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Adin | Adin 2008-02-09T20:48:35Z Adin is an uncommon family name found today in England, the United States (particularly New York City), New Zealand, Sweden, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Because the name occurs in the Old Testament, it has been suggested that the name has Jewish origins since it is mentioned in the Bible four times. However, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain have no records of this as a Jewish Surname, whereas the U. S. -based Avotaynu has information relating to Adin as a Jewish Surname. Who's who in the Old Testament together with the Apocrytha by Joan Comay states that Adin (Heb. 'delicate')1. date unknown. Ancestor of a family of Judah who returned with Zerubbabel from Exile in Babylon. . The International Genealogical Index charts migration of the Adin name throughout England from Great Wigborough, Essex in 1567, to the midlands in the late 1600s, in particular Staffordshire and Derbyshire, followed by migration to Manchester in the 1840s during the Industrial Revolution and onto the U. S. Some branches remained in Derbyshire until they emigrated to New Zealand. , Adin 2009-11-06T08:51:10Z Adin is an uncommon family name found today in England, the United States (particularly New York City), New Zealand, Sweden, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Because the name occurs in the Old Testament, it has been suggested that the name has Jewish origins since it is mentioned in the Bible four times. However, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain have no records of this as a Jewish Surname. The Consolidated Jewish Surname Index of U. S. -based Avotaynu indicates Adin is a Jewish surname that existed in Poland and Belarus. But this may be a phonetic coincidence since a name with so few letters might exist in every culture. Who's who in the Old Testament together with the Apocrytha by Joan Comay states that Adin (Heb. 'delicate')1. date unknown. Ancestor of a family of Judah who returned with Zerubbabel from Exile in Babylon. . The International Genealogical Index charts migration of the Adin family name throughout England from Great Wigborough, Essex in 1567, to the midlands in the late 1600s, in particular Staffordshire and Derbyshire, followed by migration to Manchester in the 1840s during the Industrial Revolution and onto the U. S. Some branches remained in Derbyshire until they emigrated to New Zealand. | 0 |
Economy of France | Economy of France 2007-01-03T23:39:26Z of France table France is a big economy in the world. The capital is Paris. , Economy of France 2008-12-28T21:41:29Z France is one of the largest economies in the world : it is the fifth economic potency of the world, behind the United States, Japan, China and Germany. However, due to differing analyses and forms of measurement used, there has been some disagreement as to just how big it actually is, particularly when comparisons to the economies of other countries are made. International Monetary Fund data rank the French economy eighth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2007 at US$2,046,899 million. The World Bank, in 2008, estimated France's GDP in 2006 to be US$1,959,745 million, or seventh largest in the world by PPP. Rankings published by the CIA World Factbook in 2008 determine France's GDP, at $2.067 trillion, to be the eighth largest, again by measurement of PPP. Following the Second World War, Fifth Republic, France embarked on an ambitious and very successful programme of modernisation, under state impulse and coordination. This program of dirigisme, mostly implemented by right-wing governments, involved the state control of a certain industries, such as transportation, energy and telecommunication infrastructures, as well as various incentives for private corporations to merge or engage in certain projects. However, dirigisme came to be highly contested after 1982 when newly elected socialist president François Mitterrand called for increased governmental control in the economy, nationalising many industries and private banks. By 1983 with the initial bad economic results the government decided to renounce dirigisme and start the era of rigueur ("rigour") or corporatization. As a result the government largely retreated from economic intervention; dirigisme has now essentially receded though some of its traits remain. Despite significant liberalisation over the past 15 years, the government continues to play a significant role in the economy: government spending, at 53% of GDP in 2001, is the highest in the G-7. Labour conditions and wages are highly regulated. The government continues to own shares in corporations in a range of sectors, including banking, energy production and distribution, automobiles, transportation, and telecommunications which differs from countries like the U.S or U.K where most of these companies are privatised. France, as with many modern industrialised nations, has a large and diverse industrial base. Leading industrial sectors in France are telecommunications (including communication satellites), aerospace and defense, ship building (naval and specialist ships), pharmaceuticals, construction and civil engineering, chemicals, and automobile production (3.5m units in 2005). Research and development spending is also high in France at 2.3% of GDP, the third highest in the OECD. With no domestic oil production, France has relied heavily on the development of nuclear power, which now accounts for about 78% of the country's electricity production, up from only 8% in 1973, 24% in 1980, and 75% in 1990. Nuclear waste is stored on site at reprocessing facilities. In 2006 the net production of electricity in France amounted to 548.8 TWh, of which: In November 2004, EDF (which stands for Electricité de France), the largest electricity provider in France, was floated on the French stock market, with the French State keeping more than 70% of the capital. EDF is not the only electricity provider in France. Other electricity providers include CNR (Compagnie nationale du Rhône) and Endesa (through SNET). France is the European Union's leading agricultural producer, accounting for about one-third of all agricultural land within the EU. Northern France is characterized by large wheat farms. Dairy products, pork, poultry, and apple production are concentrated in the western region. Beef production is located in central France, while the production of fruits, vegetables, and wine ranges from central to southern France. France is a large producer of many agricultural products and is currently expanding its forestry and fishery industries. The implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have resulted in reforms in the agricultural sector of the economy. France is the world's sixth-largest agricultural producer and the second-largest agricultural exporter, after the United States. However, the destination of 70% of its exports are other EU member states and many poor African countries (including its former colonies) which face serious food shortage. Wheat, beef, pork, poultry, and dairy products are the principal exports. The United States, although the second-largest exporter to France, faces stiff competition from domestic production, other EU member states, and other third world countries. U.S. agricultural exports to France, totalling some $600 million annually, consist primarily of soybeans and products, feeds and fodders, seafood, and consumer oriented products, especially snack foods and nuts. French exports to the United States are mainly cheese, processed products and wine. They amount to more than $900 million annually. The French agricultural sector is heavily dependent upon subsidies from the European Union, which account for €11 billion. France is the main country in the EU that is against the reduction of subsidies. Subsidies have given France a competitive advantage which also demotes the concept of free trade. Specific government policies, such as the infamous reclassification of French wine as a 'health food' to avoid VAT, also goes a long way to create a thriving domestic sector. As France is the most visited country in the world with over 75 million visitors a year, tourism is a significant contributor to the French Economy. In the 1960s the government heavily promoted the development of skiing in the French Alps through the development of new high level resorts including some of the world's most extensive ski trails. France is the third largest weapons supplier in the world. The French arms industry's main customer, for whom they mainly build warships, guns, nuclear weapons and equipment, is the French Government. Furthermore, record high defense expenditure (currently at €35 billion), which was considerably increased under the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, have contributed to the success of the French arms industries. In addition, external demand plays a big part in the growth of this sector: for example, France exports great quantities of weaponry to the United Arab Emirates, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Singapore and many others. France is the third-largest trading nation in western Europe (after Germany and the United Kingdom). Its foreign trade balance for goods had been in surplus from 1992 until 2001, reaching $25.4 billion (25.4 G$) in 1998; however, the French balance of trade was hit by the economic downturn, and went into the red in 2000, reaching US$15bn in deficit in 2003. Total trade for 1998 amounted to $730 billion, or 50% of GDP--imports plus exports of goods and services. Trade with European Union countries accounts for 60% of French trade. In 1998, U.S.-France trade totalled about $47 billion--goods only. According to French trade data, U.S. exports accounted for 8.7%--about $25 billion--of France's total imports. U.S. industrial chemicals, aircraft and engines, electronic components, telecommunications, computer software, computers and peripherals, analytical and scientific instrumentation, medical instruments and supplies, broadcasting equipment, and programming and franchising are particularly attractive to French importers. Principal French exports to the United States are aircraft and engines, beverages, electrical equipment, chemicals, cosmetics, luxury products and perfume. France is the ninth-largest trading partner of the U.S. The economic disparity between regions aren't as high as in Spain, Italy or Germany. If we take the Ile-de-France region out of the equation, then the four poorest regions—Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Corse—lag by a reasonable margin per capita. The most powerful regions are Ile-de-France (4th agglomerations for her economy in the world), Rhônes-Alpes (industries, services, high-tecnologies), Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur (services, industries, tourisms and wines), Nord-Pas-de-Calais (industries) and Pays de la Loire . Regions like Alsace, which has a rich past in industry (machine tool), are relatively wealthy without ranking very high in absolute term. The rurals area are mainly in Auvergne, Limousin, and Centre, and wines productions account for a significant amount of the economy in Aquitaine (Bordeaux region), and champagne for Champagne-Ardennes. List of French regions ranked by GDP total and per capita. Source : INSEE. Some Departements in France are very rich compared to others. Paris, Hauts-de-Seine (GDP per capita : €67000 in 2000) and Rhône, for example, concentrate a lot of headquartered. The Yvelines is the second richest departement in France according to the wages of habitants. In Hauts-de-Seine the wages are on average €28 000/capita, in Yvelines €27900, and in Paris €25000 against 15000 in France (data 2004 INSEE). Finally, in France like in other countries, a lot of cities are extremely rich in much of Regions, so the richest is Marnes-la-Coquette in Hauts-de-Seine with €81750/households (according to INSEE, data 2004) A quarterly report prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of Barclays Wealth in 2007 estimated that there were 3,000,000 dollar millionaires in France. (page 7) World portal | 1 |
Shrimp_scad | Shrimp_scad 2009-04-02T12:21:18Z The shrimp scad, Alepes djedaba, (also known as the slender yellowtail kingfish) is a widespread tropical marine fish of the jack family, Carangidae. The shrimp scad is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical western Indian Ocean and areas of the eastern Pacific Ocean, commonly found on inshore reefs. It has the common body profile of a scad, and may be difficult to differentiate from others in the genus Alepes. It is one of the larger scads, growing to 40 cm, but often is encountered at much smaller sizes. The shrimp scad is carnivorous, consuming a variety of crustaceans and small fish. It is of moderate importance to fisheries throughout its range. The shrimp scad is one of five species of fish in the scad genus Alepes, which itself is one of thirty genera in the jack family Carangidae. The Carangidae are Perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei. A molecular phylogenetic study has confirmed the genus Alepes is supported, at least between A. djedaba and A. kleinii which are closely related. The shrimp scad was first scientifically described by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål from a specimen collected in the Red Sea in 1775 under the name Scomber djedaba, mistaking the species for a true mackerel. A number of taxonomists have since tried to reclassify the species in a more parsimonious genus, with a number of carangid genera proposed including Selar, Caranx and Atule. To add to the confusion over the species, the species was redescribed twice after the first naming, once by Cuvier who named it Caranx kalla, and once by Fowler who proposed Caranx microbrachium for the species. Caranx kalla was subsequently placed in the genus Atule, but is now considered, along with Caranx microbrachium to be a junior synonym, unacceptable under the ICZN rules and has been discarded. The currently accepted name of Alepes djedaba was proposed by Gushiken in an extensive review of the carangidae of Japan, identifying a number of morphological features associating it with Alepes. Due to the awkward species name, the species is often misspelt as djeddaba in the literature. The shrimp scad has a body profile very similar to other scads and some other carangids, with an oblong, compressed body and dorsal and ventral profiles which are almost evenly convex. The snout is pointed and the eye diameter is nearly equal to the snout length, with an adipose eyelid well developed on the posterior half of eye. There are two moderately high, separate dorsal fins, the first of which has eight spines, while the second has a single spine followed by 23 to 25 soft rays. The anal fin has two detached spines followed by one spine connected to 18 to 20 soft rays. The anterior section of the lateral line is strongly curved, containing thirty one to thirty six scales, while the straight section consists of seventy seven to eighty five scutes. The colour of the body is an overall silver colour, with a green-blue tone on the upper body, while the underside fades to a more white colour. There is a diffuse dusky blotch on margin of operculum which is bordered by a smaller white spot. The spinous dorsal fin, including the last dorsal fin spine is blackish or dusky, the soft dorsal fin is blackish or dusky above the scaly sheath and the margin of first to fourth upper soft rays is whitish. The middle portion of the anal fin below the scaly sheath is slightly blackish or dusk. The caudal fin is often a striking yellow, especially when fresh, with the upper caudal lobe often fading to a darker shade. The posterior scutes may also be a yellow - rusty colour, especially after removal from the water. The species can grow to a large size compared to other scads, reaching a maximum known length of 40 cm, but more often seen around 25 cm. The shrimp scad is distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region from South Africa in the west, along the coasts of East Africa, India, Asia, Indonesia, northern Australia, Japan and extending as far east as Hawaii. They are also one of the species involved in the Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal and inhabit the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea around Israel, Lebanon and Egypt. The species is primarily an inshore inhabitant of reefs and over open sand patches, even in moderately turbid waters, often forming large schools. The species has in isolated circumstances also been found close to shore in surf zones in Japan and in estuarine waters in South Africa. The species is occasionally found in offshore environments, suggesting it can lead a pelagic lifestyle also. The shrimp scad feeds on a variety of prey, with at least two shifts in diet occurring as the fish mature. Older individuals feed mainly on young fishes, crustaceans like decapods, ostrocods, amphipods and cladocerans with minor amounts of nematodes, insect body parts and insect larvae taken. Fish within a length range of 150-199 mm and 240-319 mm showed a preference for young fishes, while those in the length range of 200-239 mm primarily consumed ostracods and other crustaceans. There is less food consumed during breeding season, which is indicative of reduced feeding activity during that period. Sexual maturity is attained by about 17 cm fork length and spawning is thought to occur in shallow coastal waters. The species is of little commercial interest in most countries where it is often considered too small to be worthwhile and is often caught on hook and line tackle and in seines as bycatch. It is often taken by subsistence fisheries using various traditional gear such as inter-tidal fixed stake traps. Around the Asian and Indonesian coasts, larger numbers are taken than anywhere else in its range and it is considered a good eating fish. , Shrimp_scad 2010-08-06T22:19:02Z The shrimp scad, Alepes djedaba (also known as the slender yellowtail kingfish), is a species of widespread tropical marine fish of the jack family, Carangidae. The shrimp scad is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical western Indian Ocean and areas of the eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from South Africa in the west to Hawaii in the east, including Japan and Australia to the north and south. The species is commonly found on inshore reefs and sandy substrates. It has the common body profile of a scad, and may be difficult to differentiate from others in the genus Alepes. It is one of the larger scads, growing to 40 cm, but often is encountered at much smaller sizes. The shrimp scad often forms large schools, and is carnivorous, consuming a variety of crustaceans and small fish. It is of moderate importance to fisheries throughout its range. The shrimp scad is one of five species of fish in the scad genus Alepes, which itself is one of thirty genera in the jack family Carangidae. The Carangidae are Perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei. A molecular phylogenetic study has confirmed the genus Alepes is supported, at least between A. djedaba and A. kleinii which are closely related. The shrimp scad was first scientifically described by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål from a specimen collected in the Red Sea in 1775, which was designated to be the holotype. He named the species Scomber djedaba, placing it in the mackerel genus, a common practice with carangids at the time, as the family Carangidae was yet to be erected. A number of taxonomists have since tried to reclassify the species in a more parsimonious genus, with a number of carangid genera proposed including Selar, Caranx and Atule. To add to the confusion over the species, the species was redescribed twice after the first naming, once by Cuvier who named it Caranx kalla, and once by Fowler who proposed Caranx microbrachium for the species. Caranx kalla was subsequently placed in the genus Atule, but is now considered, along with Caranx microbrachium to be a junior synonym, unacceptable under the ICZN rules and has been discarded. The currently accepted name of Alepes djedaba was proposed by Gushiken in an extensive review of the carangidae of Japan, identifying a number of morphological features associating it with Alepes. Due to the awkward species name, the species is often misspelt as djeddaba in the literature. The shrimp scad is can grow to a large size compared to other scads, reaching a maximum known length of 40 cm, but more often seen around 25 cm. The shrimp scad has a body profile very similar to other scads and some other carangids, with an oblong, compressed body and dorsal and ventral profiles which are almost evenly convex. The snout is pointed and the eye diameter is nearly equal to the snout length, with an adipose eyelid well developed on the posterior half of eye. There are two moderately high, separate dorsal fins, the first of which has eight spines, while the second has a single spine followed by 23 to 25 soft rays. The anal fin has two detached spines followed by one spine connected to 18 to 20 soft rays. The anterior section of the lateral line is strongly curved, containing thirty one to thirty six scales, while the straight section consists of seventy seven to eighty five scutes. The colour of the body is an overall silver colour, with a green-blue tone on the upper body, while the underside fades to a more white colour. There is a diffuse dusky blotch on margin of operculum which is bordered by a smaller white spot. The spinous dorsal fin, including the last dorsal fin spine is blackish or dusky, the soft dorsal fin is blackish or dusky above the scaly sheath and the margin of first to fourth upper soft rays is whitish. The middle portion of the anal fin below the scaly sheath is slightly blackish or dusk. The caudal fin is often a striking yellow, especially when fresh, with the upper caudal lobe often fading to a darker shade. The posterior scutes may also be a yellow to rusty colour, especially after removal from the water. The shrimp scad is distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region from South Africa in the west, along the coasts of East Africa, India, Asia, Indonesia, northern Australia, Japan and extending as far east as Hawaii. They are also one of the species involved in the Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal and inhabit the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea around Israel, Lebanon and Egypt. The species is primarily an inshore inhabitant of reefs and over open sand patches, even in moderately turbid waters, often forming large schools. The species has in isolated circumstances also been found close to shore in surf zones in Japan and in estuarine waters in South Africa. The species is occasionally found in offshore environments, suggesting it can lead a pelagic lifestyle also. The shrimp scad is known to be a migratory species, with records from India indicating the fish resides and feeds in the waters of Madras from September to May, before migrating elsewhere to spawn. The shrimp scad feeds on a variety of prey, with at least two shifts in diet occurring as the fish mature. Older individuals feed mainly on young fishes, crustaceans like decapods, ostracods, amphipods and cladocerans with minor amounts of nematodes, insect body parts and insect larvae taken. Fish within a length range of 150–199 mm and 240–319 mm showed a preference for young fishes, while those in the length range of 200–239 mm primarily consumed ostracods and other crustaceans. Based on the food items taken, the species is an active midwater feeder. There is less food consumed during breeding season, which is indicative of reduced feeding activity during that period. Sexual maturity is attained by about 17 cm fork length and spawning is thought to occur in shallow coastal waters. The species is of moderate commercial interest in most countries where it is often considered too small to be worthwhile and is often caught on hook and line tackle and in seines as bycatch. It is often taken by subsistence fisheries using various traditional gear such as inter-tidal fixed stake traps. Around the Asian and Indonesian coasts, larger numbers are taken than anywhere else in its range and it is considered a good eating fish. | 0 |
The Genetics Society | The Genetics Society 2013-11-08T09:01:27Z The Genetics Society is a British learned society. It was founded by William Bateson in 1919 and therefore is one of the oldest learned societies devoted to genetics. The society publishes the journal Heredity, in addition to The Genetics Society Newsletter. It is also associated with the journal Genes & Development, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. The current president of the society is Erico Coen. , The Genetics Society 2014-08-07T16:57:00Z The Genetics Society is a British learned society. It was founded by William Bateson in 1919 and therefore is one of the oldest learned societies devoted to genetics. Its membership of over 1700 consists of most of the UK's active professional geneticists, including researchers, teachers and students. Industry and publishing are also represented in the membership. It is a registered charity that organises meetings to promote genetics, publishes primary research in genetics and supports students to attend meetings. It sponsors research through fieldwork grants and student bursaries, and promotes the public understanding of genetics. The society publishes the journal Heredity in association with Nature Publishing Group and the journal Genes & Development in association with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. It also publishes The Genetics Society Newsletter and the Naked Genetics podcast. The Balfour Lecture, named after the Genetics Society’s first President, is an award to mark the contributions to genetics of an outstanding young investigator. The Balfour Lecturer is elected by the Society’s Committee on the basis of nominations made by any individual member of the Society. The only conditions are that the recipient of the award must normally have less than 10 years’ postdoctoral research experience at the time of nomination, and that any nomination must be made with the consent of the nominee. Those making nominations must be members of the Genetics Society, but there is no requirement for the nominee to be a member, nor is there any restriction on nationality or residence. The Genetics Society Medal is an award that recognizes outstanding research contributions to genetics. The Medal recipient, who should still be active in research at the time the Medal is awarded, will be elected annually by the Genetics Society Committee on the basis of nominations made by any individual member of the Society. Those making nominations must be members of the Genetics Society, but there is no requirement for the nominee to be a member, nor any restriction on nationality or residence. Neither current members of the Committee nor those who have retired from office in the past four years may be nominated for the award. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at a Genetics Society meeting, where the medal will be awarded, in the year following their election. The JBS Haldane Lecture, named in honour of the pioneering geneticist and evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. Awards are made annually and are presented at an open lecture given by the awardee. Information in this table was provided by The Genetics Society. | 1 |
Kotono Mitsuishi | Kotono Mitsuishi 2004-04-11T16:02:51Z Mitsuishi Kotono (三石琴乃) one of the most famoust seiyuu. Born 1967. She is most famoust for her voice in Sailor Moon fr Usagi Tsukino and Neon Genesis Evangelion for Misato Katsuragi She starred in : Aim for the Ace! Final Stage - Tomoyo (debut) Ajimu -Kaikan mongatari- - Kyouko Angelic Layer - Asami Shouko Angelique - Shiroi Tsubasa no Memoir - Rosaria Anpan-man - Maron-kun Babel II - Juju Birdy the Mighty - Birdy Blue Seed - Sawaguchi Koume Bucket de Gohan - Mint Buttobi CPU - Quadra Nackintosh Card Captor Sakura - Matsumoto Maki Card Captor Sakura: The Movie - Matsumoto Maki Choudendou Robo Tetsujin 28 Gou FX - Ranfa Compiler - Nerima Queen Corrector Yui - Freeze Crayon Shin-chan the Movie - Ageo sensei, Oiroke Cyber City Oedo 808 - woman Cyber Formula - Sugou Asuka Da! Da! Da! - Kijou Akira Dark Side Blues - Mai Dennou Sentai Voogie's Angel - Rebecca Detective Conan - Konno Yuri Digimon Tamers - Uehara Minami Dokkoida - Hiacynth Dragon Half - Mink Ebichu the Housekeeping Hamster - Ebichu Excel Saga - Excel Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture - Shiranui Mai Flame of Recca - Kage Houshi, Kagero Fruits Basket - Souma Kagura Gall Force The Revolution - Rabby GEAR Fighter Dendoh - Kusanagi Orie, narrator, announcer Genji Tsuushin Agedama - Ibuki Gensou Maden Saiyuuki - Shunfaa Ginga Sengoku Gun'yuuden Rai - Shimon Great Teacher Onizuka - Kanzaki Urumi Hare Tokidoki Buta - Kazuko Hareruya II Boy - Kanou Sayaka Haunted Junction - Haruto's mother Heroic Legend of Arslan - Etoile Hi! Akko desu - Store Clerk Hidamari no Ki - Oaki High School Mystery: Gakuen 7 Fushigi - Kawai Yukari, female student B Himitsu no Akko-chan - Mirufiiyu Hyper Police - Phonne Idol Defense Force Hummingbird - Toreishi Satsuki Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Kim Kyung Hwa Jankenman - Chokkin Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne - Matsubara Saki Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo - Mori Kyouka King of Jungle Tar-chan - Helen Kirara - Kirara Kishin Heidan - Fay Kounai Shasei Final - girl A, Chami Lamune & 40 - girl 1, Mountain Dew Silver Legend of Galactic Heroes - Karin Legend of Momotarou - Chiya Girl A Little Snow Fairy Sugar - Ginger Maboroshi Mabochan - Tsubaki-chan Maguu Senjyou - Pamela Makeruna! Makendo - Tsurugino Mai Mary Bell - Ribbon Maze - Maze Miracle Girls - Motoki Mai Mobile New Century Gundam X - Toniya Malme Mobile Suit Gundam Seed - Ramiasu Maryu, narrator Monster Farm - Pixy Neon Genesis Evangelion - Katsuragi Misato Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth - Katsuragi Misato Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion - Katsuragi Misato Nineteen - girl in disco Nintama Rantarou - Yamaguki Noir - Mireille Bouquet Oniisama he - student Ordian - Nitro Phantom Quest Corps - Rokugou Nanami Pocket Monsters - Metamon Pocket Monsters: Lugia Bakutan - girl on boat Pocket Monsters: Mew Two Ware ha Kokoni Ari - Domino Power Dolls 2 - Yao Fei Lun Puni Puni Poemi - Itsue Revolutionary Girl Utena - Arisugawa Juri Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie - Arisugawa Juri Sailor Moon - Tsukino Usagi, Chibi Chibi Sailor Moon R: The Promise of the Rose - Tsukino Usagi Salior Moon S: Hearts in Ice - Tsukino Usagi Sailor Moon Super S: Ami-chan's First Love - Tsukino Usagi Sailor Moon Super S: Black Dream Hole - Tsukino Usagi Samurai Pizza Cats - Okoto, Oishi Saver Kids - reporter Sentimental Journey - Serizawa Kotone Sequence - female student A Shin Megami Tensei - Yagami Saki Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula: Aratanaru Chousensha: 7 Days Memorial - Sugou Asuka Sousei Seiki Devadasy - Minakushi Amara Space Travellers the Animation - Gold Papillon Spiral - Narumi Madoka Steam Detectives - Aishii Tales of Eternia - Ekusushia Those Who Hunt Elves - Cercia Marieclaire Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai - Watanabe Yumi U-Jin - Brand Tomoko Variable Geo - Takeuchi Yuka Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan - customer, lady, nurse, student Wedding Peach - Potamos Weiss Kreuz - Noi X/1999 - Yatouji Satsuki Yaiba - Mine Sayaka Yajikita Gakuen Douchuuki - student Yamato 2520 - Maki Youseiki Suikoden - Suga Kiyomi Ys - Lilia, Kotono Mitsuishi 2005-12-29T13:28:53Z Kotono Mitsuishi (三石 琴乃 Mitsuishi Kotono, born December 8 1967) is one of the most famous seiyū (Japanese voice actors). She is best known for her roles as Usagi Tsukino in Sailor Moon and Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Kotono is affiliated with Arts Vision. | 1 |
