University of Michigan. Three years following her graduation she received her master's. From that point in her life, she went on the get her doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1944. Miel's career started at Tappan Junior High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she began teaching Social Studies and Latin in elementary and secondary schools. She later became the principal. An early landmark in Alice's life was in 1936 when she had a study session at Ohio State University with Laura Zirbes, a prominent figure in the field of elementary education. Miel left this meeting with an obligation to understanding children, not just content, and to providing for their individual differences. In 1945, Alice was appointed a professor at Teachers College and staff researcher at the Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute of school experimentation. In 1960, she took charge of the college’s department of curriculum and teaching. In 1967, Dr. Miel wrote the book, The Shortchanged Children of Suburbia. The book focused on how the public schools were preparing children for a world filled with men and women of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds. Miel received the National Education Association's Human Rights Award in 1968 for the publication of her book. Dr. Miel retired from the Teacher College in 1971. After many achievements, on January 31, 1998 Dr. Miel died at the age of 91. As a professor of education and an author who focused on curriculum development, Dr. Miel taught and left her impression on the subject matter throughout the country and around the world. , Alice_Miel 2009-11-23T17:08:44Z Alice Miel (February 21, 1906 - January 31, 1998) was an American educator and author of The Shortchanged Children of Suburbia, a study that has been characterized as a “groundbreaking” study in its publicized stress on what suburban schools failed to teach about human differences and cultural diversity. She was also greatly known as a social educator and curriculum development scholar. Miel was born in Six Lakes, Michigan, where she grew up. In 1928, she graduated from the University of Michigan. Three years following her graduation she received her master's. From that point in her life, she went on the get her doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1944. Miel focused on the democratic social learning environment of children in schools. She supported democratic ideals and the development of democratic behavior as the ultimate goal of schooling. She was one of the first to apply social learning theories, democratic principles, and processes to various areas of curriculum development and school administration. Miel believed social learning should be taught throughout the day not just one subject area. She also believed the teacher was the most important factor in curriculum change and reform would fail if all the people carrying them out were not included. Miel believed it was important to include social issues in the curriculum and was interested in issues of equity and diversity. Although her ideas were well thought through,they were not received very well at the time for many reasons. They include: 1. People thought in terms of discrete subject areas. 2. She published "More Than Social Studies" in a time where American education was considered soft and in dire need of more math and science. The focus on math and science was increased even more by The National Defense Act which linked federal support to a national policy objective. 3. Finally, 3. Alice Miel lacked affiliation with social studies traditionalists and was not considered an expert or specialist in any of the social sciences. She had become a teacher at the height of the Progressive Movement in education and it became a strong undercurrent in her life. Miel's career started at Tappan Junior High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she began teaching Social Studies and Latin in elementary and secondary schools. While teaching at Ann Arbor she benefited from an educational environment in which local school faculty and students could practice the democratic skills of deliberation and decision-making. She later became the principal. An early landmark in Alice's life was in 1936 when she had a study session at Ohio State University with Laura Zirbes, a prominent figure in the field of elementary education. Miel left this meeting with an obligation to understanding children, not just content, and to providing for their individual differences. In 1945, Miel was appointed a professor at Teachers College and staff researcher at the Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute of school experimentation. Miel was an early president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development from 1953-1954. In 1960, she took charge of the college’s department of curriculum and teaching. While in the department, Miel encouraged the development of a curriculum that allows teachers to apply concepts from organized knowledge to the solution of social problems. She remained at Teachers College for three decades. In 1967, Dr. Miel wrote the book, The Shortchanged Children of Suburbia. The book focused on how the public schools were preparing children for a world filled with men and women of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds. She surveyed children and their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods in rural, urban, and suburban areas. She found suburban children to be limited and isolated from people whom where different from themselves. She also found prejudices toward people of different races and religions deeply ingrained in the children. Lastly, she found parents and teachers were more likely to ignore or avoid racial differences. She struggled to teach people to "Take a walk around yourself", meaning that you should reflect inwardly before superficially judging human differences. Also, she thought educators should branch out and teach children about other people and various social problems. Miel received the National Education Association's Human Rights Award in 1968 for the publication of her book. In 1970 Miel helped found the World Council on Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI). Dr. Miel retired from the Teacher College in 1971. Miel made many efforts to promote democratic leadership and decision-making among educators and to enhance the capacity of schools for change and self-renewal. She developed a knowledge base of factors that affect schools' capacity for change, used cooperative action research to help school systems plan research-based instructional innovations, worked to influence and involve a variety of members in the community to make decisions affecting their schools, and developed models of school change in her curriculum development research. After many achievements, on January 31, 1998 Dr. Miel died at the age of 91. As a professor of education and an author who focused on curriculum development, Dr. Miel taught and left her impression on the subject matter throughout the country and around the world. | 0 |
Kimberly Brooks | Kimberly Brooks 2007-02-15T21:28:32Z Kimberly Brooks (sometimes credited as Kimberly Moss) is an American actress on television, film, video games and theatre. She started her acting career when she was nine. Brooks attended Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland where she earned a degree in Television and Communications. She has studied with the Baltimore Actors Theatre, the Arena Players, Chip Fields Repertory, Marla Gibbs Crossroads Academy and Ebony Players II. Kimberly has a daughter, Dara Reneè. , Kimberly Brooks 2008-12-01T04:02:18Z Kimberly Brooks is an American voice actress in the anime, feature films, video games and theatre industry. She started her acting career when she was nine. Brooks attended Stevenson University in Stevenson, Maryland where she earned a degree in Television and Communications. She has studied with the Baltimore Actors Theatre, the Arena Players, Chip Fields Repertory, Marla Gibbs Crossroads Academy and Ebony Players II. She has recently joined TAJ Productions and has also voiced several characters in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. She should not be confused with another Kimberly Brooks, a live-action actor. | 1 |
Dula_Bhaya_Kag | Dula_Bhaya_Kag 2007-11-12T16:14:40Z Dula Bhaya Kag (1902-11-25)November 25, 1902–(1977-02-02)February 2, 1977 was renowned poet, social reformer and freedom fighter. He was born in Majadar village near Mahuva in Gujarat. He hailed from Charan caste. The subject of his poems was mainly spiritual, he also wrote eulogical poems for Mahatama Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave. In year 1962, he was awarded Padma Shri. He himself could not go to school beyond elementry, his poems today form a part of curriculum ranging from elementary to masters courses. This article about an Indian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Dula_Bhaya_Kag 2009-06-11T03:41:17Z Dula Bhaya Kag (1902-11-25)November 25, 1902–(1977-02-02)February 2, 1977 was renowned poet, social reformer and freedom fighter. He was born in Majadar village near Mahuva in Gujarat. He hailed from Charan caste. The subject of his poems was mainly spiritual and devotional, he also wrote eulogical poems for Mahatama Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave. His poems are published in eight volumes known as Kagvani. In year 1962, he was awarded Padma Shri. He himself could not go to school beyond elementary, his poems today form a part of curriculum ranging from elementary to masters courses. On Nov 25 2004, department of posts, government of India released commemorative stamp from Ahmedabad in denomination of INR 5. 0 to mark his 102nd birth anniversary. This article about an Indian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
The Ring (magazine) | The Ring (magazine) 2011-05-09T12:16:56Z The Ring (often called The Ring Magazine) is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises. The Ring, first edited by hall-of-famer Nat Fleischer, has perpetrated boxing scandals, helped make unknown fighters famous worldwide, and covered boxing's biggest events of all time. Dan Daniel was a co-founder and prolific contributor to The Ring through most of its history. It refers to itself (and is referred to by others) as "The Bible of Boxing." In 1977, three international versions of the magazine came out. One, the Spanish version, was named Ring En Español and was published from Venezuela and distributed around all Spanish-speaking countries and the United States until 1985. There was also a Japanese-language version published in Tokyo and a French version published in Paris. The magazine was taken over by flamboyant publisher Bert Randolph Sugar in 1979, who hired Randy Gordon—who would go on later that decade to become New York's boxing commissioner—as his editor-in-chief. By 1985, both Sugar and Gordon had moved on, then watched from the sidelines as The Ring nearly went bankrupt in 1989, causing the magazine to cease publication for most of the year. It rebounded under new management in 1990. Some of the boxers featured on the magazine covers have included Andrew Golota, Salvador Sánchez, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bud Taylor, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Mauro Mina, and Ricardo Mayorga. In 1977, boxer Cathy "Cat" Davis became the first and only female ever to be on a cover of The Ring. "The Ring" has used cover artwork created by famed artists such as LeRoy Neiman and Richard T. Slone The Ring was formerly published by London Publications and Kappa Publishing Group, which also published sister magazines KO Magazine and World Boxing, which were former competitors of The Ring but ceased operations while under Kappa's ownership. Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC currently owns "The Ring", which it acquired from Kappa Publishing Group in 2006. Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC is part of a family of companies owned by a group of private investors led by Oscar de la Hoya. Also acquired were KO, World Boxing, Pro Wrestling Illustrated and "Inside Wrestling/The Wrestler." The magazine's rankings are recognized as "official" by some in the U.S. media, particularly ESPN. While some may see a conflict of interest in a boxing promoter being paymaster of what is essentially a magazine/rankings organization that awards world titles and belts, de la Hoya says that is not the case. "These magazines will be held in an editorial trust where they will be operating totally independent of any influence from me or others from the Golden Boy Companies as it relates to editorial direction or content", promises the Golden Boy. Nigel Collins remains as Editor in Chief. The Ring has its own version of lineal championship in a given weight class where The Ring Champion holds the linear reign to the throne, the man who beat the man. The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The Ring stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s, but began again in 2002. In 2002, The Ring attempted to clear up the confusion regarding world champions by creating a championship policy. It echoed many critics' arguments that the sanctioning bodies in charge of boxing championships had undermined the sport by pitting undeserving contenders against undeserving "champions", and forcing the boxing public to see mismatches for so-called "world championships". The Ring attempts to be more authoritative and open than the sanctioning bodies' rankings, with a page devoted to full explanations for ranking changes. A fighter pays no sanctioning fees to defend or fight for the title at stake, contrary to practices of the sanctioning bodies. Furthermore, a fighter cannot be stripped of the title unless he loses, decides to move to another weight division, or retires. There are currently only two ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat the reigning champion; or win a box-off between the magazine's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated). A vacant Ring championship is filled when the number-one contender in a weight-division battles the number-two contender or the number-three contender (in cases where The Ring determines that the number-two and number-three contenders are close in abilities and records). The Ring's championship policy has gained the acceptance of outlets in North America such as ESPN and, to an extent, HBO; as well as being mentioned by the BBC in the United Kingdom. In 1976 The Ring magazine fabricated records of selected boxers, to elevate them, thereby securing them lucrative fights on the American ABC television network, as part of the United States Championship Tournament. The United States Championship Tournament was a promotional effort by promoter Don King to capitalize on the patriotism surrounding the United States Bicentennial and the American amateur success at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. King's "hope" was to defeat the non-American boxers who held the vast majority of world titles below the Heavyweight division. Keeping in line with the patriotic theme of the promotion, King held shows at "patriotic" locales—such as the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as on an aircraft carrier stationed off Pensacola, Florida. Despite the above, the 1977 Ring Record Book contained the fictitious additions to the records of the boxers in question, and were never taken out of their records of the boxers. Those dubious bouts would continue to appear in subsequent Ring Record Book editions. This Ring Record Magazine scandal was uncovered by boxing writer Malcolm 'Flash' Gordon and ABC staffer Alex Wallau. After Gordon and Wallau's evidence was presented to ABC executives the United States Championship tournament was cancelled. It led to the eventual resignation of New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr. who had lent his name to the Championship fights and who was the son of former New York State Athletic Commissioner and former Postmaster General James Farley, who had died one year prior to the scandal. Farley had accepted a hotel room which had been furnished by King, this was used to smear Farley as dirty for accepting kickbacks, forcing his eventual resignation. No formal charges of impropriety were ever filed against Farley. The following year the Boxing Writers Association dedicated their highest honor the "James A. Farley Award", for honesty and integrity in the sport of Boxing. , The Ring (magazine) 2012-12-31T20:59:45Z The Ring (often called The Ring Magazine) is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises. The Ring, first edited by hall-of-famer Nat Fleischer, has perpetrated boxing scandals, helped make unknown fighters famous worldwide, and covered boxing's biggest events of all time. Dan Daniel was a co-founder and prolific contributor to The Ring through most of its history. It refers to itself (and is referred to by others) as "The Bible of Boxing." During the Fleischer years, the contents page or indicia of every issue carried the claim: "The Ring is a magazine which a man may take home with him. He may leave it on his library table safe in the knowledge that it does not contain one line of matter either in the text or the advertisements which would be offensive. The publisher of The Ring guards this reputation of his magazine jealously. It is entertaining and it is clean." In 1977, three international versions of the magazine came out. One, the Spanish version, was named Ring En Español and was published from Venezuela and distributed around all Spanish-speaking countries and the United States until 1985. There was also a Japanese-language version published in Tokyo and a French version published in Paris. The magazine was taken over by flamboyant publisher Bert Randolph Sugar in 1979, who hired Randy Gordon — who would go on later that decade to become New York's boxing commissioner—as his editor-in-chief. By 1985, both Sugar and Gordon had moved on, then watched from the sidelines as The Ring nearly went bankrupt in 1989, causing the magazine to cease publication for most of the year. It rebounded under new management in 1990. Some of the boxers featured on the magazine covers have included Andrew Golota, Salvador Sánchez, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bud Taylor, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Mauro Mina, and Ricardo Mayorga. In 1977, boxer Cathy "Cat" Davis became the first and only female ever to be on a cover of The Ring. The Ring has used cover artwork created by famed artists such as LeRoy Neiman and Richard T. Slone The Ring was formerly published by London Publications and Kappa Publishing Group, which also published sister magazines KO Magazine and World Boxing, which were former competitors of The Ring but ceased operations while under Kappa's ownership. Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC currently owns The Ring, which it acquired from Kappa Publishing Group in 2006. Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC is owned by a group of private investors led by Oscar de la Hoya. Also acquired were KO Magazine and 'World Boxing. The magazine's rankings are recognized as "official" by some in the U.S. media, particularly ESPN. While some may see a conflict of interest in a boxing promoter being paymaster of what is essentially a magazine/rankings organization that awards world titles and belts, De La Hoya says that is not the case. "These magazines will be held in an editorial trust where they will be operating totally independent of any influence from me or others from the Golden Boy Companies as it relates to editorial direction or content". Also there is a 35-member ratings advisory panel, which include many of the media that cover boxing, who would prevent Golden Boy Promotions from using the magazine for self gain. Nigel Collins remains as Editor in Chief. The Ring has its own version of the lineal championship in a given weight class where The Ring champion holds a linear reign to the throne, the man who beat the man. The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The Ring stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s, but began again in 2002. In 2002, The Ring attempted to clear up the confusion regarding world champions by creating a championship policy. It echoed many critics' arguments that the sanctioning bodies in charge of boxing championships had undermined the sport by pitting undeserving contenders against undeserving "champions", and forcing the boxing public to see mismatches for so-called "world championships". The Ring attempts to be more authoritative and open than the sanctioning bodies' rankings, with a page devoted to full explanations for ranking changes. A fighter pays no sanctioning fees to defend or fight for the title at stake, contrary to practices of the sanctioning bodies. Under the original version of the policy, there were only two ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat the reigning champion; or win a box-off between the magazine's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated). A vacant Ring championship was filled when the number-one contender in a weight-division battles the number-two contender or the number-three contender (in cases where The Ring determined that the number-two and number-three contenders were close in abilities and records). A fighter could not be stripped of the title unless he lost, decided to move to another weight division, or retired. In May 2012, citing the number of vacancies in various weight classes as primary motivation, The Ring unveiled a new championship policy. Under the new policy, The Ring title can be awarded when the No. 1 and No. 2 fighters face one another or when the Nos. 1 and 2 contenders choose not to fight one another and either of them fights No. 3, No. 4 or No. 5, the winner may be awarded The Ring belt. In addition, there are now six ways for a fighter to lose his title: lose a fight in his championship weight class; move to another weight class; not schedule a fight in any weight class for 18 months; not schedule a fight in his championship weight class for 18 months, even if fighting at another weight class; not scheduling a fight with a too 5 contender in any weight class for two years; or retiring. Many media outlets and members are extremely critical of the new championship policy and state that if this new policy is followed the Ring title will lose the credibility it once held. In 1976 The Ring magazine fabricated records of selected boxers, to elevate them, thereby securing them lucrative fights on the American ABC television network, as part of the United States Championship Tournament. The United States Championship Tournament was a promotional effort by promoter Don King to capitalize on the patriotism surrounding the United States Bicentennial and the American amateur success at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. King's idea was to defeat the non-American boxers who held the vast majority of world titles below the Heavyweight division. Keeping in line with the patriotic theme of the promotion, King held shows at "patriotic" locales—such as the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as on an aircraft carrier stationed off Pensacola, Florida. Despite the above, the 1977 Ring Record Book contained the fictitious additions to the records of the boxers in question, and were never taken out of their records of the boxers. Those dubious bouts would continue to appear in subsequent Ring Record Book editions. This Ring Record Magazine scandal was uncovered by boxing writer Malcolm 'Flash' Gordon and ABC staffer Alex Wallau. After Gordon and Wallau's evidence was presented to ABC executives the United States Championship tournament was cancelled. It led to the eventual resignation of New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr. who had lent his name to the Championship fights and who was the son of former New York State Athletic Commissioner and former Postmaster General James Farley, who had died one year prior to the scandal. Farley had accepted a hotel room which had been furnished by King, this was used to smear Farley as dirty for accepting kickbacks, forcing his eventual resignation. No formal charges of impropriety were ever filed against Farley. The following year the Boxing Writers Association dedicated their highest honor the "James A. Farley Award", for honesty and integrity in the sport of Boxing. Rohit Thakore | 1 |
Microsoft Inspire | Microsoft Inspire 2014-07-14T10:45:18Z The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, commonly abbreviated WPC, is a conference held annually by Microsoft Corporation for its partner community. At WPC, partners learn about Microsoft’s roadmap for the upcoming year, network and build connections, share best practices, experience the latest product innovations, and learn new skills and techniques There are also keynote addresses from Microsoft executives, featured speakers, business-track specific offerings, and hundreds of sessions. In its current form, it has been held since 2003. Before 2003, it was two different events, Microsoft Fusion and the Microsoft Business Solutions Stampede. July 12 through 15, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Over 4700 people attended the Microsoft Fusion convention. Oct. 9, through Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. More than 5,500 business leaders, marketing executives, sales professionals and solution architects from around the world attended the event. July 11 to July 13 in Toronto, Canada. Friday, July 8, through Sunday, July 10, at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis. There were 10,000 attendees including 6,500 Microsoft industry partners and other company leaders, sales and marketing executives, and solution architects. August 11 through August 13 in Boston, Massachusetts. July 10 through July 12 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. July in Houston, Texas. July 13 in New Orleans. July 11 to July 15 in Washington, D.C. About 13,000 people representing companies that resell, build on and sell services based on Microsoft products attended the conference at the Washington Convention Center. July 10 - July 14 in Los Angeles, California. July 8 through 12, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario. More than 15,000 people are expected to attend the Toronto conference, representing technology companies in 130 countries. While the main hubs of the action will be the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Air Canada Centre, many other venues will be involved as 500+ events take place during the conference and at least 32 hotels across the Toronto region will host delegates. July 7 to July 11 in Houston, Texas July 13 to July 17 in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Inspire 2015-12-17T22:54:33Z The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, commonly abbreviated WPC, is a conference held annually by Microsoft Corporation for its partner community. At WPC, partners learn about Microsoft’s roadmap for the upcoming year, network and build connections, share best practices, experience the latest product innovations, and learn new skills and techniques There are also keynote addresses from Microsoft executives, featured speakers, business-track specific offerings, and hundreds of sessions. In its current form, it has been held since 2003. Before 2003, it was two different events, Microsoft Fusion and the Microsoft Business Solutions Stampede. July 12 through 15, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Over 4700 people attended the Microsoft Fusion convention. Oct. 9, through Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. More than 5,500 business leaders, marketing executives, sales professionals and solution architects from around the world attended the event. July 11 to July 13 in Toronto, Canada. Friday, July 8, through Sunday, July 10, at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis. There were 10,000 attendees including 6,500 Microsoft industry partners and other company leaders, sales and marketing executives, and solution architects. August 11 through August 13 in Boston, Massachusetts. July 10 through July 12 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. July in Houston, Texas. July 13 in New Orleans. July 11 to July 15 in Washington, D.C. About 13,000 people representing companies that resell, build on and sell services based on Microsoft products attended the conference at the Washington Convention Center. July 10 - July 14 in Los Angeles, California. July 8 through 12, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario. More than 15,000 people are expected to attend the Toronto conference, representing technology companies in 130 countries. While the main hubs of the action will be the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Air Canada Centre, many other venues will be involved as 500+ events take place during the conference and at least 32 hotels across the Toronto region will host delegates. July 7 to July 11 in Houston, Texas July 13 to July 17 in Washington, D.C. July 12–16 in Orlando, Florida July 10 to July 14 in Toronto, Canada | 1 |
Office_of_Special_Education_and_Rehabilitative_Services | Office_of_Special_Education_and_Rehabilitative_Services 2016-07-25T11:47:03Z The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) is a program of the United States Department of Education. OSERS' official mission is "to provide leadership to achieve full integration and participation in society of people with disabilities by ensuring equal opportunity and access to, and excellence in, education, employment and community living. " OSERS was established by 20 U. S. C. § 3417, and is composed of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and three program components: Alexa E. Posny, Ph. D. , is the current Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Primary laws and statutes authorizing OSERS' programs and activities include:, Office_of_Special_Education_and_Rehabilitative_Services 2016-10-05T14:57:44Z The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) is a program of the United States Department of Education. OSERS' official mission is "to provide leadership to achieve full integration and participation in society of people with disabilities by ensuring equal opportunity and access to, and excellence in, education, employment and community living. " In 1979, Congress passed legislation that split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in two parts — creating the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH) — established in 1967 by Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — then became the core of the new Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Dr. Edwin W. Martin, Jr. , then Deputy Commissioned of Education,and Director of BEH was nominated by President Carter to be the first Assistant Secretary for OSERS. He was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. The Rehabilitation Services Administration and the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research were the other components of OSERS. OSERS is composed of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and two program components: Until 2014, OSERS also contained the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act changed its name to the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and relocated it to the Administration for Community Living, within the Department of Health and Human Services. As of May 2016, Sue Swenson is the Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Primary laws and statutes authorizing OSERS' programs and activities include: | 0 |
2008_Czech_presidential_election | 2008_Czech_presidential_election 2007-12-03T16:51:00Z Template:Future election Indirect presidential elections will be held in the Czech Republic in February 2008, as the incumbent Václav Klaus' term ends on 7 March 2008. There will be at most three rounds of voting; in the first two rounds, a candidate requires an absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to win, while in the third round, an absolute majority on aggregate suffices. Klaus was nominated for a second term by the 122 MPs and senators belonging to his Civic Democratic Party on 2007-11-28. Jan Švejnar, a US-based economist originally from the Czech Republic, will announce in early December whether he will run against Klaus, with the support of former president Václav Havel, the Czech Social Democratic Party and the Green Party, as well as the Caucus SNK and the Caucus of Open Democracy in the Senate of the Czech Republic. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is considering whether to support him, as well. Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party have not yet decided whom to support, but they support (together with the ČSSD and the Green Party) a constitutional amendment to have direct presidential elections instead (though such an amendment would only apply from the next election in 2013 onwards). Reportedly, KDU–ČSL is split on the issue. Analysts assume that Klaus will win reelection, as ODS has an absolute majority in the Senate. The KSČM will decide on 7 December 2007 whether to support Švejnar, and the ČSSD requires substantial cross-party support by 8 Decembe 2007 to turn their conditional support for him into definite support. As the president is elected by an absolute majority of MPs and senators, Klaus only needs 19 votes from other parties to win reelection. , 2008_Czech_presidential_election 2008-07-19T15:02:48Z Elections of the President of the Czech Republic by the Parliament of the Czech Republic were held on Friday 8 February and Saturday 9 February 2008, to select a successor to incumbent Václav Klaus' for a five-year term beginning on 7 March 2008. The candidates standing for election were Klaus and Jan Švejnar. When no winner emerged on the first ballot, another ballot was held on 15 February 2008, barely re-electing Klaus to a second term. The election was marked by party splits and post-Cold War rancor, Germany's Deutsche Welle reported. He signed his presidential pledge with a platinum-plated pen allegedly worth up to 1 million koruna (about US$61,300). A Czech company had donated the pen, one of a limited edition of 10, to Klaus, who promised he would exercise his powers cautiously and conservatively during his second term. Each ballot can be composed of three rounds with gradually relaxing requirements for election. The differences of the 2008 election against the earlier ones were: In the 2008 election, the President came of the 3rd round of the second election, in 2003 it took one election more. Klaus was nominated for the second term by the 122 MPs and senators belonging to his Civic Democratic Party on 28 November 2007. Jan Švejnar, a US-based economist originally from the Czech Republic, stated he would announce in early December whether he will run against Klaus, with the support of former president Václav Havel, the Czech Social Democratic Party and the Green Party, as well as the caucuses of Association of Independent Lists (SNK) and the Open Democracy in the Senate of the Czech Republic which unite independent and liberal Senators from a range of small parties. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia was considering supporting him, as well. Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) were unable to unite on a candidate, and remained undecided even after holding talks with Klaus, but they support (together with the ČSSD and the Green Party) a constitutional amendment to have direct presidential elections instead (though such an amendment would only apply from the next election in 2013 onwards). Most analysts assumed that Klaus would win reelection. The KSČM was to decide on 7 December 2007 whether to support Švejnar, and the ČSSD required substantial cross-party support by 8 December 2007 to turn their conditional support for him into definite support. However, the KSČM interrupted the discussions supporting Švejnar on 7 December 2007, wanting reassurances from the ČSSD that they would indeed support Švejnar, fearing that their support for Švejnar might be moot if the ČSSD was not united on this. Both Klaus and Švejnar are vied for the support of the KDU–ČSL. Švejnar announced on 8 December 2007 that his bid was still alive and that he would decide whether to run in the coming week, depending on the level of support from major parties. On 11 December 2007 the press stated that he had acquired the support of five analysts and experts to assist him in his bid for the presidency. Švejnar himself announced that he would decide on whether he'd run only in the week afterwards, as political parties were still holding talks to decide on whether to support him. The KSČM has stated that they have set five conditions necessary for them to support a candidate in the election, and that both of the candidates fulfill some of the conditions; however, they stated that Švejnar should renounce his US citizenship. Švejnar later stated he would renounce his US citizenship if elected. The ČSSD announced their official support for Švejnar on 15 December 2007. As the president is elected by an absolute majority of MPs and senators, Klaus only needs 19 votes from other parties to win reelection. In a mid-December public opinion poll, Švejnar gained in popularity and was tied with Klaus. While it was not considered certain whether Švejnar even wanted to run, a serious and emotional debate over who contributed more to the economic reforms at the start of the 1990s between Klaus and Švejnar was read by analysts as a sign that Švejnar did indeed want to run for the office. By 12 December 2007, he had gathered the necessary ten signatures from MPs or senators required to run for president; among the lawmakers nominating him were Senate deputy chairman Petr Pithart from KDU–ČSL, head of the ČSSD senators' group Alena Gajdušková and Soňa Paukertová, head of the Caucus of Open Democracy in the Senate. Švejnar proposed a public debate with Klaus, but Klaus rejected on the grounds that Klaus did not need the publicity and that it would only help Švejnar; the ČSSD strongly criticised Klaus' decision. According to polls, 43% prefer Klaus as president, while 28% would prefer Švejnar and 29% are undecided. The former foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier had also been suggested by some Social Democrats and Communists as a possible anti-Klaus candidate. ČSSD reportedly considering different options to ensure that none of their MPs vote for Klaus against the party line: to have an open ballot, to have voting done by two MPs at a time or to have the MPs make photos with their mobile phones as proof of their vote. Former president Václav Havel officially announced his support for Švejnar on 1 January 2008. There are rumours that KDU–ČSL are offering full support to Klaus in exchange for Jiří Čunek becoming a government minister again. Foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg has unequivocally stated he will resign if Čunek enters the government again after his resignation in late 2007, and the Greens have also stated they are against this. KSČM is almost certain to support Švejnar in the first round, to ensure that Klaus is not the only candidate who passes to the second round, but it has not officially decided on whom to support in later rounds. According to polls from early January 2008, in a direct election Švejnar would beat Klaus with 52% to 48%. Polls from late January 2008 saw Švejnar increase his lead to 55% against Klaus' 45%. According to questions asked by the newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes, Klaus and Švejnar differ mostly on two points: Švejnar is in favor of introducing the Euro as quickly as possible and in favor of introducing direct presidential elections, while Klaus is against both. Both candidates also differ in the views on the economic transformation of the country after the Velvet Revolution and on the environmental issues. Klaus believes global warming is a hype, when Švejnar insists it is a dangerous threat to our planet. All parties except for ODS agreed that the vote should be held publicly by acclamation (which they have the majority to decide in the lower house), threatening a blocking of the third round of the joint sitting can not agree on the election method in the third round. More than two thirds of Czechs favor public elections. KSČM was not fully decided whether to support Švejnar or not, while about half of the 13 MPs and 11 senators favored Klaus and Švejnar. Three well-known Czech political analysts rated the chances of Klaus and Švejnar at 60-40, 70-30 and 95-5, respectively. The joint session started on 8 February 2008 on 10:00 local time. As predicted, a lengthy debate on the election method delayed the election, but it was agreed after six hours of debate to have an open balloting. After two rounds of election, the session was adjourned at 21:00 as previously agreed and the election was postponed to 9 February 2008. The results for the second vote held on 8 February were not announced, but it is assumed that no candidate had the required majority of votes. They were then announced on 9 February 2008. Prior to the third round of the elections, three lawmakers left the joint session due to health issues: ČSSD deputy Evžen Snítilý and KDU-ČSL senators Josef Kalbáč and Karel Barták. Snítilý was thought to be in favour of Švejnar but supported Klaus in the second election of 15 February and was later expelled from the Social Democrat group, while both Kalbáč and Barták were in favour of Klaus. The third round also failed to produce a winner; the Communists abstained instead of voting for Švejnar, but Klaus fell one vote short of a majority of 140 of the 278 lawmakers present. The date for the second election was set to 15 February 2008. The second election also allows for the three rounds, with the same rules as the first election and both present candidates will be running. In the second election, communist party KSČM proposed an additional candidate – MEP and former TV anchorwoman Jana Bobošíková. She is known as an outspoken critic of the EU and of the planned US missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Two independent senators who had voted for Klaus, Liana Janáčková and Jana Juřenčáková, stated they had been threatened, and the ČSSD senator Evžen Snítilý who left the session in the third round of the first attempt, stated he wanted to leave the party (an was sonn expelled). Reportedly, Snítilý suffered from threats and blackmail over his StB past. The three nominees were Švejnar, Klaus and Bobošíková. Bobošíková was nominated by 17 KSČM deputies, but the Communists stated they would be inclined to support Švejnar under certain conditions. Klaus' chances to be reelected were boosted when Snítilý announced he would vote for Klaus prior to the session. Surprisingly, in his address on 15 February 2008 before the joint session of parliament, Klaus stated he supported holding the presidential elections as public ballots and not as secret ballots as he demanded before. Klaus also delivered a significantly more nationalistic and euroskeptical speech than the week previously. This was taken as an indication that he knew he had the votes to win and no longer needed to moderate his feelings. Bobošíková withdrew her candidacy shortly after the debate and before the first round of voting citing a lack of support for her, boosting Švejnar's chances. The Communists then announced they would employ the same tactic as in the first attempt: They will support Švejnar in the first and second rounds, but abstain in the third round, thus trying to make the second attempt at electing a president a failure, as well. After more debate on the method of voting, the ODS accepted holding the vote with public ballots again. Green MP Olga Zubová was absent from the session due to a surgical intervention she had some time ago. In the first round of voting, Klaus received 141 votes, just enough for his reelection in the third round. The second round saw similar results, but also a drop in support for Švejnar by the Communists. Prior to the third round, it was reported that Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Džamila Stehlíková from the Greens was at the missing MP Zubová's residence, likely trying to get her to show up for the third round to improve Švejnar's chances. In the third round Klaus was reelected as President of the Czech Republic. In his acceptance speech Klaus talked of wanting to be 'President of all Czechs' and his staff spend the following days trying to convey the idea of a nation happy with the outcome. In reality, the fact that his reelection depended on 3 Social Democrats who left their party in deeply suspicious circumstances has thrown a large cloud over what he had hoped would be more a coronation than a reelection. | 0 |