Yoo In-na | Yoo In-na 2012-01-21T22:28:24Z name Yoo In Na (Korean: 유인나, born June 5, 1982) is a South Korean actress under YG Entertainment, and winner of the Best New Actress award for her role in Secret Garden, at the 47th Paeksang Arts Awards in 2011. Yoo started giving it to Alex Cheng and started her acting career in the popular day time sitcom High Kick Through the Roof in 2009. In 2010 she played Im Ah-young in SBS drama Secret Garden, for which she won Best New Actress award. In 2011, Yoo was featured in My Mini Black Dress alongside Yoon Eun Hye, Park Han Byul, and Cha Ye-Ryeon. Having been trained as a vocalist for years before her debut, she was featured in Humming Urban Stereo's 2011 single, "Neon Geu-Nal" (넌 그날). , Yoo In-na 2013-12-25T15:19:02Z name Yoo In-na (born June 5, 1982) is a South Korean actress. After supporting roles in High Kick Through the Roof (2009) and Secret Garden (2010), she rose to fame as the lead actress in Queen In-hyun's Man (2012). Yoo is also the DJ of the highly rated radio program Let's Crank Up the Volume. At the age of 16, Yoo In-na joined an entertainment agency as an apprentice singer in 1998, and even came close to joining a girl group at one point. But 11 years and five different agencies later, she was unsuccessful at breaking out. Yoo said she had difficulty memorizing the dance choreography required of K-pop singers, and after practicing her dance moves for eight hours a day, six days a week, she called it quits. In 2006, Yoo joined YG Entertainment as an aspiring actress. She said, "If singing wasn't meant to be, I decided to give acting a go because it seemed fun. I never gave up. A lot of my friends did, though, even though they were prettier and more capable than me." Her big break came in 2009 with the popular daytime sitcom High Kick Through the Roof on MBC. Several supporting roles followed, notably as the heroine's perky best friend in 2010 SBS drama Secret Garden which won her Best New Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards. She was an MC for Night of TV Entertainment from March 3, 2011 to June 4, 2012, for which she won Best Variety Entertainer at the SBS Entertainment Awards. She is currently a DJ for KBS Cool FM's Let's Crank Up the Volume, which is the highest-rated radio program in its timeslot across both AM and FM bandwidths. Having trained for years hoping to become a singer before her acting debut, Yoo's vocals was featured in Humming Urban Stereo's 2011 digital single "You, That Day" (넌 그날). She also sang for the soundtrack of her 2011 film My Black Mini Dress alongside her castmates Yoon Eun-hye, Park Han-byul, and Cha Ye-ryun. Their chick flick is about the lives of four twentysomething friends as they juggle life, love and work. In 2012 Yoo starred in her first leading role in the tvN series Queen In-hyun's Man. The plot of the cable drama centers around obscure actress Choi Hee-jin, played by Yoo, who falls in love with time-traveling scholar Kim Boong-do (Ji Hyun-woo) from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) who jumped 300 years to the 21st century. Yoo was cast in her first big-screen leading role in the melodrama Pure Couple, which began filming in December 2012. She next starred as part of the ensemble cast in 2013 family drama You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin. At a June 7, 2012 fan meeting to mark the end of Queen In-hyun's Man, Ji Hyun-woo made a surprise public declaration that he was in love with co-star Yoo In-na, shocking fans and press alike. This sparked a media frenzy in the following days, during which their agencies remained mum on the issue and the two stars lay low, except for a reassuring message to his fans that Ji posted on Twitter on June 11. Speculation about their relationship status ended on June 17, when gossip website Sportsseoul.com photographed the couple together on a midnight date at a park in Bundang, Gyeonggi, where Yoo lives. The next day on June 18, Yoo confirmed on her radio show that they are officially dating. | 1 |
Animal_Wall | Animal_Wall 2010-04-20T02:55:12Z 51°28′51. 9528″N 3°11′4. 1094″W / 51. 481098000°N 3. 184474833°W / 51. 481098000; -3. 184474833 The Animal Wall is a sculptured wall depicting different animals in Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade I listed structure. The Animal Wall was designed by William Burges in 1866, but it was not built until 1890, after William Burges's sudden death in 1881. The work of the restoration of Cardiff Castle and the building of the Animal Wall for the Marquess of Bute, was continued by his former assistant William Frame. William Frame was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England in 1846. He was retained by Lord Bute to complete projects at Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch, and other projects. William Frame's own designs include the Grade I listed Pierhead Building in Tiger Bay (now called Cardiff Bay), built in 1897. The wall was moved about Template:M to ft from outside Cardiff Castle to its present location outside Bute Park in 1925, due to road widening in front of the castle in Duke Street and Castle Street (A4161). These are from left to right looking from Castle Street This article about a listed building in the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a Welsh building or structure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Animal_Wall 2011-04-05T13:32:14Z 51°28′51. 9528″N 3°11′4. 1094″W / 51. 481098000°N 3. 184474833°W / 51. 481098000; -3. 184474833 The Animal Wall is a sculptured wall depicting 15 animals in the Castle Quarter of the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade I listed structure. The Animal Wall was designed by William Burges in 1866, but it was not built until 1890, after Burges's death in 1881. The work of the restoration of Cardiff Castle and the building of the Animal Wall for the Marquess of Bute, was continued by his former assistant William Frame. The original nine animal figures were sculptured by Thomas Nicholls, they were the hyena, wolf, apes, seal, bear, lioness, lynx, and 2 different lions. They were painted in naturalistic colours, although since then the paint work on the sculptures has been removed. The wall was moved about Template:M to ft from outside Cardiff Castle to its present location outside Bute Park in 1922, due to road widening in front of the castle in Duke Street and Castle Street (A4161). In 1931 six further animals were added the pelican, ant-eater, racoons, leopard, beaver and vulture. They were sculptured by Alexander Carrick. In the 1970s Council planners had wanted to demolish the Wall to widen the road again, but this idea was later abandoned. As part of a £5. 6 million refurbishment of Bute Park, restoration of the animals began in July 2010. During the repair, the anteater's missing nose, which has been missing since the late 90s, was replaced as well as the missing glass eyes in the nine original animals. | 0 |
Josh Wright | Josh Wright 2007-08-19T12:55:58Z The highly-rated Josh Wright signed his first professional deal, a two-year agreement, in March. An England U18 international, he boasts a fine range of passing and, coupled with great vision and awareness, the playmaker is a man upon whom teammates can rely to crack open opposition defences. The Essex-based midfielder scored one goal for the U18s last season in his 13 outings for the senior academy side, and also had a significant impact at reserve level, scoring twice in 12 appearances. Having established himself in the second string, Wright, who regularly finds himself alongside Arter in the heart of the pitch, will have the first-team bench in his sights. , Josh Wright 2008-12-14T19:17:38Z Joshua "Josh" Wright (born November 6 1989) is an English footballer, currently playing for Charlton Athletic. Born in Essex, Wright started his football career at Charlton Athletic, with whom he signed a two-year professional contract in April 2007 at the age of 17 alongside close friend Harry Arter. Before joining Charlton's academy full-time at the age of 16, he attended Roding Valley High School in Loughton. Fellow professionals Lee Sawyer of Chelsea and Billy Lumley of Wolves also attended Roding Valley High School He plays in midfield as a playmaker. In August of that year, Wright moved to Barnet on loan for what eventually amounted to three months. After a successful spell, which saw him score his first ever goal against Stockport County and be named Barnet's player of the month for November, he returned to Charlton. A month later, he was re-signed on loan by Barnet for the remainder of the 2007–08 season. . On 19 September 2008, Wright was signed by League Two side Brentford on a month's loan. , the loan was extended but soon after Alan Pardew decided to call Josh back due to an injury crisis at the club , on the 25th of October 2008 , Wright made his debut for Charlton in 1-1 draw against Burnley Wright made his debut for his country at U16 level against Japan in March 2005. Since then, he has represented England at the U17, U18 and, most recently, U19 levels. He was captain of the U17 side on several occasions, having previously captained the U16 team. | 1 |
International Association of Business Communicators | International Association of Business Communicators 2019-06-02T23:57:36Z The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a global network of communications professionals. Each summer, IABC hosts World Conference, a three-day event with professional development seminars and activities, as well as talks by industry leaders. Decisions within the organization are made by a two-thirds vote of the executive board, which is elected by members. IABC members agree to follow a professional code of ethics, which encourages members to do what is legal, ethical and in good taste. IABC's predecessor was the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE), which was founded in 1938. AAIE became a member of the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE) in 1941. It withdrew from ICIE in 1946 over policy differences, but formed IABC when it merged again in 1970. In IABC's first year of operation, the association had 2,280 members and was focused on internal communications. IABC's research showed its members were moving into positions with broader public relations responsibilities and the association expanded its scope. In 1974 it merged with Corporate Communicators Canada. In 1982 the association formed the IABC Research Foundation, which funded a study of 323 organizations in the 1980s to determine what made some public relations teams more effective than others. The study found that executive involvement in communications was the best predictor of effectiveness. The Research Foundation also looked into the status and pay of women in the public relations field, in a pioneering study called The Velvet Ghetto. IABC had financial troubles in 2000 after losing $1 million in an e-business initiative called TalkingBusinessNow. In 2001 a grass-roots initiative was started within IABC's membership that eventually developed into the Gift of Communication program, whereby members donated their professional services to local charities. Membership grew 7–9 percent each year in the 2000s due to an increasing number of practitioners in the field of internal communications. IABC hosted its first annual world conference in 2005 and grew to more than 16,000 members by 2008. That same year, IABC accredited Chinese citizens for the first time in the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program. In 2009 the IABC Research Foundation conducted a survey that found 79 percent of respondents frequently use social media to communicate with employees. It also co-authored a study the following year that found email and intranet were the most common internal communications tools among respondents. For 40 years, the association offered an accreditation program called Accreditation for Business Communications (ABC). By the time the program ended in 2013, a total of 1,003 people had earned ABC status. Though the program stopped accepting new applicants in September 2012, ABCs will be recognized as long as they maintain their membership in IABC. A new professional certification program to replace accreditation with a more affordable, computer-based process was proposed in January 2013. The goal is to set an international standard for all communications professionals that will be recognized by an organization such as ISO17024. The autonomous international group to oversee the creation of the new certification program — the Global Communication Certification Council — was appointed in February 2014. IABC offers professional, corporate, student and retired memberships. Representatives from different chapters and regions, as well as professional members, vote at the Annual General Meeting to elect members to the international executive board. The board can change dues, establish new chapters, create workgroups and remove members with a two-thirds vote. IABC also has various committees focused on ethics, research, finance, auditing and others. All positions within IABC are filled by volunteers. IABC has more than 100 chapters worldwide in North America, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe. IABC hosts networking events and mentoring programs to help recent graduates connect with working public relations, marketing and corporate communications professionals. Most professional members join IABC to further their career advancement, professional development and to grow their professional network. IABC is no longer accepting new applicants for its Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program, but a new certification program has been initiated that would involve computerized testing and renewals every three years. The new certification program will have two levels; the first level being developed is for Communications Generalists. IABC publishes a code of ethics, which has three principles: that professional communications be legal, ethical and in good taste. It says members should be sensitive to cultural values, as well as be truthful, accurate and respectful. Before 1995, the code said "Communicators should encourage frequent communication and messages that are honest in their content, candid, accurate and appropriate to the needs of the organization and its audiences." IABC hosts the Gold Quill Awards, which are bestowed at three levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Gold Quill is an international awards program that's open to both members and non- members. The Silver and Bronze Quills are conducted at a local chapter level and open to both members and non-members. The awards are bestowed for "creatively and effectively communicating" in measurable ways that contribute to the local community. In 2014 the Gold Quill has four divisions and more than 40 categories. Both the Gold Quill and some of the regional chapters offer special awards for college students. IABC's goal is to connect and inspire each other through events and professional development programmes, and by sharing best practices. IABC inaugural edition of its Regional Conference for business communicators in Asia-Pacific region was held in 2017 in Singapore. The theme of the conference was – FUSION: Connecting Communicators. Asia-Pacific is one of the most culturally and geographically diverse regions in IABC. Goal is to Connect Communicators across the APAC region and the world to inspire, create connections, foster best practices, and promote leadership in the communications profession. Ashwani Singla, Vice President of the IABC India chapter board former APAC board member of Burson-Marsteller, amongst the speakers at Fusion IABC also publishes a monthly digital magazine Communication World. Recent issues have shared researched and first-person, expert articles on connecting with Millennials, social intranets and crisis communications. , International Association of Business Communicators 2020-11-05T02:20:38Z The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a global network of communications professionals. Each summer, IABC hosts World Conference, a three-day event with professional development seminars and activities, as well as talks by industry leaders. Decisions within the organization are made by a two-thirds vote of the executive board, which is elected by members. IABC members agree to follow a professional code of ethics, which encourages members to do what is legal, ethical and in good taste. IABC's predecessor was the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE), which was founded in 1938. AAIE became a member of the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE) in 1941. It withdrew from ICIE in 1946 over policy differences, but formed IABC when it merged again in 1970. In IABC's first year of operation, the association had 2,280 members and was focused on internal communications. IABC's research showed its members were moving into positions with broader public relations responsibilities and the association expanded its scope. In 1974 it merged with Corporate Communicators Canada. In 1982 the association formed the IABC Research Foundation, which funded a study of 323 organizations in the 1980s to determine what made some public relations teams more effective than others. The study found that executive involvement in communications was the best predictor of effectiveness. The Research Foundation also looked into the status and pay of women in the public relations field, in a pioneering study called The Velvet Ghetto. IABC had financial troubles in 2000 after losing $1 million in an e-business initiative called TalkingBusinessNow. In 2001 a grass-roots initiative was started within IABC's membership that eventually developed into the Gift of Communication program, whereby members donated their professional services to local charities. Membership grew 7–9 percent each year in the 2000s due to an increasing number of practitioners in the field of internal communications. IABC hosted its first annual world conference in 2005 and grew to more than 16,000 members by 2008. That same year, IABC accredited Chinese citizens for the first time in the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program. In 2009 the IABC Research Foundation conducted a survey that found 79 percent of respondents frequently use social media to communicate with employees. It also co-authored a study the following year that found email and intranet were the most common internal communications tools among respondents. For 40 years, the association offered an accreditation program called Accreditation for Business Communications (ABC). By the time the program ended in 2013, a total of 1,003 people had earned ABC status. Though the program stopped accepting new applicants in September 2012, ABCs will be recognized as long as they maintain their membership in IABC. A new professional certification program to replace accreditation with a more affordable, computer-based process was proposed in January 2013. The goal is to set an international standard for all communications professionals that will be recognized by an organization such as ISO17024. The autonomous international group to oversee the creation of the new certification program — the Global Communication Certification Council — was appointed in February 2014. IABC offers professional, corporate, student and retired memberships. Representatives from different chapters and regions, as well as professional members, vote at the Annual General Meeting to elect members to the international executive board. The board can change dues, establish new chapters, create workgroups and remove members with a two-thirds vote. IABC also has various committees focused on ethics, research, finance, auditing and others. All positions within IABC are filled by volunteers. IABC has more than 100 chapters worldwide in North America, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe. IABC hosts networking events and mentoring programs to help recent graduates connect with working public relations, marketing and corporate communications professionals. Most professional members join IABC to further their career advancement, professional development and to grow their professional network. IABC is no longer accepting new applicants for its Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program, but a new certification program has been initiated that would involve computerized testing and renewals every three years. The new certification program will have two levels; the first level being developed is for Communications Generalists. IABC publishes a code of ethics, which has three principles: that professional communications be legal, ethical and in good taste. It says members should be sensitive to cultural values, as well as be truthful, accurate and respectful. Before 1995, the code said "Communicators should encourage frequent communication and messages that are honest in their content, candid, accurate and appropriate to the needs of the organization and its audiences." IABC hosts the Gold Quill Awards, which are bestowed at three levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Gold Quill is an international awards program that's open to both members and non- members. The Silver and Bronze Quills are conducted at a local chapter level and open to both members and non-members. The awards are bestowed for "creatively and effectively communicating" in measurable ways that contribute to the local community. In 2014 the Gold Quill has four divisions and more than 40 categories. Both the Gold Quill and some of the regional chapters offer special awards for college students. IABC's goal is to connect and inspire each other through events and professional development programmes, and by sharing best practices. IABC inaugural edition of its Regional Conference for business communicators in Asia-Pacific region was held in 2017 in Singapore. The theme of the conference was – FUSION: Connecting Communicators. Asia-Pacific is one of the most culturally and geographically diverse regions in IABC. Goal is to Connect Communicators across the APAC region and the world to inspire, create connections, foster best practices, and promote leadership in the communications profession. Ashwani Singla, Vice President of the IABC India chapter board former APAC board member of Burson-Marsteller, amongst the speakers at Fusion The IABC Fellow designation is the highest honor IABC bestows on its members. Becoming a Fellow denotes a body of achievement by a communicator who has had a significant impact not only on their organization and IABC, but also on the communication profession at large. The criteria for Fellow nominations: Abbreviations used in the above list: IABC also publishes a monthly digital magazine Communication World. Recent issues have shared researched and first-person, expert articles on connecting with Millennials, social intranets and crisis communications. | 1 |
American Oaks | American Oaks 2005-08-16T10:03:40Z The American Oaks (G1) at Hollywood Park was created to provide a Mares-Only Format on the West Coast of the USA. Since it's inception in 2002, it has strived to become a world-reaching format by bringing in the best Mares from all over the world and having them race in the California Sun. The Winner of this G1 race walks away with a US $750,000 pot and the prestige of winning a well covered race. The American Oaks joins the historic Hollywood Gold Cup as co-richest race on the Hollywood Park stakes schedule, while becoming the eighth Grade I event on the calendar. The most noteable race was on July 4th, 2005, when Japanese Racehorse Cesario, a granddaughter of 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence, trounced favorite Melhor Ainda and raced away with a sizeable four-length stretch. Cesario became the first Japanese racehorse in nearly a half-century (Hakuchikara won the Washington's Birthday Handicap at Santa Anita in 1959) to win a US-Based race, and avenged the second-place finish of her sister Dance in the Mood, whom was picked as a favorite in the 2004 race but lost to Ticker Tape of England by a length. The win was big news, as Japanese Media swarmed Cesario and her mount, famed Japanese Jockey Yuichi Fukunaga, in the winners circle. Before the race, Japan TV broadcasted a 1 Hour TV show live from Hollywood Park about Cesario and her run at the American Oaks. Previously, Cesario won the Japanese version of the Oaks, the Yushun Himba. , American Oaks 2006-10-23T17:22:44Z The American Oaks at Hollywood Park was created to provide a fillies only format turf horse race on the West Coast of the United States. Since its inception in 2002, it has strived to become a world class race by bringing in some of the best fillies from all over the world and having them race in California at Hollywood Park. The winner of the Grade I race not only receives the winner's share of the US $750,000 purse, but also the prestige of winning a race which has quickly risen to world class status. The American Oaks is the eighth Grade 1 event on the Hollywood Park stakes schedule and shares the position of richest race on the stakes schedule with the historically important G1 Hollywood Gold Cup. The American Oaks was first run as a G1 race in 2004. Prior to 2004, it was a listed stakes race. The inaugural running of the American Oaks ended with a disqualification, as Dublino was disqualified from first place to second after several incidents happened with Megahertz (GB) on the track. After an inquiry, it was shown that Dublino had bumped Megahertz in the stretch dive, and then the whip of jockey Kent Desormeaux hit Megahertz twice in the face, making Megahertz end the race a half-length behind. Following a win in the Matriarch Stakes with Dress To Thrill (IRE), Dermot Weld pushed for another win at Hollywood Park, as Dimitrova under David Flores (jockey) drove to a win at the second running of the American Oaks, defeating Sand Springs. With the race under new G1 status, the field of horses had a diversified mix, the most notable horse being Dance in the Mood (JPN), a descendant of famed racehorse Sunday Silence. However, the favorite came up short. By trapping Dance in the Mood at the rail and staying outside, Ticker Tape (GB) then drove past Dance in the Mood, and securing the win. Some people who have seen the race feel that Dance in the Mood's loss may have in part been her jockey's error in judgement. He did not seem aware of the location of the Hollywood Park turf course finish line, and made a move that was just a little bit too close to the finish line to result in victory. Horse racing history was made on July 3rd, 2005, when Japanese-bred Cesario, a granddaughter of 1989 Kentucky Derby winner, Breeders' Cup Classic winner, and Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year winner Sunday Silence, trounced the favored and previously undefeated Melhor Ainda, racing away with a sizable four-length margin of victory. Cesario became the first Japanese-bred, Japan-based racehorse in nearly a half-century to win a US stakes race (Hakuchikara won the Washington's Birthday Handicap at Santa Anita in 1959 upsetting US champion Round Table), and avenged the second place finish of Japan's Dance in the Mood, the favorite in the 2004 edition of the race...who unfortunately lost to British-bred Ticker Tape by a length. Cesario's 2005 American Oaks win was big news in Japan, as Japanese media swarmed Cesario and her rider (famed Japanese jockey Yuichi Fukunaga) in the winner's circle as the Japanese flag waved over an American holiday weekend. Before the race, Japan TV broadcast a one-hour long TV show live from Hollywood Park about Cesario and her run at the American Oaks. The race was then broadcast live in Japan, where it was already Monday. Prior to the American Oaks, Cesario had won the Japanese Oaks, also known as the Yushun Himba. Sent off as the third choice in a field of eight, Ocala Horses LLC's Wait A While drew off to an impressive 4 1/2-length victory over 8-5 favorite Asahi Rising (JPN) and Arravale (CAN) in the invitational's fifth running. Trained by Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher, Wait A While was making just her second career start on the turf. Jockey Garrett Gomez stalked the early pace set by Attima (GB) and made a sweeping three-wide move around the second turn, clearing the field under mild left-handed urging. The connections had to wait several minutes for the race to be declared official after Alex Bisono, rider of Foxysox, alleged interference against Wait a While. Bisono claimed that Wait a While forced him to take up near the quarter-pole as the winner was making her sweeping move to the front of the pack. However, stewards disallowed it, saying Attima caused the traffic problem. | 1 |
Artur Yusupov (footballer) | Artur Yusupov (footballer) 2014-01-22T21:32:20Z Artur Rimovich Yusupov (Russian: Артур Римович Юсупов; born September 1, 1989 in Kuybyshev, USSR, now Samara, Russia) is a Russian professional footballer of Tatar origin. Currently, he plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2006 for FC Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad. He made his Russian Premier League debut on November 8, 2009 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a game against PFC Spartak Nalchik. , Artur Yusupov (footballer) 2015-12-03T20:11:06Z Artur Rimovich Yusupov (Russian: Артур Римович Юсупов; born 1 September 1989 in Kuybyshev, USSR, now Samara, Russia) is a Russian professional footballer of Volga Tatar origin. Currently, he plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2006 for FC Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad. He made his Russian Premier League debut on 8 November 2009 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a game against PFC Spartak Nalchik. He made his debut for the national team on 17 November 2015 in a friendly game against Croatia. | 1 |
Even Hovland | Even Hovland 2011-11-11T23:15:09Z Even Hovland (born 14 Feburary 1989) is a Norwegian footballer, who plays as a centre back on Sogndal in Tippeligaen In his youth, Hovland played for local clubs Vadheim and Høyang, before joining Sogndal in 2007. During warming up to the opening match of the 2009 season against Hønefoss Hovland broke his foot. In 2009-2010, Hovland was on trial at Manchester United, but was not offered a contract. Hovland was named in Norway's squad for the EURO 2012 qualification match against Cyprus on 11 October 2011, because Brede Hangeland was suspended due to yellow cards. , Even Hovland 2012-11-28T10:07:10Z Even Hovland (born 14 February 1989) is a Norwegian footballer, who plays as a centre back for Molde FK in Tippeligaen. In his youth, Hovland played for the local clubs Vadheim IL and IL Høyang, before joining Sogndal in 2007. During the warm-up to the opening match of the 2009 season against Hønefoss, Hovland broke his foot, and missed almost the entire season. In 2009-2010, Hovland was on trial at Manchester United, but was not offered a contract. Hovland joined Molde ahead of the 2012-season. In the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League qualifying match against Basel, Hovland was injured and had to leave the pitch after 25 minutes. The knee-injury kept him out of play for the rest of the 2012-season. Hovland was named in Norway's squad for the EURO 2012 qualification match against Cyprus on 11 October 2011, because Brede Hangeland was suspended due to yellow cards. Hovland made his debut for the senior team in a 1-1 friendly draw against Denmark on 15 January 2012. The day before Norway's friendly against Northern Ireland on 29 February 2012, Hovland was again called up for Norway as a replacement for Brede Hangeland, but because Hovland had played a pre-season match with Molde in Spain the same day he withdrew from the national team squad. | 1 |
The_Zany_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood | The_Zany_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood 2010-02-16T01:11:17Z The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) is a parody film of the story of Robin Hood. In not-so-merry-old-England during the 13th Century, the neurotic Prince John Roddy McDowell sits on the throne, supported by his evil henchman, Sir Guy of Gisbourne Tom Baker and constantly ridiculed by his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine Janet Suzman. While celebrating his birthday, the Prince becomes unhappy when he discovers his older brother, Richard, is not dead as everyone thought but rather being held for ransom in Austria. As Richard is the rightful King of England, this creates a problem for Prince John. However, Gisbourne openly suggests that they tax the Saxon peasants to raise the ransom, while secretly confiding in the Prince that the King will most likely die of pneumonia before the year is out and that they will keep the money. The birthday revels, such as they are, are interrupted by Robin Hood George Segal, disguised in drag and reciting an offensive poem. Not seeing through the disguise, Gisbourne demands she take them to Robin Hood's hideout in Sherwood Forest. That night, Eleanor convinces Maid Marian Morgan Fairchild to play up to Gisbourne's advances and use him to help Robin Hood. When Prince John and Guy travel to Sherwood, they are ambushed by Robin Hood's Merry Men. They are stripped of their garments, their possessions and money stolen, then driven out of the forest. Will Scarlet Robin Nedwell frequently tries to make a song out of these events, but thankfully Robin stops him every time. Eleanor and Marian sneak into the bandits' camp at night, disguised as two nuns, and hoping to enlist Robin's help in freeing King Richard. They are caught by Robin, who recognises them immediately, and the trio eat together and discuss plans. Robin and Marian realise they love each other. Robin and his band begin travelling across the country to raise the ransom money but nothing goes right. They try robbing a bank only to find that they have won a prize as the hundredth customer and get distracted. When they finally rob the bank, they find it only has three coins and a pfennig. Times are hard for everyone, it seems. Eventually, Robin has to report back to Eleanor that England is broke. She advises him to get the money from Isaac of York , a Jewish moneylender. In York, Robin stands out like a sore thumb amongst all the orthodox Jews. Isaac agrees to lend Robin the ransom money provided that in return the King gives the Jews their own country. Isaac suggests Palestine, although Miami would be his second choice. They settle on naming the new country after Isaac's father, Israel. Robin sneaks into the Prince's castle to tell Eleanor, who now insists he must raise an army. Robin then tries to seduce Marian, promising her they'll be wed once King Richard returns, but with little success. , The_Zany_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood 2012-07-08T14:17:09Z The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) is a parody film of the story of Robin Hood. In not-so-merry-old-England during the 13th Century, the neurotic Prince John (Roddy McDowell) sits on the throne, supported by his evil henchman, Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Tom Baker) and constantly ridiculed by his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Janet Suzman). While celebrating his birthday, the Prince becomes unhappy when he discovers his older brother, Richard, is not dead as everyone thought but rather being held for ransom in Austria. As Richard is the rightful King of England, this creates a problem for Prince John. However, Gisbourne openly suggests that they tax the Saxon peasants to raise the ransom, while secretly confiding in the Prince that the King will most likely die of pneumonia before the year is out and that they will keep the money. The birthday revels are interrupted by Robin Hood (George Segal), disguised in drag and reciting an offensive poem. Not seeing through the disguise, Gisbourne demands she take them to Robin Hood's hideout in Sherwood Forest. That night, Eleanor convinces Maid Marian (Morgan Fairchild) to play up to Gisbourne's advances and use him to help Robin Hood. When Prince John and Guy travel to Sherwood, they are ambushed by Robin Hood's Merry Men. They are stripped of their garments, their possessions and money stolen, then driven out of the forest. Will Scarlet (Robin Nedwell) frequently tries to make a song out of these events, but thankfully Robin stops him every time. Eleanor and Marian sneak into the bandits' camp at night, disguised as two nuns, and hoping to enlist Robin's help in freeing King Richard. They are caught by Robin, who recognises them immediately, and the trio eat together and discuss plans. Robin and Marian realise they love each other. Robin and his band begin travelling across the country to raise the ransom money but nothing goes right. They try robbing a bank only to find that they have won a prize as the hundredth customer and get distracted. When they finally rob the bank, they find it only has three coins and a pfennig. Times are hard for everyone, it seems. Eventually, Robin has to report back to Eleanor that England is broke. She advises him to get the money from Isaac of York (Kenneth Griffith), a Jewish moneylender. In York, Robin stands out like a sore thumb amongst all the orthodox Jews. Isaac agrees to lend Robin the ransom money provided that in return the King gives the Jews their own country. Isaac suggests Palestine, although Miami would be his second choice. They settle on naming the new country after Isaac's father, Israel. Robin sneaks into the Prince's castle to tell Eleanor, who now insists he must raise an army. Robin then tries to seduce Marian, promising her they'll be wed once King Richard returns, but with little success. | 0 |
Samgakji_station | Samgakji_station 2010-01-06T05:47:53Z Template:Infobox SMS station Samgakji Station is a subway station on the Seoul Subway Line 4 and Line 6. The Seoul War Memorial is a short walk away from exits 11 and 12. This station is on the west end of the Yongsan Garrison, a large American military base smack in the middle of Seoul. Although not connected to this station by a transfer passageway, Namyeong Station on Line 1 is a short walk from here. , Samgakji_station 2011-04-27T01:40:47Z Template:Infobox SMS station Samgakji Station is a subway station on the Seoul Subway Line 4 and Line 6. The Seoul War Memorial is a short walk away from exits 11 and 12. This station is on the west end of the Yongsan Garrison. The base is a short walk from exit 10. Although not connected to this station by a transfer passageway, Namyeong Station on Line 1 is a short walk from here. The Samgakji area was made famous in Korea because of a 1967 song by Baeho titled "Return to Samgakji. " A statue and portrait of Baeho were erected in the No. 4 section of the station in his memory. 37°32′08″N 126°58′26″E / 37. 53551°N 126. 97393°E / 37. 53551; 126. 97393 | 0 |
Ali Hillis | Ali Hillis 2015-01-01T03:36:53Z Alecia "Ali" Hillis (born December 29, 1978) is an American actress and voice actress from the state of Illinois who learned to perform in theater as a child and auditioned for parts in the Broadway plays in New York City. She has appeared in a variety of TV shows and films with a voice character in a number of video games. At the age of six months, Hillis' moved with her family to Normal, Illinois and at age 3, to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age 13 and performed at The Children's Theater. She auditioned for Broadway plays in New York City with TV shows of Felicity (2 episodes in 1999), FreakyLinks, Undressed (2000), Baywatch, JAG, Boomtown and Less Than Perfect. Her several film roles are All the Wrong Places, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Must Love Dogs, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Ultimate Gift, and The Heartbreak Kid and the Los Angeles play, A Good Soldier. Her video game roles are Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, its sequels and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Ariel Hanson in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Karin in the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series, Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising and Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair in Fuse. , Ali Hillis 2016-12-18T12:08:34Z Alecia "Ali" Hillis is an American actress and voice actress who appeared in television and film roles with a voice character in a number of video games. She is widely known for her work as Dr. Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Lightning in the Final Fantasy XIII series, and Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising. When she was six months old, Hillis and her family moved to Normal, Illinois and at age 3, to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age 13 and performed at The Children's Theater. She auditioned for Broadway plays in New York City with TV shows of Felicity (2 episodes in 1999), FreakyLinks, Undressed (2000), Baywatch, JAG, Boomtown and Less Than Perfect. Her several film roles are All the Wrong Places, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Must Love Dogs, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Ultimate Gift, and The Heartbreak Kid and the Los Angeles play, A Good Soldier. Her video game roles are Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, its sequels and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Ariel Hanson in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Karin in the Naruto series, Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising and Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair in Fuse. In 2012, she starred in a YouTube web series called Fix Me by ModernMom, in which she plays Sydney Lang, a housewife who tries to fix everything around her. | 1 |
Heads_of_Agreement_(1981) | Heads_of_Agreement_(1981) 2009-09-01T05:30:05Z The Heads of Agreement was a 1981 document proposing a solution to the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory. Created in February and signed on March 11 in London, England, the agreement sought to propose future bases for negotiations between Great Britain, Belize and Guatemala over the dispute. The document's rejection created a national security crisis in Belize in March and April 1981. Guatemala, Belize's neighbour to the west and south, has held a claim to Belize's territory which it says stems from a broken treaty signed between Guatemala and Great Britain in 1851. This treaty was said to have promised Guatemala access to the Caribbean coastline by road in exchange for dropping the claim. Guatemala does already have Caribbean access, outside of the presently disputed region. Much of the period between 1940 and 1981 saw Guatemala assert its claim over and over again, occasionally even threatening to invade, but backing down at the sight of UK military reinforcements. Several attempts to mediate the dispute went awry due to concerns on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, people of Guatemalan descent were settling in Belize, both legally and illegally. Beginning in 1975, the dispute was publicized at the United Nations. The UN general assembly voted in successive years from 1975 to 1981 to affirm the sovereignty of Belize and called on the UK and Guatemala to reach a compromise and grant Belize independence before the end of the next GA session in 1981. Public reaction in Belize was muted at first, but the Public Service Union promptly denounced the agreement as a giveaway and promised strike action. The Government's pleas that nothing had actually been agreed on fell on deaf ears. Another group responsible for the anti-Heads reaction was the Belize Action Movement, a youth movement featuring young people who saw the need to fight to ensure that Belize did not fall into the hands of Guatemala. The BAM and PSU coordinated a nationwide strike and protest on March 20. Also central to the movement was the detention of students from the Belize Technical College, led by Socorro Bobadilla. Miss Bobadilla was a key figure in denouncing the plan, and she and six other students were expelled from Technical by its principal. For much of the remainder of March, there were school closings, daily protests and in one case, the death of an individual in Corozal. Another memorable occurrence was the burning down of several buildings in the downtown area of Belize City. During this melee, Policeman and musician Kent Matthews was accidentally shot by a colleague. The Governor declared a state of emergency on April 3; subsequent attempts to use the Heads as a blueprint failed, and Belize would become independent on September 21, 1981. With the subsiding of the March and April riots, negotiations began on May 20, 1981 in New York. Belizean ministers C. L. B. Rogers, V. H. Courtenay and Assad Shoman represented Belize. The opposition United Democratic Party, claiming that they had been ignored and insulted, refused to attend. This first round of negotiations yielded no results. A second round began in early July after the UDP met with British Foreign Secretary Nicholas Ridley. Again there was no clear settlement and the British resolved to grant Belize independence and agree to defend the territory. The proclamation for Belize's independence on September 21, 1981 was signed on July 26, 1981., Heads_of_Agreement_(1981) 2010-04-09T04:38:28Z The Heads of Agreement was a 1981 document proposing a solution to the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory. Created in February and signed on March 11 in London, England, the agreement sought to propose future bases for negotiations between Great Britain, Belize and Guatemala over the dispute. The document's rejection created a national security crisis in Belize in March and April 1981. Guatemala, Belize's neighbour to the west and south, has held a claim to Belize's territory which it says stems from a broken treaty signed between Guatemala and Great Britain in 1851. This treaty was said to have promised Guatemala access to the Caribbean coastline by road in exchange for dropping the claim. Guatemala does already have Caribbean access, outside of the presently disputed region. Much of the period between 1940 and 1981 saw Guatemala assert its claim over and over again, occasionally even threatening to invade, but backing down at the sight of UK military reinforcements. Several attempts to mediate the dispute went awry due to concerns on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, people of Guatemalan descent were settling in Belize, both legally and illegally. Beginning in 1975, the dispute was publicized at the United Nations. The UN general assembly voted in successive years from 1975 to 1981 to affirm the sovereignty of Belize and called on the UK and Guatemala to reach a compromise and grant Belize independence before the end of the next GA session in 1981. Public reaction in Belize was muted at first, but the Public Service Union promptly denounced the agreement as a giveaway and promised strike action. The Government's pleas that nothing had actually been agreed on fell on deaf ears. Another group responsible for the anti-Heads reaction was the Belize Action Movement, a youth movement featuring young people who saw the need to fight to ensure that Belize did not fall into the hands of Guatemala. The BAM and PSU coordinated a nationwide strike and protest on March 20. Also central to the movement was the detention of students from the Belize Technical College, led by Socorro Bobadilla. Miss Bobadilla was a key figure in denouncing the plan, and she and six other students were expelled from Technical by its principal. For much of the remainder of March, there were school closings, daily protests and in one case, the death of an individual in Corozal. Another memorable occurrence was the burning down of several buildings in the downtown area of Belize City. During this melee, Policeman and musician Kent Matthews was accidentally shot by a colleague. The Governor declared a state of emergency on April 3; subsequent attempts to use the Heads as a blueprint failed, and Belize would become independent on September 21, 1981. With the subsiding of the March and April riots, negotiations began on May 20, 1981 in New York. Belizean ministers C. L. B. Rogers, V. H. Courtenay and Assad Shoman represented Belize. The opposition United Democratic Party, claiming that they had been ignored and insulted, refused to attend. This first round of negotiations yielded no results. A second round began in early July after the UDP met with British Foreign Secretary Nicholas Ridley. Again there was no clear settlement and the British resolved to grant Belize independence and agree to defend the territory. The proclamation for Belize's independence on September 21, 1981 was signed on July 26, 1981. | 0 |
Joe Westerman | Joe Westerman 2019-01-03T19:53:43Z Joe Westerman (born (1989-11-15)15 November 1989), also known by the nicknames of "Big Joe", "Brad Pitt", and "Big 7", is a rugby league footballer who plays for Hull F.C. in the Super League. He plays as a stand-off, second-row or loose forward. He previously played for the Warrington Wolves, the Castleford Tigers and the Toronto Wolfpack. Westerman was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. Joe burst onto the scene in 2007 in Castleford Tigers NL1 campaign after signing from junior club Featherstone Lions. Joe played in most of Castleford's games and scored 2 tries in the NL1 Grand Final at Headingley. Joe was named NL1 young player of the year. In 2008 Joe had a great first season in the European Super League for Castleford scoring 12 tries in 25 games. He was tipped for being a future England RL international. Joe missed out on the squad at the end of the season due to being injured for Castleford's final 2 games. 2009 saw Joe suffer a fit on the pitch in a game against St. Helens in a game at Castleford. Joe came back from that and played on through 2009 though his form slightly dipped. Westerman was Hull F.C.’s marquee signing for Super League XVI, with the Black and Whites paying one of their highest ever transfer fees to secure the services of the former Castleford Tigers man. Despite being just 21, the talented loose forward set the league alight with his early career form, being voted Super League Young Player of the Year in 2007 and winning the same award for Castleford Tigers. He’s been around the fringes of the international setup for quite sometime, although is yet to make is début, but many believe the move to the KC Stadium will now help him do that. Despite being a big forward with the ability to play as a loose forward or second-row, he has superb ball handling skills, meaning he’s just as comfortable as a stand-off. On top of that, he’s one of the games strongest kickers, notching up 154 goals along with 36 tries in just 86 appearances ahead of the kick off of Super League XVI. In October 2014, Westerman made his international début starting in a match for England against Samoa in the 2014 Four Nations. In October 2015, Westerman signed a 3-year contract with Warrington for a fee of £150,000 Upon promotion from League 1 in 2017, Westerman signed with Rugby Leagues first trans-Atlantic team, the Toronto Wolfpack on October 1, 2017. Westerman joins fellow Wolves teammate Ashton Sims for the 2018 season, who signed with the Wolfpack less than a month prior. He is set to sign for Wakefield Trinity after being granted a release from his contract with the Wolfpack. He was set to join Wakefield Trinity when Hull FC swooped in at the last minute to secure his signature for the rest of the 2018 season. F.C. - 2013 Challenge Cup Final runners-up Wolves - 2016 Challenge Cup Final runners-up, Joe Westerman 2020-12-13T20:00:08Z Joe Westerman (born (1989-11-15)15 November 1989) is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row or loose forward for Wakefield Trinity in the Betfred Super League, and the England Knights and England at international level. He previously played for the Castleford Tigers, Hull F.C. in two separate spells and the Warrington Wolves in the Super League, and the Toronto Wolfpack in the Betfred Championship. He played as a stand-off at the start of his professional career. Westerman was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. Westerman burst onto the scene in 2007 in the Castleford Tigers National League One campaign after signing from junior club the Featherstone Lions. Joe played in most of the Castleford Tiger's games and scored 2 tries in the National League One Grand Final at Headingley. Joe was named National League One young player of the year. In 2008 Joe had a great first season in the Super League for Castleford scoring 12 tries in 25 games. He was tipped for being a future England RL international. Westerman was Hull F.C.’s marquee signing for Super League XVI, with the Black and Whites paying one of their highest ever transfer fees to secure the services of the former Castleford Tigers man. In October 2014, Westerman made his international début starting in a match for England against Samoa in the 2014 Four Nations. In October 2015, Westerman signed a 3-year contract with Warrington for a fee of £150,000 He played in the 2016 Challenge Cup Final defeat by Hull F.C. at Wembley Stadium. He played in the 2016 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford. Upon promotion from League 1 in 2017, Westerman signed with Rugby Leagues first trans-Atlantic team, the Toronto Wolfpack on 1 October 2017. Westerman joins fellow Wolves teammate Ashton Sims for the 2018 season, who signed with the Wolfpack less than a month prior. In April 2018 Westerman was released by Toronto Wolfpack after making only 4 appearances for the club. The decision to allow Westerman to leave for free raised eyebrows given he was less than 6 months into a 3 year contract and the Wolfpack had paid a transfer fee of £130,000 to secure his services. Westerman returned to Hull FC in April 2018 despite interest from other clubs. He cited coach Lee Radford and his love for Hull FC as reasons for his choice. In the local derby in June 2019 against Hull Kingston Rovers Joe dislocated his knee in a tackle, only to slap it back in place and continue playing Westerman signed a 2 year deal with Wakefield Trinity ahead of the 2020 season. F.C. - 2013 Challenge Cup Final runners-up Wolves - 2016 Challenge Cup Final runners-up | 1 |
Lorna_Cartwright | Lorna_Cartwright 2009-04-20T15:57:06Z Lorna Cartwright was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She was played by Janet Dibley intermittently between 1997 and 1998. Lorna was introduced primarily as a catalyst to break up the marriage of the characters Phil and Kathy Mitchell (played by Steve McFadden and Gillian Taylforth). Although producers reportedly wanted to develop the character further, actress Janet Dibley declined their offer of an extended contract, as she disagreed with a proposed storyline that would see Lorna gang raped. Lorna Cartwright was introduced in July 1997 under Series Producer Jane Harris. Yorkshire actress, Janet Dibley, was cast in the role, previously known for her starring role opposite Nicholas Lyndhurst in the ITV sitcom The Two of Us. Lorna, described as “a drunken loner”, was part of a storyline that centred on the character Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and his ongoing struggles with alcoholism. A fellow alcoholic, Lorna met Phil at an AA meeting and “became attached to him”; they began a torrid affair, which ended badly. Lorna’s principle purpose was to break up the marriage of Phil and his wife Kathy (Gillian Taylforth), which eventually happened in a special set of episodes, that was broadcast in August 1997 and were filmed in Paris, France. A critic for The Independent commented on the Paris episodes: “Phil is jumpy because he expects Lorna to emerge shrieking from the bushes at any moment; stabbing wildly about her with a carving knife (she gave a tiny clue to her highly strung nature the other night, by stubbing a cigarette out on his chest). He was so nervous, indeed, that he eventually confessed his infidelity to Kathy. If he thought that this was going to buy him a quiet few days of remorse and mutual weeping, he was wrong. The wedding ring went straight in the Seine in the middle of a blazing soap aria from Gillian Taylforth. ” After being absent from August 1997, Lorna reappeared once again in February 1998. Lorna was involved in the storyline that saw the character Kathy depart the serial after 13 years; her suicide bid helped to ruin Phil and Kathy's chance of patching up their marriage, and Kathy left for a new life in South Africa. Following the climax of this storyline, Lorna departed. The producers of EastEnders had wanted to keep the character in the show, but Janet Dibley reportedly turned down the BBC's £130,000 pay offer after discovering they were planning to turn Lorna into a prostitute who was to be gang raped. It would have been the first time the soap had shown such an attack, but Dibley feared the “harrowing scenes” would lead to her 6 year old son being taunted. She reportedly commented, “"It just doesn't feel right. I don't care how much money is on offer. I can't do those scenes…I am terrified about how it might affect . I don't want him getting taunted at school. " Dibley allegedly heard about Lorna’s intended storyline from rumours on set, and approached co-executive producer, Mike Hudson, to talk it through. After several meetings, Dibley told Hudson she was unsatisfied with the storyline and refused to sign a new contract. The producers were reportedly upset over her decision, “because they saw Janet becoming one of the most important stars of the show”. The scripts were subsequently re-written and Lorna made her final appearance in April 1998. Dibley’s decision was supported by MPs and women’s groups, who condemned the BBC for planning to screen gang rape scenes, which would have been shown 90 minutes before the 9pm watershed. Philippa Chipping, of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project, said the storyline was irresponsible: "I completely understand Janet's fear of playing what would be a very traumatic scene. EastEnders would not be able to give a sensible and responsible handling of the issue. " A counsellor at the London Rape Crisis centre added: "The scriptwriters are using the traumatic experience that many women have gone through just to increase their ratings. They should speak to victims before doing something like this. Janet deserves full credit for the stand she has taken. " Tory MP Ann Widdecombe also praised Dibley’s decision: "Well done to her. It's high time somebody took a stand. EastEnders is watched by an awful lot of children and something like this should not be shown. " Labour MP Ronnie Campbell added, "to show a gang-rape in a soap opera is entirely wrong. I am pleased that this actress has taken a stand. It is a very bold move". Mary Whitehouse, of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, said: "I think her actions are very commendable. It's splendid that she has turned down the offer of more money to stand by her principles. There is far too much sex and violence screened on TV when children are watching. " Conservative MP Teddy Taylor said, "Janet will lose a great deal of money by the action she has taken, but she will gain a great deal in helping to improve standards in British broadcasting. " Dibley also received praise from the media. Pam Francis of the Sunday Mirror commented, “If it were not for the fact that Janet Dibley plays such a tragic alcoholic in EastEnders, I'd send her a bottle of bubbly to toast her protest. It takes a brave performer to fight for what she believes in, particularly a single mother like Janet who is sacrificing a lucrative contract. But you can't put a price on the damage caused by exposing young viewers to brutal scenes. It is known that children as young as Janet's son Bobby, six, tune in to the soap…. By standing her ground, Janet Dibley is giving what I consider the performance of a lifetime. ” While Dibley was praised, EastEnders was heavily criticised in the media for planning the storyline. One reporter questioned the competency of the programme makers, saying, “Are producers of EastEnders so unimaginative that they couldn't think of a future for Janet's character Lorna other than turn her into the tart…” Another accused the show’s producers of being prepared to expose “children to scenes of violence and sex, which are both gratuitous and offensive”, merely to bring in higher ratings, and beat their biggest soap rival, Coronation Street. John Blunt, from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, accused the gang rape storyline of being the latest novelty wretchedness to be gratuitously used by soap scriptwriters “in the name of family entertainment”. He criticised the UK broadcasting watchdog’s efficiency at protecting young children who routinely watch soap operas, commenting: “Short of parents having the good sense to turn the TV off and spare their children from exposure to such coarse assaults on their innocence, a much firmer line needs to be taken by our broadcasting standards watchdogs - whose evident ineffectiveness is brought home by Janet Dibley showing what ought to be done in the name of common decency and family values. " Despite the controversy surrounding her departure, actress Janet Dibley has since been complimentary about her role in EastEnders. In 2006 she commented, “It was a great part… wreaked havoc and left. ” Lorna first appeared from July to August 1997. She was an alcoholic who attended the same AA meetings as Phil Mitchell. She bumped into Phil at a café one afternoon and was openly attracted to him. Phil, whose marriage was suffering due to his alcoholism, found a kindred spirit in Lorna, a person who understood his struggles with addiction in a way that his wife could not. When Lorna invited Phil back to her place, she was shocked to discover he was married, as in her experience, alcoholism destroyed all marriages - her alcoholism had destroyed hers, and she lost custody of her children to their father, because she turned up at court drunk. However, Lorna was not perturbed, and the following meeting she invited Phil back to her place again; he could not resist her advances and they slept together. Phil was plagued with guilt, he tried several times to call off his affair with Lorna, but his willpower was lacking, and he always ended up sleeping with her again; however, Lorna began to expect more than he was prepared to give. He ended their affair when she started showing up at his home in Albert Square, but this infuriated Lorna; she phoned Phil’s house and made herself known to his wife Kathy. With Kathy’s suspicions raised, Phil concocted a story that Lorna was an obsessive alcoholic, who had merely taken his rejection badly. However, when Phil arrived in Paris, he was given a personally written suicidal letter from Lorna, which ridiculed his skills in bed. Kathy demanded to know what was in the letter, and Phil had no choice but to confess to the affair. Kathy responded by throwing her wedding ring in the River Seine, and telling Phil that marrying him was the worst mistake of her life. Lorna's next appearance was in February 1998, when she turned up drunk and homeless at Reverend Alex Healy’s refuge centre, Bridge House. Lorna’s suicidal threats stirred concern in good samaritan Sarah Hills, but she was unable to cope with Lorna’s continuous binge drinking. Sarah sought help from her aunt, Kathy Mitchell, Phil’s estranged wife. Kathy, a former Samaritan, tried to talk some sense into Lorna, unaware that she was talking to the woman who caused the breakdown of her marriage. After listening to Lorna’s tales of woe, Kathy eventually realised the truth and exploded at Lorna for breaking up her family. Lorna was incensed to discover that, even after Kathy dumped him, Phil still did not want her. Phil struggled to cope with Lorna’s suicidal threats, but Kathy proved more supportive. She visited Lorna and was told that she had turned to prostitution, and when Lorna was assaulted — allegedly by one of her clients — Kathy allowed her to move in with her to recuperate. Phil was furious. Lorna made various attempts at reigniting her affair with Phil, hampering any chance of a reconciliation between him and Kathy. When Lorna discovered that Kathy was planning on moving to South Africa, she immediately went to inform Phil, just to cause trouble between them. Kathy turned on her, and following uncertain rejection from Phil, Lorna decided to take her own life by swallowing a cocktail of pills and gin in Phil’s bathroom. Phil was forced to break the door down and call an ambulance, which stalled his attempt to win Kathy back; she left for South Africa before Phil had a chance to persuade her to stay. Lorna survived the suicide attempt and with the help of Rev. Healy, she admitted herself into a detox programme in April 1998. She has not appeared since., Lorna_Cartwright 2010-04-01T15:36:36Z Lorna Cartwright is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Janet Dibley intermittently between 1997 and 1998. Lorna was introduced primarily as a catalyst to break up the marriage of the characters Phil and Kathy Mitchell (played by Steve McFadden and Gillian Taylforth). Although producers reportedly wanted to develop the character further, actress Janet Dibley declined their offer of an extended contract, as she disagreed with a proposed storyline that would see Lorna gang raped. Lorna Cartwright was introduced in July 1997 under Series Producer Jane Harris. Yorkshire actress, Janet Dibley, was cast in the role, previously known for her starring role opposite Nicholas Lyndhurst in the ITV sitcom The Two of Us. Lorna, described as “a drunken loner”, was part of a storyline that centred on the character Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and his ongoing struggles with alcoholism. A fellow alcoholic, Lorna met Phil at an AA meeting and “became attached to him”; they began a torrid affair, which ended badly. Lorna’s principle purpose was to break up the marriage of Phil and his wife Kathy (Gillian Taylforth), which eventually happened in a special set of episodes, that was broadcast in August 1997 and were filmed in Paris, France. A critic for The Independent commented on the Paris episodes: “Phil is jumpy because he expects Lorna to emerge shrieking from the bushes at any moment; stabbing wildly about her with a carving knife (she gave a tiny clue to her highly strung nature the other night, by stubbing a cigarette out on his chest). He was so nervous, indeed, that he eventually confessed his infidelity to Kathy. If he thought that this was going to buy him a quiet few days of remorse and mutual weeping, he was wrong. The wedding ring went straight in the Seine in the middle of a blazing soap aria from Gillian Taylforth. ” After being absent from August 1997, Lorna reappeared once again in February 1998. Lorna was involved in the storyline that saw the character Kathy depart the serial after 13 years; her suicide bid helped to ruin Phil and Kathy's chance of patching up their marriage, and Kathy left for a new life in South Africa. Following the climax of this storyline, Lorna departed. The producers of EastEnders had wanted to keep the character in the show, but Janet Dibley reportedly turned down the BBC's £130,000 pay offer after discovering they were planning to turn Lorna into a prostitute who was to be gang raped. It would have been the first time the soap had shown such an attack, but Dibley feared the “harrowing scenes” would lead to her 6 year old son being taunted. She reportedly commented, “"It just doesn't feel right. I don't care how much money is on offer. I can't do those scenes…I am terrified about how it might affect . I don't want him getting taunted at school. " Dibley allegedly heard about Lorna’s intended storyline from rumours on set, and approached co-executive producer, Mike Hudson, to talk it through. After several meetings, Dibley told Hudson she was unsatisfied with the storyline and refused to sign a new contract. The producers were reportedly upset over her decision, “because they saw Janet becoming one of the most important stars of the show”. The scripts