Ludwig_Greiner | Ludwig_Greiner 2009-10-10T10:54:33Z Ludwig Greiner was an influential 19th-century forest and lumber industry management expert who improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Austrian Empire and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources. While his goals were defined by a need to run a profitable business, he introduced procedures that replaced previous exploitative, earth-eroding lumbering on Saxe-Coburg's estates with practices that contained aspects of modern ecology. Greiner's insistence on a thorough woodland inventory of his employer's vast, poorly charted lands gave him his enduring recognition outside the field defined by his expertise. His passion for precision, geomatics, and the outdoors made him the first person to disprove the results of previous measurements and accurately identify Gerlachovský štít as the highest peak in the whole 1,500 km (900 mi. ) long Carpathian mountain range. Greiner was born to the family of the Lutheran pastor Karl Greiner in the small village of Lichtentanne in Saxony in 1796. His baptismal name is still spelled Ludwig in German, Polish, and some Slovak sources, which was also the name he used in his publications. Most Slovak sources now render his baptismal name as Ľudovít, the Hungarian sources render it as Lajos. Non-specialist sources also mostly misidentify him as a rank-and-file forester. After high school, he took special qualifying tests in forestry and spent several years gaining experinece as forester in Austria and on the Lubomirski estates (administrated by the heirs of Julia Lubomirska) in Habsburg Galicia in the Łańcut and Lviv regions, now in Poland and Ukraine. He finished his education at the Vienna University of Technology where he took mathematics, physics, and chemistry in 1824-1826. He then became the director of forest management and timber rafting on Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg's estates, from where he was hired by Ernest's brother Ferdinand as the head of forestry and land management of all of his estates. Ludwig Greiner started his job at Jelšava on April 1, 1828. The estates as a company were headquarted in Vienna, but its center of operations was at Jelšava where Greiner spent the rest of his life. He married Maria Glósz, with whom he had nine children. Two sons, Hugo and Ludwig, followed in their father's footsteps. After his wife's death in 1857 Greiner married Otilia Szinowitz of Banská Bystrica, but had no more children. He was buried at the Jelšava cemetery next to his first wife. His son Ludwig Junior became chief engineer at the Coburg-Saxe estates and later forest management director at Rožňava where he was a founder of the private Girls' Institute of Education in 1871, the first high school in the Hungarian part of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire projected specifically for Slovak female students. Ludwig Greiner Senior's great granddaughter Sibylla Greinerová (b. 1919) became an acknowledged Bratislava painter of human figures in motion. Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg's estates were distributed over areas in present-day Slovakia and Hungary. The estate managed from Hrabušice was in the vicinity of the Tatra Mountains, a craggy section of the Carpathians. According to Greiner's own account, he climbed Lomnický Peak on August 10, 1837, a beautiful sunny day, measured its elevation with an altimeter and used the quadrant to determine that Gerlachovský Peak was actually higher. It was unexpected, because the previous, generally accepted measurement by the Swedish botanist Göran Wahlenberg from 1813 recorded Gerlachovský Peak's elevation as 285 m (935 ft) lower. Greiner was convinced that his own observation about Gerlachovský Peak's relative height was right, but because he considered the altimeter and quadrant insufficiently precise instruments, he triangulated the elevations of several of the Tatra peaks from the vicinity of the town of Poprad, not far from Hrabušice, in the fall of 1838 after he obtained a very accurate theodolite from a friend. Greiner's paper published the next year dethroned the mountains of Kriváň and Lomnický Peak, which had been alternately considered the highest peaks until then, and reported that the highest point in the Tatras and the whole Carpathian chain was Gerlachovský Peak. The elevation Greiner calculated was off by only 13 meters (43 ft) by comparison to what it is known to be today. Greiner improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Kingdom of Hungary and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources. In 1851 he helped to organize the Hungarian Forestry Association (Ungarischer Forstverein) and then served as its vice president. While his goals were defined by a need to run a profitable business, he introduced procedures that replaced previous exploitative, earth-eroding lumbering on Saxe-Coburg's estates with practices that contained aspects of modern ecology. Among his lasting environmental achievements has been the restoration of the timberline on largely deforested King's Bald Mountain (Kráľova hoľa, 1,946 m, 6,385 ft. ) to its natural elevation of 1,650 m (5,413 ft). One of his 21st-century successors described Greiner's principles in modern terms as aiming at and achieving permanent sustainability. Greiner's timber yield tables published in 1877 and 1886 proved sufficiently reliable to have remained in use for over a century. , Ludwig_Greiner 2010-05-04T09:23:00Z Ludwig Greiner (1796 - 1882) was an influential 19th-century forest and lumber industry management expert who improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Austrian Empire and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources. While his goals were defined by a need to run a profitable business, he introduced procedures that replaced previous exploitative, earth-eroding lumbering on Saxe-Coburg's estates with practices that contained aspects of modern ecology. Greiner's insistence on a thorough woodland inventory of his employer's vast, poorly charted lands gave him his enduring recognition outside the field defined by his expertise. His passion for precision, geomatics, and the outdoors made him the first person to disprove the results of previous measurements and accurately identify Gerlachovský štít as the highest peak in the whole 1,500 km (900 mi. ) long Carpathian mountain range. Greiner was born to the family of the Lutheran pastor Karl Greiner in the small village of Lichtentanne in Saxony in 1796. His baptismal name is still spelled Ludwig in German, Polish, and some Slovak sources, which was also the name he used in his publications. Most Slovak sources now render his baptismal name as Ľudovít, the Hungarian sources render it as Lajos. Non-specialist sources also mostly misidentify him as a rank-and-file forester. After high school, he took special qualifying tests in forestry and spent several years gaining experinece as forester in Austria and on the Lubomirski estates (administrated by the heirs of Julia Lubomirska) in Habsburg Galicia in the Łańcut and Lviv regions, now in Poland and Ukraine. He finished his education at the Vienna University of Technology where he took mathematics, physics, and chemistry in 1824-1826. He then became the director of forest management and timber rafting on Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg's estates, from where he was hired by Ernest's brother Ferdinand as the head of forestry and land management of all of his estates. Ludwig Greiner started his job at Jelšava on April 1, 1828. The estates as a company were headquarted in Vienna, but its center of operations was at Jelšava where Greiner spent the rest of his life. He married Maria Glósz, with whom he had nine children. Two sons, Hugo and Ludwig, followed in their father's footsteps. After his wife's death in 1857 Greiner married Otilia Szinowitz of Banská Bystrica, but had no more children. He was buried at the Jelšava cemetery next to his first wife. His son Ludwig Junior became chief engineer at the Coburg-Saxe estates and later forest management director at Rožňava where he was a founder of the private Girls' Institute of Education in 1871, the first high school in the Hungarian part of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire projected specifically for Slovak female students. Ludwig Greiner Senior's great granddaughter Sibylla Greinerová (b. 1919) became an acknowledged Bratislava painter of human figures in motion. Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg's estates were distributed over areas in present-day Slovakia and Hungary. The estate managed from Hrabušice was in the vicinity of the Tatra Mountains, a craggy section of the Carpathians. According to Greiner's own account, he climbed Lomnický Peak on August 10, 1837, a beautiful sunny day, measured its elevation with an altimeter and used the quadrant to determine that Gerlachovský Peak was actually higher. It was unexpected, because the previous, generally accepted measurement by the Swedish botanist Göran Wahlenberg from 1813 recorded Gerlachovský Peak's elevation as 285 m (935 ft) lower. Greiner was convinced that his own observation about Gerlachovský Peak's relative height was right, but because he considered the altimeter and quadrant insufficiently precise instruments, he triangulated the elevations of several of the Tatra peaks from the vicinity of the town of Poprad, not far from Hrabušice, in the fall of 1838 after he obtained a very accurate theodolite from a friend. Greiner's paper published the next year dethroned the mountains of Kriváň and Lomnický Peak, which had been alternately considered the highest peaks until then, and reported that the highest point in the Tatras and the whole Carpathian chain was Gerlachovský Peak. The elevation Greiner calculated was off by only 13 meters (43 ft) by comparison to what it is known to be today. Greiner improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Kingdom of Hungary and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources. In 1851 he helped to organize the Hungarian Forestry Association (Ungarischer Forstverein) and then served as its vice president. While his goals were defined by a need to run a profitable business, he introduced procedures that replaced previous exploitative, earth-eroding lumbering on Saxe-Coburg's estates with practices that contained aspects of modern ecology. Among his lasting environmental achievements has been the restoration of the timberline on largely deforested King's Bald Mountain (Kráľova hoľa, 1,946 m, 6,385 ft. ) to its natural elevation of 1,650 m (5,413 ft). One of his 21st-century successors described Greiner's principles in modern terms as aiming at and achieving permanent sustainability. Greiner's timber yield tables published in 1877 and 1886 proved sufficiently reliable to have remained in use for over a century. | 0 |
Annie_Award_for_Best_Animated_Video_Game | Annie_Award_for_Best_Animated_Video_Game 2009-10-21T16:09:42Z The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated video game of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to the best contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood. As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to three video games. The video game development company THQ has had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, has won the award. Among the nominees, five video games, Flushed Away, Monster House, Ratatouille, Bee Movie Game, and Transformers: The Game, are adaptations of a feature film. Three nominees, SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! , SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab, and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth, are adaptations of animated television series. Although every nominee has been released for multiple video game consoles, Resident Evil 4 had only been released on the Nintendo GameCube at the time of the 33rd Annie Awards, which were held on February 4, 2006., Annie_Award_for_Best_Animated_Video_Game 2011-04-18T19:11:18Z The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated video game of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to the best contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood. As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to three video games. The video game development company THQ has had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, has won the award. Among the nominees, five video games, Flushed Away, Monster House, Ratatouille, Bee Movie Game, and Transformers: The Game, are adaptations of a feature film. Three nominees, SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! , SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab, and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth, are adaptations of animated television series. Although every nominee has been released for multiple video game consoles, Resident Evil 4 had only been released on the Nintendo GameCube at the time of the 33rd Annie Awards, which were held on February 4, 2006. | 0 |
Michael Caruso (racing driver) | Michael Caruso (racing driver) 2018-01-06T23:40:54Z Michael Caruso (born 25 May 1983) is an Australian professional motor racing driver. Caruso currently competes in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, driving the No. 23 Nissan Altima for Nissan Motorsport. Caruso began his career in go-karts at age 12, before graduating to Formula Ford in 2001. He moved to Formula 3 in 2002 and won the Australian Formula 3 Championship in 2003. Despite offers to move to FIA Formula 3000 in Europe, he chose to join the Holden Young Lions team in the V8 Supercars Development Series for 2004. After a poor start he quit the team mid-season. In 2005 Caruso competed in the first two rounds of the Australian Formula 3 Championship, before moving to Europe to be test and reserve driver for the F3000 outfit Team Astromega. In 2006 he returned to Australia and to the V8 Supercars Development Series with Jim Morton's Decina Racing, finishing 4th in the championship. In 2007 he was runner-up in the Development Series, again with Jim Morton's renamed Ford Rising Star program. He also made three main-game V8 Supercars starts in this period. The first of which was at the 2006 Bathurst 1000 as a replacement for Mark Porter in a Brad Jones Racing entry. Porter had a serious crash on the Friday of the event and later died in hospital. In 2007, Caruso entered the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 with WPS Racing. In 2008, Caruso was signed to compete in his first full season in V8 Supercars, driving a Holden VE Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport, where he replaced Dean Canto. In 2009, Caruso won his first championship race at the Skycity Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway. He also finished on the podium at the 2009 Bathurst 1000, co-driving with Lee Holdsworth, and in the second race of the Sydney 500. Caruso stayed at the team until 2012, only scoring one further podium in this period. In 2013, Caruso moved to Nissan Motorsport, a four car team running the Nissan Altima L33. The team was the first to introduce a new manufacturer to the category under the New Generation V8 Supercar (then known as Car of the Future) regulations in 2013. The team largely struggled with the new package and Caruso finished 23rd in the championship. The highlight of the year for Caruso was at the Winton 360, where he finished second in the opening race. Caruso had been leading the race at the conclusion of the first half of the split race, however was beaten by team-mate James Moffat to victory in the second half. In 2014, Caruso finished a career-high 10th in the championship, despite only scoring one podium, in the second race of the Gold Coast 600. Caruso also took pole at the non-championship V8 Supercars Challenge race, a support event to the Australian Grand Prix. Having featured Norton 360 sponsorship in 2013 and 2014, from 2015 onwards, Caruso sported a corporate Nissan and Nismo livery. After another lean year in 2015, Caruso began 2016 strongly at the season-opening Adelaide 500. Caruso finished second in the Sunday race and led the championship following the event. At the 2016 CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown, Caruso won his second career championship race, seven years after his first and coincidentally once again at Hidden Valley Raceway. ‡ Caruso participated in Saturday practice and the Sunday race after Porter was critically injured during the Fujitsu Series race before qualifying Friday. Porter remained hospitalised before his death Sunday, announced after the Bathurst 1000. TBA 9 Jack Le Brocq 2 Ryan Wood 25 Chaz Mostert 3 Aaron Love 7 James Courtney 4 Cameron Hill 10 Nick Percat 6 Cam Waters 55 Thomas Randle 8 Andre Heimgartner 14 Bryce Fullwood 12 Jaxon Evans 96 Macauley Jones 11 Anton de Pasquale 17 Will Davison 18 Mark Winterbottom 20 David Reynolds 19 Matthew Payne 26 Richie Stanaway 23 Tim Slade 31 James Golding 87 Will Brown 88 Broc Feeney, Michael Caruso (racing driver) 2019-12-18T06:27:09Z Michael Caruso (born 25 May 1983) is an Australian professional motor racing driver. Caruso competes in the Pirtek Enduro Cup, co-driving the No. 6 Ford Mustang GT for Tickford Racing, alongside Cameron Waters. Caruso began his career in go-karts at age 12, before graduating to Formula Ford in 2001. He moved to Formula 3 in 2002 and won the Australian Formula 3 Championship in 2003. Despite offers to move to FIA Formula 3000 in Europe, he chose to join the Holden Young Lions team in the V8 Supercars Development Series for 2004. After a poor start he quit the team mid-season. In 2005 Caruso competed in the first two rounds of the Australian Formula 3 Championship, before moving to Europe to be test and reserve driver for the F3000 outfit Team Astromega. In 2006 he returned to Australia and to the V8 Supercars Development Series with Jim Morton's Decina Racing, finishing 4th in the championship. In 2007 he was runner-up in the Development Series, again with Jim Morton's renamed Ford Rising Star program. He also made three main-game V8 Supercars starts in this period. The first of which was at the 2006 Bathurst 1000 as a replacement for Mark Porter in a Brad Jones Racing entry. Porter had a serious crash on the Friday of the event and later died in hospital. In 2007, Caruso entered the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 with WPS Racing. In 2008, Caruso was signed to compete in his first full season in V8 Supercars, driving a Holden VE Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport, where he replaced Dean Canto. In 2009, Caruso won his first championship race at the Skycity Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway. He also finished on the podium at the 2009 Bathurst 1000, co-driving with Lee Holdsworth, and in the second race of the Sydney 500. Caruso stayed at the team until 2012, only scoring one further podium in this period. In 2013, Caruso moved to Nissan Motorsport, a four car team running the Nissan Altima L33. The team was the first to introduce a new manufacturer to the category under the New Generation V8 Supercar (then known as Car of the Future) regulations in 2013. The team largely struggled with the new package and Caruso finished 23rd in the championship. The highlight of the year for Caruso was at the Winton 360, where he finished second in the opening race. Caruso had been leading the race at the conclusion of the first half of the split race, however was beaten by teammate James Moffat to victory in the second half. In 2014, Caruso finished a career-high 10th in the championship, despite only scoring one podium, in the second race of the Gold Coast 600. Caruso also took pole at the non-championship V8 Supercars Challenge race, a support event to the Australian Grand Prix. Having featured Norton 360 sponsorship in 2013 and 2014, from 2015 onwards, Caruso sported a corporate Nissan and Nismo livery. After another lean year in 2015, Caruso began 2016 strongly at the season-opening Adelaide 500. Caruso finished second in the Sunday race and led the championship following the event. At the 2016 CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown, Caruso won his second career championship race, seven years after his first and coincidentally once again at Hidden Valley Raceway. On the 30th of January 2019 it was announced that Caruso would lose his drive with Nissan Motorsport. He will not compete full time in 2019 and is yet to announce an ENDURO drive. † Porter was the entered driver but was killed in a support race. Caruso would replace him. | 1 |
Jonathan Rea | Jonathan Rea 2010-02-27T22:18:18Z Jonathan 'Johnny' Rea (born February 2, 1987 in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland) is a motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship for Ten Kate Honda. He was runner-up in the Supersport World Championship for them in 2008, and runner-up in the British Superbike Championship in 2007 for the HM Plant Honda team. He was named Irish Motorcyclist of the year in both 2007 and 2008 For much of his career he has been backed by Red Bull. Rea was British 60cc motocross runner up in 1997, before moving up through the motocross classes. He was not originally keen to switch to circuit racing as he considered it to be boring, but he was persuaded to by friends Michael and Eugene Laverty, contesting the 2003 British 125cc Championship. His 2004 season was interrupted by a crash at Knockhill. In 2005 Red Bull set up a British Superbike ride for him on a factory-spec Honda Fireblade. He showed his potential by snatching a pole position from the established names, and finished 16th in the series despite missing 2 races, at Snetterton after a heavy testing crash, and at Oulton Park after the death of a junior team-mate in the previous event. He started the 2006 season strongly, lying 6th in the championship after 5 meetings. At Oulton Park he finished 3rd in race 2, before being demoted to 4th as he was deemed to have gained a place form Shane Byrne on the last lap illegally, although he claimed that he crossed the infield grass as he was squeezed out of road. He qualified 5th at Mondello Park before heavy rain forced the cancellation of the races, and claimed that he had been on race tyres, rather than special soft qualifying compounds. He impressed at Mallory Park too, qualifying on the front row and running 2nd until high-siding in race 1, despite having no race engineer for the weekend. At Knockhill he took pole position, and followed a 4th in race 1 with his first career podium in race 2, passing Leon Haslam for 2nd with 2 laps to go. He ultimately took 4th in the championship, ahead of the factory Honda of Karl Harris. He took Harris' factory ride for 2007, alongside reigning champion Ryuichi Kiyonari of Japan. After four second places, he finally took his first win in the second race at Mondello Park, after dominating wet practice but struggling in the dry first race. A double victory at Knockhill followed, taking him to within 9 points of Kiyonari at the top of the standings - retaining this position after Oulton Park in which each HM Plant Honda rider won once and crashed once. He ultimately finished as the series runner-up, 26 points behind Kiyonari and 20 ahead of Leon Haslam. Also in 2007, he raced with Kiyonari and won a three-hour endurance race, and were then entered for the Suzuka 8-Hour race on a factory Honda machine. Plans for him to contest the British MotoGP round on a Team Roberts bike were scrapped in favour of extra Suzuka preparation. . He attended the 2007 World Superbike round at Brands hatch, as he began to explore international options In September 2007 he signed a three year deal with Ten kate Honda to ride in the World Supersport championship for 2008, and World Superbikes for 2009/10.. He turned down the option of staying in British Superbikes with either HM Plant Honda or move to Rizla Suzuki, and turned down a World Superbike ride with the factory Xerox Ducati team. In his first race at Losail he crashed, badly injuring a finger At Assen he challenged for a first WSS win, losing by inches to team-mate Andrew Pitt. He did win for Ten Kate at the Donington Park British Supersport race, which the team entered as practice for the later WSS race there. His first World Supersport win came at Brno, and he immediately followed this with a second win at Brands Hatch, after the race was stopped early after Craig Jones crashed fatally. A third win followed at Vallelunga, pushing him back up to 2nd in the standings behind Pitt. His chances of winning the title were ended by a wild move from Robbin Harms in the penultimate round at Magny Cours. For 2009, Rea rides for the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team in World Superbikes. He made the switch before the end of 2008, meaning that he made his WSBK debut in the final 2008 round at Portimao. His first podium came in the second race at round six in Kyalami. Another third place followed in the very next round at Miller Motorsport Park, before his first WSBK win came at Misano, after a frantic battle with the Ducati duo of Noriyuki Haga and Michel FabrizioThis followed a chaotic first race that day; his bike failed on the dummy grid, he received a ride-through penalty for being given a lift back to the pits by Kiyonari on the warm-up lap, and when he switched to a wet set-up bike he (like other team-mate Carlos Checa had trouble getting the second bike fired up. On 21 June 2009, Rea clinched his first win at World Superbike level in the San Marino round at Misano, he fought off Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga to take the flag in the second race of the day. , Jonathan Rea 2011-12-21T16:29:48Z Jonathan 'Johnny' Rea (born February 2, 1987 in Larne, Northern Ireland) is a motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship for Castrol Honda. He was runner-up in the Supersport World Championship for the Ten Kate Honda team in 2008, and runner-up in the British Superbike Championship in 2007 for the HM Plant Honda team. He was named Irish Motorcyclist of the Year in 2007, 2008 and 2011. For much of his career he has been backed by Red Bull. Rea was British 60cc motocross runner up in 1997, before moving up through the motocross classes. He was not originally keen to switch to circuit racing as he considered it to be boring, but he was persuaded to by friends Michael and Eugene Laverty, contesting the 2003 British 125cc Championship. His 2004 season was interrupted by a crash at Knockhill. In 2005 Red Bull set up a British Superbike ride for him on a factory-spec Honda Fireblade. He showed his potential by snatching a pole position from the established names, and finished 16th in the series despite missing two races, at Snetterton after a heavy testing crash, and at Oulton Park after the death of a junior team-mate in the previous event. He started the 2006 season strongly, lying sixth in the championship after five meetings. At Oulton Park he finished 3rd in race two, before being demoted to fourth as he was deemed to have gained a place form Shane Byrne on the last lap illegally, although he claimed that he crossed the infield grass as he was squeezed out of road. He qualified fifth at Mondello Park before heavy rain forced the cancellation of the races, and claimed that he had been on race tyres, rather than special soft qualifying compounds. He impressed at Mallory Park too, qualifying on the front row and running second until high-siding in race one, despite having no race engineer for the weekend. At Knockhill he took pole position, and followed a fourth in race one with his first career podium in race two, passing Leon Haslam for second with two laps to go. He ultimately took fourth in the championship, ahead of the factory Honda of Karl Harris. He took Harris' factory ride for 2007, alongside reigning champion Ryuichi Kiyonari of Japan. After four second places, he finally took his first win in the second race at Mondello Park, after dominating wet practice but struggling in the dry first race. A double victory at Knockhill followed, taking him to within nine points of Kiyonari at the top of the standings - retaining this position after Oulton Park in which each HM Plant Honda rider won once and crashed once. He ultimately finished as the series runner-up, 26 points behind Kiyonari and 20 ahead of Leon Haslam. Also in 2007, he raced with Kiyonari and won a three-hour endurance race, and the pair was then entered for the Suzuka 8-Hour race on a factory Honda machine. Plans for him to contest the British MotoGP round on a Team Roberts bike were scrapped in favour of extra Suzuka preparation. He attended the 2007 World Superbike round at Brands Hatch, as he began to explore international options. In September 2007 he signed a three year progressive deal with Ten Kate Honda to ride in the Supersport World Championship for the 2008 season, and the Superbike World Championship for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. He turned down the option of staying in British Superbikes with either HM Plant Honda or move to Rizla Suzuki, and turned down a World Superbike ride with the factory Xerox Ducati team. In his first race at Losail in Qatar, he crashed, badly injuring a finger. At Assen he challenged for a first WSS win, losing by 0.014 seconds to team-mate Andrew Pitt. He did win for Ten Kate at the Donington Park British Supersport race, which the team entered as practice for the later WSS race there. His first World Supersport win came at Brno, and he immediately followed this with a second win at Brands Hatch, although the race was stopped early after the fatal accident of Craig Jones with seven llaps remaining in the race. A third win followed at Vallelunga, pushing him back up to second in the standings behind Pitt. His chances of winning the title were ended by a wild move from Robbin Harms in the penultimate round at Magny-Cours. He did remount to finish tenth in the race. For 2009, Rea rode for the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team in World Superbikes. He made the switch before the end of 2008, meaning that he made his WSBK debut in the final 2008 round at Portimão. His first podium came in the second race at round six at Kyalami. Another third place followed in the very next round at Miller Motorsport Park, before his first WSBK win came at Misano, after a frantic battle with the Ducati duo of Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio. This followed a chaotic first race that day; his bike failed on the dummy grid, he received a ride-through penalty for being given a lift back to the pits by Kiyonari on the warm-up lap, and when he switched to a wet set-up bike he – like team-mate Carlos Checa – had trouble getting the second bike fired up. He added a further win in Germany to finish fifth overall and top rookie. He remained with Ten Kate for 2010, and scored a double victory at the team's home round at Assen, however this was followed by two crashes at Monza. A further crash in Superpole at Miller Motorsport Park injured his neck and shoulder, though he still raced the next day, scoring a 14th and an eighth. He scored only seven points at Misano, as he fell behind Carlos Checa in the battle for third place in the championship standings. For the 2011 season, Rea stayed with the Ten Kate Racing family as its Honda-supported World Superbike team received backing from global lubricants manufacturer, Castrol, reviving the famous Castrol Honda name that saw World Superbike championship victories with John Kocinski (USA) in 1997 and Colin Edwards (USA) in 2000 and 2002. (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) | 1 |
X.Org Foundation | X.Org Foundation 2012-01-23T23:06:59Z The X.Org Foundation is the organization holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. It was founded on 22 January 2004. The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers. The creation of the Foundation marked a radical change in the governance of X (see the history of the X Window System). Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 (including the previous X.Org, part of The Open Group) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation is led by software developers and using community development on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement. Membership is also open to individuals, with corporate membership being in the form of sponsorship. The Foundation is a Delaware LLC, with non-profit status as a scientific charity. As of January 2008, the Board of Directors consists of Secretary Bart Massey (Portland State University), Treasurer Keith Packard (Intel Corporation), Eric Anholt (Intel Corporation), Egbert Eich (SUSE/Novell), Matthieu Herrb, Adam Jackson (Red Hat), Daniel Stone (Collabora), and Carl Worth (Intel Corporation). The X.Org Server is the reference implementation of X, and is commonly used on Linux and UNIX; it is the fundamental technology underlying both the modern GNOME and KDE desktops and older CDE desktop environment; applications written for any of these environments can be run simultaneously. , X.Org Foundation 2013-11-27T14:08:43Z The X.Org Foundation is the organization holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. It was founded on 22 January 2004. The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers. The creation of the Foundation marked a radical change in the governance of X (see the history of the X Window System). Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 (including the previous X.Org, part of The Open Group) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation is led by software developers and using community development on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement. Membership is also open to individuals, with corporate membership being in the form of sponsorship. The Foundation was a US 501(c)(3) educational non-profit organization. As of April 2013, the Board of Directors consists of Alan Coopersmith, Alex Deucher, Martin Peres, Matt Dew, Matthias Hopf, Peter Hutterer (Secretary), Stuart Kreitman (Treasurer), and Keith Packard. The X.Org Foundation organizes the annual X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC) and sponsors students to work on X.Org as part of their X.Org Endless Vacation of Code initiative. The X.Org Server is the reference implementation of X, and is commonly used on Linux and UNIX; it is the fundamental technology underlying both the modern GNOME and KDE desktops and older CDE desktop environment; applications written for any of these environments can be run simultaneously. | 1 |
Ōtūmoetai_Intermediate | Ōtūmoetai_Intermediate 2009-04-25T23:11:36Z ?? ? Otumoetai Intermediate is a co-ed Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. As of 2007, it has a roll of 790 pupils. , Ōtūmoetai_Intermediate 2010-07-18T01:43:40Z Otumoetai Intermediate is a co-ed Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. As of 2007, it has a roll of 790 pupils. | 0 |
Sinclair_Lewis_Boyhood_Home | Sinclair_Lewis_Boyhood_Home 2009-10-27T16:44:36Z The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home, located at 812 Sinclair Lewis Avenue, formerly South 3rd Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota in the United States, was the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis, who was born February 7, 1885, in a house directly across the street. His most-famous book, Main Street was inspired by his home town of Sauk Centre as he perceived it from this home, a simple 8-room frame structure. His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and conducted his medical practice out of this house, as was common in that time. This article about a property in Minnesota on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 1221221226+66666666448541, Sinclair_Lewis_Boyhood_Home 2011-01-29T16:16:16Z The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home, located at 812 Sinclair Lewis Avenue, formerly South 3rd Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota in the United States, was the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis, who was born February 7, 1885, in a house directly across the street. His most-famous book, Main Street was inspired by his home town of Sauk Centre as he perceived it from this home, a simple 8-room frame structure. His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and conducted his medical practice out of this house, as was common in that time. This article about a property in Minnesota on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Bernard_Lee_(poker_player) | Bernard_Lee_(poker_player) 2009-06-30T15:47:10Z Bernard Lee (born May 16, 1970 in New York, New York) is a professional poker player who first came to prominence by finishing 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Since then, Lee has enjoyed some success in other poker tournaments. In October of 2008, Lee won the $600 No-Limit Hold’em Shoot-out event at the World Poker Finals. This victory earned him three titles in three consecutive years as he won the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2006 World Poker Finals and the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2007 World Poker Finals. As of 2009, his live tournament winnings exceed $1,360,000. Since September 2005, Lee has written the Sunday poker column for the Boston Herald. In April 2006, Lee proudly joined the ESPN. com Poker website as a regular columnist. In July of 2008, Lee released his first book, The Final Table, Volume I, which is a compilation of his Boston Herald columns. Based on the first book’s success, Lee released his second book, The Final Table, Volume II, in December 2008. He has also been a guest columnist for several magazines. Debuting in May 2007, Lee hosts the a poker radio show in the Boston metropolitan area. "The Bernard Lee Poker Show" incorporates interviews with poker guests including well known players and prominent industry personnel. In addition to current poker news and related information, Lee utilizes calls and e-mails from listeners to discuss poker topics and tips. Previous guests have included Peter Eastgate, Joseph Hachem, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Norman Chad, Mike Sexton, Linda Johnson, JC Tran, Jonathan Little and members of the 2008 November Nine. Over the past few years, Lee has commentated for www. worldseriesofpoker. com, ESPN360. com and the Eastern Poker Tour Championship Tournament In November of 2008, Cardplayer. com stated “While many people might think of Dan Harrington and his green Red Sox hat when they think of poker and Boston, it is really Lee who is the voice of poker in New England. ” Lee also caught the attention of the WPT Boot Camp for his teaching ability. Since then, he has taught several camps and is trained to teach both tournament and cash strategies. In 2009, Lee was proud to join the elite teaching staff of the WSOP Academy as an instructor. Lee was educated in the New England area (Harvard University BA, MA; Babson College MBA). Lee currently lives just outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his wife of over ten years and two children. , Bernard_Lee_(poker_player) 2011-12-30T08:38:16Z Bernard Lee (born May 16, 1970 in New York, New York) is a professional poker player who first came to prominence by finishing 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Since then, Lee has enjoyed some success in other poker tournaments. In October 2008, Lee won the $600 No-Limit Hold’em Shoot-out event at the World Poker Finals. This victory earned him three titles in three consecutive years as he won the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2006 World Poker Finals and the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2007 World Poker Finals. As of 2009, his live tournament winnings exceed $1,360,000. Since September 2005, Lee has written the Sunday poker column for the Boston Herald. In April 2006, Lee joined the ESPN. com Poker website as a regular columnist. In July 2008, Lee released his first book, The Final Table, Volume I, which is a compilation of his Boston Herald columns. Based on the first book’s success, Lee released his second book, The Final Table, Volume II, in December 2008. He has also been a guest columnist for several magazines. Debuting in May 2007, Lee hosts the a poker radio show in the Boston metropolitan area. "The Bernard Lee Poker Show" incorporates interviews with poker guests including well known players and prominent industry personnel. In addition to current poker news and related information, Lee utilizes calls and e-mails from listeners to discuss poker topics and tips. Previous guests have included Peter Eastgate, Joseph Hachem, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Norman Chad, Mike Sexton, Linda Johnson, JC Tran, Jonathan Little and members of the 2008 November Nine. Over the past few years, Lee has commentated for www. worldseriesofpoker. com, ESPN360. com and the Eastern Poker Tour Championship Tournament In November 2008, Cardplayer. com stated “While many people might think of Dan Harrington and his green Red Sox hat when they think of poker and Boston, it is really Lee who is the voice of poker in New England. ” Lee also caught the attention of the WPT Boot Camp for his teaching ability. Since then, he has taught several camps and is trained to teach both tournament and cash strategies. In 2009, Lee joined the teaching staff of the WSOP Academy as an instructor. Lee was educated in the New England area (Harvard University BA, MA; Babson College MBA). Lee currently lives just outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his wife of over ten years and two children. Template:Persondata | 0 |
RealAge | RealAge 2009-02-28T13:00:21Z RealAge, Inc. is an American media corporation that provides health information to consumers. It was founded by Michael Roizen, current the chief wellness officer at The Cleveland Clinic. On this website, users typically fill out a questionnaire about their health history, which is then used to generate personalized content, including highly targeted advertisements. Publications include books, such as RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? , which has been promoted by Oprah Winfrey, , and was a #1 New York Times bestseller. RealAge is wholly owned by Hearst Magazines. , RealAge 2010-07-11T17:11:45Z RealAge, Inc. is an American media corporation that provides health information to consumers. The company’s stated mission is to encourage consumers to maximize their health and wellness by making their "RealAge" younger. It was founded by Dr. Michael Roizen, currently the chief wellness officer at The Cleveland Clinic. RealAge. com serves as the official online home for both Dr. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, MD. , coauthors of the best-selling YOU Book series . On this website, users typically fill out a questionnaire about their health history, which is then used to generate personalized content, including highly targeted advertisements. Most revenue comes from pharmaceutical companies paying to advertise their drugs to individuals who have taken the website test and become members. RealAge has fueled five New York Times #1 best-selling books, including RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? , which has been promoted by Oprah Winfrey, . RealAge is wholly owned by Hearst Magazines, which purchased it for an estimated $60 million to $70 million in 2007, when the company had $20 million in revenue. As of 2009, the company is profitable. The RealAge. com Web site features the patented RealAge Test, taken by more than 27 million people since 1999. The RealAge Test measures the "real age" of the test taker’s body based on a questionnaire pertaining to how well he or she maintains their physical health. Whereas calendar age reflects a consumer’s age since birth, the RealAge Test gauges the physiological age of the body and measures the true rate of an individual’s aging. The RealAge Web site also features over 65 supplementary health-risk evaluations that provide customized results, solutions, and action plans to individual users for free. Additionally, consumers have access to advice, articles, blogs, and their personalized RealAge Plan, all designed to modify or expand lifestyle choices. Roizen, Michael F. ; Oz, Mehmet. You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management. Simon & Schuster 2006. ISBN 0-7432-9254-5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) | 0 |
VisionArt | VisionArt 2008-04-01T13:41:45Z VisionArt Design & Animation was a motion picture and television visual effects company, founded in the 1980s by David Rose and Todd Hess. Though originally a small Orange County company working primarily on cable TV adds and flying logos, VisionArt moved to Santa Monica in 1992, winning its first major effects work with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The studio originated in Santa Ana, California, later moved to Santa Monica, California, and is closed its doors in 2000. (VisionArt is often incorrectly cited as Vision Arts. ) Dennis Blakey, who headed the initial development and effects work for the shape-shifting character Odo, brought VisionArt its first prime-time Emmy award. Blakey and Dorene Haver later created the first CGI ship for Star Trek in the form of a 3D runabout shuttle for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Other early work included the pilot of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman for which Rob Bredow, Ted Fay, Carl Hooper, Daniel Kramer and Pete Shinners created the first instance of seamlessly morphing between a human actor and a photorealistic CGI model of the actor. Ted Fay also created the first photorealistic talking dog for Northern Exposure, a technology that was further advanced for the film version of Dr. Dolittle. VisionArt's claim to fame on the big screen was arguably its creation of the majority of the dogfight sequences for Independence Day, which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Sparky, a dynamics/simulation software spearheaded by Rob Bredow, allowed for near-real-time animation of large groups of F-18 jet fighters, alien attackers, missiles, smoke trailers, shields, etc. Sparky was also able to render the frames in hardware anti-aliased at film resolution at just one minute per frame, allowing the delivery of two shots per day. Prior shots had taken about one month each. VisionArt's sister company, FutureLight, headed by Rob Bredow, created the first real-time optical motion capture (mocap) system in the industry. While a large amount of mocap data was created to animate the hero CG character for 1998's Godzilla, ultimately the decision was made to animate the Godzilla character through traditional means, so as to keep continuity with shots being done by Centropolis Effects, owned by the film's director Roland Emmerich. Mocap, however, was used in conjunction with Sparky for a number of key "Babyzilla" shots. In addition to being known for sci-fi work like Independence Day, Star Trek, and Godzilla, VisionArt specialized in "transparent" effects: removing, replacing, or modifying a wide range of objects in a scene to either help tell the story, fix a mistake, or recreate worlds that no longer exist, or never did. VisionArt also won the Emmy for Best Individual Achievement in Visual Effects for Star Trek: Voyager. VisionArt closed their doors in 2000, selling most of its assets to Digital Art Media. Many of its key staff are now at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, and other VFX facilities. , VisionArt 2010-07-25T14:05:20Z "'VisionArt Design & Animation'" was a motion picture and television visual effects company, founded in the 1980s by David Rose and Todd Hess. Though originally a small Orange County company working primarily on cable TV advertisements and flying logos, VisionArt moved to Santa Monica in 1992, winning its first major effects work with "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. " The studio originated in Santa Ana, California, later moved to Santa Monica, California, and closed its doors in 2000. (VisionArt is often incorrectly cited as Vision Arts. ) Dennis Blakey, who headed the initial development and effects work for the shape-shifting character Odo, brought VisionArt its first prime-time Emmy award. Blakey and Dorene Haver later created the first CGI ship for Star Trek in the form of a 3D runabout shuttle for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Other early work included the pilot of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman for which Rob Bredow, Ted Fay, Carl Hooper, Daniel Kramer, and Pete Shinners demonstrated the seamless morphing between a human actor and a photorealistic CGI model of the actor. Ted Fay also created the first photorealistic talking dog for Northern Exposure, a technology that was further advanced for the film version of Dr. Dolittle. VisionArt's claim to fame on the big screen was arguably its creation of the majority of the dogfight sequences for Independence Day, which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Sparky, a dynamics/simulation software spearheaded by Rob Bredow, allowed for near-real-time animation of large groups of F-18 jet fighters, alien attackers, missiles, smoke trailers, shields, etc. Sparky was also able to render the frames in hardware anti-aliased at film resolution at just one minute per frame, allowing the delivery of two shots per day. Prior shots had taken about one month each. VisionArt's sister company FutureLight, headed by Rob Bredow, created the first real-time optical motion capture (mocap) system in the industry. While a large amount of mocap data was created to animate the hero CG character for 1998's Godzilla, ultimately the decision was made to animate the Godzilla character through traditional means to keep continuity with shots being done by Centropolis Effects, a company owned by the film's director Roland Emmerich. Mocap, however, was used in conjunction with Sparky for a number of key "Babyzilla" shots. In addition to being known for sci-fi work like Independence Day, Star Trek, and Godzilla, VisionArt specialized in "transparent" effects: removing, replacing, or modifying a wide range of objects in a scene to help tell the story, fix a mistake, or recreate worlds that no longer exist or never did. VisionArt also won an Emmy for Best Individual Achievement in Effects for Star Trek: Voyager. VisionArt closed their doors in 2000, selling most of their assets to Digital Art Media. Many of the key staff are now at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, and other VFX facilities. | 0 |
Grand_Street_Settlement | Grand_Street_Settlement 2007-12-22T20:07:16Z Grand Street Settlement is an historic social service institution on the Lower East Side in New York City and was founded in 1916 in response to the needs of waves of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe who were settling in the area. Today, over 10,000 children, youth, families and older adults residing on the Lower East Side and Brooklyn are served through Grand Street Settlement’s community-based programs. Grand Street Settlement was founded in 1916 by a group of young adults who were part of the Stevenson Club at Madison House (the present Hamilton-Madison House). They noticed a need for smaller settlement houses in helping the under served communities of the Lower East Side achieve self-sufficiency. With the help of philanthropist Rose Gruening, they opened the Arnold Toynbee House (named after the British social reformer, Arnold Toynbee) in a brownstone at 257 Division Street. Eight years later, the settlement house was renamed Grand Street Settlement. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Settlement's main services were provided through clubs for girls and boys and young men and women. These clubs featured art, sewing, and dance. The Settlement also operated a kindergarten for the children of working parents and household management and child-rearing programs for parents. In 1925, Camp Moodna in Orange County, New York was donated to Grand Street, offering a respite location for working girls who needed a break from the summer heat. Later years gave way to summer day camps for both boys and girls. One of the first tenant unions was also organized by the Grand Street Settlement. By the 1930s, the agency had expanded its services, and professionals began replacing volunteers on staff. Core programs in the late 1930s and during the 1940s included childcare, daycare, and health and personal services. Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, and continuing to the present, the Lower East Side has seen the arrival of new immigrants, mostly from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia. As a main provider of social services in the area, Grand Street Settlement has adapted its programs and services to accommodate their needs. Today, Grand Street Settlement focuses on four primary program areas: early childhood, children and youth, adults, and senior citizens. More than 10,000 community members participate annually in the agency’s programs which are participant-driven and fueled by diversity of culture and need. Grand Street Settlement staff and volunteers reflect the cultures of those they serve. Early childhood programs serve the emotional, social, cognitive and physical development needs of over 400 children though Early Head Start, Head Start, and Day Care programs for newborns to age six. Youth and adolescents are served through programs such as Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention, Girls’ and Young Women’s Initiative, Boys’ and Young Men’s Initiative, the College and Career Discovery Center, and Project COOL (Creative Opportunities for Outstanding Learners). The Summer Day Camp is also a long-standing tradition of Grand Street Settlement and provides youngsters with an array of educational and recreational activities for seven weeks each summer, in a safe and nurturing environment. In addition, Grand Street Settlement is a partner with the Americorps program and provides in-service training for 40 volunteers. Programs for adults and families consist of counseling and support services for students and families, including a Single Stop Center which offers benefits screening and on-sites tax assistance and financial and legal help, and a Community Technology Center which is available to the entire community. Programs for seniors assist low-income, frail and often isolated and homebound older residents of the Lower East Side. Services include nutritional, educational and recreational activities as well as a Senior Housing project which offers apartments and supportive services to older adults. Grandstreet. org Americorps. org, Grand_Street_Settlement 2008-10-05T22:32:26Z Grand Street Settlement is an historic social service institution on the Lower East Side in New York City and was founded in 1916 in response to the needs of waves of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe who were settling in the area. Today, over 10,000 children, youth, families and older adults residing on the Lower East Side and Brooklyn are served through Grand Street Settlement’s community-based programs. Grand Street Settlement was founded in 1916 by a group of young adults who were part of the Stevenson Club at Madison House (the present Hamilton-Madison House). They noticed a need for smaller settlement houses in helping the under served communities of the Lower East Side achieve self-sufficiency. With the help of philanthropist Rose Gruening, they opened the Arnold Toynbee House (named after the British social reformer, Arnold Toynbee) in a brownstone at 257 Division Street. Eight years later, the settlement house was renamed Grand Street Settlement. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Settlement's main services were provided through clubs for girls and boys and young men and women. These clubs featured art, sewing, and dance. The Settlement also operated a kindergarten for the children of working parents and household management and child-rearing programs for parents. In 1925, Camp Moodna in Orange County, New York was donated to Grand Street, offering a respite location for working girls who needed a break from the summer heat. Later years gave way to summer day camps for both boys and girls. One of the first tenant unions was also organized by the Grand Street Settlement. By the 1930s, the agency had expanded its services, and professionals began replacing volunteers on staff. Core programs in the late 1930s and during the 1940s included childcare, daycare, and health and personal services. Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, and continuing to the present, the Lower East Side has seen the arrival of new immigrants, mostly from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia. As a main provider of social services in the area, Grand Street Settlement has adapted its programs and services to accommodate their needs. Today, Grand Street Settlement focuses on five primary program areas: early childhood, children and youth, adults, drug dealing and senior citizens. More than 10,000 community members participate annually in the agency’s programs which are participant-driven and fueled by diversity of culture and need. Grand Street Settlement staff and volunteers reflect the cultures of those they serve. Early childhood programs serve the emotional, social, cognitive and physical development needs of over 400 children though Early Head Start, Head Start, and Day Care programs for newborns to age six. Youth and adolescents are served through programs such as Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention, Girls’ and Young Women’s Initiative, Boys’ and Young Men’s Initiative, the College and Career Discovery Center, and Project COOL (Creative Opportunities for Outstanding Learners). The Summer Day Camp is also a long-standing tradition of Grand Street Settlement and provides youngsters with an array of educational and recreational activities for seven weeks each summer, in a safe and nurturing environment. In addition, Grand Street Settlement is a partner with the Americorps program and provides in-service training for 40 volunteers. Programs for adults and families consist of counseling and support services for students and families, including a Single Stop Center which offers benefits screening and on-sites tax assistance and financial and legal help, and a Community Technology Center which is available to the entire community. Programs for seniors assist low-income, frail and often isolated and homebound older residents of the Lower East Side. Services include nutritional, educational and recreational activities as well as a Senior Housing project which offers apartments and supportive services to older adults. | 0 |
Vic Sotto | Vic Sotto 2019-01-02T02:10:59Z Marvic Valentin Castelo Sotto (born April 28, 1954) is a Filipino actor, television presenter, comedian, singer and songwriter. He is known for his various television and film projects on the major Philippine television networks GMA, TV5, and ABS-CBN. He is one of three pioneer hosts of Eat Bulaga!, which is the longest-running Philippine noontime variety show. He owns the film and TV production company M-Zet Productions. Sotto won four consecutive titles for Philippine Box Office King from 2004 to 2007 awarded by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Awards, and received three nominations for Best Actor at the Metro Manila Film Festival. Marvic Valentin Castelo Sotto was born on April 28, 1954, to Marcelino Antonio Ojeda Sotto Sr. and Dr. Herminia Castelo. He studied at Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He is the brother of Marcelino "Maru" Sotto Jr., Vicente "Tito" Sotto III, and Valmar "Val" Sotto. He started his career as a folk singer and guitarist. During these years, Sotto was also the lead vocalist of the disco funk band VST & Company. He produced such songs as "Awitin Mo at Isasayaw Ko", "Rock, Baby, Rock", and "Kung Sakali". He joined his brothers Tito and Val in the early 1970s gag show OK Lang under IBC 13. This is where he met another comedian, Joey de Leon, who invited the brothers to join him. The trio of Tito, Vic and Joey (TVJ) was thus formed, casting in Iskul Bukol, TVJ (Television's Jesters), Rock and Roll 2000 and hosting Eat Bulaga! In 1975, Sotto became a co-host of GMA Network's early afternoon variety show Discorama hosted by Bobby Ledesma. He invited his former co-stars at OK Lang, Tito, Joey, and Val Sotto, to join him at Discorama. Only Tito and Joey accepted Vic’s invitation. The newly formed trio started to do comedy newscast segments interspersed with Top 40 hit-song parodies. The trio was soon invited to become part of the show Student Canteen as they released 12 albums based on their Discorama Tough Hits segment. Although Tito, Vic and Joey started their trio via Discorama and Student Canteen, it was the sitcom Iskul Bukol that gave them nationwide fame as comedians. Soon after, other TV and movie producers came knocking on the trio's door. In 1979, Tito, Vic and Joey started hosting for the noontime show Eat Bulaga! which was pitted against the more established Student Canteen hosted by their former colleague (and now competitor) Bobby Ledesma. Not long after, Eat Bulaga! toppled Student Canteen from the ratings. The TVJ Trio is still active on both Holy Week Dramas every Lenten Season and also on comedy variety show on Eat Bulaga. In the last three decades, he has done sitcoms and television shows for three networks, ABS-CBN, GMA Network and TV5 (most of which were for GMA). Sotto has five children from various relationships. Sotto confirmed his engagement to Eat Bulaga! co-host Pauleen Luna in September 2015. The couple married on January 30, 2016 at Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City. On May 6, 2017, Sotto announced on Eat Bulaga! that he and Luna were expecting their first child together. In 1982 the 15-year old actress Pepsi Paloma accused Sotto and fellow comedians Joey de Leon and Richie D'Horsie of gang raping and taking photos of her on June 21 in a room at the Sulo Hotel in Quezon City. On July 31, Paloma's manager Rey dela Cruz lodged a formal complaint with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. On August 18, Paloma filed charges of rape and acts of lasciviousness against the three television personalities before the Quezon City fiscal's office. The crime of rape at the time, carried the death penalty in the Philippines, and to prevent his brother from being sent to the electric chair, Tito Sotto quickly went to see Paloma while she was still securing the services of Atty. Rene Cayetano. According to Paloma, Tito Sotto coerced her into signing an "Affidavit of Desistance" to drop the rape charges against his brother and cohorts -- Tito Sotto had allegedly placed a pistol on the table in front of Paloma when he went to talk to her. In exchange for the dismissal of the charges of rape, Vic Sotto, de Leon and D'Horsie issued a public apology towards Paloma stating: "We hope that you will not allow the error we have committed against you to stand as a stumbling block to that future which we all look forward to. We therefore ask you to find it in your heart to pardon us for the wrong which we have done against you."Three years later, Paloma was found dead in an apparent suicide. Dela Cruz was murdered years later. , Vic Sotto 2020-12-12T10:29:00Z Marvic Valentin Castelo Sotto Sr. (born April 28, 1954) is a Filipino actor, singer, and comedian, best known for his various television and film projects on the major Philippine television networks GMA, TV5, and ABS-CBN. He is one of three pioneer hosts of Eat Bulaga!, which is the longest-running Philippine noontime variety show. He owns the film and TV production company M-Zet Productions. Sotto won four consecutive titles for Philippine Box Office King from 2004 to 2007 awarded by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Awards, and received three nominations for Best Actor at the Metro Manila Film Festival. Sotto was born on April 28, 1954. He is the youngest son of Marcelino Antonio Ojeda Sotto Sr. and Dr. Herminia Castelo. He studied at Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He is the brother of Valmar "Val" Sotto, Vicente "Tito" Sotto III, and Marcelino "Maru" Sotto Jr. He started his career as a folk singer and guitarist. During these years, Sotto was also the lead vocalist of the disco funk band VST & Company. He produced such songs as "Awitin Mo At Isasayaw Ko", "Rock Baby Rock", and "Kung Sakali". He joined his brothers Tito and Val in the early 1970s gag show OK Lang under IBC 13. This is where he met another comedian, Joey de Leon, who invited the brothers to join him. The trio of Tito, Vic and Joey (TVJ) was thus formed, casting in Iskul Bukol, TVJ (Television's Jesters), Rock and Roll 2000 and hosting Eat Bulaga! . In 1976, the Sotto brothers Tito, Vic and Val were invited by former OK Lang co-star Joey de Leon to co-host an episode of GMA Network's late afternoon variety show Discorama hosted by Bobby Ledesma. Only Tito and Vic accepted de Leon's invitation. The newly formed trio began to do comedy newscast segments interspersed with Top 40 hit-song parodies. Originally, the trio's appearance was supposed to be a one-off invitation as Discorama was set to be axed but after getting good feedback from the viewers and ratings were high, the show was given a new lease on life by GMA management. The trio was later invited to become part of the noontime show Student Canteen as they released 12 albums based on their Discorama Tough Hits segment. The sitcom Iskul Bukol that gave them nationwide fame as comedians. Soon after, other TV and movie offers came knocking on the trio's door. In 1979, Tito, Vic and Joey began hosting the noontime show Eat Bulaga!, which was pitted against the more established Student Canteen. Not long after, Eat Bulaga! toppled Student Canteen from the ratings. The trio is still active on both Holy Week Dramas every Lenten Season and also on comedy variety show on Eat Bulaga! . In the last three decades, he has done sitcoms and television shows for three networks, ABS-CBN, GMA Network and TV5 (most of which were for GMA). Sotto has five children from various relationships. He also has seven grandchildren (two from Danica, four from Oyo, and one from Paulina). Sotto confirmed his engagement to Eat Bulaga! co-host Pauleen Luna in September 2015. The couple married on January 30, 2016 at Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City. On May 6, 2017, Sotto announced on Eat Bulaga! that he and Luna were expecting their first child together. In 1982 the 15-year old actress Pepsi Paloma accused Sotto and fellow comedians Joey de Leon and Richie D'Horsie of gang raping and taking photos of her on June 21 in a room at the Sulo Hotel in Quezon City. On July 31, Paloma's manager Rey dela Cruz lodged a formal complaint with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. On August 18, Paloma filed charges of rape and acts of lasciviousness against the three television personalities before the Quezon City fiscal's office. The crime of rape at the time, carried the death penalty in the Philippines, and to prevent his brother from being sent to the electric chair, Tito Sotto quickly went to see Paloma while she was still securing the services of Atty. Rene Cayetano. According to Paloma, Tito Sotto coerced her into signing an "Affidavit of Desistance" to drop the rape charges against his brother and cohorts—Tito Sotto had allegedly placed a pistol on the table in front of Paloma when he went to talk to her. In exchange for the dismissal of the charges of rape, Vic Sotto, de Leon and D'Horsie issued a public apology to Paloma: We hope that you will not allow the error we have committed against you to stand as a stumbling block to that future which we all look forward to. We therefore ask you to find it in your heart to pardon us for the wrong which we have done against you. Despite the suspects' earlier apology, Tito Sotto has maintained his position against any involvement in the whitewashing of the rape case and alleges that the scandal was a gimmick by Paloma's party for publicity. Again, in spite of a live apology issued to the people, Sotto said that he was not involved as a perpetrator in the rape of Paloma and he denied using his position in government to influence the court decision. Sotto became Vice Mayor in Quezon City in 1988 before being elected as a Senator in 1992. In 2018, Sotto requested The Philippine Inquirer to remove published articles available online mentioning the Pepsi Paloma Case, claiming them to be "fake news" (though clearly was not the case), and damaging to his current reputation as a Senator. Three years later, Paloma was found dead in an apparent suicide, though evidence suggests this was actually murder in order to prevent her from testifying against Sotto in court. Dela Cruz was murdered years later. | 1 |
Malaysia_Federal_Route_3265 | Malaysia_Federal_Route_3265 2013-04-26T15:27:26Z Federal Route 3265 FT 3265 or Jalan Nilai-Pajam (Formerly Negeri Sembilan state route N36) is a federal roads in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 3265 starts at Salak, Selangor. At most section, the Federal Route 3265 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h. , Malaysia_Federal_Route_3265 2014-08-12T18:38:34Z Federal Route 3265 FT 3265 or Jalan Nilai-Pajam (Formerly Negeri Sembilan state route N36) is a federal roads in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 3265 starts at Salak, Selangor. At most section, the Federal Route 3265 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h. | 0 |
Coccothrinax_saxicola | Coccothrinax_saxicola 2008-10-09T04:26:34Z Coccothrinax saxicola is a palm which is endemic to eastern Cuba. Henderson and colleagues (1995) considered C. saxicola to be a synonym of Coccothrinax miraguama. , Coccothrinax_saxicola 2018-03-20T19:55:27Z Coccothrinax saxicola is a palm which is endemic to eastern Cuba. Henderson and colleagues (1995) considered C. saxicola to be a synonym of Coccothrinax miraguama. | 0 |
Aziz Naser | Aziz Naser 2020-03-01T14:34:22Z Aziz Naser (original name: Aziz Janbaz) is an Indian actor, writer and director from Hyderabad. Came to fame with all time critically acclaimed Hyderabadi films The Angrez & Hyderabad Nawabs. He is also well known as the voice of Tollywood. Apart from Hindi and English voiceovers, he gave his voice for Sonu Sood, Nana Patekar, Kelly Dorjee, Aditya Pancholi, Rahul Dev and many Bollywood actors who featured in Telugu films. He presently lives in Hyderabad. Filmography: He has worked in more than 35 films in Deccani, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi. In 2015 he made his Telugu debut in movie Jyotilakhshmi. And in 2019, he made his debut in Marathi movie Stepney-Tumchaakde aahe ka. .? as an actor, writer and director. Stepney – Everyone needs one, Aziz Naser 2021-11-30T19:32:13Z Aziz Naser (born Aziz Janbaz) is an Indian film actor, writer, voice artist and a director who works in Deccani and Telugu films. He worked in Hyderabadi films such as The Angrez and Hyderabad Nawabs. As a dubbing artist, he lent his voice for Sonu Sood, Nana Patekar, Kelly Dorjee, Aditya Pancholi, Rahul Dev and other Hindi film actors who featured in Telugu films. He has worked in more than 35 films in Deccani, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi. In 2015 he made his Telugu debut in movie Jyotilakhshmi. And in 2020, he made his debut in Marathi movie Stepney-Tumchaakde aahe ka. .? as an actor, writer and director. Stepney – Everyone needs one | 1 |
Prix Iris | Prix Iris 2012-01-24T22:06:18Z The Jutra Award (Prix Jutra or La Soirée des Jutra) is a Canadian annual cinema award that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec. First introduced in 1999, the Jutra Award is named after Quebec film-maker Claude Jutra and awarded for performance, writing and technical categories such as best actor, actress, director, screenplay, et cetera. The Jutra trophy was designed by sculptor Charles Daudelin. The Prix Jutra replaced the prix Guy-L'Écuyer created in 1987 by Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer. Awarded since 2001. Awarded to the movie selling the most tickets in theatres. Awarded since 2004. Awarded since 2004. Awarded since 2005., Prix Iris 2013-09-04T12:19:43Z The Jutra Award (Prix Jutra or La Soirée des Jutra) is a Canadian annual cinema award that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec. First introduced in 1999, the Jutra Award is named after Quebec film-maker Claude Jutra and awarded for performance, writing and technical categories such as best actor, actress, director, screenplay, et cetera. It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award, a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program. The Jutra trophy was designed by sculptor Charles Daudelin. The Prix Jutra replaced the prix Guy-L'Écuyer created in 1987 by Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer. Awarded since 2001. Awarded to the movie selling the most tickets in theatres. Awarded since 2004. Awarded since 2004. Awarded since 2005. | 1 |
Neil Bhatt | Neil Bhatt 2015-08-28T23:02:54Z Neil bhatt is a guy who plays zakir in dabh lol bæ, Neil Bhatt 2016-12-20T22:30:50Z Neil Bhatt (born August 4, 1987) is an actor who has been active on television since 2008. He has played many challenging roles, one of them being Kesar in Gulaal and Zakir in Diya Aur Baati Hum. His performance as Lakshman, the soul of Ram in Ramayan was widely appreciated. He has also starred in Kaboom dance reality show as a participant and in the fiction series 12/24 Karol Bagh as Abhinav Taneja. la He was last seen in a daily soap playing one of the leads in Tum Hi Ho Bandhu Sakha Tum Hi as Bhushan Pethawala. He was also seen in episodic series of Zindagi Wins and Pyar Tune Kya Kiya. His upcoming Gujarati film "Bhanwar" based on the life of a puppeteer is awaiting release. | 1 |
Frank Zappa discography | Frank Zappa discography 2010-02-23T12:39:38Z This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa (including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention) and tribute albums for Frank Zappa. Zappa wrote a total of 57 main albums, with another 23 posthumous albums to his name, making a grand total of 80 albums. , Frank Zappa discography 2011-12-22T18:45:13Z This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa (including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention) as well as tribute albums to Frank Zappa. During his lifetime Zappa released a total of 62 albums. Between 1994 and 2011, the Zappa Family Trust has released 29 posthumous albums to his name, making a grand total of 91 albums. | 1 |
David Shae | David Shae 2017-05-22T12:13:11Z David Moretti is an American actor, born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He stars in the here! original series The Lair as Thom Etherton, a reporter who uncovers a vampire cult. He is currently starring in My Big Gay Italian Wedding off Broadway, playing the lead role of Andrew. Moretti graduated from the University of Southern California in 2002 with a degree in English. He was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity . Since starring on The Lair Moretti guest-starred as his Lair character on the here! series Dante's Cove and has completed a role in the film A Date with Murder, scheduled for release in 2008., David Shae 2018-12-31T14:11:26Z David Moretti (also known as David Shae) is an American actor, born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He stars in the here! original series The Lair as Thom Etherton, a reporter who uncovers a vampire cult. He is currently starring in My Big Gay Italian Wedding off Broadway, playing the lead role of Andrew. Moretti graduated from the University of Southern California in 2002 with a degree in English. He was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity . Since starring on The Lair Moretti guest-starred as his Lair character on the here! series Dante's Cove and has completed a role in the film A Date with Murder, scheduled for release in 2008. | 1 |
C._M._Gupta | C._M._Gupta 2008-06-07T10:58:53Z C. M. Gupta is a Distinguished Scientist from India who has significantly contributed in the development of research institutes in the country like IMTECH, ITRC and CDRI along with his outstanding research in membrane biology and drug research. C. M. Gupta, M. Sc. , Ph. D. (born, Sept 1, 1944) graduated in Medicinal Chemistry from the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India (Agra University, Agra) and received his post doctoral training at MIT under the supervision of Har Gobind Khorana, Cambridge, MA, USA in Biological Chemistry. After serving as the Director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and Director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, he is currently working as Distinguished Biotechnologist at the Central Drug Research Institute. His areas of specialization are Membrane Biochemistry/ Biophysics and Medicinal Chemistry. He has extensively contributed in the areas of Drug Targeting in Parasitic Diseases and Membrane Phospholipids Transbilayer Dynamics, and is currently working on elucidation of actin cytoskeletal network in Leishmania. These studies have resulted in publication of about 131 original research papers, 10 review articles, 5 book chapters and 6 patents. He has received several honors and awards and has served as a member of a number of important national and international committees. http://www. cdriindia. org/cmguptabiodata. htm http://biospectrumindia. ciol. com/content/bioFocus/103111201. asp http://biospectrumindia. ciol. com/content/careers/104010801. asp http://www. cdriindia. org/museumpic6. htm http://www. iupac. org/organ/members/g/gupta. html This article about a medical organization or association is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , C._M._Gupta 2009-11-14T05:01:07Z C. M. Gupta (born, Sept 1, 1944) is a scientist from India. Gupta, graduated in medicinal chemistry from the Central Drug Research Institute (Lucknow, India with the degrees MSc and PhD. He joined as post doctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). After serving as the director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, This article about a medical organization or association is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Benito Martinez (actor) | Benito Martinez (actor) 2008-03-04T02:40:25Z Benito Martinez (born June 28 1963) is an American actor known as police captain (later city councilman) David Aceveda in FX Networks' acclaimed crime drama The Shield. Additionally, he has voiced Coyote Smith in the video game Killer7 as well as a number of characters in the PC game Age of Empires III, and played a criminal on Firefly. He also had a featured role as a boxing manager in the critical and commercial hit film Million Dollar Baby. He was also an extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Salazar. Benito trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in Earls Court London England and was in the same class as the actor, Zen Gesner and actress Julie Hesmondhalgh. Martinez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico of Guatemalan ancestry. He holds an advanced certificate in stage combat that he obtained from LAMDA during his studies there. , Benito Martinez (actor) 2009-12-19T12:10:29Z Benito Martinez (born June 28, 1971) is an American actor known as police captain (later city councilman) David Aceveda in FX Networks' acclaimed crime drama The Shield. Additionally, he has voiced Coyote Smith in the video game Killer7 as well as a number of characters in the PC game Age of Empires III, and played a criminal on Firefly. He also had a featured role as a boxing manager in the critical and commercial hit film Million Dollar Baby. He was also an extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Salazar. Benito trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in Earls Court London England and was in the same class as the actor, Zen Gesner and actress Julie Hesmondhalgh. Martinez currently appears on the program "Saving Grace" as the husband to the forensic detective. Martinez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico of Guatemalan ancestry. He holds an advanced certificate in stage combat that he obtained from LAMDA during his studies there. His sister, Patrice is an actress. Benito Martinez will next be seen on season 8 of the hit show "24" starring Kiefer Sutherland. | 1 |