were subsequently re-written and Lorna made her final appearance in April 1998. Dibley’s decision was supported by MPs and women’s groups, who condemned the BBC for planning to screen gang rape scenes, which would have been shown 90 minutes before the 9pm watershed. Philippa Chipping, of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project, said the storyline was irresponsible: "I completely understand Janet's fear of playing what would be a very traumatic scene. EastEnders would not be able to give a sensible and responsible handling of the issue. " A counsellor at the London Rape Crisis centre added: "The scriptwriters are using the traumatic experience that many women have gone through just to increase their ratings. They should speak to victims before doing something like this. Janet deserves full credit for the stand she has taken. " Tory MP Ann Widdecombe also praised Dibley’s decision: "Well done to her. It's high time somebody took a stand. EastEnders is watched by an awful lot of children and something like this should not be shown. " Labour MP Ronnie Campbell added, "to show a gang-rape in a soap opera is entirely wrong. I am pleased that this actress has taken a stand. It is a very bold move". Mary Whitehouse, of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, said: "I think her actions are very commendable. It's splendid that she has turned down the offer of more money to stand by her principles. There is far too much sex and violence screened on TV when children are watching. " Conservative MP Teddy Taylor said, "Janet will lose a great deal of money by the action she has taken, but she will gain a great deal in helping to improve standards in British broadcasting. " Dibley also received praise from the media. Pam Francis of the Sunday Mirror commented, “If it were not for the fact that Janet Dibley plays such a tragic alcoholic in EastEnders, I'd send her a bottle of bubbly to toast her protest. It takes a brave performer to fight for what she believes in, particularly a single mother like Janet who is sacrificing a lucrative contract. But you can't put a price on the damage caused by exposing young viewers to brutal scenes. It is known that children as young as Janet's son Bobby, six, tune in to the soap…. By standing her ground, Janet Dibley is giving what I consider the performance of a lifetime. ” While Dibley was praised, EastEnders was heavily criticised in the media for planning the storyline. One reporter questioned the competency of the programme makers, saying, “Are producers of EastEnders so unimaginative that they couldn't think of a future for Janet's character Lorna other than turn her into the tart…” Another accused the show’s producers of being prepared to expose “children to scenes of violence and sex, which are both gratuitous and offensive”, merely to bring in higher ratings, and beat their biggest soap rival, Coronation Street. John Blunt, from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, accused the gang rape storyline of being the latest novelty wretchedness to be gratuitously used by soap scriptwriters “in the name of family entertainment”. He criticised the UK broadcasting watchdog’s efficiency at protecting young children who routinely watch soap operas, commenting: “Short of parents having the good sense to turn the TV off and spare their children from exposure to such coarse assaults on their innocence, a much firmer line needs to be taken by our broadcasting standards watchdogs - whose evident ineffectiveness is brought home by Janet Dibley showing what ought to be done in the name of common decency and family values. " Despite the controversy surrounding her departure, actress Janet Dibley has since been complimentary about her role in EastEnders. In 2006 she commented, “It was a great part… wreaked havoc and left. ” Lorna first appeared from July to August 1997. She was an alcoholic Phil Mitchell met at his AA meetings. She bumped into Phil at a café one afternoon and was openly attracted to him. Phil, whose marriage was suffering due to his alcoholism, found a kindred spirit in Lorna. She understood his struggles with addiction in a way that his wife could not. When Lorna invited Phil back to her place, she was shocked to discover that he was married, as in her experience, alcoholism destroyed marriages - her alcoholism had destroyed hers and her ex-husband was awarded custody of their children after she went to court, drunk. However, Lorna was not perturbed, and the following meeting, she invited Phil back to her place again; he could not resist her advances and they slept together. Phil was plagued with guilt, he tried several times to end his affair with Lorna, but he couldn't and always ended up sleeping with her again. However, Lorna began expecting more than he was prepared to give. He ended their affair when she started coming to his home in Albert Square but this infuriated Lorna. She phoned Phil’s house and made herself known to his wife Kathy. With Kathy’s suspicions raised, Phil concocted a story that Lorna was an obsessive alcoholic, who had merely taken his rejection badly. However, when Phil got to Paris, he was given a hand-written suicidal letter from Lorna, ridiculing his skills in bed. Kathy demanded to know what was in the letter, leaving Phil no choice but to admit to the affair. Kathy's response was to throw her wedding ring in the River Seine, telling Phil that marrying him was the worst mistake of her life. Lorna's next appearance was in February 1998, when she arrived drunk and homeless at Reverend Alex Healy’s refuge centre, Bridge House. Lorna’s suicidal threats caused concern in good samaritan Sarah Hills, but she couldn't cope with Lorna’s constant binge drinking. Sarah sought help from her aunt, Kathy Mitchell, Phil’s estranged wife. Kathy, a former Samaritan, tried talking some sense into Lorna, unaware that she was talking to the woman who caused the breakdown of her marriage. After listening to Lorna’s tales of woe, Kathy realised the truth and exploded at Lorna for breaking up her family. Lorna was incensed to discover that, even after Kathy dumped him, Phil did not want her. Phil struggled to cope with Lorna’s suicidal threats but Kathy was more supportive. She visited Lorna and was told that she had turned to prostitution, and when Lorna was assaulted — allegedly by a client — Kathy allowed her to move in with her to recuperate. Phil was furious. Lorna made various attempts to reignite her affair with Phil, hampering any reconciliation between him and Kathy. When Lorna discovered that Kathy was planning to emigrate to South Africa, she immediately told Phil, just to cause trouble between them. Kathy turned on her, and following rejection from Phil, Lorna decided to take her own life by swallowing a cocktail of pills and gin in Phil’s bathroom. Phil broke the door down and called an ambulance, stalling his attempt to win Kathy back. She left for South Africa before Phil had a chance to persuade her to stay. Lorna survived her suicide attempt and with the help of Rev. Healy, she admitted herself into a detox programme in April 1998. She has not appeared since. | 0 |
Mayor_of_Chiayi | Mayor_of_Chiayi 2014-08-04T17:31:04Z The mayor of Chiayi is the chief executive of the government of Chiayi City. This list includes mayors of the city's county-controlled era (1952–1982) and provincial era (1982–present). , Mayor_of_Chiayi 2016-04-18T14:42:57Z The mayor of Chiayi is the chief executive of the government of Chiayi City. This list includes mayors of the city's county-controlled era (1952–1982) and provincial era (1982–present). Independent Kuomintang Democratic Progressive Party | 0 |
Anabar_Bay | Anabar_Bay 2008-12-06T12:59:21Z Anabar Bay (Russian: Анабарский залив, or Anabarskiy Zaliv) is a gulf in the Laptev Sea. Lat 74° 30' and long 113° 15'. It stretches between the eastern cape off the mouth of the Anabar River and the Nordvik Peninsula. Nordvik Bay lies further west of it, beyond Cape Paksa at the tip of the peninsula. Anabar Bay opens towards the north and it is about 76 km in width. It includes the estuary of the Anabar River which is about 40 km long with an average width of 10 km. Three rivers have their mouths at the beginning of the estuary, the Anabar in the center, the Tistyakh-Yuryage from the right, and the Suolama River from the left. The Sibirskaya ryapushka fish often arrives in great numbers to the mouth of river Anabar. The climate is Arctic and extremely severe, with prolonged, bitter winters so that the bay is covered by ice most of the year. Anabar Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation. Baron Eduard Von Toll explored the Anabar Bay region in 1893. At that time it was a very little-known area of the Russian Arctic. He was the first one to map the plateau between the Anabar and Popigai Rivers. There were two settlements in the Anabar Bay area, during Soviet times. One was Khorgo, at the mouth of the bay, and the other Tostuya, further inland at the point where the estuarine area begins. 73°42′N 114°00′E / 73. 700°N 114. 000°E / 73. 700; 114. 000 , Anabar_Bay 2009-04-18T00:52:52Z Anabar Bay (Russian: Анабарский залив, or Anabarskiy Zaliv) is a gulf in the Laptev Sea. Lat 74° 30' and long 113° 15'. It stretches between the eastern cape off the mouth of the Anabar River and the Nordvik Peninsula. Nordvik Bay lies further west of it, beyond Cape Paksa at the tip of the peninsula. Anabar Bay opens towards the north and it is about 76 km in width. It includes the estuary of the Anabar River which is about 40 km long with an average width of 10 km. Three rivers have their mouths at the beginning of the estuary, the Anabar in the center, the Tistyakh-Yuryage from the right, and the Suolama River from the left. The Sibirskaya ryapushka fish often arrives in great numbers to the mouth of river Anabar. The climate is Arctic and extremely severe, with prolonged, bitter winters so that the bay is covered by ice most of the year. Anabar Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation. Baron Eduard Von Toll explored the Anabar Bay region in 1893. At that time it was a very little-known area of the Russian Arctic. He was the first one to map the plateau between the Anabar and Popigai Rivers. There were two settlements in the Anabar Bay area, during Soviet times. One was Khorgo, at the mouth of the bay, and the other Tostuya, further inland at the point where the estuarine area begins. 73°42′N 114°00′E / 73. 700°N 114. 000°E / 73. 700; 114. 000 | 0 |
Kim Chiu | Kim Chiu 2021-01-01T09:44:34Z Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu (Tagalog pronunciation: ; born April 19, 1990) is a Filipina actress and television host of Chinese descent. Kim garnered acclaim at a young age for her acting performances on television and film. She is known as Philippine showbiz's "Chinita Princess" and once hailed "Princess of Philippine Movies and TV" for three consecutive years in the Philippines. She is currently managed and under contract to Star Magic, ABS-CBN's homebased talent agency and is referred to as the "Queen of the Dance Floor". Kim Chiu started her showbiz career at the age of 16 after winning the first teen edition of the reality show Pinoy Big Brother. She then, starred in the television series, Sana Maulit Muli (2007) which won her the year's Most Promising Female Star and Most Popular loveteam with Gerald Anderson at GMMSF. This was followed by a string of successful projects and leading roles in dramas such as My Girl (2008), Tayong Dalawa (2009), Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo (2010), My Binondo Girl (2011–2012), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (2012–2013), Ikaw Lamang (2014), The Story of Us (2016), Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin (2017-2018), Love Thy Woman (2020) and Bawal Lumabas the Series (2020). She also starred in multiple commercially successful films including Bride for Rent (2014), I Love You, Goodbye (2009), Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? (2013), Etiquette for Mistresses (2015) and The Ghost Bride (2017). She has also received a PMPC Award for Best Drama Actress on her performance in Ikaw Lamang, four FAMAS Award nominations (winning one) and was hailed Princess of Philippine Movies and TV for three times at the GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards for her accomplishments in the film and television industry. She has a very wide fanbase which is rapidly growing because of her chemistry, strong acting on-screen and her dedication to the entertainment industry. She is one of the few Philippine actresses with a high number of best actress accolades under her name. To top it all apart from acting she is also the ambassador of various companies in the Philippines and she loves sports. In 2020, her song 'Bawal Lumabas: The Classroom Song' became the most disliked song in WISH 107.5's YouTube Channel having reportedly received 404k dislikes and 78k likes within 14 hours. The song was based from a viral edit made by DJ Squammy from her statement about the ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy. Chiu gained prominence by winning the reality series Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. For the show, Chiu left her hometown of Cebu City and moved to Manila. She, along with the rest of the housemates entered the Big Brother house on April 23, 2006. After 42 days in the Big Brother house, she was named the Teen Big Winner with 626,562 votes (41.4% of the total votes) at the Aliw Theatre inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay City. She was the only housemate who was never nominated for eviction. After winning, Chiu became part of Star Magic. She and her on-screen partner Gerald Anderson became regulars in ASAP XV and appeared together in several ABS-CBN shows Love Spell, comedy sitcom Aalog-Alog and in the film First Day High. In 2007, Chiu starred in the primetime TV series entitled Sana Maulit Muli alongside Anderson which was released to significant acclaim. That year, she was nominated and eventually won the 38th Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Awards as Most Promising Female Star and Best New Female TV Personality (for Sana Maulit Muli) at the 21st PMPC Star Awards. Sana Maulit Muli was later released in Taiwan under the PTS network, under the title Chances. Chiu then launched her debut album Gwa Ai Di (我爱你; Minnan, "I Love You") under Star Records, which included the single Crazy Love. It reached a Gold Record status. Gaining much recognition for her acting roles, she then starred in the movie I've Fallen For You under Star Cinema and continually appeared in numerous advertisements. In 2008, Chiu was cast in the Philippine adaptation of the South Korean TV series My Girl. In 2009, Chiu secured her name as a top actress in the highly acclaimed TV series entitled Tayong Dalawa. She garnered several acting awards for her portrayal of Audrey, a woman who is loved by two military men. Her movie I Love You, Goodbye became part of Star Cinema's official entry to the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first role as a villain and her first film to hit P100 million mark, with her receiving several nominations under different award-giving bodies including PMPC, 12th Gawad PASADO Awards and the 34th MMFF for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she then starred in the romance film Paano Na Kaya, released nationally and internationally. She also starred in the well-received primetime drama, Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo, the highest rating teleserye of 2010 in the Philippines. In October 2010, Chiu and Anderson teamed up for the last consecutive time in the film Till My Heartaches End. In the midst of movie promotions, it was reported that the long-time couple (known as Kimerald) had split, yet the reason for the breakup was not discussed. She top-billed in a weekly musical anthology series Your Song, as a sub-series for the 12th season called Your Song Presents: Kim. It ran for four months and led her to pair up with Sam Milby, Jake Cuenca, Pokwang, Derek Ramsay, Enrique Gil and Vice Ganda. In 2011, Chiu starred in romantic-comedy television series titled My Binondo Girl alongside Xian Lim, Matteo Guidicelli, and Jolo Revilla. In 2012, Chiu starred in a horror film with Vilma Santos entitled The Healing. She played a woman who is cured of glomerulonephritis through a healer but must suffer a curse. From this film, she received a number of Best Supporting Actress nominations from almost all of the film award-giving bodies, missing only the Gawad Urian and The Young Critics' Circle. Chiu also returned to melodrama acting via Ina, Kapatid, Anak, alongside Xian Lim, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. After the teleserye ended with an average TV rating of 30.3% via Kantar Media/TNS, it was awarded Best Teleserye of the Year at Philippine's 2013 Yahoo Awards and was aired internationally as Her Mother's Daughter, released in foreign territories including MIPTV in France and at DISCOP West Asia in Turkey. Her portrayal also earned her an award for Best TV Drama Actress. She reunited in a movie with Anderson titled 24/7 in Love, Star Magic's ensemble film in view of the agency's 20th anniversary. She starred in a film adaption of Ramon Bautista's novel co-starring Xian Lim, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? , released on July 17, 2013. Her performance received positive feedback and critics praise in view of her first comedic role on the big screen. In January 2014, Chiu cemented her commercial draw with the romantic-comedy movie entitled Bride for Rent. Chiu plays Rocky, a poor woman who agrees to marry for money. As Star Cinema's first movie offering of 2014, the film met both critical and commercial success, earning more than P21.2 million pesos in its opening day and broke the P200 million pesos mark on its 8th day. The film established Chiu as one of the country's biggest stars having both a successful film and television career. Having grossed P325 million, it is the sixth highest grossing Filipino film of all time, the second highest grossing Filipino romantic comedy movie of all-time, third highest grossing non-MMFF film of all-time and also the highest-grossing January-released film of all-time in the country. After the success of her two films, Chiu returned to television in the 2014 period drama, Ikaw Lamang. The series co-stars Coco Martin, Julia Montes, Jake Cuenca and KC Concepcion and dealt with social class, politics, and forbidden love. It held the first and second place viewer rating in its time slot and was awarded Best Primetime Drama Series at the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Television. This followed with the romantic comedy film, Past Tense and a portrayal as Mulan for Walt Disney Asia's 12 Days of Princess campaign. In 2015, she appeared as one of five mistresses (alongside veterans Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza Calzado) in the high-profile film, Etiquette for Mistresses. She recorded the Cebuano songs "Duyog" and "Labyu Langga" for the film's soundtrack. She also top-billed in the rom-com, All You Need Is Pag-Ibig, which is Star Cinema's official entry to the 2015 MMFF. In 2016, she starred on the hit Philippine romantic drama, The Story of Us. Her performance as Tin Manalo gave her another Best Actress Awards from 6th EdukCircle Awards, 6th OFW Parangal Awards and Guillermo Mendoza. Also, on the last quarter of 2016, Kimerald loveteam was announced to set back on television via a triathlon soap opera television series Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin for the celebration of their 10th anniversary in show business. In May 2017, Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin premiered on ABS-CBN's PrimeTanghali noontime block replacing Langit Lupa. The show debuted at Number 1 in its time slot, and consistently ranked ahead of its competition during its nine-month run. In November 2017, she appears in the horror movie, The Ghost Bride where she plays the role as Mayen Lim who is the main protagonist of this film that she will be torn between living a normal though difficult life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a comfortable life for her loved ones. She is also accompanied by Matteo Guidicelli, Alice Dixson, Christian Bables and Cacai Bautista in this said movie project which was set to show on theatres on All Saints' Day. In April 2018, she appears in the Filipino horror-comedy film Da One That Ghost Away directed by Tony Y. Reyes together with Ryan Bang, Enzo Pineda and the duo of Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber. In December 2018, her movie One Great Love became part of Regal Film's official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first time working with Dennis Trillo and JC de Vera with her receiving nomination on the 44th annual MMFF Awards for Best Actress. She also won the Film Actress of the Year in the 50th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards for her performance in the film One Great Love. Kim Chiu is the fourth of five children to William Chiu, a Chinese businessman from Mindoro and Louella (née Yap; 1963–2013), a Philippine Sangley native who migrated from Dinagat Islands to Surigao del Sur, Philippines. She is fluent in Cebuano (Visayan), Tagalog, English, with Waray, Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese beginner level only. Since her parent's separation in 1998, Kim had a dysfunctional relationship with both of her parents. She and her siblings were raised by their paternal grandmother and, as children, frequently moved residencies in the Philippine Visayas; locating in Tacloban, Leyte, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos City, Mindoro and back to Cebu City until 2006. In 2013, she reconciled with her father "after five years of estrangement" while visiting his second partner and half-siblings in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. A month later in June, her biological mother, Louella, fell into a coma. Following a week of hospitalization, Louella died on June 23, 2013, due to brain aneurysm. In a eulogy dedicated to her mother, she debunked rumors of animosity over her mother's child abandonment and expressed: "An angel guides me in my decisions in life. For me, that is finally my mom." Chiu dated co-star Gerald Anderson from 2006 to 2010. Kim Chiu began dating fellow Star Magic artist and leading man, Xian Lim in 2012, which was confirmed in a 2013 episode of Kris TV. They acknowledged they were "exclusively dating". On November 15, 2018, Kim Chiu finally confirms her relationship with Lim on her interview on Tonight with Boy Abunda. " On March 4, 2020, Chiu was traveling along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City on her way to a taping of her series Love Thy Woman when two unidentified gunmen, riding-in-tandem on a motorcycle, fired six gunshots at her van. Chiu and her companions were unharmed. Investigators examine the shooting as a possible case of mistaken identity. Chiu later revealed on social media that, a day after the incident, a person claiming to have been the actual target called one of her bosses to apologize. Chiu uses her media influence to promote various causes. She began partnership with GSK for yearly asthma awareness campaigns, Win Against Asthma, after battling asthma as a child. Chiu has since participated in disaster relief organizations such as Philippine National Red Cross and Sagip Kapamilya. She joined the PETA campaign Free Mali along with Xian Lim. Chiu made a video plea for Mali, asking that she be moved to a sanctuary for the sake of her well being. In August 2012, she and Lim spearheaded a relief operation in Marikina. Chiu was heavily involved with relief efforts for Typhoon Yolanda via Red Cross, which had affected parts of her hometown. Aside from giving food and water, she also held week-long clothes auctions to raise money for Typhoon victims. By 2013, it was also revealed that the actress was involved with regularly funding Isla Pulo, an impoverished community of 1,000 inhabitants in Manila Bay, Philippines. As one of Philippines highest paid endorsers, Chiu addressed the ongoing Pork Barrel tax scandal and the government's alleged misuse of the PDAF in a press conference on August 28, 2013, noting the amount of tax celebrities like herself pay to the government: "The money isn't a joke we pay so much tax and we don't know where it's going. " The Bureau of Internal Revenue confirmed Chiu as 131st top taxpayer in the country with ₱9.3M in income taxes in 2013. In 2015, Chiu passed the UPCAT and enrolled in University of the Philippines's UPOU program for business courses. Singles from OST Albums • Mine (Sana Maulit Muli) • Pusong Lito (My Girl) • Sabihin Mo Na w/ Gerald Anderson (My Girl) • Crazy Love "Chinese Version" (My Girl) • My Only Hope (My Only Hope) Others • Kering Keri (Rejoice TV Commercial) • Whisper, I Love You (Close Up MV) • Softly (Kim Chiu, Youtube) • Bawal Lumabas (Kim Chiu, Youtube) - An allusion to 2019-20 Coronavirus pandemic and ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy |}, Kim Chiu 2022-12-26T02:43:47Z Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu (Tagalog pronunciation: ; born April 19, 1990), professionally known as Kim Chiu, is a Filipino actress, model, host, singer, dancer, and vlogger. She is currently managed by Star Magic, ABS-CBN's home-based talent agency. Recognized as one of the royalties of Philippine show business, Chiu is popularly referred to as the "Multimedia Idol" for her acting prowess and influence. Ever since her showbiz debut after winning the first teen edition of Pinoy Big Brother, she has already accumulated 15 blockbuster hit films, 39 top-rating series, 21 chart-topping songs and a plethora of endorsements and recognitions. Forbes Asia hailed her as one of social media's most influential celebrities in Asia Pacific. As one of the defining movie stars of her generation, her films has altogether grossed over ₱1.1 billion in local cinema, becoming one of the highest grossing actors of the 2010s decade. Chiu's biggest film to date is Bride For Rent with ₱326 million domestic gross, becoming one of the highest grossing Philippine films in history. She is a recipient of a FAMAS Award, hailed as one of the TV Queens at the Turn of the Millennium at the PMPC Star Awards for Television and has been inducted at the Eastwood City Walk of Fame. Chiu gained prominence when she won the top prize in the reality series Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. For the show, Chiu left her hometown of Cebu City and moved to Manila. She, along with the rest of the housemates entered the Big Brother house on April 23, 2006. After 42 days in the Big Brother house, she was named the Teen Big Winner with 626,562 votes (41.4% of the total votes) at the Aliw Theatre inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay. She was the only housemate who was never nominated for eviction. After winning, Chiu became part of Star Magic. She and her on-screen partner Gerald Anderson became regulars in ASAP XV and appeared together in several ABS-CBN shows Love Spell, comedy sitcom Aalog-Alog and in the film First Day High. In 2007, Chiu starred in the primetime TV series entitled Sana Maulit Muli alongside Anderson which was released to significant acclaim. That year, she was nominated and eventually won the 38th Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Awards as Most Promising Female Star and Best New Female TV Personality (for Sana Maulit Muli) at the 21st PMPC Star Awards. Sana Maulit Muli was later released in Taiwan under the PTS network, under the title Chances. Chiu then launched her debut album "Gwa Ai Di" (Hokkien simplified Chinese: 我爱你; traditional Chinese: 我愛你; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Góa ài dí; lit. 'I Love You') under Star Records, which included the single Crazy Love. It reached a Gold Record status. Gaining much recognition for her acting roles, she then starred in the movie I've Fallen For You under Star Cinema and continually appeared in numerous advertisements. In 2008, Chiu was cast in the Philippine adaptation of the South Korean TV series My Girl. In 2009, Chiu secured her name as a top actress in the highly acclaimed TV series entitled Tayong Dalawa. She garnered several acting awards for her portrayal of Audrey, a woman who is loved by two military men. Her movie I Love You, Goodbye became part of Star Cinema's official entry to the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first role as a villain and her first film to hit P100 million mark, with her receiving several nominations under different award-giving bodies including PMPC, 12th Gawad PASADO Awards and the 34th MMFF for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she then starred in the romance film Paano Na Kaya, released nationally and internationally. She also starred in the well-received primetime drama, Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo, the highest rating teleserye of 2010 in the Philippines. In October 2010, Chiu and Anderson teamed up for the last consecutive time in the film Till My Heartaches End. In the midst of movie promotions, it was reported that the long-time couple (known as Kimerald) had split, yet the reason for the breakup was not discussed. She top-billed in a weekly musical anthology series Your Song, as a sub-series for the 12th season called Your Song Presents: Kim. It ran for four months and led her to pair up with Sam Milby, Jake Cuenca, Pokwang, Derek Ramsay, Enrique Gil and Vice Ganda. In 2011, Chiu starred in romantic-comedy television series titled My Binondo Girl alongside Xian Lim, Matteo Guidicelli, and Jolo Revilla. In 2012, Chiu starred in a horror film with Vilma Santos entitled The Healing. She played a woman who is cured of glomerulonephritis through a healer but must suffer a curse. From this film, she received a number of Best Supporting Actress nominations from almost all of the film award-giving bodies, missing only the Gawad Urian and The Young Critics' Circle. Chiu also returned to melodrama acting via Ina, Kapatid, Anak, alongside Xian Lim, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. After the teleserye ended with an average TV rating of 30.3% via Kantar Media/TNS, it was awarded Best Teleserye of the Year at Philippine's 2013 Yahoo Awards and was aired internationally as Her Mother's Daughter, released in foreign territories including MIPTV in France and at DISCOP West Asia in Turkey. Her portrayal also earned her an award for Best TV Drama Actress. She reunited in a movie with Anderson titled 24/7 in Love, Star Magic's ensemble film in view of the agency's 20th anniversary. She starred in a film adaption of Ramon Bautista's novel co-starring Xian Lim, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo?, released on July 17, 2013. Her performance received positive feedback and critics praise in view of her first comedic role on the big screen. In January 2014, Chiu cemented her commercial draw with the romantic-comedy movie entitled Bride for Rent. Chiu plays Rocky, a poor woman who agrees to marry for money. As Star Cinema's first movie offering of 2014, the film met both critical and commercial success, earning more than P21.2 million pesos in its opening day and broke the P200 million pesos mark on its 8th day. The film established Chiu as one of the country's biggest stars having both a successful film and television career. Having grossed P325 million, it is the sixth highest grossing Filipino film of all time, the second highest grossing Filipino romantic comedy movie of all-time, third highest grossing non-MMFF film of all-time and also the highest-grossing January-released film of all-time in the country. After the success of her two films, Chiu returned to television in the 2014 period drama, Ikaw Lamang. The series co-stars Coco Martin, Julia Montes, Jake Cuenca and KC Concepcion and dealt with social class, politics, and forbidden love. It held the first and second place viewer rating in its time slot and was awarded Best Primetime Drama Series at the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Television. This followed with the romantic comedy film, Past Tense and a portrayal as Mulan for Walt Disney Asia's 12 Days of Princess campaign. In 2015, she appeared as one of five mistresses (alongside veterans Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza Calzado) in the high-profile film, Etiquette for Mistresses. She recorded the Cebuano songs "Duyog" and "Labyu Langga" for the film's soundtrack. She also top-billed in the rom-com, All You Need Is Pag-Ibig, which is Star Cinema's official entry to the 2015 MMFF. In 2016, she starred on the hit Philippine romantic drama, The Story of Us. Her performance as Tin Manalo gave her another Best Actress Awards from 6th EdukCircle Awards, 6th OFW Parangal Awards and Guillermo Mendoza. Also, on the last quarter of 2016, Kimerald loveteam was announced to set back on television via a triathlon soap opera television series Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin for the celebration of their 10th anniversary in show business. In May 2017, Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin premiered on ABS-CBN's PrimeTanghali noontime block replacing Langit Lupa. The show debuted at Number 1 in its time slot, and consistently ranked ahead of its competition during its nine-month run. In November 2017, she appears in the horror movie, The Ghost Bride where she plays the role as Mayen Lim who is the main protagonist of this film that she will be torn between living a normal though difficult life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a comfortable life for her loved ones. She is also accompanied by Matteo Guidicelli, Alice Dixson, Christian Bables and Cacai Bautista in this said movie project which was set to show on theatres on All Saints' Day. In April 2018, she appears in the Filipino horror-comedy film Da One That Ghost Away directed by Tony Y. Reyes together with Ryan Bang, Enzo Pineda and the duo of Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber. In December 2018, her movie One Great Love became part of Regal Film's official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first time working with Dennis Trillo and JC de Vera with her receiving nomination on the 44th annual MMFF Awards for Best Actress. She also won the Film Actress of the Year in the 50th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards for her performance in the film One Great Love. In 2020, her song "Bawal Lumabas (The Classroom Song)" became the most disliked song in WISH 107.5's YouTube Channel having reportedly received 404k dislikes and 78k likes within 14 hours. The song was based from a viral edit made by DJ Squammy from her statement about the ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy. Chiu is the fourth of five children to William Chiu, a Chinese businessman from Mindoro and Louella (née Yap; 1963–2013), a Philippine Sangley native who migrated from Dinagat Islands to Surigao del Sur, Philippines. She is fluent in Cebuano, Tagalog, and English, with her Waray, Hokkien, and Mandarin Chinese at a beginner level only. Since her parents' separation in 1998, Kim had a dysfunctional relationship with both of her parents. She and her siblings were raised by their paternal grandmother and, as children, frequently moved residences in the Philippine Visayas; locating in Tacloban, Leyte, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos City, Mindoro and back to Cebu City until 2006. In 2013, she reconciled with her father "after five years of estrangement" while visiting his second partner and half-siblings in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. A month later in June, her biological mother, Louella, fell into a coma. Following a week of hospitalization, Louella died on June 23, 2013, due to brain aneurysm. In a eulogy dedicated to her mother, she debunked rumors of animosity over her mother's child abandonment and expressed: "An angel guides me in my decisions in life. For me, that is finally my mom. " Chiu dated co-star Gerald Anderson from 2006 to 2010. Chiu began dating fellow Star Magic artist and leading man, Xian Lim in 2012, which was confirmed in a 2013 episode of Kris TV. They acknowledged they were "exclusively dating". On November 15, 2018, Kim Chiu confirmed she was still in a relationship with Lim during her interview on Tonight with Boy Abunda. On March 4, 2020, Chiu was traveling along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City on her way to a taping of her series Love Thy Woman when two unidentified gunmen, riding-in-tandem on a motorcycle, fired six gunshots at her van. Chiu and her companions were unharmed. Investigators examine the shooting as a possible case of mistaken identity. Chiu later revealed on social media that, a day after the incident, a person claiming to have been the actual target called one of her bosses to apologize. Chiu uses her media influence to promote various causes. She began partnership with GSK for yearly asthma awareness campaigns, Win Against Asthma, after battling asthma as a child. Chiu has since participated in disaster relief organizations such as Philippine National Red Cross and Sagip Kapamilya. She joined the PETA campaign Free Mali along with Xian Lim. Chiu made a video plea for Mali, asking that she be moved to a sanctuary for the sake of her well-being. In August 2012, she and Lim spearheaded a relief operation in Marikina. Chiu was heavily involved with relief efforts for Typhoon Yolanda via Red Cross, which had affected parts of her hometown. Aside from giving food and water, she also held week-long clothes auctions to raise money for Typhoon victims. By 2013, it was also revealed that the actress was involved with regularly funding Isla Pulo, an impoverished community of 1,000 inhabitants in Manila Bay, Philippines. As one of Philippines highest paid endorsers, Chiu addressed the ongoing Pork Barrel tax scandal and the government's alleged misuse of the PDAF in a press conference on August 28, 2013, noting the amount of tax celebrities like herself pay to the government: "The money isn't a joke we pay so much tax and we don't know where it's going. " The Bureau of Internal Revenue confirmed Chiu as 131st top taxpayer in the country with ₱9.3M in income taxes in 2013. In 2015, Chiu passed the UPCAT and enrolled in University of the Philippines's UPOU program for business courses. | 1 |