Miss Kentucky | Miss Kentucky 2006-06-26T00:29:50Z The Miss Kentucky competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss America pageant. , Miss Kentucky 2007-12-31T14:22:16Z The Miss Kentucky competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss America pageant. Kentucky has once won the Miss America crown. | 1 |
Delta South | Delta South 2009-04-29T03:53:26Z Its MLA is Val Roddick. She was first elected in 1999 and represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. politics/party colours/Independent/row politics/party colours/Independent/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/BC Liberal/row politics/party colours/Independent/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/Marijuana/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/BC Unity/row politics/party colours/Marijuana/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Social Credit/row politics/party colours/Family Coalition/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/BC Reform/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/Family Coalition/row politics/party colours/BC Social Credit/row politics/party colours/BC Social Credit/row politics/party colours/NDP/row, Delta South 2010-11-25T10:23:44Z Delta South is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The current MLA for this riding is Vicki Huntington, the only Independent elected to the Assembly in the 2009 election. politics/party colours/BC Liberal/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/Independent/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/Marijuana/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/BC Unity/row politics/party colours/Marijuana/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/Independents/row politics/party colours/Social Credit/row politics/party colours/Family Coalition/row politics/party colours/NDP/row politics/party colours/BC Reform/row politics/party colours/Green/row politics/party colours/Family Coalition/row politics/party colours/BC Social Credit/row politics/party colours/BC Social Credit/row politics/party colours/NDP/row | 1 |
Pippa Bennett-Warner | Pippa Bennett-Warner 2022-01-31T11:10:47Z Philippa Bennett-Warner (born 23 July 1988) is a British actress. Bennett-Warner was brought up in Buckinghamshire, and was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, and Lucie Clayton. She is of Jamaican and Kittitian descent. She started her acting career in Julie Taymor's 1999 London production of The Lion King, as one of the original young Nalas. In 2006, she got a place at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the role of Emmie Thibodeaux in the musical Caroline, or Change, for which she was nominated for the Whatsonstage.com Stuart Phillips London Newcomer of the Year award 2007, alongside Andrew Garfield. She went on to star in the lead role in Athol Fugard's UK premiere of Victory for the Peter Hall Company and then went to RADA in September 2007. Bennett-Warner graduated from RADA in 2010, but left early to take on the role of Sophie in Lynn Nottage's Ruined at the Almeida Theatre. Before completing the course she was awarded the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award. However, due to another job commitment she was unable to join the radio rep. After finishing Ruined, a two-hander (Crocodile, written by Frank McGuinness) with Sinéad Cusack for Sky Arts followed. During this time Bennett-Warner was cast in Michael Grandage's award-winning King Lear as Cordelia, with Derek Jacobi in the title role. Before rehearsals started for King Lear in October, she filmed small parts in Come Fly With Me with David Walliams and Matt Lucas and also in Case Histories alongside Jason Isaacs. Bennett-Warner received an Ian Charleson commendation for King Lear. She then took the role of Denise in D. C. Moore's new play The Swan — in a role that had been written for her – at the National Theatre followed by playing Queen Isabel in Michael Grandage's swan song Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse with Eddie Redmayne in the title role and Andrew Buchan as Bolingbroke. She received positive reviews from the critics, with Kate Bassett from The Independent saying: "Both of them (Redmayne and Buchan) are, in fact, outshone by Pippa Bennett-Warner in the cameo role of Isabel, Richard’s devoted, fiery queen." In 2012, she played the lead role in Vivienne Franzmann's second play The Witness, at the Royal Court Theatre. She received rave reviews with Susannah Clapp from The Observer stating, "Always thought Pippa Bennett-Warner had big future. Now she is having it in ‘The Witness’ at Royal Court...There are actresses (even actors) who are more flashy, who more obviously inflect every detail of a speech. PBW is completely natural. Audiences of course admire her: but they do something else, which is not always the same thing: they believe her”. Bennett-Warner went on to secure a nomination for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2012, alongside Cate Blanchett and Dame Eileen Atkins and was named as one of the 1000 Most Influential Londoners in 2012 in the category "Generation Next" by The Evening Standard. In 2016, she narrated Zadie Smith's book Swing Time. From 2018-2019 she played the title role in The Maya Angelou Autobiographies for BBC Radio 4. In 2020, she narrated Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other for the BBC. Bennett-Warner is an Ambassador for The Theatres Trust. Bennett-Warner has a sister, Georgina, who is three years older., Pippa Bennett-Warner 2023-12-10T20:59:12Z Philippa Elaine Fanti Bennett-Warner (born 23 July 1988) is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress, playing young Nala in the original West End production of The Lion King (1999). She went on to earn WhatsOnStage and Ian Charleson Award nominations for her roles in the musical Caroline, or Change (2006) and Michael Grandage's King Lear (2010) respectively. On television, Bennett-Warner is known for starring in the Sky Atlantic crime drama Gangs of London (2020–present) and the BBC thrillers Roadkill (2020) and Chloe (2022). Bennett-Warner was brought up in Buckinghamshire, and was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, and Lucie Clayton Charm Academy. She is of Jamaican and Kittitian descent, and has a sister, Georgina, who is three years older. She started her acting career in Julie Taymor's 1999 London production of The Lion King, as one of the original young Nalas. In 2006, she got a place at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the role of Emmie Thibodeaux in the musical Caroline, or Change, for which she was nominated for the Whatsonstage.com Stuart Phillips London Newcomer of the Year award 2007, alongside Andrew Garfield. She went on to star in the lead role in Athol Fugard's UK premiere of Victory for the Peter Hall Company and then went to RADA in September 2007. Bennett-Warner graduated from RADA in 2010, but left early to take on the role of Sophie in Lynn Nottage's Ruined at the Almeida Theatre. Before completing the course she was awarded the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award. However, due to another job commitment she was unable to join the radio rep. After finishing Ruined, a two-hander (Crocodile, written by Frank McGuinness) with Sinéad Cusack for Sky Arts followed. During this time Bennett-Warner was cast in Michael Grandage's award-winning King Lear as Cordelia, with Derek Jacobi in the title role. Before rehearsals started for King Lear in October, she filmed small parts in Come Fly With Me with David Walliams and Ashley Lucas and also in Case Histories alongside Jason Isaacs. Bennett-Warner received an Ian Charleson commendation for King Lear. She then took the role of Denise in D. C. Moore's new play The Swan — in a role that had been written for her – at the National Theatre followed by playing Queen Isabel in Michael Grandage's swan song Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse with Eddie Redmayne in the title role and Andrew Buchan as Bolingbroke in 2010. She received positive reviews from the critics, with Kate Bassett from The Independent saying: "Both of them (Redmayne and Buchan) are, in fact, outshone by Pippa Bennett-Warner in the cameo role of Isabel, Richard’s devoted, fiery queen. " In 2012, she played the lead role in Vivienne Franzmann's second play The Witness, at the Royal Court Theatre. She received rave reviews with Susannah Clapp from The Observer stating, "Always thought Pippa Bennett-Warner had big future. Now she is having it in ‘The Witness’ at Royal Court...There are actresses (even actors) who are more flashy, who more obviously inflect every detail of a speech. PBW is completely natural. Audiences of course admire her: but they do something else, which is not always the same thing: they believe her”. Bennett-Warner went on to secure a nomination for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2012, alongside Cate Blanchett and Dame Eileen Atkins and was named as one of the 1000 Most Influential Londoners in 2012 in the category "Generation Next" by The Evening Standard. In 2016, she narrated Zadie Smith's book Swing Time. From 2018 to 2019 she played the title role in The Maya Angelou Autobiographies for BBC Radio 4. In 2020, she narrated Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other for the BBC. She is an Ambassador for The Theatres Trust. Bennett-Warner is good friends with Jonathan Bailey who she appeared with in Doctor Who's "Time Heist" episode in 2014. Bailey also photographed her for a profile for Rose & Ivy magazine in 2021. | 1 |
Rabbit_Ears_Productions | Rabbit_Ears_Productions 2008-11-10T23:41:36Z Rabbit Ears Productions is a children's series that aired from 1984-1995. The series features famous actors such as, Robin Williams, Raul Julia, Laura Dern, Denzel Washington, Danny Glover, and others narrating classic children's classics either well-known in the United States or from around the world. The series was featured in limited animation where the images move from one scene and disappear in the next scene. Rabbit Ears Productions has also won numerous awards including Parent's Choice Awards and the Grammy Awards. From 1984-1990, Rabbit Ears Productions had created a set of storybook classics that were well-known around the world. Probably, the most popular storybook classic from Rabbit Ears Productions was the Velveteen Rabbit. The Velveteen Rabbit was the first story that Rabbit Ears Productions had created. The Velveteen Rabbit has also received many awards such as, Parents' Choice award and a Grammy nomination. From 1991-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions created the next set of stories which are stories that come from all around the world. These stories come from many countries such as, Russia, France, Jamaica, England, Germany, Colombia, Scandinavia, Japan, and India. From 1992-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions made another set of stories that come from America and are about great American Heroes such as, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, and many heroes and heroines that made a great impact on American society. From 1991-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions created their final installment of stories that relates to stories from the Bible. Holiday Classics are stories that are found throughout all the Rabbit Ears Productions series whether they are Christmas, Halloween, or Easter themed. , Rabbit_Ears_Productions 2010-09-29T22:42:39Z Rabbit Ears Productions is a children's series that aired from 1984-1995 on PBS. The series features famous actors such as, Robin Williams, Raul Julia, Laura Dern, Denzel Washington, Danny Glover, and others narrating classic children's classics either well-known in the United States or from around the world. The series was featured in limited animation where the images move from one scene and disappear in the next scene. Rabbit Ears Productions has also won numerous awards, including Parents' Choice Awards and Grammy Awards. From 1984-1990, Rabbit Ears Productions had created a set of storybook classics that were well-known around the world. Probably, the most popular storybook classic from Rabbit Ears Productions was the Velveteen Rabbit. The Velveteen Rabbit was the first story that Rabbit Ears Productions had created. The Velveteen Rabbit has also received many awards such as, Parents' Choice award and a Grammy nomination. From 1991-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions created the next set of stories which are stories that come from all around the world. These stories come from many countries such as, Russia, France, Jamaica, England, Germany, Colombia, Scandinavia, Japan, and India. From 1992-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions made another set of stories that come from America and are about great American Heroes such as, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, and many heroes and heroines that made a great impact on American society. From 1991-1993, Rabbit Ears Productions created their final installment of stories that relates to stories from the Bible. Holiday Classics are stories that are found throughout all the Rabbit Ears Productions series whether they are Christmas, Halloween, or Easter themed. The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Naughty Peter Rabbit goes off to Mr. McGregor's garden against his mother's warnings, but he soon learns about the consequences of disobeying his mother. How the Camel Got His Hump: When the Camel refuses to do any work in the desert, it is up to the Djinn of the desert to set him straight. The Three Little Pigs: When the wolf eats up the first and second little pigs, he'll learn the hard way that he shouldn't mess with the smartest pig of the three little pigs. Goldilocks: When a spoiled little girl goes to the house of the three bears without permission, she will soon get a surprise of her life when the bears come home from their walk. | 0 |
Dean Bouzanis | Dean Bouzanis 2022-01-09T19:07:51Z Dean Anthony Bouzanis (born 2 October 1990) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sutton United. He played junior football in Australia before joining English side Liverpool as a youth player, where he appeared for the Under 18 and reserves sides. After a loan move to Accrington Stanley he joined Oldham Athletic, before brief stays at Aris FC and Carlisle United. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for the Wanderers in the A-League. He has been capped by both Australia and Greece at youth level. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Bouzanis was raised in Australia to Greek parents, and attended De La Salle College in Cronulla. His talents were first seen at his local soccer club, Lilli Pilli FC, whilst playing in the Under 6's, before moving to Carrs Park FC, alongside close friend Nikolas Tsattalios. Bouzanis then went on to play in the NSW State League for St George Saints at 14 before joining the NSW Institute of Sport. Bouzanis spent three weeks with the Liverpool first team squad in January 2007 and was offered a three-year deal. Liverpool's manager Rafael Benítez stated that he rated the Australian as "the best goalkeeper in the world for his age." He was loaned to A-League side Sydney FC as understudy to Clint Bolton and was included in the club's squad for their AFC Champions League 2007 campaign, but did not appear at the tournament, and was subsequently delisted. He appeared for Liverpool's under 18 and reserve teams and after a loan deal with Conference National team Wrexham fell through in July 2009, in November he joined Accrington Stanley on loan, subsequently making 14 league appearances for the club. In May 2011 Bouzanis left Liverpool after mutually agreeing to a release with one year remaining on his contract. In July 2011, Bouzanis claimed he had agreed terms with A-league club Melbourne Victory but this was denied by the club. On 26 November 2011, Bouzanis joined EFL League One side Oldham Athletic on non-contract terms as cover for injured back-up keeper Paul Gerrard following a four-week trial. His time at the club included an FA Cup tie against former club Liverpool at Anfield, although Bouzanis spent the match on the bench as an unused substitute. The following month, Bouzanis signed a new deal with the club, until the end of the season. He made his competitive Latics debut on 27 March 2012 coming on as second-half substitute against Leyton Orient. After a spell in the side at the end of the 2011–12 season when Oldham's first choice keeper Alex Cisak was injured. At the end of the 2011–12 season, Bouzanis signed a new one-year contract following his good display for his performance. At the start of the 2012–13 season, Bouzanis suffered an ankle injury during the pre-season friendly. He dropped again to the bench at the beginning of the 2012–13 season, before regaining his first-team spot in September. On 27 January 2013, Bouzanis played in Oldham's upset 3–2 win in a F.A. Cup club 4th round tie against Liverpool. Bouzanis was subsequently released by Oldham at the end of the 2012–13 season. Following his departure from Oldham Athletic, Bouzanis joined Greek side Aris FC but failed to make a senior appearance. Bouzanis was released by Aris FC in December 2013, and joined Carlisle United on a free transfer on 28 January 2014, on a short-term deal until April, but made no appearances. In May 2014, Bouzanis returned to his home town, signing with Western Sydney Wanderers. Bouzanis replaced Tando Velaphi at Melbourne City during the January transfer window of the 2015-16 A-League. He signed a one-year contract extension on 28 April 2016, with his new deal to end at the end of the 2016-17 A-League season. Bouzanis made his competitive City debut on 8 October 2016 in the club's first game of the 2016–17 A-League, coming on in the second half after Thomas Sørensen was sent off in a 1–0 win. On 8 February 2017, Bouzanis was banned for five games for using a racial slur against Melbourne Victory, Besart Berisha after appearing to call the Albanian striker a "gypsy". On 31 August 2018, he joined Eredivisie club PEC Zwolle on a season-long loan with an option to buy. Bouzanis then returned to Melbourne City. In July 2020, Bouzanis left Melbourne City. In August 2020, Bouzanis signed with National League side Sutton United, moving to London with partner Steph Catley, who signed with Arsenal. He kept 18 clean sheets across the season as Sutton won the National League and promotion to the English Football League for the first time in the club's 123-year history. Bouzanis was first named in the Australian U17 side in 2005 at the age of 15. He was also later included in the squad for Australia's unsuccessful 2006 AFC U17 Championships qualifying campaign. On 2 February 2008, Bouzanis was invited by the Greek FA manager Alexis Alexiou to represent the youth team against Slovakia on 5 February 2008. Bouzanis visited Greece on 3 February 2008 for an interview with Greek radio station SportFM, and also to play in the friendly against Slovakia, in which he kept a clean sheet. He also played in a 1–0 win against Serbia in March 2008. Despite playing for the Greek U19 team Bouzanis remained eligible to play for either the Greek or Australian full international sides. The Australian press stated that his departure would be a "disaster" likening it to the loss of Joey Didulica to the Croatian national side. In April 2008 he was called up to the Australia Under 23 squad to compete in the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia as part of their preparations for the Olympics due to Danny Vukovic's suspension. He played in the 4–0 defeat of Togo in the final group match. With the announcement that Vukovic's suspension would not be lifted for the Olympics, suggestions were made that Bouzanis would be included in the squad but this did not eventuate. In June 2008, Bouzanis accepted an invitation to represent Greece in the UEFA U-19 European Championships. and stated he was proud to be competing at the finals with Greece. Bouzanis' decision to play for the Greek under-age team upset some of Australia's football community. Bouzanis' agent suggested he still wanted to play for Australia. In April 2008 Australian national coach Pim Verbeek met Bouzanis in Liverpool to discuss his football allegiance. In February 2009, his agent stated that Bouzanis wanted to play for Australia rather than Greece. Bouzanis subsequently appeared in Australia's first two group matches at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt. Bouzanis' next international appearance was as a half-time substitute in an Under-23 friendly on 1 June 2011 against Japan. He was subsequently named in the squad for the Olyroos London Olympics 2012 qualifying matches against Yemen in June 2011. Western Sydney Wanderers Melbourne City Sutton United ==Personal life Dean's younger brother, Anthony Bouzanis is also a professional footballer and previously played for A-League club Sydney FC, Dean Bouzanis 2023-12-28T16:33:24Z Dean Anthony Bouzanis (born 2 October 1990) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League Two club Sutton United, on loan from EFL League One club Reading. He played junior football in Australia before joining English side Liverpool, appearing for the Academy between 2007 and 2009, and also for the reserves side. After a loan move to Accrington Stanley he joined Oldham Athletic, before brief stays at Aris FC and Carlisle United. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for the Wanderers in the A-League. He has been capped by both Australia and Greece at youth level. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Bouzanis was raised in Australia to Greek parents, and attended De La Salle College in Cronulla. His talents were first seen at his local soccer club, Lilli Pilli FC, whilst playing in the Under 6's, before moving to Carrs Park FC, alongside close friend Nikolas Tsattalios. Bouzanis then went on to play in the NSW State League for St George Saints at 14 before joining the NSW Institute of Sport. Bouzanis spent three weeks with the Liverpool first team squad in January 2007 and was offered a three-year deal. Liverpool's manager Rafael Benítez, stated that he rated the Australian as "the best goalkeeper in the world for his age". He was loaned to A-League side Sydney FC as understudy to Clint Bolton and was included in the club's squad for their AFC Champions League 2007 campaign, but did not appear at the tournament, and was subsequently delisted. In July 2007, Bouzanis returned to Liverpool from his loan. He appeared for Liverpool's under 18 Academy and reserve teams. He appeared in successive games for Liverpool's Academy in September, October and November 2007. On 4 December 2007, Bouzanis appeared for Liverpool's reserve team. He made consecutive appearances for the reserves from January to April 2008. On 4 March 2008, however, Bouzanis was an unused substitute in a reserves game against Bolton Wanderers. On 7 May 2008, Bouzanis made his last reserves appearance for the 2007–08 season. On 27 September 2008, Bouzanis appeared for Liverpool's Academy. In September 2008, he was named in the reserve team for a fixture against Sunderland in which Jermaine Pennant was named. On 18 October 2008, Bouzanis again appeared for the Academy. On 3 November 2008, Bouzanis was an unused substitute in Liverpool's reserves squad that were defeated 2–1 against Manchester City. On 24 November 2008, Bouzanis played for the reserves. On 16 December 2008, he made his last appearance for the year in a reserves game. On 29 January 2009, Bouzanis played for the reserves. On 27 February 2009, he played in a game for the Academy. On 4 March 2009, Bouzanis kept for the reserves in a 2–0 defeat against American club Columbus Crew. In March and April, Bouzanis appeared for the reserves. On 26 May 2009, Bouzanis made his last appearance for the 2008–09 season, appearing for the Academy. In September 2009, Bouzanis didn't amass any appearances for Liverpool due to international duty at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt. After a loan deal with Conference National team Wrexham fell through in July 2009, he joined Football League Two club Accrington Stanley on loan in November, subsequently making 14 league appearances for the club. On 29 October 2009, he appeared for the Accrington Stanley reserves. On 28 December 2009, Bouzanis started in a game for Accrington Stanley's first-team. On 30 January 2010, Bouzanis appeared for the first-team. In February, March and May, Bouzanis was an unused substitute for the first-team. In May 2010, Bouzanis returned to Liverpool from his loan at Accrington Stanley. On 27 September 2010, Bouzanis appeared for Liverpool's reserves. He made successive appearances for the reserves in October and November, making his last appearance of the year on 16 November. In January, February and March 2011, Bouzanis made appearances for Liverpool's reserves. In April 2011, Bouzanis was released by Liverpool. He departed the club after mutually agreeing to a release with one year remaining on his contract. In July 2011, Bouzanis claimed he had agreed terms with A-league club Melbourne Victory but this was denied by the club. On 26 November 2011, Bouzanis joined EFL League One side Oldham Athletic on non-contract terms as cover for injured back-up keeper Paul Gerrard following a four-week trial. His time at the club included an FA Cup tie against former club Liverpool at Anfield, although Bouzanis spent the match on the bench as an unused substitute. The following month, Bouzanis signed a new deal with the club, until the end of the season. He made his competitive Latics debut on 27 March 2012 coming on as second-half substitute against Leyton Orient. After a spell in the side at the end of the 2011–12 season when Oldham's first choice keeper Alex Cisak was injured. At the end of the 2011–12 season, Bouzanis signed a new one-year contract following his good display for his performance. At the start of the 2012–13 season, Bouzanis suffered an ankle injury during the pre-season friendly. He dropped again to the bench at the beginning of the 2012–13 season, before regaining his first-team spot in September. On 27 January 2013, Bouzanis played in Oldham's upset 3–2 win in a F.A. Cup club 4th round tie against Liverpool. Bouzanis was subsequently released by Oldham at the end of the 2012–13 season. Following his departure from Oldham Athletic, Bouzanis joined Greek side Aris FC but failed to make a senior appearance. Bouzanis was released by Aris FC in December 2013, and joined Carlisle United on a free transfer on 28 January 2014, on a short-term deal until April, but made no appearances. In May 2014, Bouzanis returned to his home town, signing with Western Sydney Wanderers. Bouzanis replaced Tando Velaphi at Melbourne City during the January transfer window of the 2015-16 A-League. He signed a one-year contract extension on 28 April 2016, with his new deal to end at the end of the 2016-17 A-League season. Bouzanis made his competitive City debut on 8 October 2016 in the club's first game of the 2016–17 A-League, coming on in the second half after Thomas Sørensen was sent off in a 1–0 win. On 8 February 2017, Bouzanis was banned for five games for using a racial slur against Melbourne Victory, Besart Berisha after appearing to call the Albanian striker a "gypsy". On 31 August 2018, he joined Eredivisie club PEC Zwolle on a season-long loan with an option to buy. Bouzanis then returned to Melbourne City. In July 2020, Bouzanis left Melbourne City. In August 2020, Bouzanis signed with National League side Sutton United, moving to London with partner Steph Catley, who signed with Arsenal. He kept 18 clean sheets across the season as Sutton won the National League and promotion to the English Football League for the first time in the club's 123-year history. On 27 June 2022, Bouzanis joined Championship club Reading on a three-year contract to provide competition with fellow new signing Joe Lumley for the first-choice goalkeeper spot. On September 1 2023, Bouzanis rejoined Sutton United on a season-long loan until January 2024. Bouzanis was first named in the Australian U17 side in 2005 at the age of 15. He was also later included in the squad for Australia's unsuccessful 2006 AFC U17 Championships qualifying campaign. On 2 February 2008, Bouzanis was invited by the Greek FA manager Alexis Alexiou to represent the youth team against Slovakia on 5 February 2008. Bouzanis visited Greece on 3 February 2008 for an interview with Greek radio station SportFM, and also to play in the friendly against Slovakia, in which he kept a clean sheet. He also played in a 1–0 win against Serbia in March 2008. Despite playing for the Greek U19 team Bouzanis remained eligible to play for either the Greek or Australian full international sides. The Australian press stated that his departure would be a "disaster" likening it to the loss of Joey Didulica to the Croatian national side. In April 2008 he was called up to the Australia Under 23 squad to compete in the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia as part of their preparations for the Olympics due to Danny Vukovic's suspension. He played in the 4–0 defeat of Togo in the final group match. With the announcement that Vukovic's suspension would not be lifted for the Olympics, suggestions were made that Bouzanis would be included in the squad but this did not eventuate. In the same month, Australian national coach Pim Verbeek met Bouzanis in Liverpool to discuss his football allegiance. In June 2008, Bouzanis accepted an invitation to represent Greece in the UEFA U-19 European Championships. and stated he was proud to be competing at the finals with Greece. Bouzanis' decision to play for the Greek under-age team upset some of Australia's football community. Bouzanis' agent suggested he still wanted to play for Australia. In July 2008, Bouzanis was listed in a group of Australian footballers aged between 16 and 22 known as "the lost boys", including Paul Giannou, Andreas Govas and Robert Stambolziev, who were likely to play for or had played for national teams of the country of their heritage. In February 2009, his agent stated that Bouzanis wanted to play for Australia rather than Greece. Bouzanis subsequently appeared in Australia's first two group matches at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt. Bouzanis' next international appearance was as a half-time substitute in an Under-23 friendly on 1 June 2011 against Japan. He was subsequently named in the squad for the Olyroos London Olympics 2012 qualifying matches against Yemen in June 2011. Western Sydney Wanderers Melbourne City Sutton United | 1 |
3,5-Dinitrobenzoic_acid | 3,5-Dinitrobenzoic_acid 2009-09-10T18:46:54Z 3,5-Dinitrobenzoic acid is an organic chemical that is an important corrosion inhibitor and is also used in photography. This aromatic compound is used by chemists to identify alcohol components in esters and in the fluorometric analysis of creatinine. This article about an aromatic compound is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , 3,5-Dinitrobenzoic_acid 2010-09-28T10:47:08Z 3,5-Dinitrobenzoic acid is an organic chemical that is an important corrosion inhibitor and is also used in photography. This aromatic compound is used by chemists to identify alcohol components in esters and in the fluorometric analysis of creatinine. This article about an aromatic compound is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Treaty_of_Badajoz_(1801) | Treaty_of_Badajoz_(1801) 2010-02-15T23:25:21Z The Treaty of Badajoz (also known as the Peace of Badajoz) was signed in Badajoz on June 6, 1801 between John VI of Portugal and representatives from the Spanish Empire. Based on the terms of the accord, Portugal agreed to cede Olivenza (along with paying an indemnity to Spain). Moreover, Portugal was required to close all ports to the British. On a sidenote, John VI was forced to sign the accord as a result of the Spanish army (along with a French auxiliary corps) having been dispatched across the Portuguese frontier. The treaty was reinforced and slightly altered during a special convention (i. e. Treaty of Madrid) that was held on September 29, 1801 whereby Portugal was forced to pay France a total of 20 million francs. , Treaty_of_Badajoz_(1801) 2011-07-25T15:55:19Z The Treaty of Badajoz (also known as the Peace of Badajoz) was signed in Badajoz on June 6, 1801 between John VI of Portugal and representatives from the Spanish Empire. Based on the terms of the accord, Portugal agreed to cede Olivenza (along with paying an indemnity to Spain). Moreover, Portugal was required to close all ports to the British. On a sidenote, John VI was forced to sign the accord as a result of the Spanish army (along with a French auxiliary corps) having been dispatched across the Portuguese frontier. The treaty was reinforced and slightly altered during a special convention (i. e. Treaty of Madrid) that was held on September 29, 1801 whereby Portugal was forced to pay France a total of 20 million francs. | 0 |
Younha discography | Younha discography 2017-03-10T14:59:39Z Korean text Japanese text This is the discography of Korean singer Younha, active in both South Korea and Japan, which consists of eight studio albums, two extended plays, one compilation album, and twenty-eight singles. Notes:, Younha discography 2018-12-27T02:19:08Z This is the discography of Korean singer Younha, active in both South Korea and Japan, which consists of seven studio albums, four extended plays, one compilation album, and twenty-four singles. Notes: | 1 |
Alex_Zettl | Alex_Zettl 2011-01-11T03:32:16Z Alex Zettl is an American professor and researcher. His researches into nanotechnology have produced significant advances in the field. Zettl received a B. A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He received a Ph. D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1983. He joined the faculty of the UCB Physics Department in 1983. He is currently a Professor of Physics and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is part of a Nanotechnology group at UCB, the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems He holds patents on the nanoradio, the nano mass sensor and other developments from this center's research. The research of Zettl, Kenneth Jensen, Jeff Weldon and Henry Garcia culminated in a single nanotube mounted on the tip of a metal electrode. When an electric current is passed between that nanotube and another, shorter, nanotube mounted nearby, an FM radio-frequency signal can be sensed by the nanotube, and the signal is converted into an audible signal without any other circuitry required. This remarkable phenomenon was first described in the November 2007 issue of Nano Letters, a monthly publication of the American Chemical Society. In that same issue, independent University of California, Irvine, researchers Peter Burke and Chris Rutherglen announced a similar result - sensing and demodulating an AM radio-frequency signal, although their apparatus included conventional circuitry for antenna and amplification. Template:Persondata This article about an American physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Alex_Zettl 2011-08-04T19:54:00Z Alex Zettl is an American professor of experimental condensed-matter physics. His research involving the properties of novel materials have produced significant advances in the field. Zettl received a B. A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He received a Ph. D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1983. He joined the faculty of the UCB Physics Department in 1983. He is currently a Professor of Physics and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is part of a Nanotechnology group at UCB, the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems He holds patents on the nanoradio, the nano mass sensor and other developments from this center's research. The research of Zettl, Kenneth Jensen, Jeff Weldon and Henry Garcia culminated in a single nanotube mounted on the tip of a metal electrode. When an electric current is passed between that nanotube and another, shorter, nanotube mounted nearby, an FM radio-frequency signal can be sensed by the nanotube, and the signal is converted into an audible signal without any other circuitry required. This remarkable phenomenon was first described in the November 2007 issue of Nano Letters, a monthly publication of the American Chemical Society. In that same issue, independent University of California, Irvine, researchers Peter Burke and Chris Rutherglen announced a similar result - sensing and demodulating an AM radio-frequency signal, although their apparatus included conventional circuitry for antenna and amplification. Template:Persondata This article about an American physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Sheridan Hawks | Sheridan Hawks 2018-03-12T18:06:00Z The Wisconsin Whalers are a USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier III Junior A ice hockey team in the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL). The team plays home games at the Oregon Ice Arena in Oregon, Wisconsin. The team previously played at The River's Edge Ice Arena in Davenport, Iowa where it was known as the Quad City Express and the Quad City Jr. Flames. In May 2013, the team announced that the Quad City Jr. Flames were granted approval by the NA3HL Board of Governors and the USA Hockey Junior Council to relocate to Madison, Wisconsin for the 2013–14 season and play out of Hartmeyer Ice Arena. The team began playing out of the Oregon Ice Arena in nearby Oregon, Wisconsin in the 2015–16 season. The players, ages 16–20, carried amateur status under Junior A guidelines and would hope to earn a spot on higher levels of junior ice hockey in the United States and Canada, Canadian Major Junior, Collegiate, and eventually professional teams. , Sheridan Hawks 2019-04-21T18:49:27Z The Sheridan Hawks are a USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier III junior ice hockey team in the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL). The team plays home games at the Sheridan Ice M&M’s Center in Sheridan, Wyoming. The team previously played at The River's Edge Ice Arena in Davenport, Iowa, where it was known as the Quad City Express and the Quad City Jr. Flames. In May 2013, the team announced that the Quad City Jr. Flames were granted approval by the NA3HL Board of Governors and the USA Hockey Junior Council to relocate to Madison, Wisconsin, for the 2013–14 season and play out of Hartmeyer Ice Arena as the Wisconsin Whalers. The team began playing out of the Oregon Ice Arena in nearby Oregon, Wisconsin, in the 2015–16 season. Following the 2018–19 season, the Whalers were sold to the Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey Club, an ownership group consisting of Dr. Brenton Milner, Dan Carlin, Sandy Suzor, Charles Whiton, and Dave Nelson based in Sheridan, Wyoming. The team was then branded as the Sheridan Hawks. The players, ages 16–20, carried amateur status under Junior A guidelines and would hope to earn a spot on higher levels of junior ice hockey in the United States and Canada, collegiate, and eventually professional teams. | 1 |
Steven Bauer | Steven Bauer 2017-01-12T01:04:49Z | children = 2 | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1977–present }} Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson; December 2, 1956) is a Cuban-American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, his role as Don Eladio in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, his role as Avi in Ray Donovan, and his role on the bilingual PBS show ¿Qué Pasa, USA? . Born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarria, a pilot who worked for Cubana Airlines. Bauer's maternal grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and Bauer's maternal grandmother was a Cuban of partial Italian ancestry. His stage surname comes from his maternal great-grandmother. Bauer's parents fled from Cuba to Miami, Florida, on July 4, 1960, following Fidel Castro's Revolution. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1974. Originally intending to become a musician, Bauer turned to acting while attending Miami-Dade Community College, but then transferred to the University of Miami, where he studied in its Department of Theater Arts and performed at its Jerry Herman Ring Theatre where he became friends with actor Ray Liotta. Bauer's first substantial role was in the PBS bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA? , playing the teenage son of a Cuban exile family in Miami, from 1977 to 1979. He also appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries From Here to Eternity. He was credited in these and a few other early projects as Rocky Echevarría. In 1981, Bauer starred in the television movie She's in the Army Now, where he met his first wife, actress Melanie Griffith. They both moved to New York City and stayed at Ray Liotta's apartment, while Liotta moved to Los Angeles and stayed at theirs. Both Bauer and Griffith studied under famed acting teacher Stella Adler, and he appeared in several off-Broadway productions. During this time he briefly adopted the stage name Rocky Echevarria, before settling on "Steven Bauer". Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera, the part played by George Raft in the original 1932 version, in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though (like Raft) he was a relatively unknown actor at the time. The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for the role based on his strong audition, as well as his authentic Cuban background. His performance drew a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1986 he had two other important roles. The first was as Det. Frank Sigliano in the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines cop comedy Running Scared. The second was as an Israeli soldier named Avner in the Canadian CTV television movie Sword of Gideon, which tells the story of Mossad agents hunting down terrorists in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich massacre. The Sword of Gideon script was the basis for Steven Spielberg's later film Munich, which follows the same storyline and borrows heavily from the Sword of Gideon story and script. In 1990 Bauer played the role of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T. Nelson. That same year, Bauer took over the series lead of the television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season, playing US Attorney Michael Santana after Wahl's character disappears. Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens, including such motion pictures as Primal Fear and Traffic. He also made an appearance in the video game spin-off Scarface: The World Is Yours, playing drug dealer The Sandman. In 2007 he appeared on an episode of Burn Notice. In 2011, Bauer appeared on the show Breaking Bad playing Mexican drug lord Don Eladio. He stars with Julianne Michelle in the feature film Awakened, a supernatural thriller touching on Life After Death, a Supernova Media motion picture. He currently appears as ex-Mossad agent turned private investigator "Avi" in the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Bauer married Melanie Griffith on September 8, 1981. The couple had a son, Alexander Bauer, on August 22, 1985, before divorcing in 1989. That same year he married Ingrid Anderson, with whom he had another son, Dylan, born in 1990. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1991. A year later, he married his third wife, Christiana Boney, but the couple eventually divorced. On December 18, 2012, Bauer was arrested in the Miami, Florida, area, accused of driving with a suspended license. 2011 "Mommy and Me", Steven Bauer 2018-10-27T20:03:24Z Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson; December 2, 1956) is a Cuban-American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, as Don Eladio in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, Avi in Ray Donovan, and the bilingual PBS show ¿Qué Pasa, USA? Born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarría, a pilot who worked for Cubana Airlines. Bauer's maternal grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and Bauer's maternal grandmother was a Cuban of partial Italian ancestry. His stage surname comes from his maternal great-grandmother. Bauer's parents fled from Cuba to Miami, Florida, on July 4, 1960, following Fidel Castro's Revolution. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1974. Originally intending to become a musician, Bauer turned to acting while attending Miami-Dade Community College, but then transferred to the University of Miami, where he studied in its Department of Theater Arts and performed at its Jerry Herman Ring Theatre where he became friends with actor Ray Liotta. Bauer's first substantial role was in the PBS bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA? , playing the teenage son of a Cuban exile family in Miami, from 1977 to 1979. He also appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries From Here to Eternity. He was credited in these and a few other early projects as Rocky Echevarría. In 1981, Bauer starred in the television movie She's in the Army Now, where he met his first wife, actress Melanie Griffith. They both moved to New York City and stayed at Ray Liotta's apartment, while Liotta moved to Los Angeles and stayed at theirs. Both Bauer and Griffith studied under famed acting teacher Stella Adler, and he appeared in several off-Broadway productions. During this time he adopted the stage name "Steven Bauer". Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera, the part played by George Raft in the original 1932 version, in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though (like Raft) he was a relatively unknown actor at the time. The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for the role based on his strong audition, as well as his authentic Cuban background. His performance drew a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1986 he had two other important roles. The first was as Det. Frank Sigliano in the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines cop comedy Running Scared. The second was as an Israeli soldier named Avner in the Canadian CTV television movie Sword of Gideon, which tells the story of Mossad agents hunting down terrorists in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich massacre. The Sword of Gideon script was the basis for Steven Spielberg's later film Munich, which follows the same storyline and borrows heavily from the Sword of Gideon story and script. In 1990 Bauer played the role of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T. Nelson. That same year, Bauer took over the series lead of the television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season, playing US Attorney Michael Santana after Wahl's character disappears. Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens. An example of this is the movie “The Lost City” where Rocky Echevarria starred a minor role alongside protagonist Andy Garcia. Also, including such motion pictures as Primal Fear and Traffic. He also made an appearance in the video game spin-off Scarface: The World Is Yours, playing drug dealer The Sandman. In 2007 he appeared on an episode of Burn Notice. In 2011, Bauer appeared on the show Breaking Bad playing Mexican drug lord Don Eladio. He stars with Julianne Michelle in the feature film Awakened, a supernatural thriller touching on Life After Death, a Supernova Media motion picture. More recently, Bauer appeared as ex-Mossad agent turned private investigator "Avi" in the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Bauer also reprised his Breaking Bad role in AMC's prequel Better Call Saul. In addition, he played El Santo in the American version of Queen of the South. Bauer married actress Melanie Griffith. The couple had a son in 1985, before divorcing in 1989. That same year he married Ingrid Anderson, with whom he had another son, born in 1990. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1991. A year later, he married his third wife, Christiana Boney; the couple eventually divorced. 2011 "Mommy and Me" | 1 |
Anastasios Bakasetas | Anastasios Bakasetas 2019-01-07T12:11:20Z Anastasios "Tasos" Bakasetas (Greek: Αναστάσιος "Τάσος" Μπακασέτας; born 28 June 1993) is a Greek footballer who plays for Superleague Greece club AEK Athens. Anastasios came through the youth system at Asteras Tripolis, and was promoted to the first team in the 2010–11 Superleague season, for which he was assigned squad number 12. He made five league appearances for the club in this season, four of which were as a substitute, and two in the Greek Cup. His Super League debut was in a starting position against Xanthi on 28 November 2010, a match Asteras Tripolis lost 2–1 despite taking the lead. In the Greek Cup, he made his first start in a 1–0 defeat to Olympiacos on 22 December 2010. His final appearance for Asteras Tripolis in the 2010–11 season came as a second-half substitute in a 3–0 league defeat against AEK Athens on 16 January 2011. At the end of January 2011, he went on loan to Thrasyvoulos in the second tier Greek Football League. He played ten league games for Thrasyvolous, scoring his first senior goal against Ethnikos Asteras in a 2–0 win on 28 February 2011. He returned to Asteras Tripoli at the end of the season in July 2011. At the end of December 2013, he went on loan to Aris to try and help them to avoid relegation. He made his debut to his new team in an away loss from Levadiakos scoring two goals in a 4–3 defeat. He scored another goal before his loan finished. Unfortunately he couldn't help the side avoid relegation. On 28 January 2015, Bakasetas signed a two years' contract with Panionios for an undisclosed fee. He started the 2015–16 season in amazing fashion scoring 2 goals in the opening 3 matchdays including the winner against giants Iraklis and Panathinaikos. On 17 October 2015, he scored the two goals of his club in a 2–0 home win against Kalloni On 12 March 2016, he scored a hat-trick in a home win against Xanthi. On 3 April 2016, he had a free-kick smashing the woodwork and scored a brace in a 3–1 home win against PAOK, helping his club to seal the European qualification for the next season. On 23 May he was left out of the squad for a match against PAOK, after it was discovered he was negotiating his transfer to AEK Athens without club permission, while still having more than six months remaining on his contract. It was later revealed he had agreed with Panionios and Olympiacos to join the Greek champions, who were offering a larger sum of money to both Bakasetas and the club, but before the game with PAOK he had secretly met with AEK chairman Dimitrios Melissanidis on the "Tiger's" private yacht. This behaviour left him out of the squad for the rest of the play-offs, and Panionios originally planned to keep him until December, when his contract would end, but not have him play or train with the first team. His actions have led to him having a reputation similar to Grigoris Makos, Giannis Kontoes, and Christos Aravidis, while his irresponsibility toward his contract was followed by similar conduct by teammate Bruno Chalkiadakis and coach Marinos Ouzounidis. Panionios heads Christos Daras and Nikos Zamanis softened their stance on the issue, based on the will of the player to join AEK, and on 8 June 2016, Bakasetas signed a three-years contract with AEK Athens for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in the region of €300,000. On 17 September 2016, he netted the first goal with the club in an away 2–0 win against Veria. On 9 April 2017, Bakasetas scored a brace in a 5–0 home win against Kerkyra. On 10 September 2017, he scored his first goal for the 2017–18 season in a 4–0 home win against AEL. On 26 October 2017, he helped his club by scoring a goal with a wonderful kick and giving three assists to gain a 7–0 Cup away win against Apollon Larissa. On 27 November 2017, he sealed a 3–0 home win against Platanias. On 6 January 2018, he was voted MVP of a 4–1 away win against Panetolikos, after scoring with a stunning free-kick and giving 3 assists. On 18 February 2018, he scored with a header and gave 2 assists in an easy 4–0 home win against Xanthi. On 22 April 2018, Bakasetas scored a brace rolling over Levadiakos 2–0 with consummate ease in a celebratory atmosphere in front on a sold-out Olympic Stadium to clinch their first, much-anticipated Super League title since 1994. On 22 August 2018, Bakasetas twisting on the edge of the box before firing in a shot which flew past Ádám Kovácsik via a deflection off Vidi defender Roland Juhász in a glorious 2–1 away win for UEFA Champions League Playoffs, 1st leg against MOL Vidi. It was his first goal with the club in UEFA matches. On 16 September 2018, he scored his first goal for the 2018–19 season in a 4–0 home win game against his former club Panionios as found the net with a low, left-footed shot after collecting Petros Mantalos’ knock-down from a Michalis Bakakis cross. On 29 September 2018, he scored with a wonderful kick in a 3–0 away win against OFI. On 7 October 2018, Bakasetas scored the equaliser in the last minute after Rodrigo Galo’s cross in a 1–1 home derby game against rivals Olympiacos. On 26 November 2018, despite the fact that is a key figure for the club, following the Super League defeat from Panetolikos, AEK's owner Dimitris Melissanidis engaged in a heated conversation with three players, ostracizing Vasilis Lampropoulos, André Simões and Anastasios Bakasetas from the team. “For Simões, Lampropoulos and Bakasetas, who have not agreed to sign a new contract, we will search for options to allow them to leave in January.” said the ownwer of the club. In his press-conference ahead of the upcoming Champions League game against Ajax, head coach Marinos Ouzounidis practically confirmed that the trio won’t be a part of his team anymore: “These guys have helped the team a lot, but since we talked and couldn’t reach an agreement, it’s probably best for the club to make a decision.” Unless Lampropoulos, Simões and Bakasetas all suddenly decide to pen a new deal with AEK, they will not play for the capital club again. Last season, a similar situation developed with goalkeeper Giannis Anestis, who was subsequently ostracized from the team after refusing to extend his contract. Anastasios has represented his country at youth international level. He was selected in the Greece under-19s squad for the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship along with Asteras Tripolis teammate Nikolaos Skondras. He made his under-19 debut in one of the two opening games of the tournament, as a 55th-minute substitute in a 2–1 defeat against the Republic of Ireland under-19s on 20 July 2011. He made his first start in the second group game, a 1–0 victory against the Romania under-19s on 23 July 2011. On 19 May 2016, was called up for the friendly matches against Australia on 4 and 7 June 2016. On 4 June 2016, he made his international debut as a substitute, in a 1–0 friendly loss against Australia, when Mathew Leckie has scores with the final kick of the game to help the Socceroos beat Greece. , Anastasios Bakasetas 2020-12-24T23:22:50Z Anastasios "Tasos" Bakasetas (Greek: Αναστάσιος "Τάσος" Μπακασέτας; born 28 June 1993) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish Süper Lig club Alanyaspor and the Greece national team. Bakasetas came through the youth system at Asteras Tripolis, and was promoted to the first team in the 2010–11 Superleague season, for which he was assigned squad number 12. He made five league appearances for the club in this season, four of which were as a substitute, and two in the Greek Cup. His Super League debut was in a starting position against Xanthi on 28 November 2010, a match Asteras Tripolis lost 2–1 despite taking the lead. In the Greek Cup, he made his first start in a 1–0 defeat to Olympiacos on 22 December 2010. His final appearance for Asteras Tripolis in the 2010–11 season came as a second-half substitute in a 3–0 league defeat against AEK Athens on 16 January 2011. At the end of January 2011, he went on loan to Thrasyvoulos in the second tier Greek Football League. He played ten league games for Thrasyvolous, scoring his first senior goal against Ethnikos Asteras in a 2–0 win on 28 February 2011. He returned to Asteras Tripoli at the end of the season in July 2011. At the end of December 2013, he went on loan to Aris to try and help them to avoid relegation. He made his debut to his new team in an away loss from Levadiakos scoring two goals in a 4–3 defeat. He scored another goal before his loan finished. Unfortunately he couldn't help the side avoid relegation. On 28 January 2015, Bakasetas signed a two years' contract with Panionios for an undisclosed fee. He started the 2015–16 season with two goals in the opening three matches. On 17 October 2015, he scored the two goals of his club in a 2–0 home win against Kalloni On 8 June 2016, Bakasetas signed a three-years contract with AEK Athens for an undisclosed fee. On 17 September 2016, he netted the first goal with the club in an away 2–0 win against Veria. On 9 April 2017, Bakasetas scored a brace in a 5–0 home win against Kerkyra. On 10 September 2017, he scored his first goal of the 2017–18 season in a 4–0 home win against AEL. On 22 April 2018, Bakasetas scored twice against Levadiakos to secure their first Super League title since 1994. On 10 January 2019, Bakasetas agreed to a contract extension with AEK until the summer of 2022. On 14 June 2019, Bakasetas agreed to join Turkish Süper Lig club Alanyaspor for a fee estimated at around €1,000,000. On 24 August 2019, he scored his first league goal for the club, in a 4–1 home win against Kasımpaşa. On 20 October 2019, he scored with a kick after an assist from Onur Bulut in a 5–2 home win game against Çaykur Rizespor. On 30 November 2019, Bakasetas was in superb form during the game against Ankaragücü in Alanya, hitting the target twice in a comfortable 5–0 triumph and has been included in the Team of the Week in the Turkish Süper Lig. On 18 January 2020, he scored with a kick, in a hammering 5–1 home win game against Kayserispor. On 2 February 2020, as the first half approached its climax, Bakasetas successfully connected with an accurate cross from Papiss Cissé, thumping a powerful header into the right corner. Alanyaspor, finishing the match with 10 men, subsequently claimed a 2–1 triumph against Yeni Malatyaspor at home. On 5 February 2020, he scored with a wonderful kick in a 2–0 Turkish Cup home win game against Galatasaray. On 22 June 2020, in the fifth minute of stoppage time against title challengers Trabzonspor at home, the 26-year-old attacking midfielder came to the rescue again for Alanyaspor, beating his opponent for skill before unleashing a powerful attempt which flew under the goalkeeper and into the net, in a 2–2 home draw game. On mid September 2020, Fenerbahçe that has been the leader in the transfer window in the Süper Lig, is about to finish the transfer of Anastasios Bakasetas, which has been negotiating for a long time. According to various reports, Fenerbahçe and Alanyaspor reached the final stage in negotiations after long negotiations and got closer to the agreement. The Greek international midfielder, who played in all 34 league games, marked the season with 10 goals and 5 assists, also entered the radar of Italian clubs. Bakasetas has represented his country at youth international level. He was selected in the Greece under-19s squad for the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship along with Asteras Tripolis teammate Nikolaos Skondras. He made his under-19 debut in one of the two opening games of the tournament, as a 55th-minute substitute in a 2–1 defeat against the Republic of Ireland under-19s on 20 July 2011. He made his first start in the second group game, a 1–0 victory against the Romania under-19s on 23 July 2011. On 19 May 2016, was called up for the friendly matches against Australia on 4 and 7 June 2016. On 4 June 2016, he made his international debut as a substitute, in a 1–0 friendly loss against Australia, when Mathew Leckie scored with the final kick of the game to help the Socceroos beat Greece. | 1 |
Anupam Roy | Anupam Roy 2011-02-18T09:16:40Z Anupam Roy (Bengali: অনুপম রায়) is an Indian, Bengali lyricist, composer and singer who is best known for his song Amake amar moto thakte dao (আমাকে আমার মত থাকতে দাও ) from Autograph (2010 film) (Bengali). Anupam has written and composed more than 120 Bengali songs. Born and brought up in Calcutta, Anupam completed his schooling from St. Paul's, Khidderpore(Class X) and MP Birla Foundation, Behala (Class XII). He did his graduation in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was the gold medalist of his batch(2004). Since 2004, he has been working for Texas Instruments India, Bangalore as an analog circuit design engineer. In Bangalore, Anupam participated in the First Rock Concert – Remembering Mohiner Ghoraguli at Ambedkar Bhavan, in 2007. Later that year, Ranjon Ghoshal arranged for a special preview concert at C.F.D. Bangalore, showcasing twelve of Anupam's songs, sung by Anupam and his friends, which included, among others, notable singer Sromona Chakraborty and also Srijit Mukherji on the harmonica. In the year 2008, the band Nagorik, organised a "Tribute to Kabir Suman" night in Bangalore, of which Anupam was a part. He participated in numerous shows in Bangalore and opened shows for artists like Fossils (band), Anjan Dutta, Rupankar and Mir Afsar Ali. His biggest break was having two of his songs featured in the bengali film, Autograph (2010) by Srijit Mukherji. Anupam wrote and composed Bneche Thakaar Gaan (বেঁচে থাকার গান), sung by Rupam Islam and Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao (আমাকে আমার মত থাকতে দাও ), which he sung himself. This song fetched him the Anandalok Special Jury Award for 'the most popular singer' in 2010. Anupam's writings have been featured in various online magazines. In 2010, the Bengali magazine, Kaurab(কৌরব) published Amader Bneche Thaka (আমাদের বেঁচে থাকা), written by him, in the open prose category of its August, 2010 issue. He has helped in the running of an online bangla portal named Boipara(বইপাড়া) along with visual artist, Samit Roy, who was highly influential in shaping Anupam's writing style and skills. Anupam maintains his own blog, Alternative Bangla Print. Anupam has done 3 plays in Bangalore at Ranga Shankara. a) Pheluda Pherot(ফেলুদা ফেরৎ), a bengali play, written and directed by Srijit Mukherji - Anupam composed music along with Priyam Mukherjee and Saptarshi Mukherjee & performed on stage. b) Laathi(লাঠি), a bengali play, directed by Ranjon Ghoshal in Moitree 2009—The Bengali Theatre Festival organised by bengali theatre group, Mukhosh. c) Nariyal Paani, a hindi play, written and directed by Sandeep Shikhar - Anupam composed music and played the role of a major character in the play. Anupam is married and lives with his wife in Bangalore. Anupam has two short films to his credit - Tiebreaker (2009) and Mind Radio (2010), both produced by TIIMMC. Both films are available online for public viewing. , Anupam Roy 2012-12-21T20:25:38Z Anupam Roy (Bengali: অনুপম রায়) is a Bengali lyricist, composer, singer from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is best known for his song Amake amar moto thakte dao (আমাকে আমার মত থাকতে দাও ), which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2010 film Autograph. Born and brought up in Kolkata, Anupam completed his schooling from St. Paul's Boarding & Day School, Kidderpore(Class X) and MP Birla Foundation, Behala (Class XII). He did his graduation in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was the gold medalist of his batch. He used to work for Texas Instruments India, Bangalore as an analog circuit design engineer from 2004 (July) to 2011 (March). Anupam has been writing songs from his childhood. His biggest break was having two of his songs featured in the Bengali film, Autograph (2010) by Srijit Mukherji. Anupam wrote and composed Bneche Thakaar Gaan (বেঁচে থাকার গান), sung by Rupam Islam and Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao (আমাকে আমার মত থাকতে দাও ), which he sung himself. This song, though sung very off key, went on to become one of the biggest hits of recent times and fetched him numerous awards. Anupam, subsequently debuted as music director for the Bengali movie "Chalo Paltai" (2011). In the same year movies like Baishe Srabon, Rang Milanti released where he continued his work as a music director, lyricist & vocalist. The songs "Gobhire Jao", "Ekbar Bol", "Ei Shrabon", "Je Kota Din" from the film Baishe Srabon have become very popular. He recently released "Durbine Chokh Rakhbona", his first solo album which contains the hit "Tistaan" and also the original version of "Beche Thakar Gaan". His next venture as music director/lyricist/vocalist was Hemlock Society. All the songs have been well received with special mention to "Ekhon Anek Raat", "Phiriye Dewar Gaan", "Jawl Phoring" & "Amar Mawte". Anupam's live performance is backed by The Anupam Roy Band : Anupam & his band have performed LIVE in Anupam's writings have been featured in various online & print magazines & newspapers. He has helped in the running of an online bangla portal named Boipara(বইপাড়া) along with visual artist, Samit Roy, who was highly influential in shaping Anupam's writing style and skills. Anupam maintains his own blog, Alternative Bangla Print. Published in print, major little magazines Books Newspaper Anupam has two short films to his credit - Tiebreaker (2009) and Mind Radio (2010), both produced by TIIMMC. Both films are available online for public viewing. | 1 |
Duke of Cambridge Stakes | Duke of Cambridge Stakes 2012-06-20T15:01:31Z The Windsor Forest Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The race is one of several for older fillies which were introduced across Europe in 2004. These were designed as an incentive to keep more of their gender from being exported or prematurely retired to stud. The Windsor Forest Stakes is now contested on the second day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. Most successful horse: Leading jockey: Leading trainer (3 wins): a The 2005 running took place at York. , Duke of Cambridge Stakes 2013-07-30T20:12:08Z The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (previously the Windsor Forest Stakes) is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The race is one of several for older fillies which were introduced across Europe in 2004. These were designed as an incentive to keep more of their gender from being exported or prematurely retired to stud. It was renamed the Duke of Cambridge Stakes in 2013 in honour of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. The Duke of Cambridge Stakes is now contested on the second day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. Most successful horse: Leading jockey (2 wins): Leading trainer (3 wins): a The 2005 running took place at York. | 1 |
Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) | Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) 2012-01-04T05:58:25Z The Football Association of Sabah (Malay: Persatuan Bola Sepak Sabah) is a registered football association affiliated with the Football Association of Malaysia. The association's football team competes in Malaysia's football league representing the state of Sabah in Borneo. Sabah FA is a professional football club and one of the 14 state teams of the Malaysian football structure. They currently competes in Malaysia's top professional football league, the Malaysia Super League. The team's home matches are played at the 30,000 capacity Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Sabah. The North Borneo Football Club(NBFC) changed its name to Sabah Amateur Football Association(SAFA) in 1977 prior to joining the Malaysia Football League. Past players include James Wong, Hassan Sani, Peter Rajah, and striker Matlan Marjan who scored a double against England 12th of June 1991 Sabah was a well known team during the Malaysian football semi-pro era as state team produced many quality players namely the trio of James Wong, Hassan Sani, and Peter Rajah. These players during their time led Sabah to become one of Malaysian football's most feared teams during the 80's. One fine example was during the 1979 Malaysian League where Sabah started slowly. After a run of 8 matches, they stood with 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses but, during the later stages they stepped up a gear or five by winning all their remaining 8 matches with most of them by huge margins, including an incredible 8–0 thrashing of Sarawak, 7-0 hammering of Perak FA and the 6–1 beating of Terengganu FA. At the end of the season, Sabah finished as runners-up behind Singapore and became the highest scoring team with 49 goals in 12 games, which is an average of 3 goals per game. When professional football was introduced by Football Association of Malaysia, Sabah also made a reputation of being one of the Malaysian League's most competitive teams. Quality professional players were produced from the ranks during the 1990s, most notably Matlan Marjan who helped Sabah finish as runners-up during 1993 and 1994 Malaysia FA Cup, and who at one time was appointed as the national team captain by the then Malaysian national team coach Claude LeRoy. The positive results gained from the beginning of professional era however was cut short by the match fixing scandal that rocked Malaysian football in 1994. The scandal almost destroyed Sabah and Malaysian football in general. Sadly, Matlan was the one of several players found guilty for being involved in the scandal. As a punishment for their involvement in match fixing, he and the other players were banned for life by FIFA from being involved in football. After the scandal, Sabah began its rebuilding process to regain their reputation in Malaysian football. Sabah won their first professional trophy, the Malaysia FA Cup in 1995. In the 1996 season, Sabah won their first league title and went through to the final of the Malaysia Cup for the first time but were beatened by Selangor FA on penalties. The 2000 season could be considered as Sabah's worst since joining the Malaysian professional league. They were relegated to the second division and could not get past the group stages of the Malaysia Cup. However, Sabah quickly regained its performance in the 2001 season where they finished as runners-up behind Johor FC. In the 2002 season, Sabah lining up players of calibre such as Zainizam Marjan, Khairul Azman Mohamed, and foreign striker Josiah Seton, finished third in the league and again managed to get through to the final of Malaysia Cup by beating Selangor Public Bank and Perak FA. Sabah however finished as runners-up yet again by losing to the same team that beat them in 1996 final, Selangor FA. This time, Sabah lost by 'golden goal' scored by Mohd Amri Yahyah. In 2003, Sabah again finished third in Malaysia Premier League One. Sabah again reached the final of Malaysia Cup. This time they lost to club-side Selangor MPPJ by 3–0, with hattrick from Juan Manuel Arostegui. When Malaysian Super League was introduced in 2004, Sabah struggled to be competitive against other teams in the top league. Sabah only managed to stay in Super League for two seasons as they were relegated to Malaysia Premier League for the 2005/06 season. After the relegation to 2nd tier league, Sabah continued to struggle for promotion to get back into the top division. They lost to Pahang FA in the 2006/07 season play-off for a place in 2007/08 Malaysia Super League. For the 2009 season, due to Football Association of Malaysia's new ruling of not allowing teams to hire foreign players, Sabah fielded an all-local team with home-grown talent and home-based players with two local imports to strengthen the squad and to compete in Malaysia Premier League, Malaysia FA Cup, and Malaysia Cup. After 6 years playing in the 2nd tier Premier League, Australian coach Gary Phillips was able to guide Sabah to promotion in 2010 - his first season in charge. They have been playing in the 2011 Super League. 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. 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. Local players Import players, Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) 2013-12-29T03:57:00Z The Sabah Football Association are an football association who supervising the football in the state of Sabah. The Sabah Football Team or Sabah FA is a registered professional football club under the supervision of Football Association of Sabah. The association's football team competes in Malaysia's football league representing the state of Sabah in Borneo. Sabah is a professional football team and one of the 14 state teams of the Malaysian football structure. They currently competes in Malaysia's second division professional football league, the Malaysia Premier League. The team's home matches are played at the 30,000 capacity Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Sabah. In the 1950s until 1963 Sabah competed as North Borneo football team in the Borneo Cup together with Sarawak football team and Brunei football team. The North Borneo Football Association (NBFA) changed its name to Sabah Amateur Football Association (SAFA). Sabah qualify into the Malaysia Cup for the first time in 1977 and enter the competition in 1978. Sabah was a well known team during the Malaysian football amateur and semi-pro era as state team produced many quality players namely the trio of James Wong, Hassan Sani and Peter Rajah. These players during their time led Sabah to become one of Malaysian football's most feared teams during the 80's. One fine example was during the 1979 Malaysian League where Sabah started slowly. After a run of 8 matches, they stood with 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses but, during the later stages they stepped up a gear or five by winning all their remaining 8 matches with most of them by huge margins, including an incredible 8–0 thrashing of Sarawak, 11–0 hammering of Perak FA and the 6–1 beating of Terengganu FA. At the end of the season, Sabah finished as runners-up behind Singapore FA and became the highest scoring team with 49 goals in 12 games, which is an average of 3 goals per game. In 1991, Sabah striker Matlan Marjan became the first Malaysia to scored a double against England in 'A' international matches on 12 June 1991. When professional football was introduced by Football Association of Malaysia, Sabah also made a reputation of being one of the Malaysian League's most competitive teams. Quality professional players were produced from the ranks during the 1990s, most notably Matlan Marjan who helped Sabah finish as runners-up during 1993 and 1994 Malaysia FA Cup, and who at one time was appointed as the national team captain by the then Malaysian national team coach Claude LeRoy. The positive results gained from the beginning of professional era however was cut short by the match fixing scandal that rocked Malaysian football in 1994. The scandal almost destroyed Sabah and Malaysian football in general. Sadly, Matlan was the one of several players found guilty for being involved in the scandal. As a punishment for their involvement in match fixing, he and the other players were banned for life by FIFA from being involved in football. After the scandal, Sabah began its rebuilding process to regain their reputation in Malaysian football. Sabah won their first professional trophy, the Malaysia FA Cup in 1995. In the 1996 season, Sabah won their first league title and went through to the final of the Malaysia Cup for the first time but were beatened by Selangor FA on penalties. The 2000 season could be considered as Sabah's worst since joining the Malaysian professional league. They were relegated to the second division and could not get past the group stages of the Malaysia Cup. However, Sabah quickly regained its performance in the 2001 season where they finished as runners-up behind Johor FC. In the 2002 season, Sabah lining up players of calibre such as Zainizam Marjan, Khairul Azman Mohamed, and foreign striker Josiah Seton, finished third in the league and again managed to get through to the final of Malaysia Cup by beating Selangor Public Bank and Perak FA. Sabah however finished as runners-up yet again by losing to the same team that beat them in 1996 final, Selangor FA. This time, Sabah lost by 'golden goal' scored by Mohd Amri Yahyah. In 2003, Sabah again finished third in Malaysia Premier League One. Sabah again reached the final of Malaysia Cup. This time they lost to club-side Selangor MPPJ by 3–0, with hattrick from Juan Manuel Arostegui. When Malaysian Super League was introduced in 2004, Sabah struggled to be competitive against other teams in the top league. Sabah only managed to stay in Super League for two seasons as they were relegated to Malaysia Premier League for the 2005/06 season. After the relegation to 2nd tier league, Sabah continued to struggle for promotion to get back into the top division. They lost to Pahang FA in the 2006/07 season play-off for a place in 2007/08 Malaysia Super League. After 6 years playing in the 2nd tier Premier League, Australian coach Gary Phillips was able to guide Sabah to promotion in 2010 - his first season in charge. After poor results which have affected Sabah's performance in the 2011 league and also the cup, Gary Phillips was replaced by Justin Ganai to save Sabah from relegation zone. Ganai improved Sabah FA performance in 2011 Malaysia Cup where the team reached the quarterfinals. Sabah are currently playing in the 2012 Malaysia Super League. Likas Stadium is the current home ground for Sabah FA. Penampang Stadium is occasionally used for afternoon matches, usually when Likas Stadium was renovated or if floodlights require maintenance. Tawau Sports Complex is a regular venue that only for the Malaysia Premier League. Sabah FA was formerly called the Rhinos since the golden 90s era but in 2010 SAFA changed the mascot to Hawks to rebrand the ailing football team. It was a controversial move as Kuala Lumpur FA was already known as the Hawks which dumbfounded SAFA. Most Sabahans today still referred Sabah FA as the Rhinos. Sabah FA neighbouring rival is Sarawak FA with both claiming the title of 'the best in Borneo' and referred to as the Borneo derby. 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Jillian Ward | Jillian Ward 2015-01-02T09:57:33Z {{Infobox musical artist |name = Jillian Ward |background = non_performing_personnel |image = |caption = |birth_name = Jhyllianne Ward |birth_date = (2005-02-23) February 23, 2005 (age 19) |School = Atteneo De Manila University Grade Prep |origin = Manila, Philippines |occupation =Actress, model |genre = Action, fantasy, drama, comedy, horror |notable role = Mara Clara |years_active = 2010–present |label = GMA Records |associated_actsf Gertrudis "Trudis" Capili in [[Trudis Liit Idol KO si Ana Marie dungo Ward was born as Jhyllianne Warde in Manila, Philippines, to a mother who is half-American, and half-Filipina. She first appeared in a commercial for Promil. Before she was introduced in GMA Network's recently TV remake of the classic film Trudis Liit, she had played the role of Daldalita in The Last Prince. AWARD TO HER CARMELA 2013 |}AWARD TO HER CUTE 2010 |}AWARD TO HER DRAMA 2008, Jillian Ward 2016-12-23T08:59:45Z Jillian Ward (born February 23, 2005) is a Filipina child actress, commercial model and singer. She is known for playing the title role of Gertrudis "Trudis" Capili in GMA Network's latest Sine Novela Trudis Liit. Ward was born as Jhyllianne Ward in Manila, Philippines, to a mother who is half-American, and half-Filipina. She first appeared in a commercial for Promil. Before she was introduced in GMA Network's recently TV remake of the classic film Trudis Liit, she had played the role of Daldanika in The Last Prince. | 1 |