Iain Glen | Iain Glen 2021-01-09T08:22:13Z Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004–2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon, Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey, Dr David Willoughby in Elephants Can Remember, Agatha Christie's Poirot, the title role in Jack Taylor, and Jarrod Slade in Cleverman. He currently plays Bruce Wayne/ Batman in the DC Universe series Titans. Iain Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He then trained in acting at the RADA in London ("because it was the only one that was holding auditions at that particular time"), where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal. His older brother is Hamish Glen, artistic director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and former artistic director of the Dundee Repertory Theatre. In 1990, Glen won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Silent Scream. In the same year he was cast as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman. in 2002, Glen starred with Emilia Fox in the Italian-French-British romance-drama film The Soul Keeper directed by Roberto Faenza. In 2008 Glen was Samson in the BBC Radio 3 production of Samson Agonistes directed by John Tydeman. It was announced in 2009 that Glen would star as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2010, he played the role of Father Octavian, leader of a sect of clerics who were on a mission against the Weeping Angels in "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone", a two-episode story which formed part of the fifth season of the revived television series Doctor Who. He appeared in the second series of Downton Abbey, as Sir Richard Carlisle, a tabloid publisher who is a suitor to, and subsequently engaged to, Lady Mary. From 2010 to the present Glen has played the title character in the Irish TV crime series Jack Taylor adapted from the novels by Ken Bruen. In the 2012 BBC drama series Prisoners' Wives, he plays Paul, the husband of Francesca, whose comfortable life comes crashing down when he is imprisoned for drug trafficking. Also in 2012, he starred in a new 4-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. In 2013, he played the lead in the new play Longing. From 6 December 2013 until early January 2014 Glen starred alongside Richard McCabe in Fortune's Fool at the Old Vic, directed by Lucy Bailey. He had been due to appear in the full run until 22 February 2014 but was forced to withdraw early to recover from illness, with his role taken by his understudy Patrick Cremin and then by William Houston who joined the cast about the same time as Glen's departure. In 2015, Glen provided the voiceover for a Vauxhall Mokka advertisement. In 2019, it was revealed that Glen would be portraying Bruce Wayne on the DC Universe TV show Titans. , Iain Glen 2022-12-31T12:27:47Z Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004–2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon (1990), Larry Winters in Silent Scream (1990) for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival, Manfred Powell in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Brother John in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), the title role in Jack Taylor (2010–2016), Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey (2011), James Willett in Eye in the Sky (2015), and Bruce Wayne in Titans (2019–present). Glen was born on 24 June 1961 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He then trained in acting at the RADA in London ("because it was the only one that was holding auditions at that particular time"), where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal. His older brother is Hamish Glen, artistic director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and former artistic director of the Dundee Repertory Theatre. In 1990, Glen won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Silent Scream. In the same year he was cast as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman. in 2002, Glen starred with Emilia Fox in the Italian-French-British romance-drama film The Soul Keeper directed by Roberto Faenza. In 2008 Glen was Samson in the BBC Radio 3 production of Samson Agonistes directed by John Tydeman. It was announced in 2009 that Glen would star as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2010, he played the role of Father Octavian, leader of a sect of clerics who were on a mission against the Weeping Angels in "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone", a two-episode story which formed part of the fifth season of the revived television series Doctor Who. He appeared in the second series of Downton Abbey, as Sir Richard Carlisle, a tabloid publisher who is a suitor to, and subsequently engaged to, Lady Mary. From 2010 to 2016 Glen played the title character in the Irish TV crime series Jack Taylor adapted from the novels by Ken Bruen. In the 2012 BBC drama series Prisoners' Wives, he plays Paul, the husband of Francesca, whose comfortable life comes crashing down when he is imprisoned for drug trafficking. Also in 2012, he starred in a new 4-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. In 2013, he played the lead in the new play Longing. From 6 December 2013 until early January 2014 Glen starred alongside Richard McCabe in Fortune's Fool at the Old Vic, directed by Lucy Bailey. He had been due to appear in the full run until 22 February 2014 but was forced to withdraw early to recover from illness, with his role taken by his understudy Patrick Cremin and then by William Houston who joined the cast about the same time as Glen's departure. In 2015, Glen provided the voiceover for a Vauxhall Mokka advertisement. In 2019, it was revealed that Glen would be portraying Bruce Wayne on the DC Universe TV show Titans. | 1 |
Newtown,_Queensland_(Ipswich) | Newtown,_Queensland_(Ipswich) 2017-03-09T23:09:59Z Newtown is a small residential suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It is bordered by Queens Park to the west, to the north by Brisbane Road, the city's main arterial link to the Ipswich Motorway. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 1,454. A small set of shops lies on the five-ways intersection where Brisbane Road, Queen Victoria Parade, Glebe Road and Chermside Road meet. Newtown is serviced by East Ipswich railway station, which provides access to regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane, Ipswich and Rosewood via Ipswich. Newtown contains a number of heritage-listed sites including Rockton, a house at 4 Rockton Street and St Michaels Nursing Home at 68 Chermside Street. , Newtown,_Queensland_(Ipswich) 2018-04-20T03:31:07Z Newtown is a small residential suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It is bordered by Queens Park to the west, to the north by Brisbane Road, the city's main arterial link to the Ipswich Motorway. At the 2016 Australian Census, the suburb recorded a population of 1,615. A small set of shops lies on the five-ways intersection where Brisbane Road, Queen Victoria Parade, Glebe Road and Chermside Road meet. Newtown is serviced by East Ipswich railway station, which provides access to regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane, Ipswich and Rosewood via Ipswich. Newtown contains a number of heritage-listed sites including Rockton, a house at 4 Rockton Street and St Michaels Nursing Home at 68 Chermside Street. | 0 |
DSP/BIOS_Link | DSP/BIOS_Link 2008-06-10T05:00:12Z DSP/BIOS Link or DSPLINK is an IPC (interprocessor communications scheme) for passing messages and data in multiprocessor systems. In the case of the DaVinci DSP family from Texas Instruments this scheme would allow passing of messages and data between an ARM client to the DSP server. DSPLINK can be used to implement a layer of software abstraction called a RPC that allows a remote function on the DSP to appear as local function calls in the ARM application code. The Codec Engine IPC communication layer is implemented using a RPC call scheme built on top of DSP/BIOS LINK. DSP/BIOS LINK is implemented using shared memory and internal interrupts from the ARM to the DSP and vice versa. The shared memory protocol for IPC is implemented as follows: The DSP included in many DaVinci-based devices generally runs TI's DSP/BIOS RTOS. When multiple, heterogeneous cores are included in the device (e. g. DM644x), DSP/BIOS Link drivers run on both the ARM processor and the DSP to provide communication between the two. A number of ARM9 operating systems support DSP/BIOS Link drivers:, DSP/BIOS_Link 2010-03-15T21:15:10Z DSP/BIOS Link or DSPLINK is an IPC (interprocessor communications) scheme for passing messages and data in multiprocessor systems. In the case of the DaVinci DSP family from Texas Instruments, this scheme would allow passing of messages and data between an ARM client and a DSP server. DSPLINK can be used to implement a layer of software abstraction called a RPC that allows a remote function on the DSP to appear as local function calls in the ARM application code. The Codec Engine IPC communication layer is implemented using a RPC call scheme built on top of DSP/BIOS LINK. DSP/BIOS LINK is implemented using shared memory and internal interrupts from the ARM to the DSP and vice versa. The shared memory protocol for IPC is implemented as follows: The DSP included in many DaVinci-based devices generally runs TI's DSP/BIOS RTOS. When multiple, heterogeneous cores are included in the device (e. g. DM644x), DSP/BIOS Link drivers run on both the ARM processor and the DSP to provide communication between the two. A number of ARM9 operating systems support DSP/BIOS Link drivers: | 0 |
Paul di Resta | Paul di Resta 2019-01-14T12:09:19Z Paul di Resta (born 16 April 1986) is a British racing driver from Scotland who drove in Formula One from 2011 to 2013, became a reserve driver for the Williams F1 team in 2016 driving a single race for them as a substitute driver in 2017. A former DTM and Formula 3 Euroseries champion, di Resta did not secure a Formula One drive for 2014, and rejoined Mercedes to race again in the DTM. Di Resta was born in Uphall, Livingston, Scotland, and grew up in Bathgate, West Lothian, and went to Bathgate Academy. He now lives in Monaco, and is a cousin of racing drivers Dario and Marino Franchitti. His step-father was Scottish footballer Dougie McCracken. His younger brother, Stefan, has raced at an amateur level. Di Resta and Laura Jordan became engaged in December 2013 and married on 28 August 2014. He started his career in karting, racing in various competitive series of karts from 1994 until 2002. In 2001 he won the British JICA Championship. He stepped up to single-seaters at the end of 2002, when he competed in the British Formula Renault Winter Series. He raced in British Formula Renault full-time in 2003 with the Eurotek Motorsport team, finishing seventh in the standings with one race win. He switched to Manor Motorsport for 2004, finishing third in the championship standings with four wins. He also entered some races of Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with the Manor team. He also won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of The Year Award in 2004. The award had been won by his cousin Dario Franchitti in 1992. Di Resta switched to the Formula Three Euroseries with Manor Motorsport in 2005, finishing tenth in the standings. For 2006 he moved to the ASM Formule 3 team, winning the championship with five wins, beating teammate and future Formula One World Drivers' Champion, Sebastian Vettel. Di Resta also won the 2006 BP Ultimate Masters at Circuit Park Zandvoort. In 2007, di Resta switched from single-seaters to race in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) touring car racing series, for Mercedes. In the championship, he finished 5th overall behind drivers Mattias Ekstrom (who won his second DTM title), Bruno Spengler, Martin Tomczyk and Jamie Green. Di Resta was the highest driver in the standings to drive a non-2007 car. His performances earned him a 2008 Mercedes C Klasse for the 2008 season, in which he won two races and finishing second in the points, four points behind eventual champion Timo Scheider of Audi. In 2009, he finished third overall, behind Scheider and compatriot Gary Paffett. In 2010, he won three races in a row on the way to winning the championship. Di Resta tested for the McLaren Formula One team, and was in the frame for a drive with the Force India team for the 2009 season due to the teams' shared engine supplier, Mercedes-Benz. However, Force India chose to retain Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil, with Vitantonio Liuzzi as reserve driver. In December 2009, with Fisichella having moved to Ferrari and Liuzzi being promoted to the race team, di Resta took part in a test with the team at the Jerez circuit alongside J. R. Hildebrand. At the Autosport International show in January 2010, he was said to be close to a deal as the team's test and reserve driver for the 2010 season. The deal was duly announced on 2 February. Di Resta made his Formula One race meeting début at the 2010 Australian Grand Prix, where he took part in the first free practice session in place of Sutil and placed 11th. He drove in the first practice sessions of all the following races until Monaco Grand Prix, where he did not take part. He resumed driving for the team at the European Grand Prix and the following British Grand Prix. After sitting out the German Grand Prix he returned for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Di Resta subsequently sat out the Belgian Grand Prix as Tonio Liuzzi and Adrian Sutil needed as much track-time as possible to get the feeling of the new parts. He participated in practice for the Italian Grand Prix, but did not participate in the Singapore or Japanese Grands Prix. The team elected that di Resta should miss the Korean Grand Prix to allow Liuzzi and Sutil to get used to the new track for the race. Di Resta joined Adrian Sutil in the Force India Formula One racing team for the 2011 season, replacing Vitantonio Liuzzi. He scored his first championship point at his first race, the Australian Grand Prix, after both Saubers were disqualified. This was followed by another 10th place in Malaysia, 11th in China, and a retirement in Turkey, where he left the pits with a loose wheel. He was running fifth in Canada until a collision with Nick Heidfeld left him with a damaged car and a drive-through penalty, and later crashed out of the race on lap 67. He qualified sixth at Silverstone but finished 15th after a long pitstop due to a tyre mix-up. His third points-scoring finish of the season came in Hungary, where he finished seventh in changeable conditions. In the Italian Grand Prix, he finished 8th, and this was followed by a career-best sixth-place finish in Singapore, ahead of teammate Sutil, who finished eighth. He finished tenth in Korea, ninth in Abu Dhabi and eighth in Brazil. On 16 December 2011, it was announced that he was to be retained by Force India for the 2012 season, with Nico Hülkenberg taking the place of Sutil as his teammate. He qualified 15th for the season opener in Australia and finished 10th in the race, passing Jean-Éric Vergne and Nico Rosberg on the final lap. He qualified 14th for the Malaysian Grand Prix, and finished seventh in the wet race. He was 12th in China. In Bahrain he qualified inside the top ten, having missed the second free practice session after several members of the team were caught up in a petrol bomb incident. Using a two-stop strategy he took sixth place in the race, which equalled his previous career-best result. He was 14th in Spain, a lap behind winner Pastor Maldonado; seventh in Monaco having started 15th on the grid; and 11th in Montreal. At the European Grand Prix he was the only driver on the grid who performed a one-stop strategy and came 7th whilst his teammate, Nico Hülkenberg, finished in 5th position. After failing to score a point in the next three races, di Resta finished tenth in Belgium. The following weekend, at the Italian Grand Prix, di Resta showed strong pace in qualifying, setting the fourth fastest time in Q3, but took a five place grid penalty for a gearbox change to start the Grand Prix in ninth. He finished the race in eighth. At the Singapore Grand Prix, he qualified sixth and finished a career-best fourth, after the retirements of Maldonado and Hamilton. The final five races of the season resulted in only one further points-scoring finish – 9th place in Abu Dhabi. On 31 January 2013, Force India confirmed di Resta would race for the team for a third consecutive season in 2013. After qualifying outside the top ten in Australia, di Resta managed to battle through into the points, finishing just behind his teammate, Adrian Sutil in eighth place. In Malaysia, however di Resta retired after his car's wheel nuts kept jamming, and the team was ultimately forced to retire both cars. Qualifying in 11th place for the Chinese Grand Prix, the race saw him finish in eighth place and he obtained four points. Di Resta matched his career best result in Bahrain with a fourth place, being overtaken close to the end by Lotus's Romain Grosjean, depriving the Scot of a maiden podium. He followed that up with a seventh in Spain. A disappointing qualifying session in the wet meant di Resta started from 17th in Monaco, however initially going for an aggressive two stop strategy; luck played its part and due to a red flag he was able to use a new set of tyres, and made ground to ninth-place finish with some good overtakes. Another disappointing qualifying session at the next race in Canada saw di Resta starting in 17th position yet again. Starting on the harder medium compound tyre, di Resta was able to run the longest of all drivers on his first stint, going 56 laps before finally making his only pit stop. The strategy worked as di Resta finished the race in 7th. After six consecutive point finishes, di Resta struggled in the later part of the season as his team Force India struggled to cope with new Pirelli tyres and he recorded five consecutive retirements. On 12 December, it was announced that he would not be retained as a driver with Force India for the 2014 season. After a two-year absence from the sport, di Resta returned to Formula One as reserve driver for Williams. Williams retained di Resta as their reserve driver for 2017 whilst he competed for Mercedes in DTM. He replaced lead driver Felipe Massa for qualifying and the race at the Hungarian Grand Prix as the Brazilian recovered from an illness. This marked di Resta's first F1 start in almost four years, whilst also becoming the first British driver for Williams since Jenson Button in 2000. His qualifying results were described as an "unbelievable job" by Mercedes F1 Director Toto Wolff, having competed without having driven the FW40 prior to the session. He ended the day in 19th place ahead of Marcus Ericsson and was 0.766s off his teammate Lance Stroll. He retired in the race after 60 laps. In 2014 di Resta returned to Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series driving for Mercedes. Di Resta finished the season in 15th place having scored points only three times, all three being 4th-place finishes. Since 2016, Di Resta has been a regular contributor to the Sky Sports F1 channel. He's a common presence as one of the insiders in "Sky Race Control" during practices, qualifying sessions, and races alongside Anthony Davidson, Damon Hill, Nico Rosberg, and Johnny Herbert. As of 2018, he's also the backup analyst for races, filling in for Martin Brundle when Brundle is unavailable. † – As di Resta was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. * Season still in progress. (key) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed 90% of the race distance. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver failed to finish the race, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance. , Paul di Resta 2020-11-16T01:32:58Z Paul di Resta (born 16 April 1986) is a British racing driver from Scotland who currently drives in the FIA World Endurance Championship with United Autosports. He drove in Formula One for Force India from 2011 to 2013, and became a reserve driver for the Williams F1 team in 2016, driving a single race for them as a substitute driver in 2017. A former Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) and Formula 3 Euroseries champion, di Resta did not secure a Formula One drive for 2014, and rejoined Mercedes to race again in DTM. Di Resta was born in Uphall, Scotland, and grew up in Bathgate, West Lothian. He is a former pupil of Bathgate Academy and supports Celtic Football Club. He now lives in Monaco, and is a cousin of racing drivers Dario and Marino Franchitti. His step-father was Scottish footballer Dougie McCracken. His younger brother, Stefan, has raced at an amateur level and his half-brother, Jon, is a goalkeeper for the Norwich City u23's. Di Resta and Laura Jordan became engaged in December 2013 and married on 28 August 2014. He started his career in karting, racing in various competitive series of karts from 1994 until 2002. In 2001 he won the British JICA Championship. He stepped up to single-seaters at the end of 2002, when he competed in the British Formula Renault Winter Series. He raced in British Formula Renault full-time in 2003 with the Eurotek Motorsport team, finishing seventh in the standings with one race win. He switched to Manor Motorsport for 2004, finishing third in the championship standings with four wins. He also entered some races of Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with the Manor team. He also won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of The Year Award in 2004. The award had been won by his cousin Dario Franchitti in 1992. Di Resta switched to the Formula Three Euroseries with Manor Motorsport in 2005, finishing tenth in the standings. For 2006 he moved to the ASM Formule 3 team, winning the championship with five wins, beating teammate and future Formula One World Drivers' Champion, Sebastian Vettel. Di Resta also won the 2006 BP Ultimate Masters at Circuit Park Zandvoort. In 2007, di Resta switched from single-seaters to race in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) touring car racing series, for Mercedes. In the championship, he finished 5th overall behind drivers Mattias Ekstrom (who won his second DTM title), Bruno Spengler, Martin Tomczyk and Jamie Green. Di Resta was the highest driver in the standings to drive a non-2007 car. His performances earned him a 2008 Mercedes C Klasse for the 2008 season, in which he won two races and finished second in the points, four points behind eventual champion Timo Scheider of Audi. In 2009, he finished third overall behind Scheider and compatriot Gary Paffett. In 2010, he won three races in a row on the way to winning the championship. Di Resta tested for the McLaren Formula One team, and was in the frame for a drive with the Force India team for the 2009 season due to the teams' shared engine supplier, Mercedes-Benz. However, Force India chose to retain Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil, with Vitantonio Liuzzi as reserve driver. In December 2009, with Fisichella having moved to Ferrari and Liuzzi being promoted to the race team, di Resta took part in a test with the team at the Jerez circuit alongside J. R. Hildebrand. At the Autosport International show in January 2010, he was said to be close to a deal as the team's test and reserve driver for the 2010 season. The deal was announced on 2 February. Di Resta made his Formula One race meeting début at the 2010 Australian Grand Prix, where he took part in the first free practice session in place of Sutil and finished 11th. He drove in the first practice session of all the following races until the Monaco Grand Prix where he did not take part. He resumed driving for the team at the European Grand Prix and the following British Grand Prix. After sitting out the German Grand Prix he returned for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Di Resta subsequently sat out the Belgian Grand Prix as Tonio Liuzzi and Adrian Sutil needed as much track-time as possible to get the feeling of the new parts. He participated in practice for the Italian Grand Prix, but did not participate in the Singapore or Japanese Grands Prix. The team elected that di Resta should miss the Korean Grand Prix to allow Liuzzi and Sutil to get used to the new track for the race. Di Resta joined Adrian Sutil in the Force India Formula One racing team for the 2011 season, replacing Vitantonio Liuzzi. He scored his first championship point at his first race, the Australian Grand Prix, after both Saubers were disqualified. This was followed by another 10th place in Malaysia, 11th in China, and a retirement in Turkey, where he left the pits with a loose wheel. He was running fifth in Canada until a collision with Nick Heidfeld left him with a damaged car and a drive-through penalty, and later crashed out of the race on lap 67. He qualified sixth at Silverstone but finished 15th after a long pitstop due to a tyre mix-up. His third points-scoring finish of the season came in Hungary, where he finished seventh in changeable conditions. In the Italian Grand Prix he finished 8th. This was followed by a career-best sixth-place finish in Singapore, ahead of teammate Sutil, who finished eighth. He finished tenth in Korea, ninth in Abu Dhabi and eighth in Brazil. On 16 December 2011, it was announced that he was to be retained by Force India for the 2012 season, with Nico Hülkenberg taking the place of Sutil as his teammate. He qualified 15th for the season opener in Australia and finished 10th in the race, passing Jean-Éric Vergne and Nico Rosberg on the final lap. He qualified 14th for the Malaysian Grand Prix, and finished seventh in the wet race. He was 12th in China. In Bahrain he qualified inside the top ten, having missed the second free practice session after several members of the team were caught up in a petrol bomb incident. Using a two-stop strategy he took sixth place in the race, which equalled his previous career-best result. He was 14th in Spain, a lap behind winner Pastor Maldonado; seventh in Monaco having started 15th on the grid; and 11th in Montreal. At the European Grand Prix he was the only driver on the grid who performed a one-stop strategy and came 7th whilst his teammate, Nico Hülkenberg, finished in 5th position. After failing to score a point in the next three races, di Resta finished tenth in Belgium. The following weekend, at the Italian Grand Prix, di Resta showed strong pace in qualifying, setting the fourth fastest time in Q3, but took a five place grid penalty for a gearbox change to start the Grand Prix in ninth. He finished the race in eighth. At the Singapore Grand Prix, he qualified sixth and finished a career-best fourth, after the retirements of Maldonado and Hamilton. The final five races of the season resulted in only one further points-scoring finish – 9th place in Abu Dhabi. On 31 January 2013, Force India confirmed di Resta would race for the team for a third consecutive season in 2013. After qualifying outside the top ten in Australia, di Resta managed to battle through into the points, finishing just behind his teammate, Adrian Sutil in eighth place. In Malaysia, however di Resta retired after his car's wheel nuts kept jamming, and the team was ultimately forced to retire both cars. Qualifying in 11th place for the Chinese Grand Prix, the race saw him finish in eighth place and he obtained four points. Di Resta matched his career best result in Bahrain with a fourth place, being overtaken close to the end by Lotus's Romain Grosjean, depriving the Scot of a maiden podium. He followed that up with a seventh in Spain. A disappointing qualifying session in the wet meant di Resta started from 17th in Monaco, however initially going for an aggressive two stop strategy; luck played its part and due to a red flag he was able to use a new set of tyres, and made ground to ninth-place finish with some good overtakes. Another disappointing qualifying session at the next race in Canada saw di Resta starting in 17th position yet again. Starting on the harder medium compound tyre, di Resta was able to run the longest of all drivers on his first stint, going 56 laps before finally making his only pit stop. The strategy worked as di Resta finished the race in 7th. After six consecutive point finishes, di Resta struggled in the later part of the season as his team Force India struggled to cope with new Pirelli tyres and he recorded five consecutive retirements. On 12 December, it was announced that he would not be retained as a driver with Force India for the 2014 season. After a two-year absence from the sport, di Resta returned to Formula One as reserve driver for Williams. Williams retained di Resta as their reserve driver for 2017 whilst he competed for Mercedes in DTM. He replaced lead driver Felipe Massa for qualifying and the race at the Hungarian Grand Prix as the Brazilian recovered from an illness. This marked di Resta's first F1 start in almost four years, whilst also becoming the first British driver for Williams since Jenson Button in 2000 and Scottish driver since David Coulthard in 1995. His qualifying results were described as an "unbelievable job" by Mercedes F1 Director Toto Wolff, having competed without having driven the FW40 prior to the session. He ended the day in 19th place ahead of Marcus Ericsson and was 0.766s off his teammate Lance Stroll. He retired in the race after 60 laps. In 2014 di Resta returned to Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series driving for Mercedes. Di Resta finished the season in 15th place having scored points only three times, all three being 4th-place finishes. In 2018, Paul di Resta raced in the Asian Le Mans Series for United Autosports, scoring one win and 4 podiums alongside Philip Hanson and eventually winning the 2018-19 Asian Le Mans Series championship. Following their Asian Le Mans Series win, Di Resta and United Autosport competed in the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship going onto to win the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque in the LMP2 Class and gaining 5th overall. Since 2016, Di Resta has been a regular contributor to the Sky Sports F1 channel. He is a common presence as one of the insiders in "Sky Race Control" during practices, qualifying sessions and races, alongside Anthony Davidson, Damon Hill, Nico Rosberg, and Johnny Herbert. As of 2018, he is also the backup analyst for races, filling in for Martin Brundle when Brundle is unavailable. † – As di Resta was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. (key) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed 90% of the race distance. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver failed to finish the race, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap) | 1 |