Marko Arnautović | Marko Arnautović 2016-01-02T20:59:37Z Marko Arnautović (born 19 April 1989) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Stoke City and the Austria national team. Arnautović began his career in his native Austria playing in the youth teams for a number of clubs in the Vienna area before he signed a contract with Dutch club Twente in 2006. He impressed at De Grolsch Veste and after a fine 2008–09 season he joined Italian giants Internazionale on loan, where he made only three appearances due to injury. He joined German side Werder Bremen in June 2010 and became a regular member of the first team. In September 2013 Arnautović joined English Premier League side Stoke City. A full international for Austria since 2008, he helped the nation to qualify for UEFA Euro 2016. Arnautović was born in Floridsdorf, a district in the northern part of Vienna to a Serbian father and an Austrian mother. He is fluent in German, Serbian, Dutch, and English. Arnautović began his career with his brother Danijel at Floridsdorfer AC. In 1998 he joined FK Austria Wien but behaviour issues saw him change club regularly as in the next six years he played for First Vienna FC 1894, a second spell at FK Austria Wien, SK Rapid Wien before he returned to Floridsdorfer AC. Despite this he was scouted by Dutch club FC Twente who signed him in 2006. Arnautović scored 22 goals in 24 games for the Under-19 FC Twente in the 2007–08 season, helping them win the youth championship. He then played for Jong FC Twente between 2006 and 2008, appearing in 32 games and scoring 27 goals. Arnautović made his professional debut for FC Twente in the 2006–07 season as a substitute for Kennedy Bakircioglü against PSV Eindhoven in April 2007. In July 2008, he extended his contract with Twente despite interest from Dutch giants Feyenoord. He made 16 appearances in 2007–08 as Twente finished in fourth position and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. In the 2008–09 season Arnautović scored 14 goals in 41 matches as Twente finished 2nd in the Eredivisie and reached the knock phase of the UEFA Cup. In Match 2009 after a league match against Willem II, one of Twente opponents, Ibrahim Kargbo, accused Arnautović of racially abusing him. After an investigation by the Dutch Football Association they found no evidence against him and the case was dismissed. On 4 August 2009, it was said that Arnautović was on the verge of a move to Italian giants Internazionale. The deal had been largely held up due to a stress fracture in Arnautovic's right foot, leading to a re-negotiation of the deal between the clubs. On 6 August, it was announced by Twente that the details for the loan had been finalised, Arnautović would join Inter on loan for the season. The deal was said to become permanent if he was to play a set number of matches. If the deal did not become permanent the player would return to Twente on a pre-agreed contract of two years, with an option to extend the contract for a third year. He made his unofficial debut for Inter Milan in a friendly game on 5 September 2009 against Swiss team, Lugano, the final score was 3–3. He made his league debut in a 1–0 away victory against Chievo on 6 January 2010. He played in their next match against Siena coming on as a substitute at half time for the injured Dejan Stanković and helped Inter to win the match 4–3. He played one more match for Inter against Atalanta on 24 April 2010. At the end of the season Inter decided against turning his loan in a permanent move and José Mourinho stated that Arnautovic "is a fantastic person but has the attitude of a child". On 4 June 2010, German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen confirmed that they had signed Arnautović from Twente on a four-year deal. Before he had played a match for Bremen he irked their captain Torsten Frings who branded him as "arrogant". He made his Bundesliga debut on 21 August 2010 in a 4–1 defeat against Hoffenheim. Arnautović scored twice against 1. FC Köln on 28 August 2010, his first goals for Bremen. He ended the 2010–11 season at the Weserstadion with five goals in 34 appearances as Bremen finished in 13th position and he also played in the Champions League. In 2011–12 he scored six goals in 20 appearances as Bremen finished in ninth position. In March 2012, he was ruled out for two months with a knee ligament injury he suffered whilst playing with his dog. In 2012–13, Arnautović played in 27 matches and scored five goals which included a hat-trick on 2 December 2012 away at Hoffenheim, including an impressive free kick, as Bremen won 4–1. In April 2013, Arnautović and his Bremen team-mate Eljero Elia were caught speeding and were both suspended by the club. On 2 September 2013, Arnautović joined Premier League side Stoke City on a four-year contract for a fee of £2 million. He was assigned the number 10 shirt by manager Mark Hughes who also described his signing as a coup—"People will very quickly see what an outstanding talent he is. In terms of his power and his pace, which is something I think we need in the squad, he ticks all the boxes. Technically he's excellent and I'm really looking forward to working with him. I think it's quite a coup to get him here. It made sense to us and made sense to him that this is the right club for him. He's got a real desire to make an impression." Arnautović made his Stoke debut twelve days later in a 0–0 draw against Manchester City at the Britannia Stadium. After spending a month at the club, manager Hughes stated that Arnautović had adapted well to English football after being give a free-role in the side. On 26 October, he scored his first goal for Stoke, a 25-yard free-kick in a 3–2 defeat against Manchester United. Arnautović ended his first season in England with five goals in 35 appearances, and the team finished in ninth position in the Premier League. After making little impact in the first few matches of the 2014–15 season, Arnautović lost his place in the side. He regained his form towards the end of the campaign and returned to a regular place. He scored once in 29 league appearances over the campaign: an 95th-minute equaliser against West Ham United on 11 April 2015, having earlier in the match had two goals disallowed for offside. He played 35 times in 2014–15 as Stoke finished in ninth position. Arnautović's first appearance of the 2015–16 season came in a 2–2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on 15 August, scoring the team's first goal as they came back from 2–0 down. He scored the only goal of Stoke's victory over champions Chelsea on 7 November, and both goals against Manchester City on 5 December in a 2–0 home victory. On 28 December, Arnautović won a last-minute penalty kick against Everton at Goodison Park when he was fouled by John Stones, and sent it past goalkeeper Tim Howard to win the match 4–3. Arnautović played with the Austrian U19s in the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship where he was sent-off in their second match and failed to make it out of the group stage. After scoring three goals in five matches for the Austria U21s, Arnautović earned praise from manager Andreas Herzog who described him the best Austrian footballer of 30 years. Arnautović played his first match for the Austria national senior team on 11 October 2008 against the Faroe Islands. He scored his first goals for Austria in a 3–0 win over Azerbaijan on 8 October 2010. Arnautović started in all ten of Austria's matches during their successful UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, scoring in a win over Montenegro and both fixtures against neighbours Liechtenstein. Arnautović is married to Sarah, and together they have a daughter, Emilia. During his time spent in Italy and Germany, Arnautović developed a bad reputation with the media and is viewed by them as "the bad boy of Austrian football". Speaking on the matter in October 2013, he admitted he is no angel but insists the birth of his daughter has made him "grow up.", Marko Arnautović 2017-12-31T16:30:26Z Marko Arnautović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Арнаутовић, German pronunciation: ; born 19 April 1989) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club West Ham United and the Austria national team. Arnautović began his career in his native Austria playing in the youth teams for a number of clubs in the Vienna area before he signed a contract with Dutch club Twente in 2006. He impressed at De Grolsch Veste and after a fine 2008–09 season he joined Italian giants Internazionale on loan, where he made only three appearances due to injury. He joined German side Werder Bremen in June 2010 and became a regular member of the first team. In September 2013 Arnautović joined English side Stoke City. He spent four seasons in Stoke scoring 26 goals in 145 appearances. He joined West Ham United in July 2017 for a fee of £20 million. A full international for Austria since 2008, he helped the nation to qualify for UEFA Euro 2016. Arnautović was born in Floridsdorf, a district in the northern part of Vienna to a Serbian father and an Austrian mother. Arnautović began his career with his brother Danijel at Floridsdorfer AC. In 1998, he joined FK Austria Wien but behaviour issues saw him change club regularly as in the next six years he played for First Vienna FC 1894, a second spell at FK Austria Wien, SK Rapid Wien before he returned to Floridsdorfer AC. Despite this he was scouted by Dutch club FC Twente who signed him in 2006. Arnautović scored 22 goals in 24 matches for the Under-19 FC Twente in the 2007–08 season, helping them win the youth championship. He then played for Jong FC Twente between 2006 and 2008, appearing in 32 matches and scoring 27 goals. Arnautović made his professional debut for FC Twente in the 2006–07 season as a substitute for Kennedy Bakircioglü against PSV Eindhoven in April 2007. In July 2008, he extended his contract with Twente despite interest from Dutch giants Feyenoord. He made 16 appearances in 2007–08 as Twente finished in fourth position and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. In the 2008–09 season Arnautović scored 14 goals in 41 matches as Twente finished 2nd in the Eredivisie and reached the knock out phase of the UEFA Cup. In March 2009 after a league match against Willem II, one of Twente opponents, Ibrahim Kargbo, accused Arnautović of racially abusing him. After an investigation by the Dutch Football Association they found no evidence against him and the case was dismissed. On 4 August 2009, it was said that Arnautović was on the verge of a move to Italian giants Internazionale. The deal had been largely held up due to a stress fracture in Arnautović's right foot, leading to a re-negotiation of the deal between the clubs. On 6 August, it was announced by Twente that the details for the loan had been finalised, Arnautović would join Inter on loan for the season. The deal was said to become permanent if he was to play a set number of matches. If the deal did not become permanent the player would return to Twente on a pre-agreed contract of two years, with an option to extend the contract for a third year. He made his unofficial debut for Inter Milan in a friendly match on 5 September 2009 against Swiss team, Lugano, the final score was 3–3. He made his league debut in a 1–0 away victory against Chievo on 6 January 2010. He played in their next match against Siena coming on as a substitute at half time for the injured Dejan Stanković and helped Inter to win the match 4–3. He played one more match for Inter against Atalanta on 24 April 2010. At the end of the season Inter decided against turning his loan in a permanent move and José Mourinho stated that Arnautović "is a fantastic person but has the attitude of a child". On 4 June 2010, German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen confirmed that they had signed Arnautović from Twente on a four-year deal. Before he had played a match for Bremen he irked their captain Torsten Frings who branded him as "arrogant". He made his Bundesliga debut on 21 August 2010 in a 4–1 defeat against Hoffenheim. Arnautović scored twice against 1. FC Köln on 28 August 2010, his first goals for Bremen. He ended the 2010–11 season at the Weserstadion with five goals in 34 appearances as Bremen finished in 13th position and he also played in the Champions League. In 2011–12 he scored six goals in 20 appearances as Bremen finished in ninth position. In March 2012, he was ruled out for two months with a knee ligament injury he suffered whilst playing with his dog. In 2012–13, Arnautović played in 27 matches and scored five goals which included a hat-trick on 2 December 2012 away at Hoffenheim, including an impressive free kick, as Bremen won 4–1. In April 2013, Arnautović and his Bremen teammate Eljero Elia were caught speeding and were both suspended by the club. On 2 September 2013, Arnautović joined Premier League side Stoke City on a four-year contract for a fee of £2 million. He was assigned the number 10 shirt by manager Mark Hughes who also described his signing as a coup—"People will very quickly see what an outstanding talent he is. In terms of his power and his pace, which is something I think we need in the squad, he ticks all the boxes. Technically he's excellent and I'm really looking forward to working with him. I think it's quite a coup to get him here. It made sense to us and made sense to him that this is the right club for him. He's got a real desire to make an impression." Arnautović made his Stoke debut twelve days later in a 0–0 draw against Manchester City at the Britannia Stadium. After spending a month at the club, manager Hughes stated that Arnautović had adapted well to English football after being give a free-role in the side. On 26 October, he scored his first goal for Stoke, a 25-yard free-kick in a 3–2 defeat against Manchester United. Arnautović ended his first season in England with five goals in 35 appearances, and the team finished in ninth position in the Premier League. After making little impact in the first few matches of the 2014–15 season, Arnautović lost his place in the side. He regained his form towards the end of the campaign and returned to a regular place. He scored once in 29 league appearances over the campaign: an 95th-minute equaliser against West Ham United on 11 April 2015, having earlier in the match had two goals disallowed for offside. He played 35 times in 2014–15 as Stoke finished in ninth position. Arnautović's first appearance of the 2015–16 season came in a 2–2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on 15 August, scoring the team's first goal as they came back from 2–0 down. He scored the only goal of Stoke's victory over champions Chelsea on 7 November, and both goals against Manchester City on 5 December in a 2–0 home victory. On 28 December, Arnautović won a last-minute penalty kick against Everton at Goodison Park when he was fouled by John Stones, and sent it past goalkeeper Tim Howard to win the match 4–3. He scored the only goal of the League Cup semi-final second leg against Liverpool on 26 January 2016, forcing a penalty shootout which his team eventually lost. Arnautović went on to play 40 times for Stoke in 2015–16, finishing as the top scorer with 12 goals as the Potters again finished in ninth position. Arnautović signed a new four-year contract with Stoke in July 2016, keeping him contracted with the Potters until the summer of 2020. Arnautović made 35 appearances in 2016–17, as Stoke finished in 13th position. He scored seven goals including braces against Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Arnautović's future at Stoke was cast in doubt prior to the start of the 2017–18 season after he submitted a transfer request. On 22 July 2017, Arnautović signed for fellow Premier League team West Ham United on a five-year contract for a club record £20 million fee, which could rise to £25 million with add-ons. He made his debut on 13 August, playing the full 90 minutes of a 4–0 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford. In his next game six days later, he was sent off after 33 minutes for elbowing Southampton's Jack Stephens in a 3–2 away loss. In November, new manager David Moyes said that Arnautović had to work harder and be more of a team player or be dropped. He scored his first goal for the club on 9 December, the only one of a win over reigning champions Chelsea at the London Stadium, in what was Moyes' first victory as West Ham manager. He followed this with a goal in his first return to the bet365 Stadium in a 0–3 win against Stoke City on 16 December. Arnautović played with the Austrian under-19 side in the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship where he was sent-off in their second match and failed to make it out of the group stage. After scoring three goals in five matches for the Austria U21s, Arnautović earned praise from manager Andreas Herzog who described him the best Austrian footballer of 30 years. Arnautović played his first match for the Austria national senior team on 11 October 2008 against the Faroe Islands. He scored his first goals for Austria in a 3–0 win over Azerbaijan on 8 October 2010. Arnautović started in all ten of Austria's matches during their successful UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, scoring in a win over Montenegro and both fixtures against neighbours Liechtenstein. Arnautović is an Orthodox Christian. He is married to Sarah (née Lizakowski), and together they have a daughter, Emilia. During his time spent in Italy and Germany, Arnautović developed a bad reputation with the media and is viewed by them as "the bad boy of Austrian football". Speaking on the matter in October 2013, he admitted he is "not an angel" but insists the birth of his daughter has made him "grow up." | 1 |
James Tupper | James Tupper 2011-01-01T03:18:17Z James Tupper (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees and recently appeared as Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy (2009–10), which was cancelled by NBC in May 2010. Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied acting at Concordia University, Montreal, and later at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he earned a Master's Degree. Entertainment Tonight has reported that Anne Heche is romantically involved with Tupper. Heche's rep had no comment on the relationship. Tupper split from his wife in November 2006, according to ET. His rep had no comment when reached by People. The couple reportedly moved in together in August, 2007. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born over the weekend of March 7–8, 2009. In his spare time Tupper enjoys carpentry and birdwatching. After high school, he lived on a coffee farm in East Africa and studied Swahili. He has acted in several off-Broadway plays, including An Actor Prepares and After the Rain. Tupper co-wrote and appeared in 2005's Loudmouth Soup, a fully improvised indie that was filmed in one night that is soon to be released on video. He has had a recurring role on Samantha Who? as Samantha's love interest, Owen. Tupper is also scheduled to appear as Dr. Andrew Perkins on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy". He is scheduled to appear in at least 2 episodes in the show's seventh season premiering on September 23, 2010. He will play a trauma counselor. , James Tupper 2012-11-22T20:52:32Z James Tupper (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees and recently appeared as Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy (2009–10), which was cancelled by NBC in May 2010. Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied acting at Concordia University, Montreal, and later at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he earned a Master's Degree. Tupper split from his wife in November 2006 (according to Entertainment Tonight) and moved in with actress Anne Heche in August, 2007. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born over the weekend of March 7–8, 2009. In his spare time Tupper enjoys carpentry and birdwatching. After high school, he lived on a coffee farm in East Africa and studied Swahili. He has acted in several off-Broadway plays, including An Actor Prepares and After the Rain. Tupper co-wrote and appeared in 2005's Loudmouth Soup, a fully improvised indie that was filmed in one night that is soon to be released on video. He has had a recurring role on Samantha Who? as Samantha's love interest, Owen. Tupper appeared as Dr. Andrew Perkins, a trauma counselor, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. He appeared in 7 episodes in the show's seventh season. Currently Tupper has been appearing on ABC's Revenge since 2011. He is playing the character of David Clarke, the father of the main character. | 1 |
Neslihan Atagül | Neslihan Atagül 2018-01-09T11:16:38Z Neslihan Atagül Doğulu ( born in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish actress. She began her career at the age of thirteen. She has got a lot of international awards. She gave up to study at Yeditepe University theater department. Neslihan Atagül Doğulu was born on 20 August 1992 in Istanbul in Yasar Sene Atagül family. She resided with her family in Istanbul. Neslihan's father was a driver and her mother is a housewife. Her father is of Circassian descent while her mother is of Belarusian descent. She has a brother named Ilkay. Neslihan started dating her Fatih Harbiye co-star, Kadir Doğulu, in October 2013. They got engaged in November 2015 and were married in July 2016., Neslihan Atagül 2019-12-05T05:32:15Z Neslihan Atagül (born 20 August 1992) is a Turkish actress. Neslihan Atagül was born on 20 August 1992 in Istanbul. Neslihan's father was a driver and her mother a housewife. Her father is of Circassian and her mother of Belarusian descent. Neslihan started dating her Fatih Harbiye co-star, Kadir Doğulu, in October 2013. They got engaged in November 2015 and were married in July 2016. | 1 |
Naomi_Jaffe | Naomi_Jaffe 2007-12-04T21:53:15Z Naomi Esther Jaffe (1943-) is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization. Jaffe was recently the Executive Director of Holding Our Own, a multiracial foundation for women. Jaffe was born in upstate New York on a small family farm run by her Jewish parents. Her father was a poultry farmer and her mother an elementry school teacher. As a child she was influenced by her Communist relatives, their influence was reflected in her later revolutionary involvement. After high school she went on to attend Brandeis University and studied Marxism in a few classes with the professor and political theorist Herbert Marcuse. After receiving her undergraduate degree Jaffe founded a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society at The New School for Social Research where she was pursuing her graduate degree in sociology. During graduate school she formed a friendship with future Weatherman, David Gilbert. While in the SDS Jaffe worked for the independent publication New Left Notes and published an article about equal rights for women called “You Got the Look” coauthored with Bernadine Dohrn. Jaffe, a known member of the group Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W. I. T. C. H. ), participated in the 1969 demonstrations at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. The demonstrations were held to speak out against the consumer driven oppression of women, and to say that the Miss America Pageant perpetuated false stereotypes about the capabilities of women. In 1969, as a member and leading feminist of the SDS, Jaffe traveled with a group of people to Hanoi to talk to young Vietnamese about the American antiwar movement. FBI files indicate that Jaffe claimed to have helped Vietnamese women shoot down an American fighter jet while visiting Hanoi. In 1969 the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader. Jaffe joined the Weather Underground because the group believed in the self-determination of African American people; that they should have a revolution of their own without the total involvement of white middle class people. She also join because the group was radically anti-racist and anti-imperialist. As quoted by historian Dan Berger, Jaffe says the Weather Underground was “the most vital show in town. ” The organization was also aligned with her Marxist ideals. To join she had to set aside her feminist convictions, yet she always believed that the WUO should have focused more on women’s liberation. In September of 1969 she participated in “jailbreaks”, actions in which high school students were encouraged to leave class and run through the halls as though they were being freed from the prison that was their school. This action was to gain support for the "Days of Rage" also called the National Action. She and 25 other Weatherwomen, including Cathy Wilkerson, were arrested in Pittsburgh, PA for that act. From October 8-11, 1969 Jaffe participated in the "Days of Rage" in Chicago where members of the WUO, after having taken control of the SDS, ran through the streets smashing windows and causing chaos, she was arrested on October 11 for battery and resisting arrest. In 1970 Jaffe was indicted in Detroit, Michigan for her participation in the 1969 Flint, Michigan War Council, the final public meeting of the Weatherman controlled SDS before the dissolution of the SDS in January 1970. According to scholarly researchers, such as Dan Berger, 13 people were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bombings and murders. After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, in March 1970, she went underground. Jaffe then found it necessary to cut her long hair she had been growing since childhood and was quite attached to. She also cut ties with her tight knit family because it was what she needed to do to become a revolutionary. Although her whereabouts from 1970 to 1978 are mostly unknown, in 1971 the FBI lifted her fingerprints from an abandoned apartment in San Francisco, California. Summaries of surveillance files indicate that the apartment had been rented by Weathermen from 1970 to 1971 and contained bomb making material, the FBI called the apartment a bomb factory. While underground Jaffe helped to design and publish Weather’s short lived publication, Osawatomie. Around 1975, while living on the East Coast, Jaffe expressed concerns about the direction the group was taking; because of her feminist background she most likely wanted Weather to refocus on women’s issues, this lead to her becoming estranged from the group. She was living on her own and not in a collective, so when she showed up to a planned meeting and no one else showed she realized she was out. Jaffe resurfaced in 1978. In an unpublished critique of Prairie Fire, written soon after Weather split up, Jaffe wrote harshly about the problems with the Weather Underground’s lack of focus on feminist issues. After she resurfaced, Jaffe spent a great deal of time reassessing her priorities as an activist. In the last 20 years she has focused much of her attention on feminism, lesbian issues, and anti-racism in New York State. Today Jaffe is a mother of one son and lives in Albany, New York with her life partner. Having continued a life of activism, Jaffe has worked on a local Free Mumia Committe and she is also the former Executive Director of the organization Holding Our Own, an anti-racist women’s funding foundation. Jaffe was also prominently featured in the 2002 documentary film The Weather Underground. , Naomi_Jaffe 2010-01-07T14:52:03Z Naomi Esther Jaffe (1943-) is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization. Jaffe was recently the Executive Director of Holding Our Own, a multiracial foundation for women. Jaffe was born in upstate New York on a small family farm run by her Jewish parents. Her father was a poultry farmer and her mother an elementary school teacher. As a child she was influenced by her Communist relatives, their influence was reflected in her later revolutionary involvement. After high school she went on to attend Brandeis University and studied Marxism in a few classes with the professor and political theorist Herbert Marcuse. After receiving her undergraduate degree Jaffe founded a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society at The New School for Social Research where she was pursuing her graduate degree in sociology. During graduate school she formed a friendship with future Weatherman, David Gilbert. While in the SDS Jaffe worked for the independent publication New Left Notes and published an article about equal rights for women called “The Look Is You” coauthored with Bernardine Dohrn. Jaffe, a known member of the group Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W. I. T. C. H. ), participated in the 1969 demonstrations at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. The demonstrations were held to speak out against the consumer driven oppression of women, and to say that the Miss America Pageant perpetuated false stereotypes about the capabilities of women. In 1969, as a member and leading feminist of the SDS, Jaffe traveled with a group of people to Hanoi to talk to young Vietnamese about the American antiwar movement. In 1969 the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader. Jaffe joined the Weather Underground because the group believed in the self-determination of African American people; that they should have a revolution of their own without the total involvement of white middle class people. She also joined because the group was radically anti-racist and anti-imperialist. As quoted by historian Dan Berger, Jaffe says the Weather Underground was “the most vital show in town. ” The organization was also aligned with her Marxist ideals. To join she had to set aside her feminist convictions, yet she always believed that the WUO should have focused more on women’s liberation. In September 1969 she participated in “jailbreaks”, actions in which high school students were encouraged to leave class and run through the halls as though they were being freed from the prison that was their school. This action was to gain support for the "Days of Rage" also called the National Action. She and 25 other Weatherwomen, including Cathy Wilkerson, were arrested in Pittsburgh, PA for that act. From October 8-11, 1969 Jaffe participated in the "Days of Rage" in Chicago where members of the WUO, after having taken control of the SDS, ran through the streets smashing windows and causing chaos, she was arrested on October 11 for battery and resisting arrest. In 1970 Jaffe was indicted in Detroit, Michigan for her participation in the 1969 Flint, Michigan War Council, the final public meeting of the Weatherman controlled SDS before the dissolution of the SDS in January 1970. According to scholarly researchers, such as Dan Berger, 13 people were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bombings and murders. These charges were later dropped. After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in March, 1970, Jaffe went underground. She found it necessary to cut her beloved long hair which she had been growing since childhood; she also cut ties with her tight-knit family because it was what she needed to do to become a revolutionary (or, simply, to elude capture by the FBI). Although her whereabouts from 1970 to 1978 are mostly unknown, in 1971 the FBI lifted her fingerprints from an abandoned apartment in San Francisco, California. Summaries of surveillance files indicate that the apartment had been rented by Weathermen from 1970 to 1971 and contained bomb making material; the FBI called the apartment a bomb factory. While underground Jaffe helped to design and publish Weather’s short-lived publication, Osawatomie. Around 1975, while living on the East Coast, Jaffe expressed concerns about the direction the group was taking: because of her feminist background she most likely wanted them to refocus on women’s issues, and this led to her becoming estranged from the group. She was living on her own and not in a collective, so when she showed up to a planned meeting and no one else showed, she realized she was out. Jaffe resurfaced in 1978. In an unpublished critique of Prairie Fire, written soon after Weather split up, Jaffe wrote harshly about the problems with the Weather Underground’s lack of focus on feminist issues. After she resurfaced, Jaffe spent a great deal of time reassessing her priorities as an activist. In the last 20 years she has focused much of her attention on feminism, lesbian issues, and anti-racism in New York State. Today Jaffe is a mother of one son and lives in Albany, New York with her life partner. Having continued a life of activism, Jaffe has worked on a local Free Mumia Committee and she is also the former Executive Director of the organization Holding Our Own, an anti-racist women’s funding foundation. Jaffe was also prominently featured in the 2002 documentary film The Weather Underground. | 0 |
Big_Pig_Jig | Big_Pig_Jig 2008-09-15T21:34:21Z The Big Pig Jig (official name Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig) is a barbecue cooking competition held annually in Vienna, Georgia. It is the state pork cook-off of Georgia. A small group of self-proclaimed pig cookers decided to start a barbecue competition in their hometown of Marietta, Georgia in 1982. Their idea was to mix a barbecue competition with an arts and crafts fair into one big event. It was named the "Big Pig Jig", because the main type of meat that was cooked was pork. After the competition was over, the competitors packed their supplies, and went home. Soon after, the men bought some land by I-75 on Highway 215 in Vienna, and began building from the ground up. The competition gained respect from all over Georgia and was featured on The Food Network as one of the top barbecue competitions in the United States, and listed on The Travel Channel as one of the world's top 10 barbecue contests. In 1999, it was recognized as one of the top five hundred in America’s Top Festivals. Starting off with just twenty teams in 1982, it now has over one hundred competing for the top prize. The winner of the competition gets to compete in the Memphis, Tennessee in the world’s largest barbecue cook off and a cash prize of twelve thousand dollars. More than twenty-five other small town barbecue competitions have risen since 1982 when the Big Pig Jig first started. Vienna, Georgia is now known as BBQ City, U. S. A. In 1982, there were only about 20 teams competing in the Big Pig Jig. The teams competed in whole hog only and the winner was awarded one thousand dollars as a cash prize. After a few years, the Pig Jig gained some interest from all over and soon the cash prize was raised up to ten thousand dollars. The up in prize money brought in more and more cooking teams from all over. The festival then, had enough money to expand from just a cook-off to an arts and crafts exhibit, academic quiz bowl, A 5K Hog Jog, and even a golf scholarship tournament. Twenty five years, one hundred and fifty teams, five hundred entries of ribs, shoulders, Brunswick stew, barbecue chickens, and hogs later, the competition has attracted over twenty-five thousand spectators and requires over three-hundred and fifty judges to try all of the good barbecue dishes. Mike Mitchell, a former competitor, said that it was easy to place in the top three with only about fifty judges, but now with over three hundred, he hasn’t seen a top-ten finish in a decade. Mitchell stated, "I wish it would be like it used to be about ten years ago…. not too many people, little noise, and you knew everyone’s name. " Mitchell also stated that he was glad that his small town, which no one had ever noticed, was finally getting some recognition for its potential though. Following the rules, and impressing the judges are the two key factors in winning the title of best barbecuers. Each team is allowed to cook with any type of wood or charcoal that they can provide, and electricity or gas can ONLY be used to start the fire. Once the fire is started, only wood or charcoal can be used to cook the meat. All preparation of the meat must be done during the competition. Any team using meat in which was pre-prepared will be eliminated. The only thing that the teams are all provided with is a 20 x 20 cooking area and access to water. All other equipment and necessities are provided by the team. Judging starts at 10:00 a. m. the first morning of the Pig Jig. Judges first try the team’s whole hog. Starting at 11:30, Judges then go around sampling the team’s shoulder meat. Finally, at 1:00 the ribs are tested by all of the judges for deliberation. The judges have all day to tally up the votes for the winners and at about 9:00 that night, the winner is announced on the main stage to everyone. The winning team of each category gets an additional two thousand dollars plus paid entry to the Memphis in May Cook-off in Memphis, Tennessee. , Big_Pig_Jig 2009-10-22T00:47:23Z The Big Pig Jig (official name Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig) is a barbecue cooking competition held annually in Vienna, Georgia. It is the state pork cook-off of Georgia. In 1982, a group of "pig cookers" in Marietta, Georgia, created the Big Pig Jig by combining a barbecue competition with an arts and crafts fair. From 20 teams in 1982, the event now has about 100 teams competing. Currently, the winner of the competition receives $12,000 and is invited to compete in the barbecue cook-off in Memphis, Tennessee. At the first Big Pig Jig, the teams competed in the "Whole Hog" category only, and the winner was awarded $1,000. The competition currently includes an academic quiz bowl, a 5K "Hog Jog", and a golf scholarship tournament. Since its inception the competition has had about 25,000 spectators, and now requires about 350 judges. Teams may cook with any type of wood or charcoal. Electricity or gas can be used to start the fire. All preparation of the meat must be done during the competition. Mike Mitchell, a former competitor, said it was once easy to place in the top three with only about 50 judges, but now with over 300, he hasn’t been in a top-ten finish in a decade. Mitchell stated, "I wish it would be like it used to be about ten years ago…. not too many people, little noise, and you knew everyone’s name. " | 0 |
Pro_Tools_(album) | Pro_Tools_(album) 2008-02-28T15:27:45Z Template:Future album Pro Tools is an upcoming compilation album by GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan featuring many Killa Beez, scheduled for release on January 8, 1990 through Babygrande Records and Think Differently Music. The album comes over two years after his collaboration album with DJ Muggs, Grandmasters, and over five years after his last solo album, Legend of the Liquid Sword. Pro Tools is rumored to feature production from Wu-Elements producers RZA and Bronze Nazareth, as well as Preservation, Nottz, DJ Muggs, Timbaland, Dr. Dre, Jon Brion, Bob Rock, Glen Ballard, and Bink, and guest appearances from RZA, Raekwon, Bronze Nazareth, Mos Def, Sean Price, Killah Priest, dance group Justice, GZA's son Young Justice , Young Zee, and Young Jeezy. The album is being jointly executive produced by Barry Manilow and Bill Murray, who also feature on a humorous skit dissing 50 Cent. , Pro_Tools_(album) 2009-08-24T23:43:49Z Pro Tools is the sixth studio album by rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member GZA, released August 19, 2008 on Babygrande Records. The album follows three years after his collaboration album with DJ Muggs, Grandmasters, and over five years after his previous solo album, Legend of the Liquid Sword. Following its release, Pro Tools earned critical praise for its production quality and GZA's abstract and quality lyricism. The title was derived from Pro Tools, a production software program. In an interview with Vibe. com, he explained: Well, it’s the production software program, basically. The people at Babygrande were asking for a name. I was looking around the house, or the studio, and trying to come up with something, and I may have even been reading the actual Pro Tools manual and just went with that, and it works great with the album. Pro Tools features production from Wu-Elements producers RZA, True Master, Mathematics and Bronze Nazareth, as well as Arabian Knight, Dreddy Kruger, Preservation. Guest appearances range from RZA, Masta Killa and GZA's son Young Justice. GZA later said of this: I saw an ad out there where it’s promoted as a GZA album. I'll probably be on most of the tracks but its supposed to be a compilation album, there’s various artists on the album. GZA was asked about producers and having fewer guest appearances on the album. I’m not one who works with big producers because I expect that to make the album go double platinum. I remember once we paid $150,000 for a Trackmasters beat once, with Ron Isley singing, the “Back In The Game” track off of Iron Flag, and it wasn’t even a single, so I don’t bother searching for names. I’d rather people buy the record because they want a GZA album, and then the extras be a surprise. The album as a whole has only two Clan members on it. The last day we were recording, I was in Paris supporting the Wu tour, and a call was put out that I was in the studio and the only two that showed up were RZA & Masta Killa, so that’s what we went with. My next album is going to be no guest appearances. Emcees need to start carrying their own weight. In the same interview, he gave a response about having only a few RZA-produced songs on the album: Well, you have to put in time with your producer, and RZA and I have been working back since I was 11 & he was 8 going to the Bronx to check out this hip hop stuff, so you have to know where they are coming from. Whenever I close my eyes and listen to his stuff, I can’t put a rhyme to it. His beats are more cinematic. The first single from the album "Paper Plate" was released on July 18 and has been circulated widely over the internet. The single continues the feud between 50 Cent and him. 50 Cent has not responded to the track. GZA, during a performance in Queens, New York, had this to say about 50 Cent: "a Nigga don't got fuckin lyrics". In response to a question about "Paper Plate", he said: You know what “Paper Plate” is about? just something that is lightweight and disposable. You can recycle it and get rid of it after you’re done with it. It’s just a statement that I wanted to get out, saying that “I’m lyrical and I’m not material. ” I’m a sum of a beautiful equation and sometimes these dudes need to just realize and respect the tradition of an emcee. I’ve been working in this game for a while to try and focus on the lyrical aspect of all this. It’s saying 50 Cent and G Unit could never write like me and I’m coming at it focusing on shelf life. I’m not trying to clown all the younger rappers, but just saying that there is so many things to be inspired by, so I don’t understand why people are still rhyming about the same thing. I’m trying to move forward a tradition, and you can see that when I’m going on a Liquid Swords tour 10 years after it came out. Wu-Tang has two or three generations of fans so we must be relevant. And what does it matter that they callin me grandpa? Cuz I fathered your style? | 0 |