PokerTracker | PokerTracker 2009-05-25T23:15:44Z PokerTracker is a poker tool analysis software program. It is the self-proclaimed world's first and largest poker tracking and analysis software. PokerTracker imports and parses the hand histories that poker sites write to your computer in order to store the resulting statistics/information about historical play into a local database for self-analysis as well as strategic analysis. The software is described as an "an essential all in one poker journal" by CNET. , PokerTracker 2010-03-31T14:46:33Z PokerTracker Software, LLC is the name of a poker tool software company that produces the popular PokerTracker line of poker tracking and analysis software. PokerTracker's software imports and parses the hand histories that poker sites create during online play and stores the resulting statistics/information about historical play into a local database library for self-analysis. The software allows the user to monitor each poker session's profit or loss, hands played, time played, and table style. It calculates and graphs statistics such as hands per hour, winnings per hand, winnings per hour, cumulative profit and loss, and individual game profit and loss. The PokerTracker Software company produces poker analysis software, such as PokerTracker 3 (PT3) and PokerTracker Holdem v2 (PT2) for Texas hold 'em, PokerTracker Omaha for Omaha hold 'em and PokerTracker Stud for Stud poker. It also produces PokerAce Heads Up Display, also known as PokerAce Hud or simply PAHUD, which provides real-time information for live online poker play. Collectively, the company's software has been described as an "an essential all in one poker journal" by CNET. PokerTracker software supports online poker from the following poker sites: Absolute Poker, CryptoLogic, Everest Poker, Full Tilt Poker, iPoker, PartyPoker, PokerStars, UltimateBet. As of 26 May 2009 PokerTracker is officially available for Microsoft Windows based computers only. Full Macintosh compatibility is under development. PokerTracker 3 competes against several similar programs. According to Total Gambler, its most notable competitors are Hold’em Manager and PokerOffice, while Pokersoftware. com considers only Hold’em Manager to be a serious competitor. On most online poker sites, players can have the client software create a locally stored text file that records the hand history as shown in the 'Sample Hand History' example. These hand histories summarize the details of the hand in a format that can be parsed by computer software. PokerTracker reads these files and extracts the relevant information, which it converts into a database for later review or statistical analysis. The software is capable of combining hand history details of multiple accounts from different online poker services, which allows a user to aggregate his or her data. Statistical summaries can be consolidated from different poker sites regardless of whether the user's screen name is the same at each site. PokerTracker software is capable of analyzing cash ring games in which players play for cash during each hand, sit and go tournaments in which players compete for set prizes after the prescribed number of competitors join the tournament, and multi-table tournaments in which players compete for tournament prizes based on the total number of entries at the scheduled start time. Statistics can be tracked by position, session, tournament, best & worst hands, and hand results. The helps the user analyze statistics based on starting hand or final hand. The software also enables the user to replay any specific hand. The software's database uses tournament summaries such as the 'Sample Tournament Summary' example and hand histories to provide a three section summary (see infobox screenshot). The top section of the general information tab provides tournament summaries of profit/loss as well as ordinal placement summary. The other sections summarize situational statistics based on the level of the blinds and the starting hand. Additional tabs in the software produce detailed information for various statistical interests. PokerTracker's probability graphs, as well as historical statistics of the hands a user and his or her opponents have played, enable the user to analyze conditional statistical possibilities and optimal betting amounts. The situations it analyzes are conditional on the opposition's playing characteristics and the player's position relative to the dealer. Graphs can be produced for a single session or for any part of one's playing history. One of the biggest improvements in PokerTracker 3 over PT2 is that it is fully-customizable so that all statistics and reports can be tailored to the individual user. The Guardian claims most serious players use PokerTracker during online play to constantly calculate situational optima. The PokerTracker company is also known for its PokerAce HUD software, which is a heads-up display sold separately from the PokerTracker Holdem v2, PokerTracker Omaha and PokerTracker Stud software programs. The PokerAce HUD is a transparent video overlay data presentation that makes statistics and notes are readily available during play. It allow an online poker player to focus his attention on the playing screen, rather than on the PokerTracker software. The HUD provides a vast array of realtime statistics for in-game analysis, customizable to the user's preference. In addition to the statistics available constantly during play on the poker window, detailed statistics are available in a pop-up window, accessible via a single mouse click. Marbella Slim of the Daily Star used the vision of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator character in an analogy with the HUD: "In some scenes, you get to see what the robot Terminator is seeing and he has all these data streams in front of his vision - it's a HUD or a head-up display. " Unlike other PokerTracker products, PokerTracker 3 includes a HUD as part of the basic program. The PT3 HUD, which automatically overlays a player's opponents' statistics next to their avatars, is essentially a built-in version of the PokerAce HUD. PokerTracker 3 also offers a monthly subscription-based service called Table Tracker. Table Tracker is a software program that automatically identifies ring tables with competition suitable to the user's playing style. PokerTracker's servers constantly monitor which players are playing and what tables they are playing at on various major poker sites, which allows Table Tracker to find the weakest players across multiple online poker websites. The user can search based on the software's built in scoring system or any other statistics of his or her choosing. In September 2009, the company announced that as of March 31, 2010, PokerTracker Holdem v2 would no longer be supported. The decision was made because PokerTracker 3 had been released on May 15, 2008 nearly two years prior to the end of life date. The company felt that discontinuing support of v2 would avail resources which could be dedicated to improving PT3 and providing exceptional customer service. Serious poker pros and casual amateurs alike can benefit from the poker tracking software, and poker magazines such as Card Player repeatedly remind poker players of the usefulness of tracking software. Total Gambler says that in addition to experience and skill the other necessity for a gambler to become a professional poker player is a good software package such as PokerTracker. Several websites portray PokerTracker as either the world's leading or the world's most popular poker tracking software. For example, Pokersource. com describes it as "the most popular poker tracking and analysis software available" and Party Poker describes PokerTracker as "the original and largest piece of poker tracking software". PokerSoftware. com says "Poker Tracker has been the industry standard . . . for years". Total Gambler says that for more than a two-year period PokerTracker 2 was the "prominent force in online poker tracking", but at the time of its December 2008 review it speaks of this leadership position in the past tense, noting that PT3 had not yet been "fully released" at the time of its testing. Major online card rooms forbid the use of software that gives a player an "unfair advantage. " This typically includes software that allows players to share their hole cards with other players during live play and software that automates decision making. Since PokerTracker software doesn't fit into either of these categories it is generally allowed on most sites, including industry leader PokerStars. com. Legality aside, some players feel the use of PokerTracker takes away from the game; for example, Victoria Coren of The Guardian remarks "there is only one downside . Where's the bloody fun in it?" | 0 |
Dani_Dimitrovska | Dani_Dimitrovska 2008-01-04T03:01:44Z Template:Infobox musical artist 2 Dani Dimitrovska (Macedonian: Дани Димитровска) (born June 4, 1979, in Skopje) or simply Dani, is an ethnic Macedonian pop music singer. Dimitrovska started her carrier on the music contest Makfest in Štip with the song "Samo Ti Mi Trebaš". The single was well accepted both by audience and journalists. In 2000 she appeared on the national selection for Eurovision Song Contest with the song "A Nekogaš". The same year, she gave birth to her child, called Lazar. After her divorce, she decided to take a carrier brake in order to raise her little son. The song "Srca Dve" (English: "Two Hearts" ) was her big comeback and it is considered to be Dimitrovska's greatest hit placing her on number 1 on all charts in the Republic Of Macedonia for a month, and # 4 on MTV Adria. Dimitrovska was the first ethnic Macedonian singer which found place on the MTV Adria Top 20 chart. Interesting fact about her is that she is one of the few singers in the Republic of Macedonia who continued to perform in clubs after a bigger popular success, staying loyal to her fans. , Dani_Dimitrovska 2009-09-07T16:56:24Z Template:Infobox musical artist 2 Dani Dimitrovska (Macedonian: Дани Димитровска) (born June 4, 1979, in Skopje) or simply Dani, is an Macedonian pop music singer. Dimitrovska started her carrier on the music contest Makfest in Štip with the song "Samo Ti Mi Trebaš". The single was well accepted both by audience and journalists. In 2000 she appeared on the national selection for Eurovision Song Contest with the song "A Nekogaš". The same year, she gave birth to her child, called Lazar. After her divorce, she decided to take a carrier break in order to raise her little son. The song "Srca Dve" (English: "Two Hearts" ) was her big comeback and it is considered to be Dimitrovska's greatest hit placing her on number 1 on all Macedonian charts for a month, and # 4 on MTV Adria. Dimitrovska was the first Macedonian singer to reach a place on the MTV Adria Top 20 chart. Template:Macedonian Musicians | 0 |
Vermontville,_New_York | Vermontville,_New_York 2008-05-05T19:52:39Z Vermontville is a hamlet in Franklin County in the state of New York. It is the seat of government of the town of Franklin. It is located near the south town line on NY-3. Vermontville was settled by men from Vermont in the early 1800s. The first postmaster, Josiah J. Alexander, was appointed in 1854. The Hopkinton and Port Kent turnpike passed through the village, and was responsible for the existence of a number of taverns built to accommodate passing teamsters. A saw mill was built in 1848, and a second in 1850; a starch mill operated from 1873 to about 1876. A foundry was built in 1861 that continued until about 1889, producing plows, cultivators, and scrapers; it closed due to competition from products brought in by the Chateaugay Railway, that reached Vermontville at that time. Farming was the primary business enterprise. In 1856, the first church was built. Bill Demong, an American Nordic combined skier who won the silver medal in the 15 km individual event at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, is from Vermontville. 44°27′06″N 74°03′55″W / 44. 45167°N 74. 06528°W / 44. 45167; -74. 06528 , Vermontville,_New_York 2010-08-26T00:28:07Z Vermontville is a hamlet in Franklin County in the state of New York. It is the seat of government of the town of Franklin. It is located near the south town line on NY-3. Vermontville was settled by men from Vermont in the early 1800s. The first postmaster, Josiah J. Alexander, was appointed in 1854. The Hopkinton and Port Kent turnpike passed through the village, and was responsible for the existence of a number of taverns built to accommodate passing teamsters. A saw mill was built in 1848, and a second in 1850; a starch mill operated from 1873 to about 1876. A foundry was built in 1861 that continued until about 1889, producing plows, cultivators, and scrapers; it closed due to competition from products brought in by the Chateaugay Railway, that reached Vermontville at that time. Farming was the primary business enterprise. In 1856, the first church was built. Bill Demong, an American Nordic combined skier who won the silver medal in the 15 km individual event at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the gold medal in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, is from Vermontville. Richard Brandt, a world famous glaciologist, who regularly conducts experiments in both the Antarctic and the Arctic. 44°27′06″N 74°03′55″W / 44. 45167°N 74. 06528°W / 44. 45167; -74. 06528 This article about a location in Franklin County, New York is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
WQNT | WQNT 2010-10-15T03:47:00Z WQNT is an American AM radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Kirkman Broadcasting, Inc. to broadcast on 1450 kHz serving the community of Charleston, South Carolina. The station's programming format is Sports Talk. The station was originally known as WUSN, signing on in 1948. It started as a Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate. For years WQNT aired CNN Headline News. It now carries Fox Sports Radio, Clemson Tiger Insider Dan Scott, Primetime with the Packman, Jim Rome and the Citadel Sports Network. This article about a radio station in South Carolina is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , WQNT 2013-01-17T03:26:10Z WQNT is an American AM radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Kirkman Broadcasting, Inc. to broadcast on 1450 kHz serving the community of Charleston, South Carolina. The station's programming format is Sports Talk. The station was originally known as WUSN, signing on in 1948. It started as a Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate. For years WQNT aired CNN Headline News. As of 2009, it carried Fox Sports Radio, Clemson Tiger Insider Dan Scott, Primetime with the Packman, Jim Rome and the Citadel Sports Network. In 2011, WQNT aired Steve Czaban and Dan Patrick, with ESPN radio in the afternoon. This article about a radio station in South Carolina is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Peter Hermann (actor) | Peter Hermann (actor) 2006-01-26T17:21:39Z Peter Hermann (b. 15 August 1967 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an actor perhaps more famous for his marriage to actress Mariska Hargitay than for his acting. They met on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where Hargitay has enjoyed a starring role since the show's beginning in 1999. Hermann often appears on the show as defense attorney Trevor Langan. The two were married on August 28, 2004, in California. Hermann also had a brief stint on the soap opera Guiding Light and a few commercials (such as the anti-tobacco "Fair Enough" ads) to his credit. , Peter Hermann (actor) 2007-12-16T22:57:15Z Peter Hermann (born 15 August 1967) is an American actor and writer. Hermann was born in New York City to German parents and lived in Germany until the age of ten. He then moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attended Brunswick School in through secondary school, being active in student drama productions. He then went on to Yale University, graduating in 1990. After graduating, Hermann joined the two-year service organization Teach For America in 1990. Hermann had a brief stint on the soap opera Guiding Light and the ABC Family show Beautiful People and has appeared in commercials (such as the anti-tobacco "Fair Enough" ads). He also appeared as Jeremy Glick in the 2006 feature film United 93, whose subject was United Airlines flight 93, the only hijacked plane that didn't reach its target during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Peter Hermann began playing the recurring character Trevor Langan, a defense attorney, on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002 and continues to guest star. Currently, Hermann is in the Broadway premiere of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber (and featuring fellow Law & Order: Special Victims Unit alum Stephanie March). It began performances on February 15th, 2007 in preparation for a March 11th opening. While guest starring on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hermann met actress, Mariska Hargitay. The two were married on August 28, 2004, and their son, August Miklos Friedrich Hermann, was born on June 28, 2006. | 1 |
Linear_sweep_voltammetry | Linear_sweep_voltammetry 2014-01-03T17:14:08Z Linear sweep voltammetry is a voltammetric method where the current at a working electrode is measured while the potential between the working electrode and a reference electrode is swept linearly in time. Oxidation or reduction of species is registered as a peak or trough in the current signal at the potential at which the species begins to be oxidized or reduced. The experimental setup for linear sweep voltammetry utilizes a potentiostat and a three-electrode setup to deliver a potential to a solution and monitor its change in current. The three-electrode setup consists of a working electrode, an auxiliary electrode, and a reference electrode. The potentiostat delivers the potentials through the three-electrode setup. A potential, E, is delivered through the working electrode. The slope of the potential vs. time graph is called the scan rate and can range from mV/s to 1,000,000 V/s. At higher scan rates the current is found to increase which improves the signal to noise ratio. Therefore higher scan rates lead to better signal to noise ratios. The working electrode is where the oxidation/reduction reactions occur. The equation below gives an example of an oxidation occurring at the surface of the working electrode. ES is the standard reduction potential of A. As E approaches ES the current on the surface increases and when E=ES then the concentration of = at the surface. As the molecules on the surface of the working electrode or oxidized/reduced they move away from the surface and new molecules come into contact with the surface of the working electrode. This flow of molecules to and from the working electrode causes the current. A + e − = A − {\displaystyle A+e^{-}=A^{-}} E_s=0. 00V Oxidation of molecule A at the surface of the working electrode The auxiliary and reference electrode work in unison to balance out the charge added or removed by the working electrode. The auxiliary electrode balances the working electrode, but in order to know how much potential it has to add or remove it relies on the reference electrode. The reference electrode has a known reduction potential. The auxiliary electrode tries to keep the reference electrode at a certain reduction potential and to do this it has to balance the working electrode. Linear sweep voltammetry can identify unknown species and determine the concentration of solutions. E1/2 can be used to identify the unknown species while the height of the limiting current can determine the concentration. The sensitivity of current changes vs. voltage can be increased by increasing the scan rate. Higher potentials per second result in more oxidation/reduction of a species at the surface of the working electrode. For reversible reactions cyclic voltammetry can be used to find information about the forward reaction and the reverse reaction. Like linear sweep voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry applies a linear potential over time and at a certain potential the potentiostat will reverse the potential applied and sweep back to the beginning point. Cyclic voltammetry provides information about the oxidation and reduction reactions. While cyclic voltammetry is applicable to most cases where linear sweep voltammetry is used, there are some instances where linear sweep voltammetry is more useful. In cases where the reaction is irreversible cyclic voltammetry will not give any additional data that linear sweep voltammetry would give us. In one example, linear voltammetry was used to examine direct methane production via a biocathode. Since the production of methane from CO2 is an irreversible reaction, cyclic voltammetry did not present any distinct advantage over linear sweep voltammetry. This group found that the biocathode produced higher current densities than a plain carbon cathode and that methane can be produced from a direct electrical current without the need of hydrogen gas. , Linear_sweep_voltammetry 2015-11-07T00:17:42Z Linear sweep voltammetry is a voltammetric method where the current at a working electrode is measured while the potential between the working electrode and a reference electrode is swept linearly in time. Oxidation or reduction of species is registered as a peak or trough in the current signal at the potential at which the species begins to be oxidized or reduced. The experimental setup for linear sweep voltammetry utilizes a potentiostat and a three-electrode setup to deliver a potential to a solution and monitor its change in current. The three-electrode setup consists of a working electrode, an auxiliary electrode, and a reference electrode. The potentiostat delivers the potentials through the three-electrode setup. A potential, E, is delivered through the working electrode. The slope of the potential vs. time graph is called the scan rate and can range from mV/s to 1,000,000 V/s. The working electrode is one of the electrodes at which the oxidation/reduction reactions occur -- the processes that occur at this electrode are the ones being monitored. The auxiliary electrode (or counter electrode) is the one at which a process opposite from the one taking place at the working electrode occurs. The processes at this electrode are not monitored. The equation below gives an example of an reduction occurring at the surface of the working electrode. Es is the reduction potential of A (if the electrolyte and the electrode are in their standard conditions, then this potential is a standard reduction potential). As E approaches Es the current on the surface increases and when E=Es then the concentration of = at the surface. As the molecules on the surface of the working electrode are oxidized/reduced they move away from the surface and new molecules come into contact with the surface of the working electrode. The flow of electrons into or out of the electrode causes the current. The current is a direct measure of the rate at which electrons are being exchanged through the electrode-electrolyte interface. When this rate becomes higher than the rate at which the oxidizing or reducing species can diffuse from the bulk of the electrolyte to the surface of the electrode, the current reaches a plateau or exhibits a peak. A + e − = A − , E s = 0. 00 V R e d u c t i o n o f m o l e c u l e A a t t h e s u r f a c e o f t h e w o r k i n g e l e c t r o d e {\displaystyle A+e^{-}=A^{-},E_{s}=0. 00VReductionofmoleculeAatthesurfaceoftheworkingelectrode} The auxiliary and reference electrode work in unison to balance out the charge added or removed by the working electrode. The auxiliary electrode balances the working electrode, but in order to know how much potential it has to add or remove it relies on the reference electrode. The reference electrode has a known reduction potential. The auxiliary electrode tries to keep the reference electrode at a certain reduction potential and to do this it has to balance the working electrode. Linear sweep voltammetry can identify unknown species and determine the concentration of solutions. E1/2 can be used to identify the unknown species while the height of the limiting current can determine the concentration. The sensitivity of current changes vs. voltage can be increased by increasing the scan rate. Higher potentials per second result in more oxidation/reduction of a species at the surface of the working electrode. For reversible reactions cyclic voltammetry can be used to find information about the forward reaction and the reverse reaction. Like linear sweep voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry applies a linear potential over time and at a certain potential the potentiostat will reverse the potential applied and sweep back to the beginning point. Cyclic voltammetry provides information about the oxidation and reduction reactions. While cyclic voltammetry is applicable to most cases where linear sweep voltammetry is used, there are some instances where linear sweep voltammetry is more useful. In cases where the reaction is irreversible cyclic voltammetry will not give any additional data that linear sweep voltammetry would give us. In one example, linear voltammetry was used to examine direct methane production via a biocathode. Since the production of methane from CO2 is an irreversible reaction, cyclic voltammetry did not present any distinct advantage over linear sweep voltammetry. This group found that the biocathode produced higher current densities than a plain carbon cathode and that methane can be produced from a direct electric current without the need of hydrogen gas. | 0 |
Tanren_bō | Tanren_bō 2008-05-07T11:59:16Z A tanren bō (鍛錬棒) is a bat used in aikido for strength and suburi training. Despite being only 3 feet overall, with 10 inches for handle, the "blade" is a large lump of rectangular wood, with its cross-section being a square with dimension of three square inches, and have overall weight of 4 to 7 lbs. By designating one corner as edge, an aikidoka can use it as an even heavier suburitō, practice suburi, kata, hasuji (edge-angle) and tomei, and learn the bounce-back of the sword by practicing against tanrenuchi, now typically a tyre stood upright on a concrete base. As it is designed toward aikido and strength training, specifically for getting used to the weight of a heavy-handled object, it does not resembles a sword in shape, length, or mass. Thus, unlike suburito, it is less effective of learning the katana's cut, and is not suited to contact with other swords. This article related to the culture of Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Tanren_bō 2010-09-15T20:12:47Z A tanren bō (鍛錬棒) is a bat used in aikido for strength and suburi training. Despite being only 3 feet overall, with 10 inches for handle, the "blade" is a large lump of rectangular wood, with its cross-section being a square with dimension of three square inches, and have overall weight of 4 to 7 lbs. By designating one corner as edge, an aikidoka can use it as an even heavier suburitō, practice suburi, kata, hasuji (edge-angle) and tomei (swing stopping), and learn the bounce-back of the sword by practicing against tanrenuchi, now typically a tyre stood upright on a concrete base. As it is designed toward aikido and strength training, specifically for getting used to the weight of a heavy-handled object, it does not resembles a sword in shape, length, or mass. Thus, unlike suburito, it is less effective of learning the katana's cut, and is not suited to contact with other swords. This article related to the culture of Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
International Association of Business Communicators | International Association of Business Communicators 2014-02-24T10:47:55Z The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a San Francisco-based, not-for-profit trade association for business communications professionals with approximately 16,000 members and 100 chapters. The association was founded in 1970 by merging the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE) with the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE). The IABC Research Foundation was created as part of IABC in 1982. Decisions within the organization are made by a two-thirds vote of the executive board, which is elected by members. IABC supports several awards programs and networking events. It also publishes a code of ethics, which encourages members to do what is legal, ethical and in good taste. IABC's predecessor was the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE), which was founded in 1938. AAIE became a member of the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE) in 1941. It withdrew from ICIE in 1946 over policy differences, but formed IABC when it merged again in 1970. In IABC's first year of operation, the association had 2,280 members and was focused on internal communications. IABC's research showed its members were moving into positions with broader public relations responsibilities and the association expanded its scope. In 1974 it merged with Corporate Communicators Canada. In 1982 the association formed the IABC Research Foundation, which funded a study of 323 organizations in the 1980s to determine what made some public relations teams more effective than others. The study found that executive involvement in communications was the best predictor of effectiveness. IABC had financial troubles in 2000 after losing $1 million in an e-business initiative called TalkingBusinessNow. In 2001 a grass-roots initiative was started within IABC's membership that eventually developed into the Gift of Communication program, whereby members donated their professional services to local charities. Membership grew 7–9 percent each year in the 2000s due to an increasing number of practitioners in the field of internal communications. IABC hosted its first annual world conference in 2005 and grew to more than 16,000 members by 2008. That same year, IABC accredited Chinese citizens for the first time in the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program. In 2009 the IABC Research Foundation conducted a survey that found 79 percent of respondents frequently use social media to communicate with employees. It also co-authored a study the following year that found email and intranet were the most common internal communications tools among respondents. The association use to have an accreditation program called Accreditation for Business Communications (ABC). 8 percent of its members were ABC accredited in September 2012, when IABC stopped accepting new applicants. A new accreditation program was proposed in January 2013 to replace it with a more affordable, computer-based process. IABC has professional, student and affiliate memberships, as well as sector memberships for different industries and specialties. Representatives from different chapters and regions, as well as professional members, vote at the Annual General Meeting to elect members to the executive board. The board can change dues, establish new chapters, create workgroups and remove members with a two-thirds vote. IABC also has various committees focused on ethics, research, finance, auditing and others. Positions within IABC are served on a volunteer basis. The International Board Chair for 2013-14 is Robin McCasland of Texas, USA. She will be succeeded in June 2014 by Russell Grossman ABC of London, United Kingdom. The Immediate Past Chair is Kerby Myers of Colorado, USA. IABC hosts networking events and other programs to help recent graduates connect with public relations professionals. IABC is no longer accepting new applicants for its Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program, but a new certification program has been proposed that would require a computer test and renewals every three years. If implemented, professionals with eight years of experience would be certified as CCPs (Certified Communications Professional), while those with 15 years are called CSCPs (Certified Strategic Communications Professional). IABC publishes a code of ethics, which has three principles: that professional communications be legal, ethical and in good taste. It says members should be sensitive to cultural values, as well as be truthful, accurate and respectful. Before 1995, the code said "Communicators should encourage frequent communication and messages that are honest in their content, candid, accurate and appropriate to the needs of the organization and its audiences." IABC hosts the Quill awards, which are bestowed at three levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Quills are conducted at a local chapter level and open to both members and non-members. The awards are bestowed for "creatively and effectively communicating" in ways that contribute to the local community. The Gold Quill has 17 categories. IABC also publishes a bi-monthly magazine Communication World. , International Association of Business Communicators 2015-12-28T16:29:58Z The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a global network of communications professionals. Each summer, IABC hosts World Conference, a three-day event with professional development seminars and activities, as well as talks by industry leaders. Decisions within the organization are made by a two-thirds vote of the executive board, which is elected by members. IABC members agree to follow a professional code of ethics, which encourages members to do what is legal, ethical and in good taste. IABC's predecessor was the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE), which was founded in 1938. AAIE became a member of the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE) in 1941. It withdrew from ICIE in 1946 over policy differences, but formed IABC when it merged again in 1970. In IABC's first year of operation, the association had 2,280 members and was focused on internal communications. IABC's research showed its members were moving into positions with broader public relations responsibilities and the association expanded its scope. In 1974 it merged with Corporate Communicators Canada. In 1982 the association formed the IABC Research Foundation, which funded a study of 323 organizations in the 1980s to determine what made some public relations teams more effective than others. The study found that executive involvement in communications was the best predictor of effectiveness. The Research Foundation also looked into the status and pay of women in the public relations field, in a pioneering study called The Velvet Ghetto. IABC had financial troubles in 2000 after losing $1 million in an e-business initiative called TalkingBusinessNow. In 2001 a grass-roots initiative was started within IABC's membership that eventually developed into the Gift of Communication program, whereby members donated their professional services to local charities. Membership grew 7–9 percent each year in the 2000s due to an increasing number of practitioners in the field of internal communications. IABC hosted its first annual world conference in 2005 and grew to more than 16,000 members by 2008. That same year, IABC accredited Chinese citizens for the first time in the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program. In 2009 the IABC Research Foundation conducted a survey that found 79 percent of respondents frequently use social media to communicate with employees. It also co-authored a study the following year that found email and intranet were the most common internal communications tools among respondents. For 40 years, the association offered an accreditation program called Accreditation for Business Communications (ABC). By the time the program ended in 2013, a total of 1,003 people had earned ABC status. Though the program stopped accepting new applicants in September 2012, ABCs will be recognized as long as they maintain their membership in IABC. A new professional certification program to replace accreditation with a more affordable, computer-based process was proposed in January 2013. The goal is to set an international standard for all communications professionals that will be recognized by an organization such as ISO17024. The autonomous international group to oversee the creation of the new certification program — the Global Communication Certification Council — was appointed in February 2014. IABC offers professional, corporate, student and retired memberships. Representatives from different chapters and regions, as well as professional members, vote at the Annual General Meeting to elect members to the international executive board. The board can change dues, establish new chapters, create workgroups and remove members with a two-thirds vote. IABC also has various committees focused on ethics, research, finance, auditing and others. All positions within IABC are filled by volunteers. IABC has more than 100 chapters worldwide in North America, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe. IABC hosts networking events and mentoring programs to help recent graduates connect with working public relations, marketing and corporate communications professionals. Most professional members join IABC to further their career advancement, professional development and to grow their professional network. IABC is no longer accepting new applicants for its Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program, but a new certification program has been initiated that would involve computerized testing and renewals every three years. The new certification program will have two levels; the first level being developed is for Communications Generalists. IABC publishes a code of ethics, which has three principles: that professional communications be legal, ethical and in good taste. It says members should be sensitive to cultural values, as well as be truthful, accurate and respectful. Before 1995, the code said "Communicators should encourage frequent communication and messages that are honest in their content, candid, accurate and appropriate to the needs of the organization and its audiences." IABC hosts the Gold Quill Awards, which are bestowed at three levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Gold Quill is an international awards program that's open to both members and non- members. The Silver and Bronze Quills are conducted at a local chapter level and open to both members and non-members. The awards are bestowed for "creatively and effectively communicating" in measurable ways that contribute to the local community. In 2014 the Gold Quill has four divisions and more than 40 categories. Both the Gold Quill and some of the regional chapters offer special awards for college students. IABC also publishes a monthly digital magazine Communication World. Recent issues have shared researched and first-person, expert articles on connecting with Millennials, social intranets and crisis communications. | 1 |
My_Lady_Ludlow | My_Lady_Ludlow 2008-05-21T18:59:04Z My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words in the Project Gutenburg text) by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and Mr Harrison's Confessions, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford. This article about a short story (or stories) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , My_Lady_Ludlow 2009-12-28T21:53:14Z My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words in the Project Gutenberg text) by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions, it was adapted for television in 2007 as Cranford. This article about a 19th-century novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. | 0 |
Reinstein_Woods_Nature_Preserve | Reinstein_Woods_Nature_Preserve 2012-03-15T18:52:25Z Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is located near the city of Buffalo in the Town of Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York, USA. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is a unique 292-acre complex of forests, ponds, and wetlands surrounded by suburban development. The nature preserve features an earth friendly environmental education center and offers a variety of opportunities to explore and learn about nature for people of all ages. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve and Environmental Education Center is owned and operated by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is a place for individuals, teachers, students, youth groups, and families to enjoy the natural wonders that western New York has to offer. The staff at Reinstein Woods offer a variety of special programs to the public each month, including snowshoe and ski adventures, walks on seasonal topics, and guided tours of the preserve. For schools, scouts, and other organizations Reinstein Woods offers guided lessons, walks, and tours on environmental and natural history topics. Every year Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve has an Earth Day Celebration and a Fall Festival. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified Environmental Education Center was opened to the public in 2007 and features a wildlife viewing area, interpretive exhibits, classrooms, and restrooms. This "green" building showcases many energy-saving features such as natural lighting, water-conserving restrooms and recycled building materials. The Education center is open Monday through Friday 9:00AM-4:30PM and Saturdays 1:00PM-4:30PM. Sundays and State Holidays the Education Center is closed. The Nature Preserve features self-guided interpretive nature trails which are open daily from sunrise to sunset. Pamphlets and signs help visitors to enjoy nature at their own pace. Several of the trails are accessible by guided tour only. Many species of wildlife native to western New York can be found at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve including white-tailed deer, beavers, waterfowl, red-tailed hawks, pileated woodpeckers and great blue herons. Native wildflowers, ferns, and fungi are also plentiful. Being surrounded by suburban development Reinstein Woods provides a protected place for wildlife to thrive. In 1932 the land was purchased by Dr. Victor Reinstein for a private nature sanctuary, and by 1960 he had planted 30,000 trees, constructed 19 ponds, marshes, and swamps. The State of New York assumed control of this preserve in 1986, after its donation by the Reinstein Estate. The Dr. Victor Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve was officially dedicated on August 23, 1989. In 2007 the Environmental Education Center was completed and opened to the public. Friends of Reinstein Nature Preserve, Inc. is a volunteer-led, nonprofit organization that supports the environmental education programs offered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at Reinstein Woods. They provide vital financial and volunteer support for programs aimed at school children, teachers, youth from underserved neighborhoods, and the general public. The Mission of Friends of Reinstein Nature Preserve is to promote knowledge of nature through awareness, appreciation, and stewardship of the unique and diverse environment of Reinstein Woods and its programs. The preserve is located on Honorine Drive, running south of Como Park Boulevard, which connects NY Route 277 (Union Road) to NY Route 78 (Transit Road). This article about a location in Erie County, New York is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Reinstein_Woods_Nature_Preserve 2013-12-13T14:16:20Z Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is located near the city of Buffalo in the Town of Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York, USA. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is a unique 292-acre (118 ha) complex of forests, ponds, and wetlands surrounded by suburban development. The nature preserve features an earth friendly environmental education center and offers a variety of opportunities to explore and learn about nature for people of all ages. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve and Environmental Education Center is owned and operated by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve is a place for individuals, teachers, students, youth groups, and families to enjoy the natural wonders that western New York has to offer. The staff at Reinstein Woods offer a variety of special programs to the public each month, including snowshoe and ski adventures, walks on seasonal topics, and guided tours of the preserve. For schools, scouts, and other organizations Reinstein Woods offers guided lessons, walks, and tours on environmental and natural history topics. Every year Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve has an Earth Day Celebration and a Fall Festival. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified Environmental Education Center was opened to the public in 2007 and features a wildlife viewing area, interpretive exhibits, classrooms, and restrooms. This "green" building showcases many energy-saving features such as natural lighting, water-conserving restrooms and recycled building materials. The Education center is open Monday through Friday 9:00AM-4:30PM and Saturdays 1:00PM-4:30PM. Sundays and State Holidays the Education Center is closed. The Nature Preserve features self-guided interpretive nature trails which are open daily from sunrise to sunset. Pamphlets and signs help visitors to enjoy nature at their own pace. Several of the trails are accessible by guided tour only. Many species of wildlife native to western New York can be found at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve including white-tailed deer, beavers, waterfowl, red-tailed hawks, pileated woodpeckers and great blue herons. Native wildflowers, ferns, and fungi are also plentiful. Being surrounded by suburban development Reinstein Woods provides a protected place for wildlife to thrive. In 1932 the land was purchased by Dr. Victor Reinstein for a private nature sanctuary, and by 1960 he had planted 30,000 trees, constructed 19 ponds, marshes, and swamps. The State of New York assumed control of this preserve in 1986, after its donation by the Reinstein Estate. The Dr. Victor Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve was officially dedicated on August 23, 1989. In 2007 the Environmental Education Center was completed and opened to the public. Friends of Reinstein Nature Preserve, Inc. is a volunteer-led, nonprofit organization that supports the environmental education programs offered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at Reinstein Woods. They provide vital financial and volunteer support for programs aimed at school children, teachers, youth from underserved neighborhoods, and the general public. The Mission of Friends of Reinstein Nature Preserve is to promote knowledge of nature through awareness, appreciation, and stewardship of the unique and diverse environment of Reinstein Woods and its programs. You can find out more information about the organization by visiting their website at http://reinsteinwoods. org/ The preserve is located on Honorine Drive, running south of Como Park Boulevard, which connects NY Route 277 (Union Road) to NY Route 78 (Transit Road). 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Nikolay_Grigoryevich_Erschoff | Nikolay_Grigoryevich_Erschoff 2009-09-04T01:02:31Z Nikolaj Grigor'jevitsch Erschov (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов) (b. 23 April 1837, Moscow; d. 12 March 1896, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 12: 336-348. For works in Russian see Erschov's insect collection is in the Zoological Collection of the Russian Academy of Science This article about an entomologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Nikolay_Grigoryevich_Erschoff 2011-10-18T14:12:30Z Nikolaj Grigor'jevitsch Erschov, also spelled Erschoff(Russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов) (b. 23 April 1837, Moscow; d. 12 March 1896, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 12: 336-348. For works in Russian see Erschov's insect collection is in the Zoological Collection of the Russian Academy of Science Template:Persondata This biographical article about a Russian scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about an entomologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Severstal Cherepovets | Severstal Cherepovets 2017-04-05T11:45:44Z Hockey Club Severstal is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League. Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel (Builder) Cherepovets. The name was changed to Metallurg (Metallurgist) Cherepovets in 1959. During the Soviet times Metallurg played in the low- and mid-level divisions of the ice hockey championship. But since the 1990s not without the financial support of its parent Severstal company the club joined the ranks of the major professional teams starting with the first season of the newly established International Hockey League. The club eventually changed its name after the owner in 1994. The biggest success of Severstal to date is the 2002-2003 Superleague season when they advanced to the final with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Pajulahti Cup (2): 2000, 2006 Donbass Open Cup (1): 2012 Hockeyades de la Vallee de Joux (1): 2013 Russian Superleague (1): 2003 Russian Superleague (1): 2001 Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; P = Playoff Updated 30 March 2024., Severstal Cherepovets 2018-09-02T18:37:39Z Hockey Club Severstal is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League. Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel (Builder) Cherepovets. The name was changed to Metallurg (Metallurgist) Cherepovets in 1959. During the Soviet times, Metallurg played in the low and mid-level divisions of the ice hockey championship. But since the 1990s, not without the financial support of its parent company (Severstal), the club joined the ranks of the major professional teams starting with the first season of the then newly established International Hockey League. The club eventually changed its name after the owner in 1994. The biggest success of Severstal to date was in the 2002-2003 Superleague season when they advanced to the final with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. The home arena is the Ice Palace where home matches are played since 2006/2007 Russian Superleague season. Earlier the Sports-Concert Hall Almaz was the home arena. Pajulahti Cup (2): 2000, 2006 Donbass Open Cup (1): 2012 Hockeyades de la Vallee de Joux (1): 2013 Russian Superleague (1): 2003 Russian Superleague (1): 2001 Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; P = Playoff Updated 30 March 2024. These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed KHL regular season. Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game = current Severstal player | 1 |
Kate McKinnon | Kate McKinnon 2021-01-02T18:40:16Z Kathryn McKinnon Berthold (born January 6, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for her character work and celebrity impressions on the sketch comedy series The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007–2010) and Saturday Night Live (2012–present). McKinnon has appeared in films such as Balls Out (2014), Ghostbusters (2016), Office Christmas Party (2016), Rough Night (2017), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), Yesterday (2019), and Bombshell (2019). McKinnon has been nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and seven for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017. McKinnon was born and raised in the Long Island town of Sea Cliff, New York, to Laura Campbell, a parent educator, and Michael Thomas Berthold, an architect. She has a younger sister, comedian Emily Lynne, with whom she has collaborated on the Audible series Heads Will Roll, as well as the digital series Notary Publix. Their father died when Kate McKinnon was 18 years old. As a child, McKinnon played several instruments. She started playing the piano when she was five years old, the cello when she was 12, and taught herself how to play the guitar when she was 15. McKinnon's knack for accents began when she was in fifth grade. She auditioned to be "the queen of reading week" and used an English accent. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she says, "I think the genesis of my entire life, probably, was the smiles I elicited doing this British accent. I've been chasing that dragon ever since." She graduated from North Shore High School in 2002, and from Columbia University in 2006 with a degree in theatre. There she co-founded a comedy group, Tea Party, that focused on musical improv comedy. At Columbia, she starred in three Varsity shows: V109 Dial D for Deadline, V110 Off-Broadway and V111 The Sound of Muses. She was also a member of Prangstgrüp, a student comedy group which set up and recorded elaborate college pranks. In 2007, McKinnon joined the original cast of Logo TV's The Big Gay Sketch Show, where she was a cast member for all three seasons. Since 2008, she has performed live sketch comedy regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. She has also worked as a voice-over actress, and has voiced characters for series such as The Venture Bros., Robotomy, and Ugly Americans. In 2009, McKinnon won a Logo NewNowNext Award for Best Rising Comic. She was nominated for an ECNY Emerging Comic Award in 2010. In 2014, she appeared in the Kennedy Center Honors as part of a tribute to Lily Tomlin. In 2016, she starred in the reboot Ghostbusters, alongside Melissa McCarthy, and fellow SNL cast members Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. In 2017, McKinnon is attached to star in Amblin Entertainment's Lunch Witch, an adaptation of a young adult graphic novel by Deb Lucke. She has been set to play the title role of Grunhilda, an out-of-work witch who takes a job in a school cafeteria to make ends meet. McKinnon has made appearances as a voice actress in series like The Simpsons (as Hettie in season 27, episode 14 "Gal of Constant Sorrow") and Family Guy (a voice in season 14, episode 15 "An App a Day", as Karen / Heavy Flo in season 14, episode 6 "Peter's Sister", and a voice in season 15, episode 9 "How the Griffin Stole Christmas"), and films such as Finding Dory (as Stan's fish wife), The Angry Birds Movie (as Stella / Eva the Birthday Mom) and Ferdinand (as Lupe). McKinnon currently voices the character of Ms. Frizzle in the reboot of the Magic School Bus children's series. McKinnon also voices Squeeks the Mouse In The PBS Kids TV Series Nature Cat. McKinnon is known for her character work and celebrity impressions of pop singer Justin Bieber, comedian television host Ellen DeGeneres, and numerous political figures, including Hillary Clinton, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senator Lindsey Graham, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Kellyanne Conway, Robert Mueller, Angela Merkel, and Rudy Giuliani. She has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and six for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017. McKinnon joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on April 7, 2012, following a March 28, 2012, report of her being hired. She was promoted to repertory status in season 39 in 2013. In 2013, McKinnon was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Comedy. McKinnon won the 2014 American Comedy Award for Best Supporting Actress, TV for her work on SNL. In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics along with four of her colleagues for the song "(Do It On My) Twin Bed". She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the second time in 2015. She won the following next year, becoming the first actor from SNL to win the award since Dana Carvey in 1993. McKinnon began appearing as Hillary Clinton on the series leading up to the 2016 presidential election. The real Clinton appeared alongside her in a sketch during the show's season 41 premiere. McKinnon has said that her impression of Hillary Clinton comes from a deep admiration, and that she "unequivocally want her to win" the 2016 presidential election. On November 12, 2016, which was the first show after Clinton's loss in the election, she reprised the role to open the show with a solo performance of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced two days before her performance. After the election, McKinnon began to impersonate Kellyanne Conway alongside Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump. On February 11, 2017, she debuted her impression of Elizabeth Warren during Weekend Update and Jeff Sessions in the cold open. Aside from SNL, McKinnon also co-created and co-stars in the web series Notary Publix with her sister Emily Lynne. In addition to Aidy Bryant (who stars in the series), McKinnon's SNL co-stars Beck Bennett, Jay Pharoah and SNL writer Paula Pell all guest-starred in the six-episode first season of the web series. McKinnon and Lynne also created and released the fantasy-comedy Audible audio series Heads Will Roll, which premiered in May 2019. The show features guest appearances from Meryl Streep, Peter Dinklage, Audra McDonald, Bob the Drag Queen, Queer Eye's Fab Five, and Tim Gunn. Additionally, many of McKinnon's SNL co-stars are featured, including Aidy Bryant, Alex Moffat, Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd. In 2015, McKinnon appeared in a number of commercials for the Ford Focus. In 2016, McKinnon co-hosted the 31st Independent Spirit Awards with Kumail Nanjiani. In 2019 she played a supporting role in the movie Yesterday. McKinnon is in a romantic relationship with photographer and actress Jackie Abbott. While presenting Ellen DeGeneres with the Carol Burnett Award at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards, McKinnon opened up about being a lesbian and thanked DeGeneres for making it less scary for her to accept her sexual orientation while watching her TV sitcom Ellen. While attending Columbia University, she dated future journalist Bari Weiss. McKinnon has a cat, Nino Positano—named after a pizza restaurant where he was found—whom she jokingly refers to as her son. Nino recently appeared in a 'Whiskers R We' sketch filmed from McKinnon's home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, playing the role of all the cats up for adoption. She does not have any social media accounts, citing fear that she will "misrepresent real feelings". , Kate McKinnon 2022-12-29T03:11:00Z Kate McKinnon Berthold (born January 6, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for her character work and celebrity impressions on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (2012–2022), of which she was a cast member for eleven seasons, and formerly The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007–2010). She has appeared in films such as Balls Out (2014), Ghostbusters (2016), Office Christmas Party (2016), Rough Night (2017), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), Yesterday (2019), and Bombshell (2019). In 2022, she played the role of Tiger King subject Carole Baskin in the miniseries Joe vs. Carole. McKinnon has been nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and nine for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017. McKinnon was born and raised on Long Island in the town of Sea Cliff, New York, to Laura Campbell, a parent educator, and Michael Thomas Berthold, an architect. She has a younger sister, comedian Emily Lynne, with whom she has collaborated on the Audible series Heads Will Roll, as well as the digital series Notary Publix. Their father died when McKinnon was 18 years old. As a child, McKinnon played several instruments. She started playing the piano when she was five years old, the cello at age 12, and taught herself how to play the guitar at 15. McKinnon's knack for accents began when she was in fifth grade. She auditioned to be "the queen of reading week" and used an English accent. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she says, "I think the genesis of my entire life, probably, was the smiles I elicited doing this British accent. I've been chasing that dragon ever since." She graduated from North Shore High School in 2002, and from Columbia University in 2006 with a degree in theatre. There she co-founded a comedy group, Tea Party, that focused on musical improv comedy. At Columbia, she starred in three Varsity shows: V109 Dial D for Deadline, V110 Off-Broadway and V111 The Sound of Muses. Her cast and crewmates included future actors Jenny Slate and Grace Parra, directors Tze Chun and Greta Gerwig, and The Onion managing editor Peter Koechley. She was also a member of Prangstgrüp, a student comedy group which set up and recorded elaborate college pranks. In 2007, McKinnon joined the original cast of Logo TV's The Big Gay Sketch Show, where she was a cast member for all three seasons. Since 2008, she has performed live sketch comedy regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. She has also worked as a voice-over actress, and has voiced characters for series such as The Venture Bros., Robotomy, and Ugly Americans. In 2009, McKinnon won a Logo NewNowNext Award for Best Rising Comic. She was nominated for an ECNY Emerging Comic Award in 2010. In 2014, she appeared in the Kennedy Center Honors as part of a tribute to Lily Tomlin. In 2016, she starred in the reboot Ghostbusters, alongside Melissa McCarthy, and fellow SNL cast members Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. McKinnon has made appearances as a voice actress in series like The Simpsons (as Hettie in "Gal of Constant Sorrow") and Family Guy (as Karen / Heavy Flo in season 14, episode 6 "Peter's Sister", and additional voices in other episodes), and films such as Finding Dory, The Angry Birds Movie, Ferdinand and DC League of Super-Pets. McKinnon voiced Fiona Frizzle in The Magic School Bus Rides Again, a continuation of the Magic School Bus children's series, from 2017 to 2020. She also voiced Squeeks the Mouse in the PBS Kids series Nature Cat, alongside fellow SNL cast members Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan since 2015. McKinnon joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on April 7, 2012, following a March 28, 2012 report of her being hired. She was promoted to repertory status in season 39 in 2013. In 2013, McKinnon was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Comedy. McKinnon won the 2014 American Comedy Award for Best Supporting Actress, TV for her work on SNL. In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics along with four of her colleagues for the song "(Do It On My) Twin Bed". She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the second time in 2015. She won the following year, becoming the first actor from SNL to win the award since Dana Carvey in 1993. McKinnon began appearing as Hillary Clinton on the series leading up to the 2016 presidential election. The real Clinton appeared alongside her in a sketch during the show's season 41 premiere. McKinnon has said that her impression of Hillary Clinton comes from a deep admiration, and that she "unequivocally want her to win" the 2016 presidential election. On November 12, 2016, which was the first show after Clinton's loss in the election, she reprised the role to open the show with a solo performance of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced two days before her performance. After the election, McKinnon began to impersonate Kellyanne Conway alongside Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump. On February 11, 2017, she debuted her impression of Elizabeth Warren during Weekend Update and Jeff Sessions in the cold open. McKinnon is known for her character work and celebrity impressions of pop singer Justin Bieber, comedian television host Ellen DeGeneres, and numerous political figures, including US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senator Lindsey Graham, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clinton, Warren, Robert Mueller, Angela Merkel, and Rudy Giuliani. She has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and six for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017. McKinnon's return to season 46 officially made her the show's longest tenured female cast member, surpassing her cast mates Cecily Strong and Aidy Bryant by five episodes. Both Bryant and McKinnon departed the series after season 47. Strong passed McKinnon's record with the December 17, 2022 episode of season 48. Aside from SNL, McKinnon also co-created and co-stars in the web series Notary Publix with her sister Emily Lynne. In addition to Aidy Bryant (who stars in the series), McKinnon's SNL co-stars Beck Bennett, Jay Pharoah and SNL writer Paula Pell all guest-starred in the six-episode first season of the web series. McKinnon and Lynne also created and released the fantasy-comedy Audible audio series Heads Will Roll, which premiered in May 2019. The show features guest appearances from Meryl Streep, Peter Dinklage, Audra McDonald, Bob the Drag Queen, Queer Eye's Fab Five, and Tim Gunn. Additionally, many of McKinnon's SNL co-stars are featured, including Aidy Bryant, Alex Moffat, Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd. In 2015, McKinnon appeared in a number of commercials for the Ford Focus. In 2016, McKinnon co-hosted the 31st Independent Spirit Awards with Kumail Nanjiani. In 2019, she played a supporting role in the movie Yesterday. Her absence from the first seven episodes of Saturday Night Live's 47th season was due to her filming the Peacock miniseries Joe vs. Carole, where she stars as Carole Baskin. It premiered March 3, 2022. McKinnon was in a relationship with photographer and actress Jackie Abbott. While presenting Ellen DeGeneres with the Carol Burnett Award at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards, McKinnon opened up about being a lesbian and thanked DeGeneres for making it less scary for her to accept her sexual orientation while watching her TV sitcom Ellen. While attending Columbia University, she dated future journalist Bari Weiss. McKinnon has a cat, Nino Positano—named after a pizza restaurant where he was found—whom she jokingly refers to as her son. Nino appeared in a "Whiskers R We" sketch filmed from McKinnon's home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, playing the role of all the cats up for adoption. She does not have any social media accounts, fearing that she will "misrepresent real feelings". | 1 |