Screen International | Screen International 2009-01-10T04:43:16Z Screen International is a multimedia film magazine international film business title published by FTSE 100-listed EMAP, which owns major magazines, radio stations, TV and interactive channels across the globe. It is primarily aimed at those involved in the global movie business. The weekly Screen International magazine in its current form was founded in 1976 with website added in 2001. The company also produces the market leading daily publications at festivals and markets in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto, American Film Market and Hong Kong. Screen has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, and a network of more than 40 correspondents around the world. Its conferences, including the annual European Film Finance Summit in Berlin and the UK Film Finance Conference in London are among the most influential events in the calendar, attracting big audiences and major industry figures. The magazine's average net circulation per issue, as audited by ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK) for the period 1st July 2006 to 30th June 2007, was 7,352. Each week, Screen is used by more than 34,000 film executives in more than 70 countries, with 22,000 registered users of the online services. Screen can trace its history back to the earliest days of the UK industry. 1889 Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger 1900 Becomes Cinematographic Journal 1907 Becomes Kine Weekly 1972 Becomes Today’s Cinema 1975 Becomes Screen International Since 1975, it has established itself as the voice of the international industry - the term used for all film outside the US domestic market. The title pioneered the daily news magazines that are now a fixture of the major film festivals. Many Screen journalists have gone on to become major industry figures, including Miramax UK head Colin Vaines. One of its finest journalists was editor in chief Oscar Moore, (also The Guardian columnist and novelist ) who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1996. The Oscar Moore Foundation was established in 1997 as a charitable foundation administered by Screen International. The aim of the Foundation, whose patron is the Oscar-winning screen-writer Emma Thompson, is to foster new European screenwriting talent by awarding an annual prize of £10,000 to the best first draft screenplay in a genre which changes each year. The title has seen increased competition in the 2000s with the LA trade titles Variety and Hollywood Reporter seeking to impose themselves on the international marketplace but has retained its position as the leading title in circulation and in market share of advertisements at the major markets, such as Cannes and Berlin. The current editor is Michael Gubbins, who is based in the main London office. The Hollywood office is run by another highly-experienced journalist Mike Goodridge, while the Asia bureau chief, based in Hong Kong is Liz Shackleton. Its official photographer is Andrew Douglas Ross who has captured the glitz and glamour on camera in major film festivals across the world for the past 14 years. One of Screen's most influential areas of work is its international talent spotting under the Stars Of Tomorrow brand. A special edition to highlight up-and-coming talent was established in 2004 in the UK. It helped boost the careers of talents such as Oscar winning director Andrea Arnold (Red Road), the producer of Oscar-winning short Six Shooter, BAFTA winning actor James McAvoy and BAFTA nominee Emily Blunt. 2005 Actors: 2007 Actors: 2007 Producers: 2007 Writers:, Screen International 2010-12-21T05:43:43Z No issues specified. Please specify issues, or remove this template. Screen International is a multimedia film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by EMAP, a British b2b media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global movie business. The weekly magazine in its current form was founded in 1976 with its website, screendaily.com, added in 2001. The company also produces the market's leading daily publications at film festivals and markets in Berlin, Germany; Cannes, France; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California; and Hong Kong. Screen International can trace its history back to the earliest days of the United Kingdom industry. Since 1975, it has established itself as the voice of the "international industry" — the term used for all film outside the United States domestic market. The magazine pioneered the daily news magazines that are now a fixture of the major film festivals. Many Screen International journalists have gone on to become major industry figures, including Colin Vaines, the head of the U.K. division of Miramax Films The magazine has seen increased competition in the 2000s with the U.S.-based trade titles Variety and The Hollywood Reporter seeking to impose themselves on the international marketplace but it has retained its position as the leading title in circulation and in market share of advertisements at the major markets, such as Cannes and Berlin. Screen International has offices in: | class="col-break " | |} It has a network of more than forty correspondents around the world. Its conferences, including the annual European Film Finance Summit in Berlin and the UK Film Finance Conference in London, are among the most influential events in the calendar, attracting big audiences and major industry figures. The magazine's average net circulation per issue, as audited by U.K.'s Audit Bureau of Circulations for the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, was 7,352. Each week, Screen International is used by more than 34,000 film executives in more than 70 countries, with 37,000 registered users of the online services. The current editor is Mike Goodridge, who is based in the main London office. The Los Angeles office is run by journalist Jeremy Kay, while the Asia bureau chief, based in Hong Kong, is Liz Shackleton. Its official photographer is Andrew Douglas Ross who has photographed at major film festivals across the world for the past fourteen years. A former editor in chief, Oscar Moore — who was also a columnist for The Guardian and a novelist — died of an AIDS-related illness in 1996. The Oscar Moore Foundation was established in 1997 as a charitable foundation administered by Screen International. The foundation's aim is to foster new European screenwriting talent by awarding an annual prize of UK£10,000 to the best first draft screenplay in a genre which changes each year. A foundation patron Emma Thompson, an actress and screenwriter who has won an Academy Award for both disciplines. One of Screen International's most influential areas of work is its international talent spotting under the Stars Of Tomorrow brand. A special edition of the magazine to highlight up-and-coming talent was established in 2004 in the U.K. It helped to boost the careers of: 2005 Actors | class="col-break " | |} 2007 Actors | class="col-break " | |} 2007 Producers 2007 Writers | 1 |
Tom Basden | Tom Basden 2009-02-05T18:41:22Z Tom Basden (b. England, 1981) is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key. Basden was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon (in the same year group as actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes) and read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he was Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights. Basden's one man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Tom Basden Won't Say Anything won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island , which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. Basden replaced Tim Minchin as the resident musician for the second series of Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better where he appears along with Tim Key and Mark Watson. , Tom Basden 2010-12-16T21:38:37Z Tom Basden (b. England, 1981) is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key. Basden was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon (in the same year group as actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes) and read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he was Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights. Basden's one man show at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tom Basden Won't Say Anything won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island , which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. Basden replaced Tim Minchin as the resident musician for the second series of Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better where he appears along with Tim Key and Mark Watson. He appeared on "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" on Wednesday, 4th November 2009. | 1 |
HMS_Derwent_(1903) | HMS_Derwent_(1903) 2011-06-02T11:55:26Z HMS Derwent was a River-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the second ship named after one (or more) of the UK's River Derwents to serve in the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and launched on 14 February 1903. She sported the usual flush funnel tops, was 225 ft (69 m) long and her Yarrow water-tube boilers produced 7,000 hp (5,200 kW) and a top speed of 25. 5 kn (29. 3 mph; 47. 2 km/h). She was fitted with sponsons, rather than turbines. She was originally armed with one 12-pounder gun, but was upgraded with four such guns. She carried two 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes. She served in home waters during the First World War and was sunk off Le Havre, 400 yd (370 m) north of Whistle Buoy (approx 49°30′48″N 0°1′48″W / 49. 51333°N 0. 03000°W / 49. 51333; -0. 03000) on 2 May 1917 with 58 casualties by a mine laid by the German submarine UC-26., HMS_Derwent_(1903) 2012-04-26T20:30:42Z HMS Derwent was a River-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the second ship named after one (or more) of the UK's River Derwents to serve in the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and launched on 14 February 1903. She sported the usual flush funnel tops, was 225 ft (69 m) long and her Yarrow water-tube boilers produced 7,000 hp (5,200 kW) and a top speed of 25. 5 kn (29. 3 mph; 47. 2 km/h). She was fitted with sponsons, rather than turbines. She was originally armed with a single 12-pounder gun, but was upgraded to four such guns. She carried two 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes. She served in home waters during the First World War and was sunk off Le Havre, 400 yd (370 m) north of Whistle Buoy (approx 49°30′48″N 0°1′48″W / 49. 51333°N 0. 03000°W / 49. 51333; -0. 03000) on 2 May 1917 with 58 casualties by a mine laid by the German submarine UC-26. | 0 |
Virgil_Ross | Virgil_Ross 2009-12-24T01:37:44Z Virgil Walter Ross (August 8, 1907 – May 15, 1996) was an American artist, cartoonist, and animator best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts. Virgil Ross (as he was usually known) spent his early years in New York state and in Michigan, but his family moved to Long Beach, California, when he was in his late teens. This state was to be his primary home for the rest of his life. His introduction to cartooning was in high-school, where he took a class in that art form. Early work was done for Charles B. Mintz (later Screen Gems), Ub Iwerks studio, and then on to Walter Lantz, where he began animation work. In 1935, he moved on to work for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros. where he spent about 30 years, first under Tex Avery's supervision, until 1942, then for Bob Clampett, and finally with Friz Freleng. His résumé also includes time spent with such firms as Filmation (where he worked on the early '70s Star Trek: The Animated Series), Hanna Barbera, and Marvel Comics. He was notably self-effacing. In an interview with John Province in 1989, he is quoted as saying "I always had an eye for movement, and I think this kept me in the business a lot longer than a lot of guys, despite the fact that I really wasn't very good at drawing. When I started out in animation, you didn't have to be a good artist. I just had a little natural talent, and it's mostly just timing anyway. " Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. When handling long-eared characters such as Bugs or Wile E. , Ross occasionally tilted or waved an ear in otherwise-static scenes. As the animator for "A Wild Hare", generally regarded as the first appearance of Bugs Bunny, Ross had a first person view of the creation of the character. In the interview of Ross, published in Animato magazine #19, Virgil recalls (on page 17) how the character of Bugs Bunny came to be. He says in the interview, "We received orders from the story department that they needed a drawing of a bunny. We all did drawings and tacked them on the wall, and the storymen voted on them. We had one writer named "Bugs Hardaway, and for some reason, this one drawing became known as Bugs' Bunny. Leon Schlesinger liked the sound of the name and told them to keep it, and that's how Bugs Bunny got his name. Years later, before he died, Hardaway tried to get some credit for making the character, which he probably deserved. But Warner Bros owned the rights to everything we created. " Virgil Ross received the highest awards available in his profession: the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award (1984) and the Winsor McCay Award (1988). Four of the cartoons he had animated won Oscars: Tweety Pie (1947), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Birds Anonymous (1957), and Knighty Knight Bugs (1958). At Your Service, Madame (1935) Plane Dippy (1936) I Love to Singa (1936) Milk and Money (1936) Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) I Only Have Eyes for You (1937) A Sunbonnet Blue (1937) Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938) Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938) Screwball Football (1939) Believe It or Else (1939) Wacky Wildlife (1940) A Wild Hare (1940) All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) Porky's Preview (1941) Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner (1942) Nutty News (1942) Any Bonds Today? (1942) Aloha Hooey (1942) Life with Feathers (1945) (uncredited) Slightly Daffy (1944) (uncredited) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Baseball Bugs (1946) Slick Hare (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) (uncredited) The Gay Anties (1947) Kit for Cat (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Back Alley Oproar (1948) Which Is Witch? (1949) Each Dawn I Crow (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) (uncredited) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Mouse Mazurka (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Hare Do (1949) Wise Quackers (1949) Stooge for a Mouse (1950) Canary Row (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) All a Bir-r-r-rd (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) Home, Tweet Home (1950) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweety's S. O. S. (1951) His Hare Raising Tale (1951) Room and Bird (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) The Fair Haired Hare (1951) Putty Tat Trouble (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) Canned Feud (1951) Hare Lift (1952) Tree for Two (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) Gift Wrapped (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Robot Rabbit (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Ant Pasted (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Snow Business (1953) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) I Gopher You (1954) Dog Pounded (1954) Sandy Claws (1954) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Lumber Jerks (1955) Stork Naked (1955) Pests for Guests (1955) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Two Crows from Tacos (1956) Yankee Dood It (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tweet and Sour (1956) Gonzales' Tamales (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) A Bird in a Bonnet (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) A Waggily Tale (1958) A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) Tweet Dreams (1959) Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Trick or Tweet (1959) Lighter Than Hare (1960) Trip for Tat (1960) The Bugs Bunny Show (1960) TV Series The Flintstones (1960) TV Series From Hare to Heir (1960) Mouse and Garden (1960) Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) Person to Bunny (1960) Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960) Horse Hare (1960) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) The Rebel Without Claws (1961) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) Shishkabugs (1962) The Jet Cage (1962) Honey's Money (1962) Mexican Boarders (1962) Crow's Feat (1962) Quackodile Tears (1962) The Unmentionables (1963) Chili Weather (1963) Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963) Mexican Cat Dance (1963) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) Linus! The Lion Hearted (1964) (2 episodes): Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Hawaiian Aye Aye (1964) Nuts and Volts (1964) Dumb Patrol (1964) Chaser on the Rocks (1965) Highway Runnery (1965) Hairied and Hurried (1965) Just Plane Beep (1965) Boulder Wham! (1965) Tired and Feathered (1965) The Road Runner Show (1966) TV Series Clippety Clobbered (1966) The Solid Tin Coyote (1966) Out and Out Rout (1966) Shot and Bothered (1966) The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) TV Series The Spy Swatter (1967) The Music Mice-Tro (1967) Quacker Tracker (1967) The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968) TV Series The Archie Show (1968) TV Series The Batman/Superman Hour (1968) TV Series Archie's Fun House (1970) TV Series Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down (1970) (1 episode): Moochin' Pooch (1971) Chilly's Hide-a-Way (1971) Airlift à la Carte (1971) The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) (1 episode): Fritz the Cat (1972) Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) TV Series Journey Back to Oz (1974) Bobolink Pink (1975) Pink Elephant (1975) The Oddball Couple (1975) TV Series Pink Plasma (1975) Pink Da Vinci (1975) The Pink Panther Laugh and the Half Hour and Half Show (1976) TV Series The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976) TV Series Pink Piper (1976) The Fat Albert Christmas Special (1977) TV The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1978) TV Series Pinktails for Two (1978) The Pink of Bagdad (1978) Pink Press (1978) Cat and the Pinkstalk (1978) Pink Daddy (1978) Pink Lightning (1978) Pink Pictures (1978) The All New Pink Panther Show (1978) TV Series Winds of Change (1978) The Fantastic Four (1978) TV Series Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) TV Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979) TV The Great American Chase (1979) (segment "Bugs at Home") Pink in the Woods (1979) Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980) TV The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) Hey Good Lookin' (1982) The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982) TV Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983) The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour (1985) TV Series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) TV Series The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986) TV Series Christmas in Tattertown (1987) TV Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990) TV Series That's Warner Bros. ! (1995) TV Series, Virgil_Ross 2011-02-09T03:17:04Z Virgil Walter Ross (August 8, 1907 – May 15, 1996) was an American artist, cartoonist, and animator best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts. Virgil Ross (as he was usually known) spent his early years in New York state and in Michigan, but his family moved to Long Beach, California, when he was in his late teens. This state was to be his primary home for the rest of his life. His introduction to cartooning was in high-school, where he took a class in that art form. Early work was done for Charles B. Mintz (later Screen Gems), Ub Iwerks studio, and then on to Walter Lantz, where he began animation work. In 1935, he moved on to work for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros. where he spent about 30 years, first under Tex Avery's supervision, until 1942, then for Bob Clampett, and finally with Friz Freleng. His résumé also includes time spent with such firms as Filmation (where he worked on the early '70s Star Trek: The Animated Series), Hanna Barbera, and Marvel Comics. He was notably self-effacing. In an interview with John Province in 1989, he is quoted as saying "I always had an eye for movement, and I think this kept me in the business a lot longer than a lot of guys, despite the fact that I really wasn't very good at drawing. When I started out in animation, you didn't have to be a good artist. I just had a little natural talent, and it's mostly just timing anyway. " Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. When handling long-eared characters such as Bugs or Wile E. , Ross occasionally tilted or waved an ear in otherwise-static scenes. As the animator for "A Wild Hare", generally regarded as the first appearance of Bugs Bunny, Ross had a first person view of the creation of the character. The Lion King was the last film Virgil worked on before his death 2 years later. In the interview of Ross, published in Animato magazine #19, Virgil recalls (on page 17) how the character of Bugs Bunny came to be. He says in the interview, "We received orders from the story department that they needed a drawing of a bunny. We all did drawings and tacked them on the wall, and the storymen voted on them. We had one writer named Bugs Hardaway, and for some reason, this one drawing became known as Bugs' Bunny. Leon Schlesinger liked the sound of the name and told them to keep it, and that's how Bugs Bunny got his name. Years later, before he died, Hardaway tried to get some credit for making the character, which he probably deserved. But Warner Bros owned the rights to everything we created. " Virgil Ross received the highest awards available in his profession: the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award (1984) and the Winsor McCay Award (1988). Four of the cartoons he had animated won Oscars: Tweety Pie (1947), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Birds Anonymous (1957), and Knighty Knight Bugs (1958). Playful Pan (1930) Mickey's Good Deed (1932) At Your Service, Madame (1935) Plane Dippy (1936) I Love to Singa (1936) Milk and Money (1936) Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) I Only Have Eyes for You (1937) A Sunbonnet Blue (1937) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Lonesome Ghosts (1937) Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938) Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938) Screwball Football (1939) Believe It or Else (1939) Gulliver's Travels (1939) Wacky Wildlife (1940) A Wild Hare (1940) Fantasia (1940) Pinocchio (1940) All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) Porky's Preview (1941) Mr Bug Goes to Town (1941) Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner (1942) Nutty News (1942) Any Bonds Today? (1942) Aloha Hooey (1942) Bambi (1942) Chicken Little (1943) Life with Feathers (1945) (uncredited) Slightly Daffy (1944) (uncredited) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) No Sail (1945) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Baseball Bugs (1946) Slick Hare (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) (uncredited) The Gay Anties (1947) Kit for Cat (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Back Alley Oproar (1948) Which Is Witch? (1949) Each Dawn I Crow (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) (uncredited) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Mouse Mazurka (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Hare Do (1949) Wise Quackers (1949) Stooge for a Mouse (1950) Canary Row (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) All a Bir-r-r-rd (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) Home, Tweet Home (1950) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweety's S. O. S. (1951) His Hare Raising Tale (1951) Room and Bird (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) The Fair Haired Hare (1951) Putty Tat Trouble (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) Canned Feud (1951) Hare Lift (1952) Tree for Two (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) Gift Wrapped (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Robot Rabbit (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Ant Pasted (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Snow Business (1953) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) I Gopher You (1954) Dog Pounded (1954) Sandy Claws (1954) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Lady and the Tramp (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Lumber Jerks (1955) Stork Naked (1955) Pests for Guests (1955) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Two Crows from Tacos (1956) Yankee Dood It (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tweet and Sour (1956) Gonzales' Tamales (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) A Bird in a Bonnet (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) A Waggily Tale (1958) A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) Tweet Dreams (1959) Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Trick or Tweet (1959) Lighter Than Hare (1960) Trip for Tat (1960) The Bugs Bunny Show (1960) TV Series The Flintstones (1960) TV Series From Hare to Heir (1960) Mouse and Garden (1960) Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) Person to Bunny (1960) Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960) Horse Hare (1960) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) The Rebel Without Claws (1961) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) Shishkabugs (1962) The Jet Cage (1962) Honey's Money (1962) Mexican Boarders (1962) Crow's Feat (1962) Quackodile Tears (1962) The Unmentionables (1963) Chili Weather (1963) Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963) Mexican Cat Dance (1963) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) Linus! The Lion Hearted (1964) (2 episodes): Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Hawaiian Aye Aye (1964) Nuts and Volts (1964) Dumb Patrol (1964) Chaser on the Rocks (1965) Highway Runnery (1965) Hairied and Hurried (1965) Just Plane Beep (1965) Boulder Wham! (1965) Tired and Feathered (1965) The Road Runner Show (1966) TV Series Clippety Clobbered (1966) The Solid Tin Coyote (1966) Out and Out Rout (1966) Shot and Bothered (1966) The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) TV Series The Spy Swatter (1967) The Music Mice-Tro (1967) Quacker Tracker (1967) The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968) TV Series The Archie Show (1968) TV Series The Batman/Superman Hour (1968) TV Series Archie's Fun House (1970) TV Series Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down (1970) (1 episode): Moochin' Pooch (1971) Chilly's Hide-a-Way (1971) Airlift à la Carte (1971) The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) (1 episode): Fritz the Cat (1972) Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) TV Series Journey Back to Oz (1974) Bobolink Pink (1975) Pink Elephant (1975) The Oddball Couple (1975) TV Series Pink Plasma (1975) Pink Da Vinci (1975) The Pink Panther Laugh and the Half Hour and Half Show (1976) TV Series The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976) TV Series Pink Piper (1976) The Fat Albert Christmas Special (1977) TV The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1978) TV Series Pinktails for Two (1978) The Pink of Bagdad (1978) Pink Press (1978) Cat and the Pinkstalk (1978) Pink Daddy (1978) Pink Lightning (1978) Pink Pictures (1978) The All New Pink Panther Show (1978) TV Series Winds of Change (1978) The Fantastic Four (1978) TV Series Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) TV Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979) TV The Great American Chase (1979) (segment "Bugs at Home") Pink in the Woods (1979) Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980) TV The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) The Fox and the Hound (1981) Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) Hey Good Lookin' (1982) The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982) TV Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983) The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour (1985) TV Series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) TV Series The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986) TV Series Christmas in Tattertown (1987) TV The Brave Little Toaster (1987) Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) Oliver and Company (1988) Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990) TV Series Beauty and the Beast (1991) Aladdin (1992) The Lion King (1994) That's Warner Bros. ! 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KAKS | KAKS 2012-08-22T16:32:44Z KAKS (99. 5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Sports format. Licensed to Huntsville, Arkansas, USA, it serves the Fayetteville (North West Arkansas) area. The station is currently owned by Hog Radio, Inc. The station changed hands in 2009 and became an all-sports radio station known as "The Hog". KAKS rebroadcasts on FM translator K287AN licensed to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and simulcasts on sister station KTHS in Berryville, Arkansas, and KUOA in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. On August 14, 2010, KAKS on-air personality Renee Gork was fired after a confrontation with Coach Bobby Petrino. Petrino refused to answer questions posed by Gork while she donned a University of Florida Gators hat. Gork claimed that she grabbed the hat from her trunk during a rainstorm, and tried to cover the hat with tape to disguise the logo. She was told by her bosses that they "had her back" and would defend her reasoning to the administration at the University of Arkansas and Coach Petrino. KAKS relieved Gork of her duties on August 16, 2010. This article about a radio station in Arkansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , KAKS 2012-12-16T22:54:45Z KAKS (99. 5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Huntsville, Arkansas, USA, it serves the Fayetteville (North West Arkansas) area. The station is currently owned by Hog Radio, Inc. The station changed hands in 2009 and became an all-sports radio station known as "The Hog". KAKS rebroadcasts on FM translators K250AX licensed to Siloam Springs, Arkansas and K287AN licensed to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and simulcasts on sister station KUOA in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. On August 14, 2010, KAKS on-air personality Renee Gork was fired after a confrontation with Coach Bobby Petrino. Petrino refused to answer questions posed by Gork while she donned a University of Florida Gators hat. Gork claimed that she grabbed the hat from her trunk during a rainstorm, and tried to cover the hat with tape to disguise the logo. She was told by her bosses that they "had her back" and would defend her reasoning to the administration at the University of Arkansas and Coach Petrino. KAKS relieved Gork of her duties on August 16, 2010. This article about a radio station in Arkansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Adrian Alandy | Adrian Alandy 2010-01-25T08:13:35Z Adrian Louis Alandy, better known as Luis Alandy (born February 7, 1980 in Manila, Philippines). Standing 5'8", and 150 lbs. has a 31-inch waistline and wears medium-sized shirt and size 9 shoes. Filipino actor and model. The young Filipino television and movie actor Luis Alandy is not only strikingly handsome, sweet and now hunky, but is also down-to-earth and intelligent. Alandy started his career as a model. He first appeared in a print magazine and was soon discovered to do acting. He landed his first acting role in the popular TV series "Pangako sa 'yo" (2000) as David. Alandy completed an intensive course in computer at AMA Computer College-East Rizal (Philippines). He then studied psychology at San Sebastian College, but dropped out in his third year to try his luck in show business. "I love the hardships of acting," Luis said when asked what attracted him to becoming an actor. Luis Alandy started out as a GMA7 Talent but when he realized that his career wasn’t going anywhere, he left his home network and transferred to ABS-CBN. This proved to be a good move on his part because he has since then appeared in several soap operas and started to become a household name and a recognizable matinee idol. As with most stars, his star shone less brightly with the advent of reality tv searches for new artists. He became less visible in showbiz and that led him to venture into showing a bit more skin. His initial salvo was in theater. He, together with other male sexy stars, appeared in the controversial stage musical. All About Men where he bared his body for the audience. After this exposure, he has become less self-conscious and more daring, for instance showing more skin in a pictorial, playing gay roles on screen, etc. This guy has surely progressed from the wholesome matinee idol to a hunky sex symbol. I’m sure Luis Alandy has a lot more to offer. Let’s just wait and see what he’s going to do next. He has appeared in several TV series in the Philippines, including "Sana'y wala ng wakas" (2003), "Vietnam Rose" (2005) and "Gulong ng palad" (2005) to name a few. He has recently starred in a number of box-office movies like Pacquiao: The Movie (2006) and Barcelona (2006). Alandy buffed up his body for Bench underwear fashion shows, and for the musical revue "Penis Talks" (2004). He's also a member of the all-male macho group Barako Boys. He confessed that in his eight years in show- business, he experienced being at the bottom of the wheel. He remembered contemplating if he will land TV or movie projects because of competition becoming stiffer with the emergence of newer actors. He was a member of the all-male macho group Barako Boys (with the award-winning actor Jay Manalo, Christian Vasquez, Carlo Maceda, Reggie Curley, and Paolo Paraiso). The group has released a musical album. He had switched from ABS-CBN to GMA Network. He appeared in his two primetime shows of GMA. Dyesebel is considered as Alandy's biggest break. After Dyesebel, Alandy starred in primetime show Luna Mystika. After Luna mystika, he starred in the action thriller Sine Novela: Ngayon At Kailanman where he plays the most villainous role ever., Adrian Alandy 2011-09-01T07:27:46Z Adrian Louis Alandy (born February 7, 1980 in Manila, Philippines), better known as Luis Alandy is a Filipino actor and model. Alandy started his career as a model. He first appeared in a print magazine and was soon discovered to do acting. He landed his first acting role in the popular TV series Pangako sa 'yo (2000) as David. Alandy completed an intensive course in computer at AMA Computer College-East Rizal (Philippines). He then studied psychology at San Sebastian College, but dropped out in his third year to try his luck in show business. "I love the hardships of acting," Luis said when asked what attracted him to becoming an actor. Luis Alandy started out as a GMA7 Talent but when he realized that his career wasn’t going anywhere, he left his home network and transferred to ABS-CBN. This proved to be a good move on his part because he has since then appeared in several soap operas and started to become a household name and a recognizable matinee idol. As with most stars, his star shone less brightly with the advent of reality TV searches for new artists. He became less visible in showbiz and that led him to venture into showing a bit more skin. His initial salvo was in theater. He, together with other male sexy stars, appeared in the controversial stage musical. All About Men where he bared his body for the audience. After this exposure, he has become less self-conscious and more daring, for instance showing more skin in a pictorial, playing gay roles on screen, etc. This guy has surely progressed from the wholesome matinee idol to a hunky sex symbol. I’m sure Luis Alandy has a lot more to offer. Let’s just wait and see what he’s going to do next. He has appeared in several TV series in the Philippines, including "Sana'y wala ng wakas" (2003), "Vietnam Rose" (2005) and "Gulong ng palad" (2005) to name a few. He has recently starred in a number of box-office movies like Pacquiao: The Movie (2006) and Barcelona (2006). Alandy buffed up his body for Bench underwear fashion shows, and for the musical revue "Penis Talks" (2004). He's also a member of the all-male macho group Barako Boys. He confessed that in his eight years in show- business, he experienced being at the bottom of the wheel. He remembered contemplating if he will land TV or movie projects because of competition becoming stiffer with the emergence of newer actors. He was a member of the all-male macho group Barako Boys (with the award-winning actor Jay Manalo, Christian Vasquez, Carlo Maceda, Reggie Curley, and Paolo Paraiso). The group has released a musical album. He had switched from ABS-CBN to GMA Network. He appeared in his two primetime shows of GMA. Dyesebel is considered as Alandy's biggest break. After Dyesebel, Alandy starred in primetime show Luna Mystika. After Luna mystika, he starred in the action thriller Sine Novela: Ngayon At Kailanman where he plays the most villainous role ever. | 1 |
Julia Bradbury | Julia Bradbury 2014-02-03T20:02:46Z Dr (Honorary) Julia Bradbury (born 24 July 1970) is a British television presenter who is currently employed by the BBC and ITV, specialising in documentaries and consumer affairs. She is most recognised for co-presenting the BBC One programme Countryfile with Matt Baker. In addition to this, she currently presents the ITV teatime game show Take on the Twisters. Whilst presenting Countryfile, she has also hosted the consumer affairs show Watchdog between 2005 and 2009, with Paul Heiney and Nick Lawrence. Julia has guest hosted The One Show a number of times. Since 2013, Julia has co-presented the BBC One show Fightback Britain with Adrian Simpson, the ITV show Mystery Map with Ben Shephard and the BBC One show Keeping Britain Safe 24/7 with Matt Allwright. Bradbury's English Derbyshire-born, steel-industry father Michael Bradbury and Greek mother were in the Republic of Ireland when Bradbury was born. The family returned to Britain, where she attended primary school in Edith Weston, Rutland, followed by King Edward VII School in Sheffield, where her father worked for British Steel and her mother ran a fashion business. Bradbury attended acting classes, and took part as a child in the Crucible Theatre's stage production of Peter Pan, starring Joanne Whalley and Paula Wilcox. Bradbury left school at 16 after O-levels and worked in advertising in various capacities, including a stint with the family business. Bradbury started as a TV presenter with Chrysalis TV, followed by L! VE TV, before making the transition in 1996 from cable TV to terrestrial with GMTV as their Los Angeles correspondent. She has since presented Watchdog, Top Gear, Accidental Heroes, Wainwright Walks and Railway Walks for the BBC, as well as Rough Guide for Channel 5. She has also presented Wish You Were Here...? for ITV and anchored Exclusive! for Five. With Tim Vine, she presented the launch of Channel 5 in 1997. With co-host Arkin Salih she hosted the BBC's Are We Being Served? , which examined customer service in the UK and ran for six programmes in the summer of 2006. The show later received strong criticism from comedian Lee Mack when he named it as 'the most evil programme ever made' during his appearance on TV Heaven, Telly Hell. From 2008 to 2011 she presented four series of Kill It, Cook It, Eat It on BBC Three. The first series concentrated on commercially farmed animals such as chickens, pigs, sheep and cattle. The second series featured hunted wild game such as ducks, rabbits, deer and grouse. The third series focused on fast food; a group of six people went through the process of killing, cooking and eating animals. The fourth series focused on how animal products from the first series are used outside of the meat trade. Bradbury was joined by young consumers to uncover the animal origins of many of western society's favourite things as body parts were transformed from abattoir to shop display. From 2 March 2009 Bradbury temporarily stepped down from BBC One's Watchdog following allegations in the press concerning irregularities in her Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer account. (Anita Rani stepped in to co-present the show with Nicky Campbell.) On 15 April 2009, Bradbury was cleared of any wrongdoing in the investigation, and it was confirmed that she would return to present Watchdog, which she did on 20 April 2009. She did not have to repay £20,000 worth of Air Miles, as incorrectly reported in several papers – her account (and several others) had been tampered with by an employee who was later arrested and charged. In April 2009 it was announced that Bradbury would present the relaunched primetime Countryfile with Matt Baker. Anne Robinson returned to Watchdog after an 8-year absence. From November to December 2011 she presented a series called That's Britain! with Nick Knowles, focusing on the good, the bad and the ugly in Britain. She presented with Hugh Dennis a four-part BBC One documentary series The Great British Countryside, which began in February 2012. She has co-presented (with Richard Hammond) a programme about the wildlife of different countries called Planet Earth Live in 2012, which has aired on BBC One. Since 22 July 2013, Bradbury has presented the ITV quiz show Take on the Twisters. Since 2013, Julia has co-presented the BBC One show Fightback Britain with Adrian Simpson, the ITV show Mystery Map with Ben Shephard and the BBC One show Keeping Britain Safe 24/7 alongside Matt Allwright. In August 2007 she presented Ultimate Britain – Climbing on BBC One, with rock climber Tim Emmett. Bradbury's lifetime ambition to be a 'real' rock climber was achieved when the pair successfully ascended Cornwall's Commando Ridge, Crackstone Rib in the Llanberis Pass, and the Old Man of Stoer. That year she also presented Wainwright Walks on BBC Four, in which she followed the mountain routes of the renowned fell walker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright. The series was later repeated on BBC Two and ran for two series. Her appearance in this and the Railway Walks series earned her the title of "Walking Man's Totty". On 20 July 2009 her series Coast to Coast started on BBC Two. In 2010 Bradbury went to South Africa and embarked on a series of South Africa Walks as part of South Africa season for the BBC during the 2010 World Cup. In December 2010 she presented another walking-themed series, Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust on BBC Four in which she explored Germany and its Romantic movement through a series of walks across the country. The series was repeated on BBC Two in January and February 2011. She presented Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury in May 2011. Another walking programme, Julia Bradbury's Icelandic Walk, aired on 11 May 2011 on BBC Four. Her challenge was to walk the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most famous hiking route, which includes the newest hills on Earth. This route ends at Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano whose copious eruptions of volcanic ash brought air traffic across Europe to a standstill in April 2010. She also presented a new series in May 2011, following the routes of some of the UK's canals. Bradbury has also presented on radio for BBC London 94.9, and Radio 5 Live. She crossed NUJ picket lines to present Radio 5 Live's breakfast programme on 15 July 2011. She presented the programme with Ian Payne who also broke the strike. In January 2007 Bradbury appeared as a contestant in Just the Two of Us on BBC One, singing alongside Tony Christie. In February 2009 Bradbury appeared on Celebrity Come Dine With Me alongside Christopher Biggins, Philip Olivier and Edwina Currie, and received a score of 19. She was one of the celebrities who in summer 2009 took part in the BBC programme Around the World in 80 Days, where 'in a re-enactment of Jules Verne's literary odyssey, six pairs of celebrities raced against the clock to raise money for 2009's BBC Children in Need'. In January 2011 Bradbury appeared on The Magicians with professional magician Pete Firman. Bradbury lives in Rutland and West London. In summer 2006, she was treated for endometriosis. In February 2011, Bradbury and her boyfriend, Gerard Cunningham, announced they were expecting their first child, despite the problems associated with endometriosis. On 4 August 2011, it was announced Bradbury had given birth to a boy. Bradbury is an ambassador to several charities including the Scout Association, Oxfam Trailtrekker and Marie Curie. In 2009 she competed in the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge with her sister, Gina Fox, raising £7,000 towards the £105,000 raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Later that year she travelled from Kazakhstan to Mongolia with Countryfile co-star Matt Baker in BBC's Around the World in 80 Days in aid of Children in Need. She is President of the Friends of the Peak District and CPRE in South Yorkshire. In April 2010 she became president of the Ramblers. Bradbury also works with the British Heart Foundation to encourage people to exercise more. In February 2012 Bradbury was appointed an ambassador for the Scout Association. In October 2013, she became President of The Camping and Caravanning Club, the first woman to hold the post and following such luminaries as Dr David Bellamy, Lord Baden Powell 1st Baronet, Lord R. Baden Powell 3rd Baronet, and Scott of the Antarctic On 14th November 2013, Bradbury was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University. , Julia Bradbury 2015-09-14T21:30:09Z Julia Bradbury (born 24 July 1970) is an English television presenter, employed by the BBC and ITV, specialising in documentaries and consumer affairs. She is most recognised for co-presenting the BBC One programme Countryfile with Matt Baker from 2004 until 2014. Bradbury's English Derbyshire-born, steel-industry father Michael Bradbury and Greek mother were in the Republic of Ireland when Bradbury was born. The family returned to Britain, where she attended primary school in Edith Weston, Rutland, followed by King Edward VII School in Sheffield, where her father worked for British Steel and her mother ran a fashion business. Bradbury attended acting classes, and took part as a child in the Crucible Theatre's stage production of Peter Pan, starring Joanne Whalley and Paula Wilcox. Bradbury left school at 16 after O-levels. Bradbury started as a television presenter with Chrysalis TV, followed by L! VE TV, before making the transition in 1996 from cable TV to terrestrial with GMTV as their Los Angeles correspondent. She has since presented Watchdog, Top Gear, Accidental Heroes, Wainwright Walks and Railway Walks for the BBC, as well as Rough Guide for Channel 5. She has also presented Wish You Were Here...? for ITV and anchored Exclusive! for Five. With Tim Vine, she presented the launch of Channel 5 in 1997. Bradbury and co-host Arkin Salih hosted the BBC's Are We Being Served? , which examined customer service in the UK and ran for six programmes in the summer of 2006. The show later received strong criticism from comedian Lee Mack when he named it as 'the most evil programme ever made' during his appearance on TV Heaven, Telly Hell. From 2008 to 2011, Bradbury presented four series of Kill It, Cook It, Eat It on BBC Three. The first series concentrated on commercially farmed animals such as chickens, pigs, sheep and cattle. The second series featured hunted wild game such as ducks, rabbits, deer and grouse. The third series focused on fast food; a group of six people went through the process of killing, cooking and eating animals. The fourth series focused on how animal products from the first series are used outside of the meat trade. Bradbury was joined by young consumers to uncover the animal origins of many of western society's favourite things as body parts were transformed from abattoir to shop display. From 2 March 2009, Bradbury temporarily stepped down from BBC One's Watchdog following allegations in the press concerning irregularities in her Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer account. (Anita Rani stepped in to co-present the show with Nicky Campbell.) On 15 April 2009, Bradbury was cleared of any wrongdoing in the investigation, and it was confirmed that she would return to present Watchdog, which she did on 20 April 2009. She did not have to repay £20,000 worth of Air Miles, as was incorrectly reported in several papers – her account (and several others) had been tampered with by an employee who was later arrested and charged. In April 2009 it was announced that Bradbury would present the relaunched primetime Countryfile with Matt Baker. Anne Robinson returned to Watchdog after an 8-year absence. In August 2007, Bradbury presented Ultimate Britain – Climbing on BBC One, with rock climber Tim Emmett. Bradbury's lifetime ambition to be a 'real' rock climber was achieved when the pair successfully ascended Cornwall's Commando Ridge, Crackstone Rib in the Llanberis Pass, and the Old Man of Stoer. That year, Bradbury also presented Wainwright Walks on BBC Four, in which she followed the mountain routes of the renowned fell walker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright. The series was later repeated on BBC Two and ran for two series. Her appearance in this and the Railway Walks series earned her the title of "Walking Man's Totty". On 20 July 2009 her series Coast to Coast started on BBC Two. In 2010, Bradbury went to South Africa and embarked on a series of South Africa Walks as part of South Africa season for the BBC during the 2010 World Cup. In December 2010, she presented another walking-themed series, Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust on BBC Four in which she explored Germany and its Romantic movement through a series of walks across the country. The series was repeated on BBC Two in January and February 2011. In May 2011, she presented Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury. Another walking programme, Julia Bradbury's Icelandic Walk, aired on 11 May 2011 on BBC Four. Her challenge was to walk the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most famous hiking route, which includes the newest hills on Earth. This route ends at Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano whose copious eruptions of volcanic ash brought air traffic across Europe to a standstill in April 2010. She also presented a new series in May 2011, following the routes of some of the UK's canals. From November to December 2011, Bradbury presented a series called That's Britain! with Nick Knowles, focusing on the good, the bad and the ugly in Britain. She presented with Hugh Dennis a four-part BBC One documentary series The Great British Countryside, which began in February 2012. She has co-presented (with Richard Hammond) a programme about the wildlife of different countries called Planet Earth Live in 2012, which has aired on BBC One. Between 22 July and 30 August 2013, Bradbury presented the ITV quiz show Take On the Twisters. In 2013, Bradbury co-presented the BBC One show Fightback Britain with Adrian Simpson, the ITV show Mystery Map with Ben Shephard and the BBC One show Keeping Britain Safe 24/7 with Matt Allwright. On 3 March 2014, it was announced that Bradbury would be leaving Countryfile and the BBC completely later in the year before joining ITV full-time after doing odd jobs for them in the past. On 6 January 2015, Bradbury will present an ITV programme called The Wonder of Britain. Bradbury has also presented on radio for BBC London 94.9, and Radio 5 Live. She crossed NUJ picket lines to present Radio 5 Live's breakfast programme on 15 July 2011. She presented the programme with Ian Payne who also broke the strike. In January 2007, Bradbury appeared as a contestant on Just the Two of Us on BBC One, singing alongside Tony Christie. In February 2009, Bradbury appeared on Celebrity Come Dine with Me with Christopher Biggins, Philip Olivier and Edwina Currie, and received a score of 19. In Summer 2009, Bradbury was one of the celebrities who took part in the BBC programme Around the World in 80 Days, where 'in a re-enactment of Jules Verne's literary odyssey, six pairs of celebrities raced against the clock to raise money for 2009's BBC Children in Need'. In January 2011, Bradbury appeared on an episode of The Magicians with professional magician Pete Firman. In May 2014, Bradbury appeared in Dictionary Corner on Countdown. Bradbury lives in Rutland and west London. In summer 2006, she was treated for endometriosis. In February 2011, Bradbury and her partner, Gerard Cunningham, announced they were expecting their first child, despite the problems associated with endometriosis. On 4 August 2011, Bradbury gave birth to her first child, a son named Zephyrus Cunningham. On 26 September 2014, it was announced that Bradbury and Cunningham were expecting again, this time with twins which were conceived via IVF. On 12 March 2015, Bradbury gave birth to twin girls Xanthe and Zena. Bradbury is an ambassador to several charities including the Scout Association, Oxfam Trailtrekker and Marie Curie. In 2009, she competed in the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge with her sister, Gina Fox, raising £7,000 towards the £105,000 raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Later that year, she travelled from Kazakhstan to Mongolia with Countryfile co-star Matt Baker in BBC's Around the World in 80 Days in aid of Children in Need. Bradbury is President of the Friends of the Peak District and CPRE in South Yorkshire. In April 2010 she became president of the Ramblers. Bradbury also works with the British Heart Foundation to encourage people to exercise more. In February 2012, Bradbury was appointed an ambassador for the Scout Association. In October 2013, she became President of The Camping and Caravanning Club, the first woman to hold the post and following such luminaries as Dr David Bellamy, Lord Baden Powell 1st Baronet, Lord R. Baden Powell 3rd Baronet, and Scott of the Antarctic On 14 November 2013, Bradbury was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University. | 1 |
Snooki | Snooki 2016-01-13T19:23:52Z Nicole Elizabeth "Snooki" LaValle (née Polizzi; born November 23, 1987) is an American reality television personality and dancer who is best known for being a cast member of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore and starring in Snooki & Jwoww. Since the show's debut in 2009, Polizzi has gained popularity by appearing on talks shows including The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! , Late Show with David Letterman, and The Wendy Williams Show. She earned $150,000 per Jersey Shore episode, as of season five. She also appeared as the guest hostess for WWE Raw in 2011 and competed at WrestleMania XXVII that same year. Polizzi was born in Santiago, Chile. She was adopted when she was six months old and was raised by Italian American parents. Polizzi's father is a volunteer firefighter and auto-salvage supervisor and her mother is an office manager. Polizzi lives in Florham Park, New Jersey. Polizzi received her nickname, Snooki, in middle school when her friends named her after "Snookie", a male character in Save the Last Dance, because she was the first of her friends to kiss a boy. She grew up and attended school in Marlboro, New York, where she was a cheerleader. During high school, she suffered from an eating disorder, at one point weighing 80 pounds (36 kg). Polizzi attended community college after graduating from Marlboro High School, where she studied to become a veterinary technician. In March 2012, Polizzi announced her engagement to Jionni LaValle. Polizzi gave birth to the couple's first child, Lorenzo Dominic LaValle, on August 26, 2012. Polizzi appeared on the front page of the March 2013 issue of Us Weekly, claiming to have lost 42 pounds post pregnancy. On April 4, Polizzi announced via her website and her Twitter, that she and fiancé, Jionni, are expecting their second child. Giovanna Marie LaValle was born September 26, 2014, weighing in at 6lbs 7oz. On November 29, 2014, Polizzi married Jionni LaValle. According to results from an autosomal DNA test to determine geographic ancestry which was aired on MTV's Snooki & Jwoww in January 2014, it was revealed that although Polizzi was born in Chile and believed she was "some sort of Spanish", she is in fact a mixture of Romani from northwestern Croatia (i.e. Gypsies originally from Northern India), Romani from Macedonia, Andalusian (i.e., southern Spaniards), Slovak, and Russian. These ethnic groups have history of immigrating to Polizzi's native Chile, where they (along with many other groups) have been mixing for several centuries. The show did not disclose in what percentages Polizzi is descended from each of these groups. During the same episode, it was also stated by the DNA lab consultant disclosing the results that Polizzi matched as having common ancestry with people who identify as South Asian (i.e., from the Indian subcontinent, correlating to her Romani ancestry), Iberian American (i.e., correlating to her Hispanic/mestizo ancestry), East Asian (which likely comes from the Native American), as well as distant Jewish and Middle Eastern ancestry). MTV first introduced Polizzi in Is She Really Going Out with Him? , a show that focused on women dating obnoxious or arrogant men. Polizzi and her boyfriend, Justin, appeared in episode 14, "Jerz Pud". Polizzi became part of the reality TV series Jersey Shore after being scouted by the casting director, Josh Allouche, an employee of Doron Ofir Casting. The New York Times identified her as "the breakout member of the cast". According to The New York Times, her actions on the show have caused her to be the target of public disdain while having a "strange appeal". One reported measure of her appeal was that she was one of the most popular celebrity Halloween costumes of 2010. Polizzi's popularity on the first season of Jersey Shore, which earned her $5,000 per episode, now earns her $30,000 per episode. While shooting in Seaside Heights, Polizzi was punched in the face by New York City school gym teacher Brad Ferro. The punch, while shown in previews, was blacked out during showings of the episode. Videos of the punch went viral on YouTube and were featured in many news media. After the punch was made public, Polizzi's appearance fees increased from $2,000 per event to $10,000 per event. In 2011, Polizzi and her Jersey Shore costar, Jennifer Farley, signed a contract to star in a spin-off show, Snooki & Jwoww, which premiered on MTV in June 2012. The first season followed Polizzi and Farley moving in together, and they describe their show like a modern-day Laverne & Shirley. 495 Productions filmed the first season over the course of six weeks at a former two-story firehouse located near Grove and Mercer Streets in Jersey City, New Jersey. The second season relocated to the stars' actual permanent residences and began airing on January 8, 2013. This season had an expanded one-hour episode format. The March 2012 confirmation of Polizzi's pregnancy raised speculation as to how the creative direction of her spin-off would be affected, as she would be unable to engage in the "hard-partying, booze-swilling" antics that had previously garnered high ratings for MTV. Polizzi was a presenter at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. On July 27, 2010, the cast of Jersey Shore appeared at the New York Stock Exchange and Polizzi rang the opening bell. Polizzi and the cast of Jersey Shore appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010. Polizzi also appeared on TLC's Cake Boss episode "Snookie, Super Anthony & a Ship" on November 8, 2010, in which she orders a cake for her mom. On November 7, 2010, Polizzi appeared at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain. She was subsequently parodied in the South Park episode "It's a Jersey Thing", and is frequently parodied on Saturday Night Live by actor Bobby Moynihan. She also hosted the New Year's Eve special MTV's Club New Year's Eve 2013 with Jwoww and Jeff Dye on December 31, 2012 from Times Square to ring in 2013. Polizzi made an appearance on the March 14, 2011 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, where she got into a brawl with LayCool, which led to the formation of a six-person Mixed Tag Team match at WrestleMania XXVII. Polizzi and her partners Trish Stratus and John Morrison won the match. On December 12, 2011 on WWE RAW, she was awarded the WWE 2011 A-Lister of the Year Slammy Award which she accepted via satellite. On September 4, 2013, it was announced on Good Morning America that Snooki participated on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with newcomer Sasha Farber. They were eliminated on October 28, 2013, coming in 8th place despite receiving good scores and comments from the judges. Dancing with the Stars performances (Average: 25.0): In January 2011, Polizzi's book, A Shore Thing, was released: it described her search for love on the boardwalk. Despite a promotional campaign that included appearances by Polizzi on The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the Late Show with David Letterman, the book was not a sales success, selling approximately 9,000 copies within its first month of release, during which it accumulated 16 one-star customer reviews on Amazon.com. One publishing executive said that the book sold poorly because "rather than a tell-all, it was disguised as a novel." In April 2011, Polizzi was paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University. Topics she spoke about included what being a celebrity is like, and also what she thinks is important in school, including the advice "Study hard, but party harder". Some students complained the school's money would've been better used on speakers other than Polizzi. Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas responded that the extension of the invitation to Polizzi was the result of canvassing by students who indicated who they wanted to invite. Over 1,000 people attended Polizzi's engagement. On October 25, 2011, Polizzi's second novel, Confessions of a Guidette was released with Gallery Books. The novel was marketed as a part-memoir, part-guide of how to "rock it Jersey-style." Polizzi's third novel, Gorilla Beach was released on May 15, 2012. The novel is a sequel to Polizzi's first novel, A Shore Thing. In January 2012, Polizzi's Team Snooki Boxing co-promoted a cooperative venture with Final Round Promotions, a boxing card at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, featuring Irish featherweight boxer Patrick Hyland fighting and winning in the main event before a capacity crowd. Patrick Hyland's two brothers Eddie and Paul, also boxers, appeared in preliminary bouts. The event attracted considerable publicity in the boxing press. In February 2013, Polizzi sold her customized 2011 Cadillac Escalade EXT on eBay for $77,510, earning her $15,000 more than what a standard 2011 Escalade EXT with similar mileage would cost. The pickup truck was customized with hot-pink grilles, wheels and badges, wrapped in black vinyl lizard skin, and leopard-print floor mats. On July 30, 2010, Polizzi was arrested in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and criminal annoyance of others. In a September 8 plea bargain in which the latter two charges were dropped, Judge Damian G. Murray sentenced her to a $500 fine and community service. In handing down the sentence, he characterized Polizzi as "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe". Her arrest was taped during production of season three of Jersey Shore. On May 31, 2011 in Florence, Italy, Polizzi was briefly taken into custody by local police after the car she was driving collided with a parked traffic police car. According to Italian police, Polizzi was cited and released. Two police officers sustained minor injuries. In late 2011, Polizzi sued SRG Ventures, a licensing company she had signed with a year earlier to bring out Snooki-branded merchandise such as watches, shoes, lingerie, and school supplies, for breach of contract. She alleged the company had failed to adequately seek such licensing opportunities. The company countersued, alleging she and her manager had undermined its efforts by negotiating directly with manufacturers and delaying their decisions. , Snooki 2017-12-29T22:34:11Z Nicole Elizabeth "Snooki" LaValle (née Polizzi; born November 23, 1987) is an American reality television personality, author, dancer and professional wrestler who is best known for being a cast member of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore and starring in Snooki & Jwoww. Since the show's debut in 2009, Snooki has gained popularity by appearing on talk shows including The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! , Late Show with David Letterman, and The Wendy Williams Show. She earned $150,000 per Jersey Shore episode for the last two seasons. She also appeared as the guest hostess for WWE Raw in 2011 and competed at WrestleMania XXVII that same year. Snooki was born in Santiago, Chile. She was adopted when she was six months old and was raised by Italian-American parents. Snooki's father is a volunteer firefighter and auto-salvage supervisor, and her mother is an office manager. Snooki lives in Florham Park, New Jersey. Snooki received her nickname, Snooki, in middle school, when her friends named her after "Snookie", a male character in Save the Last Dance, because she was the first of her friends to kiss a boy. She grew up and attended school in Marlboro, New York, where she was a cheerleader. During high school, she suffered from an eating disorder, at one point weighing 80 pounds (36 kg). Snooki attended community college after graduating from Marlboro High School, where she studied to become a veterinary technician. In March 2012, Snooki announced her engagement to Jionni LaValle. Snooki gave birth to the couple's first child, Lorenzo Dominic LaValle, on August 26, 2012. Snooki appeared on the front page of the March 2013 issue of Us Weekly, claiming to have lost 42 pounds post pregnancy. Her second child, Giovanna Marie LaValle, was born September 26, 2014, weighing in at 6lbs 7oz. On November 29, 2014, Snooki married Jionni LaValle. In October 2016, Snooki announced she had had a breast augmentation to obtain a C cup. MTV first introduced Snooki in Is She Really Going Out with Him? , a show that focused on women dating obnoxious or arrogant men. Snooki and her boyfriend, Justin, appeared in episode 14, "Jerz Pud". Snooki became part of the reality TV series Jersey Shore after being scouted by the casting director, Josh Allouche, an employee of Doron Ofir Casting. The New York Times identified her as "the breakout member of the cast". According to The New York Times, her actions on the show have caused her to be the target of public disdain while having a "strange appeal". One reported measure of her appeal was that she was one of the most popular celebrity Halloween costumes of 2010. Snooki's popularity on the first season of Jersey Shore, which earned her $5,000 per episode, now earns her $30,000 per episode. While shooting in Seaside Heights, Snooki was punched in the face by New York City school gym teacher Brad Ferro. The punch, while shown in previews, was blacked out during showings of the episode. Videos of the punch went viral on YouTube and were featured in many news media. After the punch was made public, Snooki's appearance fees increased from $2,000 per event to $10,000 per event. In 2011, Snooki and her Jersey Shore costar, Jennifer Farley, signed a contract to star in a spin-off show, Snooki & Jwoww, which premiered on MTV in June 2012. The first season followed Snooki and Farley moving in together, and they describe their show like a modern-day Laverne & Shirley. 495 Productions filmed the first season over the course of six weeks, at a former two-story firehouse located near Grove and Mercer Streets in Jersey City, New Jersey. The second season relocated to the stars' actual permanent residences and began airing on January 8, 2013. This season had an expanded one-hour episode format. The March 2012 confirmation of Snooki's pregnancy raised speculation as to how the creative direction of her spin-off would be affected, as she would be unable to engage in the "hard-partying, booze-swilling" antics that had previously garnered high ratings for MTV. The show chronicled her days in pregnancy and early years in motherhood and ran for four seasons before concluding in February 2015. In early 2016, Snooki starred with her husband on the f.y.i. series Nicole & Jionni’s Shore Flip. Since November 2015, Snooki has starred with Farley on the go90 series Snooki & Jwoww: Moms With Attitude produced by AwesomenessTV. The show wrapped its second season in late 2017. Snooki was a presenter at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. On July 27, 2010, the cast of Jersey Shore appeared at the New York Stock Exchange, and Snooki rang the opening bell. Snooki and the cast of Jersey Shore appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010. Snooki also appeared on TLC's Cake Boss episode "Snookie, Super Anthony & a Ship" on November 8, 2010, in which she orders a cake for her mom. On November 7, 2010, Snooki appeared at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain. She was subsequently parodied in the South Park episode "It's a Jersey Thing", and is frequently parodied on Saturday Night Live by actor Bobby Moynihan. She also hosted the New Year's Eve special MTV's Club New Year's Eve 2013, with Jwoww and Jeff Dye, on December 31, 2012, from Times Square, to ring in 2013. On September 4, 2013, it was announced on Good Morning America that Snooki would participate on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with newcomer Sasha Farber. They were eliminated on October 28, 2013, coming in 8th place despite receiving good scores and comments from the judges. On January 28, 2016, it was announced that she is participating as a contestant on The New Celebrity Apprentice (also known as The Apprentice 15 and The Celebrity Apprentice 8). Dancing with the Stars performances (Average: 25.0): Snooki made an appearance on the March 14, 2011, episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, where she had a segment with John Morrison, Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler. During the segment she slapped Vickie, starting a feud with the couple. Later at night she got into a brawl with LayCool, which led to the formation of a six-person Mixed Tag Team match at WrestleMania XXVII. Snooki made an appearance on the March 28, 2011, episode of WWE Monday Night Raw in a segment where Snooki introduces Trish Stratus to the Jersey Shore, were they started a street fight with LayCool in a bar. At Wrestlemania, Snooki and her partners Trish Stratus and John Morrison won the match. On December 12, 2011, on WWE RAW, she was awarded the WWE 2011 A-Lister of the Year Slammy Award which she accepted via satellite. In January 2011, Snooki's book, A Shore Thing, was released; it described her search for love on the boardwalk. Despite a promotional campaign that included appearances by Snooki on The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and the Late Show with David Letterman, the book was not a sales success. It sold approximately 9,000 copies within its first month of release, during which it accumulated 16 one-star customer reviews on Amazon.com. One publishing executive said the book sold poorly because "rather than a tell-all, it was disguised as a novel." In April 2011, Snooki was paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University. Topics she spoke about included what being a celebrity is like and what she thinks is important in school, including the advice: "Study hard, but party harder". Some students complained the school's money would have been better used on speakers other than Snooki. Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas responded that the extension of the invitation to Snooki resulted from canvassing by students, who indicated whom they wanted to invite. Over 1,000 people attended Snooki's engagement. On October 25, 2011, Snooki's second novel, Confessions of a Guidette, was released with Gallery Books. The novel was marketed as a part-memoir, part-guide of how to "rock it Jersey-style." Snooki's third novel, Gorilla Beach, was released on May 15, 2012. It is a sequel to Snooki's first novel, A Shore Thing. In January 2012, Snooki's Team Snooki Boxing co-promoted a cooperative venture with Final Round Promotions, a boxing card at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, featuring Irish featherweight boxer Patrick Hyland fighting and winning in the main event before a capacity crowd. Hyland's two brothers Eddie and Paul, also boxers, appeared in preliminary bouts. The event attracted considerable publicity in the boxing press. In February 2013, Snooki sold her customized 2011 Cadillac Escalade EXT on eBay for $77,510, earning her $15,000 more than what a standard 2011 Escalade EXT with similar mileage would cost. The pickup truck was customized with hot-pink grilles, wheels, and badges, wrapped in black vinyl lizard skin, and leopard-print floor mats. On July 30, 2010, Snooki was arrested in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and criminal annoyance of others. In a September 8 plea bargain in which the latter two charges were dropped, Judge Damian G. Murray sentenced her to a $500 fine and community service. In handing down the sentence, he characterized Snooki as "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe". Her arrest was taped during production of season three of Jersey Shore. On May 31, 2011, in Florence, Italy, Snooki was briefly taken into custody by local police after the car she was driving collided with a parked traffic police car. According to Italian police, Snooki was cited and released. Two police officers sustained minor injuries. In late 2011, Snooki sued SRG Ventures, a licensing company she had signed with a year earlier to bring out Snooki-branded merchandise such as watches, shoes, lingerie, and school supplies, for breach of contract. She alleged the company had failed to adequately seek such licensing opportunities. The company countersued, alleging she and her manager had undermined its efforts by negotiating directly with manufacturers and delaying their decisions. | 1 |
Indonesian Basketball League | Indonesian Basketball League 2019-01-21T21:00:25Z The Indonesian Basketball League (IBL; Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Indonesia) is the professional men's basketball league in Indonesia, contested between 12 clubs from across the country. Founded in 2003, it is sanctioned by Perbasi (Indonesia Basketball Association) and organised by Starting5 Sports Entertainment. In 2010, Perbasi appointed DBL Indonesia to handle the competition and changed the league's name to National Basketball League (NBL). After 5 years, DBL Indonesia discontinued their rights and in the Q4 of 2015, Perbasi appointed Starting5 to handle the competition and changed the league's name back into Indonesian Basketball League. Note : * The player didn't play in IBL SeasonsCoach of The Year Sixth Man of The Year Finals MVP, Indonesian Basketball League 2020-12-20T10:42:30Z Indonesian Basketball League (Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Indonesia) is the preeminent men's professional basketball league in Indonesia, founded by Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi) in 2003. From 2010 to 2015 it was known as the National Basketball League (NBL) and organised by DBL Indonesia. In 2016, PT Bola Basket Indonesia acquired Starting 5 and after that PT Bola Basket Indonesia assigned by PP Perbasi to organised the league. Basketball has a long history in Indonesia. Noted since the 1930s, although not yet officially an independent country, several cities in Indonesia have their own local clubs. Although it does not yet have a national sports parent, at the time of the holding of the first National Sports Week held in Solo in 1948, basketball had become one of the sports branches that was contested and was received quite lively both in terms of participants and spectators. Three years after, on 23 October 1951, Perbasi was born. Following the results of the VIII Congress in 1981, Perbasi finally organised a competition between basketball clubs in Indonesia which are the highest competition followed by big clubs from the islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan and Sulawesi. 3 April 1982 is a historic date for the basketball world in Indonesia. On that day, the match between the Rajawali Jakarta club against the Sinar Surya Yogyakarta Spirit marked the start of the first Main Basketball Competition (Kobatama) as well as the first step in the long history of the competition of top clubs in Indonesia. Jakarta Muda Indonesia listed themselves as the first club to win the prestigious Kobatama Champion title. Kobatama as an amateur basketball competition rolled out for 20 years and continued until it stopped in 2010. In 2003, the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) professional competition was held and participated by 10 top teams in Indonesia. Aspac Jakarta succeeded in becoming the first title winner in 2013. In 2004, Satria Muda emerged as a new force to get rid of Aspac in the grand final and to appear as a champion. Aspac won the title of champion again in 2005. The following years (2006-2009) belonged to Satria Muda Jakarta. In addition to the annual regular competition, IBL also holds an IBL Cup Tournament at the beginning or end of the season. In 2009, Satria Muda Jakarta defeated Pelita Jaya Jakarta in the final held at GOR C-Tra Arena Bandung. In 2008, Garuda Bandung managed to steal the previous IBL Cup Tournament title, in 2006 and 2007 also belonged to Satria Muda. Unfortunately, the development of IBL did not go as expected. After repeatedly changing promoters, the league threatened to disband at the end of 2009. All participating club representatives also asked PT DBL Indonesia to appear as manager. Previously, DBL Indonesia was considered successful in managing the Development Basketball League (DBL), the largest student basketball league in Indonesia, which in 2010 had expanded to 21 cities in Indonesia, followed by around 25,000 players and officials. To restore the prestige of this professional league, re-branding is inevitable. Starting in 2010, IBL changed its name to the Indonesian National Basketball League (NBL). A number of changes were made, trying to increase the number of matches again, bringing the league closer to its fans. With NBL, Indonesia also has a new hope, a new spirit. Italic indicates the club is withdrew or no longer play. Italic indicates the club is withdrew or no longer play. Italic indicates the club is withdrew or no longer play. Italic indicates the club is withdrew or no longer play. Note : * The player didn't play in IBL Seasons Coach of The Year Sixth Man of The Year Widyanta Putra Teja Finals MVP Madarious Gibbs | 1 |
Havering_College_of_Further_and_Higher_Education | Havering_College_of_Further_and_Higher_Education 2010-02-22T15:17:07Z Havering College of Further & Higher Education is a college with two campuses in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England. One campus is based in Ardleigh Green, under the Hornchurch post town, while the other, Quarles, is based in Harold Hill. It educates part and full-time students aged 16+. The current principal is Noel Otley. The college runs some courses in partnership with Barking College at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence, under the name Thames Gateway College. Do not come to this college, you will fail. , Havering_College_of_Further_and_Higher_Education 2011-01-04T21:19:17Z Havering College of Further & Higher Education is a college with two campuses in the London Borough of Havering, east London, England. One campus is based in Ardleigh Green, under the Hornchurch post town, while the other, Quarles, is based in Harold Hill. It educates part and full-time students aged 16+. The current principal is Noel Otley. The college runs some courses in partnership with Sawyers Hall College, specifically Hair & Beauty courses, in 'The Lanes Hair & Beauty Salon' located on the Sawyers Hall campus. Other partnerships include with Barking College at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence, under the name Thames Gateway College. | 0 |
Charles (footballer, born 1984) | Charles (footballer, born 1984) 2013-03-08T23:48:45Z Charles Dias de Oliveira (born 4 April 1984 in Belém, Pará), simply Charles, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for UD Almería in Spain, as a striker. , Charles (footballer, born 1984) 2014-12-19T02:42:18Z Charles Dias de Oliveira (born 4 April 1984), simply known as Charles, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Celta de Vigo as a striker. He played most of his career in Spain, mainly in Segunda División and Segunda División B. Born in Belém, Pará, Charles started playing football with Santos FC where he arrived at the age of four, then completed his formation with Tuna Luso Brasileira still in his country and C.D. Feirense in Portugal. He started his senior career with the latter, competing in both the second and third divisions. In the 2004 summer Charles moved to Spain, signing with Pontevedra CF in Segunda División. He made his league debut on 28 August in a 0–1 home loss against Polideportivo Ejido, being sent off after only three minutes on the pitch. Charles spent the following five seasons with the Galicians in Segunda División B. In his last he led the side to the promotion playoffs after scoring 15 goals in the regular season, but it eventually fell short. In early July 2010, Charles signed as a free agent for Córdoba CF in the second level. He again netted 15 times in his first campaign, notably grabbing braces in wins against Xerez CD (3–1 away) and Albacete Balompié (5–1, home). Charles joined fellow league side UD Almería – also in Andalusia – for the 2012–13 season, after engaging in extensive and fruitless conversations with Córdoba to renew his contract. On 2 December 2012 he scored a hat-trick past Racing de Santander in a 4–3 away win and, already fully reconverted as a striker after having started his career as a winger, was crowned the competition's Pichichi Trophy at 27 goals (plus five in the playoffs) to help his team back to La Liga after two years. On 27 June 2013 Charles penned a four-year contract with top-divisioner Celta de Vigo, as a replacement for Liverpool-bound Iago Aspas. He scored in his top flight debut at the age of 29, helping to a 2–2 home draw against RCD Espanyol. Charles was the author of the first-ever goal at the new San Mamés Stadium on 16 September 2013, but in a 2–3 loss to Athletic Bilbao. He took his league tally to seven on 11 January of the following year, netting a brace to help the hosts come from behind and defeat Valencia CF 2–1. Charles scored both goals in a 2–0 home win over Real Madrid on 11 May 2014, which ended his opponents chances of winning the league. Charles is cousin to two other footballers, Igor de Souza and Yuri de Souza. They too are forwards and also spent several seasons in Portugal and Spain, also representing Pontevedra. | 1 |
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