Alisha Newton | Alisha Newton 2016-01-19T04:13:35Z Alisha Newton (born July 22, 2001) is a Canadian actress who played Annabeth Chase as a young girl in the film adaptation, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. She has also appeared in Supernatural, Jake and Jasper: A Ferret Tale, Shadowplay, The Tree That Saved Christmas, and Heartland, among others. Born in Vancouver on July 22, 2001, Alisha Newton began appearing in numerous commercials from the age of four. It was not until four years later, when she began auditioning for film and television roles, that she discovered a true passion for acting. Despite her age, Alisha possesses a unique blend of confidence and intuition and has been described as having an "old and likeable soul". She is well respected for her natural delivery and for her believable and dynamic emotional performances as a small child. Alisha played Young Annabeth Chase in the post 2013 release, Twentieth Century Fox's Percy Jackson: Sea of ct Monsters. Since 2008, Alisha has played the series regular role of Georgina on the CBC drama series Heartland. She portrays a fiery, tough, smart-mouthed troublemaker. In 2014, Alisha played a role as an extra in the 2014 film The Tree That Saved Christmas. , Alisha Newton 2017-08-15T02:31:04Z Alisha Newton (born July 22, 2001) is a Canadian actress best known for her role on Heartland. Born in Vancouver on July 22, 2001, Alisha Newton began appearing in numerous commercials from the age of four. It was not until four years later, when she began auditioning for film and television roles, that she discovered a true passion for acting. Despite her age, Newton possesses a unique blend of confidence and intuition and has been described as having an "old and likeable soul". She is well respected for her natural delivery and for her believable and dynamic emotional performances as a small child. Newton played Young Annabeth Chase in the post 2013 release, Twentieth Century Fox's Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Since 2013, Newton has played the series regular lead role of Georgina ("Georgie") Crawley (now Fleming-Morris) on the CBC drama series Heartland. She portrays a fiery, tough, smart-mouthed Georgie, a jaded veteran of the foster system who finds a nurturing home at the sprawling Alberta ranch (the Heartland of the title) operated by Jack (Shaun Johnston), a gruff, big-hearted rancher, and his intuitive granddaughter, Amy (Amber Marshall). Georgie arrives at Heartland angry and rough around the edges, but she immediately softens in the presence of the animals and ultimately bonds with Heartland's human inhabitants. In 2014, Newton played the minor role of Sofia Dunlap in the 2014 film The Tree That Saved Christmas. | 1 |
Nikita Burmistrov | Nikita Burmistrov 2015-02-19T02:19:23Z Slavic name Nikita Aleksandrovich Burmistrov (Russian: Никита Александрович Бурмистров; born 6 July 1989) is a Russian footballer who plays as a forward for FC Krasnodar in the Russian Football Premier League. In February 2010, Burmistrov moved from CSKA Moscow to Amkar Perm. In September 2012, Burmistrov moved from Amkar Perm to Anzhi Makhachkala, before moving back to Amkar on loan till the end of the 2012–13 season in January 2013. Upon the conclusion of the 2012-13 season, Amkar and Anzhi agreed to extend the loan deal for the 2013–14, however after Anzhi sold the majority of their star players in a "change of direction" for the development of the club, Burmistrov returned to Anzhi in August 2013. In June 2014, Burmistrov left Anzhi, moving to FC Krasnodar on a three-year contract. , Nikita Burmistrov 2016-12-05T18:53:18Z Slavic name Nikita Aleksandrovich Burmistrov (Russian: Никита Александрович Бурмистров; born 6 July 1989) is a Russian footballer. He plays for FC Arsenal Tula. In February 2010, Burmistrov moved from CSKA Moscow to Amkar Perm. In September 2012, Burmistrov moved from Amkar Perm to Anzhi Makhachkala, before moving back to Amkar on loan till the end of the 2012–13 season in January 2013. Upon the conclusion of the 2012-13 season, Amkar and Anzhi agreed to extend the loan deal for the 2013–14, however after Anzhi sold the majority of their star players in a "change of direction" for the development of the club, Burmistrov returned to Anzhi in August 2013. In June 2014, Burmistrov left Anzhi, moving to FC Krasnodar on a three-year contract. | 1 |
FISEC | FISEC 2009-05-16T08:41:54Z The Food Industry Students European Council (FISEC) is an association for students studying food science, food technology and related courses at a European university. FISEC is a non-profit, apolitical and independent association, which tries to help students to meet and learn from one another through international events. 1. Help students to meet and in that way to become more internationally minded. 2. Create opportunities for the students to meet and learn from one another through our organized events. 3. To expand educational and job possibilities for all our members and to achieve personal development. 4. Continuous development of communication and cooperation between students, universities and companies. The Executive Committee consists of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. pt:FISEC FISEC is holding two annual conferences, the General Assembly and the Food Convention. These conferences provide an excellent opportunity to meet our European counterparts and to learn more about their industries, usually by visiting food companies and talking to their representatives. At the General Assembly we also organize the necessary official parts of an association, like electing a new president. 1989, May : The First Food Convention takes place at ENSIA, Massy, France. 1989, November: Starting point for the work between students of the ENSIA and the ESB, Porto, Portugal. 1990, May 5: As a result of that cooperation FISEC is founded at the ESB in Porto by the following six universities: University of Reading, UK; University of Milan, Italy; Wageningen University, Netherlands; ESB Porto, Portugal; ENSIA, Massy and ENSBANA, Dijon, France. 1991 : The Technical University of Berlin joined FISEC during this year . The last General Assembly was held in Nancy, France and the Food Convention was in Brussels, Belgium. A decision was taken for the next Food Convention to be in Berlin, Germany. Through the years sometimes the separate FISEC teams have lost traces but it never stopped functioning and the students from the various universities across Europe have found their ways to gather. 1998 : FISEC’s official meeting gathers many new members and a few Universities that are very active members till nowadays join the association : Croatia (Zagreb and Osijek) , Portugal (Porto) , Belgium (Brussels), Spain (Zaragoza), England (Reading), Hungary (Szeged), France (Nantes), Germany (Munich), Sweden(Kalmar) and Netherlands (Wageningen) are among the participants in the event. 1999: The General Assembly was held in March 1999 and the Food Convention was organized by the team of FISEC Zagreb , Croatia in October during the same year. 2000: The record is only for the Food Convention that was held in Brussels, Belgium where teams from Austria ( University of Vienna) and Bulgaria (Plovdiv) joined the members of FISEC. 2001: The next two events gather even more interest. The General Assembly was organized by the team of FISEC-Berlin ( Germany) and the Food Convention was in Thessaloniki (Greece) . In 2001 Universities from Romania, Slovakia and Portugal(Algarve and Faro) are among FISEC’s new members. 2002: The official website of FISEC was created by Stefan Topfl - member of the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. The General Assembly was held in Plovdiv and the Food Convention in Faro, Portugal. 2003: The General Assembly has been organized in April 2003 by the FISEC team Nantes (France) and the Food Convention in the same year was voted to be in Brussels, Belgium. During this year the first steps in FISEC’s collaboration with other student’s non-governmental organizations have been done by its current president Mauro Portela. 2004: General Assembly was held in Zagreb, Croatia 2005: General Assembly was held in Szeged, Hungary and Food Convention was held in Istanbul Turkey on Istanbul Technical University 2006: General Assembly was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Food Convention was held in Faro, Portugal 2007: General Assembly was held in Split, Croatia. Today's structure and members are accepted on this GA., FISEC 2011-09-30T09:45:50Z The Food Industry Students European Council (FISEC) is an association for students studying food science, food technology and related courses at a European university. FISEC is a non-profit, apolitical and independent association, which tries to help students to meet and learn from one another through international events. 1. Help students to meet and in that way to become more internationally minded. 2. Create opportunities for the students to meet and learn from one another through our organized events. 3. To expand educational and job possibilities for all our members and to achieve personal development. 4. Continuous development of communication and cooperation between students, universities and companies. The Executive Committee consists of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. pt:FISEC FISEC is holding two annual conferences, the General Assembly and the Food Convention. These conferences provide an excellent opportunity to meet our European counterparts and to learn more about their industries, usually by visiting food companies and talking to their representatives. At the General Assembly we also organize the necessary official parts of an association, like electing a new president. 1989, May : The First Food Convention takes place at ENSIA, Massy, France. 1989, November: Starting point for the work between students of the ENSIA and the ESB, Porto, Portugal. 1990, May 5: As a result of that cooperation FISEC is founded at the ESB in Porto by the following six universities: University of Reading, UK; University of Milan, Italy; Wageningen University, Netherlands; ESB Porto, Portugal; ENSIA, Massy and ENSBANA, Dijon, France. 1991 : The Technical University of Berlin joined FISEC during this year . The last General Assembly was held in Nancy, France and the Food Convention was in Brussels, Belgium. A decision was taken for the next Food Convention to be in Berlin, Germany. Through the years sometimes the separate FISEC teams have lost traces but it never stopped functioning and the students from the various universities across Europe have found their ways to gather. 1998 : FISEC’s official meeting gathers many new members and a few Universities that are very active members till nowadays join the association : Croatia (Zagreb and Osijek) , Portugal (Porto) , Belgium (Brussels), Spain (Zaragoza), England (Reading), Hungary (Szeged), France (Nantes), Germany (Munich), Sweden(Kalmar) and Netherlands (Wageningen) are among the participants in the event. 1999: The General Assembly was held in March 1999 and the Food Convention was organized by the team of FISEC Zagreb , Croatia in October during the same year. 2000: The record is only for the Food Convention that was held in Brussels, Belgium where teams from Austria ( University of Vienna) and Bulgaria (Plovdiv) joined the members of FISEC. 2001: The next two events gather even more interest. The General Assembly was organized by the team of FISEC-Berlin ( Germany) and the Food Convention was in Thessaloniki (Greece) . In 2001 Universities from Romania, Slovakia and Portugal(Algarve and Faro) are among FISEC’s new members. 2002: The official website of FISEC was created by Stefan Topfl - member of the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. The General Assembly was held in Plovdiv and the Food Convention in Faro, Portugal. 2003: The General Assembly has been organized in April 2003 by the FISEC team Nantes (France) and the Food Convention in the same year was voted to be in Brussels, Belgium. During this year the first steps in FISEC’s collaboration with other student’s non-governmental organizations have been done by its current president Mauro Portela. 2004: General Assembly was held in Zagreb, Croatia 2005: General Assembly was held in Szeged, Hungary and Food Convention was held in Istanbul Turkey on Istanbul Technical University 2006: General Assembly was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Food Convention was held in Faro, Portugal 2007: General Assembly was held in Split, Croatia. Today's structure and members are accepted on this GA. | 0 |
Lucille_Wallenrod | Lucille_Wallenrod 2008-01-16T20:09:09Z Lucille Wallenrod was a Long Island woman artist who was born in Brooklyn in 1918 and grew up in Freeport, Long Island. She studied at the W. P. A. Art Class (1939), Nassau Art League (1940), the American Artist School (1942), and with Sol Wilson at the Art Student League in New York (1943). She had her first solo exhibition at the Roko Gallery (1946) and then belonged for many years to the Charles Barzansky Gallery, both in New York City. She also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the late forties until the early nineteen sixties. Lucille Wallenrod was handicapped from birth with Cerebral Palsy and she painted with a special arm brace of her own design. She painted dramatic expressionist seascapes, with broad strokes and deep vivid colours, and still lifes and portraits as well. She won a number of competitions, most notably the first prize in the National Art Contest sponored by the then President Eisenhower’s Committee on the Handicapped in 1956. Judges for this competition were Isabel Bishop and Andrew Wyeth. Her work was often reviewed in New York and Long Island newspapers. Due to a long terminal illness, Lucille Wallenrod’s output waned in her later years, yet her interest and sensitivity for the arts never faltered. She died in Ridge, New York in 1998. She is survived by her husband, Gerald Dreyblatt of Boca Raton, Florida. Her son, Arnold Dreyblatt, is a composer and media artist in Berlin, Germany. References: "The Monthly Supplement", 1952, International Who's Who, Inc. ; Vertical file on Lucille Wallenrod, Smithsonian Libraries Collections, Art and Artists Files; Artist File, The Newark Museum Library Collection; Artfact entry on Lucille Dreyblatt 1940 , Nassau Art League, Third Prize; 1945, Mineola Fair, Third Prize; 1950, Art League of L. I. , Second Prize; 1950, Audubon Artists Annual Exhbition; 1956, National Art Contest for the Handicapped, First Prize; 1956, Foundation for the Handicapped; 1963, N. Y. Worlds Fair and South Shore Art League Award 1946, Roko Gaillery, New York; 1951, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York; 1957, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York; 1960, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York “There is no nonsense and no tricks about Lucille Wallenrod, who concerns herself for the most part with moody, broadly treated landscapes, that lean toward the more rugged variety of romanticism. ” - Josephine Gibbs, Art Digest, Nov. 1946 "Miss Wallenrod is romantic in spirit, rather than in the form of her work. Her canvases have a design that is generally clear and strong. Her color is vivid, but never garish. I like the mystery in her work- I like the moody intensity. " -Sol Wilson, 1946 These landscapes and seaside scenes with figures, are vigorous thrusting compositions, the predominately somber pallette enlivened by touches of bright color”. - Howard Depree, N. Y. Times, Nov. 1946 “They are extremely spirited, even vigorous in expression and in colorhave a. rcmantic, appealing mood, the explanation of her success is the control she exercises in the swift, assured process cf her paintings” - Carlyle Burrows, Herald Tribune, Feb. 1951 “Rocks and rills, sea and sky, treated with feeling In romantic oils. ” - Stuart Preston, N. Y. Times, 1951 "Lucille Wallenrod’s Paintings were brought to my attention early in 1946. In them I found a youthful freshness, vitality and honesty that only the true artist conveys in his work. A natural talent, witha consuming desire to become the complete artist, Lucille has found her way to the studio of the eminent painter, Sol Wilson. There she spent a few rewarding years in the study of art. Her first exhibition, held in November 1946, was acclaimed by art lovers and art critics. . . . . . There were many enthusiastic comments by art critics. In this her second exhibition, Lucille reveals greater maturity, with the same freshness and spontaneity of her earlier work. She loves the sea, the sand, and the rich green vegetation at the water edge. In her brilliant color, one actually feels the salty atmosphere of the shore, and is moved by the drama of whatever her subject matter happens to be. Lucille Wallenrod is a fine artist in every sense. " - Jane Rogers, 1951 “Lucille Wallenrod’s exhibition is further confirmation of her talent, determination, and courage, and we feel she is a sensitive, vigorous and colorful artist. ” - Charles and Bess Barzansky, Galerists, 1956 “Dramatic power, deep feeling, ominous colors, interlocking lines are the main characteristics of scenes- done with taste and skill. ” - Ralph Fabri, Pictures on Exhibit, 1960 “Conveys the different aspects of sea and sky in storm and fair weather- some still lifes that reveal the Artist's delicate preception. ” - Margaret Breuning, Arts, Jan. 1960 “To me, the creative artist is the spokesman and the backbone of the culture of his time and for times to follow. I have always wanted to create; my desires found their output in painting. In all my paintings, I attempt to project a single emotion, mood, or impact. . . . . . I have tried to depict the boiling waters, the turbulent skies, and the frenzied activities of humans before an approaching storm, all contrasted by the mainland, still peaceful, serene, untroubled on the distant horizon. - Lucille Wallenrod, Lucille_Wallenrod 2008-12-13T20:56:14Z Lucille Wallenrod (1918–1998) was a Long Island woman artist who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island. She studied at the W. P. A. Art Class (1939), Nassau Art League (1940), the American Artists School (1942), and with Sol Wilson at the Art Students League of New York (1943). She had her first solo exhibition at the Roko Gallery (1946) and then belonged for many years to the Charles Barzansky Gallery, both in New York City. She also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the late forties until the early nineteen sixties. Lucille Wallenrod was handicapped from birth with Cerebral Palsy and she painted with a special arm brace of her own design. She painted dramatic expressionist seascapes, with broad strokes and deep vivid colours, and still lifes and portraits as well. She won a number of competitions, most notably the first prize in the National Art Contest sponored by the then President Eisenhower’s Committee on the Handicapped in 1956. Judges for this competition were Isabel Bishop and Andrew Wyeth. Her work was often reviewed in New York and Long Island newspapers. Due to a long terminal illness, Lucille Wallenrod’s output waned in her later years, yet her interest and sensitivity for the arts never faltered. She died in Ridge, New York in 1998. Her husband, Gerald Dreyblatt, died in Florida in 2008. She is survived by her son, Arnold Dreyblatt, who is a composer and media artist living in Berlin, Germany. "The Monthly Supplement", 1952, International Who's Who, Inc. ; Vertical file on Lucille Wallenrod, Smithsonian Libraries Collections, Art and Artists Files; Artist File, The Newark Museum Library Collection; Artfact entry on Lucille Dreyblatt 1940 , Nassau Art League, Third Prize; 1945, Mineola Fair, Third Prize; 1950, Art League of L. I. , Second Prize; 1950, Audubon Artists Annual Exhbition; 1956, National Art Contest for the Handicapped, First Prize; 1956, Foundation for the Handicapped; 1963, N. Y. World's Fair and South Shore Art League Award 1946, Roko Gaillery, New York; 1951, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York; 1957, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York; 1960, Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York “There is no nonsense and no tricks about Lucille Wallenrod, who concerns herself for the most part with moody, broadly treated landscapes, that lean toward the more rugged variety of romanticism. ” - Josephine Gibbs, Art Digest, Nov. 1946 "Miss Wallenrod is romantic in spirit, rather than in the form of her work. Her canvases have a design that is generally clear and strong. Her color is vivid, but never garish. I like the mystery in her work- I like the moody intensity. " -Sol Wilson, 1946 These landscapes and seaside scenes with figures, are vigorous thrusting compositions, the predominately somber pallette enlivened by touches of bright color”. - Howard Depree, N. Y. Times, Nov. 1946 “They are extremely spirited, even vigorous in expression and in colorhave a. rcmantic, appealing mood, the explanation of her success is the control she exercises in the swift, assured process cf her paintings” - Carlyle Burrows, Herald Tribune, Feb. 1951 “Rocks and rills, sea and sky, treated with feeling In romantic oils. ” - Stuart Preston, N. Y. Times, 1951 "Lucille Wallenrod’s Paintings were brought to my attention early in 1946. In them I found a youthful freshness, vitality and honesty that only the true artist conveys in his work. A natural talent, witha consuming desire to become the complete artist, Lucille has found her way to the studio of the eminent painter, Sol Wilson. There she spent a few rewarding years in the study of art. Her first exhibition, held in November 1946, was acclaimed by art lovers and art critics. . . . . . There were many enthusiastic comments by art critics. In this her second exhibition, Lucille reveals greater maturity, with the same freshness and spontaneity of her earlier work. She loves the sea, the sand, and the rich green vegetation at the water edge. In her brilliant color, one actually feels the salty atmosphere of the shore, and is moved by the drama of whatever her subject matter happens to be. Lucille Wallenrod is a fine artist in every sense. " - Jane Rogers, 1951 “Lucille Wallenrod’s exhibition is further confirmation of her talent, determination, and courage, and we feel she is a sensitive, vigorous and colorful artist. ” - Charles and Bess Barzansky, Galerists, 1956 “Dramatic power, deep feeling, ominous colors, interlocking lines are the main characteristics of scenes- done with taste and skill. ” - Ralph Fabri, Pictures on Exhibit, 1960 “Conveys the different aspects of sea and sky in storm and fair weather- some still lifes that reveal the Artist's delicate preception. ” - Margaret Breuning, Arts, Jan. 1960 “To me, the creative artist is the spokesman and the backbone of the culture of his time and for times to follow. I have always wanted to create; my desires found their output in painting. In all my paintings, I attempt to project a single emotion, mood, or impact. . . . . . I have tried to depict the boiling waters, the turbulent skies, and the frenzied activities of humans before an approaching storm, all contrasted by the mainland, still peaceful, serene, untroubled on the distant horizon. - Lucille Wallenrod | 0 |
Shinhotaka_Ropeway | Shinhotaka_Ropeway 2010-02-23T09:30:57Z The Shinhotaka Ropeway (新穂高ロープウェイ, Shinhotaka Rōpuwei) is an aerial lift system in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and is operated by Okuhi Sightseeing Development (奥飛観光開発, Okuhi Kankō Kaihatsu). The Meitetsu Group company also operates hotels in the area. Opened in 1970, the line climbs to the hillside of the Hida Mountains' Mount Hotaka, the third tallest mountain in Japan. The Shinhotaka Ropeway consists of two lines. The No. 2 Ropeway is the first aerial lift in Japan to use double decker cabins. This article about a Japanese aerial tramway, funicular line, or related topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Shinhotaka_Ropeway 2012-08-23T16:26:21Z The Shinhotaka Ropeway (新穂高ロープウェイ, Shinhotaka Rōpuwei) is an aerial lift system in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and is operated by Okuhi Sightseeing Development (奥飛観光開発, Okuhi Kankō Kaihatsu). The Meitetsu Group company also operates hotels in the area. Opened in 1970, the line climbs to the hillside of the Hida Mountains' Mount Hotaka, the third tallest mountain in Japan. The Shinhotaka Ropeway consists of two lines. Ropeway No. 2 is the first aerial lift in Japan to use double decker cabins. This article about a Japanese aerial tramway, funicular line, or related topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 36°16′58″N 137°34′49. 3″E / 36. 28278°N 137. 580361°E / 36. 28278; 137. 580361 | 0 |
Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Vigevano | Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Vigevano 2009-10-30T20:53:31Z The Italian Catholic diocese of Vigevano lies almost entirely in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy. It has existed since 1530. The diocese is suffragan of the archdiocese of Milan, having in the past been suffragan of the archdiocese of Vercelli. The earliest notices of Vigevano date from the tenth century, when it was favoured as a residence by King Arduin for hunting. In the next period it was a Ghibelline commune, and was accordingly besieged and taken by the Milanese in 1201 and again in 1275. In 1328 it surrendered to Azzone Visconti, and thereafter shared the political fortunes of Milan. In the last years of the Visconti domination it sustained a siege by Francesco Sforza. With the Treaty of Worms (1743) it passed to the King of Sardinia. Blessed Matteo Carreiro, O. P. , died at Vigevano. Until 1530 the town belonged to the Diocese of Novara and had a collegiate chapter. Francesco Sforza procured the erection of the see and provided its revenues. The first bishop was Galeazzo Pietra, succeeded by his nephew Maurizio Pietra (1552); both of these promoted the Tridentine reforms, and the work was continued by their successors. Marsilio Landriani (1594) distinguished himself in various nunciatures and founded a Barnabite college for the education of young men. Giorgio Odescalchi (1610) was a very zealous pastor; the process of his beatification has been commenced. Giovanni Caramuel Lobkowitz (1675) was an example of pastoral virtue and zeal and the author of many works, philosophical, theological, ascetical etc. , though his Theologia fundamentalis was censured. Pier Marino Sonnani (1688), a Minorite, who enlarged the seminary, maintained a struggle against the spread of the doctrines of Miguel Molinos. Nicola Saverio Gamboni was appointed to the see by Napoleon in 1801. Vigevano Cathedral was built in 1100, rebuilt in the sixteenth century, and in the seventeenth by Bishop Caramuel Lobkowitz, 1680, himself an architect, who also contributed to the expense. The Church of S. Pietro Martiere was built, with the adjacent Dominican convent, by Filippo M. Visconti in 1445; the convent is now used for government offices and courts. Among the civil edifices is the castle, once a fortress, built by Bramante in 1492, by order of Ludovico il Moro, which became a royal palace. Of the 87 parishes 86 fall, like Vigevano, within the Province of Pavia in Lombardy. The exception is S. Silvano Martire which is within the commune of Sozzago in the Piedmontese province of Novara. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help), Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Vigevano 2010-06-28T19:17:24Z The Italian Catholic diocese of Vigevano lies almost entirely in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy. It has existed since 1530. The diocese is suffragan of the archdiocese of Milan, having in the past been suffragan of the archdiocese of Vercelli. The earliest notices of Vigevano date from the tenth century, when it was favoured as a residence by King Arduin for hunting. In the next period it was a Ghibelline commune, and was accordingly besieged and taken by the Milanese in 1201 and again in 1275. In 1328 it surrendered to Azzone Visconti, and thereafter shared the political fortunes of Milan. In the last years of the Visconti domination it sustained a siege by Francesco Sforza. With the Treaty of Worms (1743) it passed to the King of Sardinia. Blessed Matteo Carreiro, O. P. , died at Vigevano. Until 1530 the town belonged to the Diocese of Novara and had a collegiate chapter. Francesco Sforza procured the erection of the see and provided its revenues. The first bishop was Galeazzo Pietra, succeeded by his nephew Maurizio Pietra (1552); both of these promoted the Tridentine reforms, and the work was continued by their successors. Marsilio Landriani (1594) distinguished himself in various nunciatures and founded a Barnabite college for the education of young men. Giorgio Odescalchi (1610) was a very zealous pastor; the process of his beatification has been commenced. Giovanni Caramuel Lobkowitz (1675) was an example of pastoral virtue and zeal and the author of many works, philosophical, theological, ascetical etc. , though his Theologia fundamentalis was censured. Pier Marino Sonnani (1688), a Minorite, who enlarged the seminary, maintained a struggle against the spread of the doctrines of Miguel Molinos. Nicola Saverio Gamboni was appointed to the see by Napoleon in 1801. The Vigevano Cathedral was initially built in 1100, and then rebuilt in the sixteenth century through a commission by Duke Francesco II Sforza. The facade of the second and current structure was re-designed by Cardinal Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz in 1673 (completed c. 1680). The Church of S. Pietro Martiere was built, with the adjacent Dominican convent, by Filippo Maria Visconti in 1445; the convent is now used for government offices and courts. Among the civil edifices is the castle, once a fortress, built by Bramante in 1492, by order of Ludovico il Moro, which became a royal palace. Of the 87 parishes 86 fall, like Vigevano, within the Province of Pavia in Lombardy. The exception is S. Silvano Martire which is within the commune of Sozzago in the Piedmontese province of Novara. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) | 0 |
Richard_M._Blatchford | Richard_M._Blatchford 2008-09-24T02:55:57Z Richard M. Blatchford (August 17, 1859–August 31, 1934) was a former U. S. Army General. Richard Blatchford was born on August 17, 1859 at Fort Hamilton, NY, and served on the American frontier in Dakota Territory, Kansas, and Arizona. Following two tours of duty in Puerto Rico he served both in the field and in garrison in the Philippines from 1901-04. After frontier and border patrol assignments, General Blatchford sailed for France in July 1917 and during World War I was commanding general of the Line of Communications, A. E. F. Following his return to the United States he served in Panama, Ohio, California, and Washington, retiring from active service 1 December 1922. He died on August 31, 1934 at San Francisco, CA. This biographical article related to the United States Army is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Richard_M._Blatchford 2010-10-14T02:45:35Z Richard M. Blatchford (August 17, 1859 – August 31, 1934) was a U. S. Army General. Richard Blatchford was born on August 17, 1859 at Fort Hamilton, New York, and served on the American frontier in Dakota Territory, Kansas, and Arizona. Following two tours of duty in Puerto Rico he served both in the field and in garrison in the Philippines from 1901-1904. After frontier and border patrol assignments, General Blatchford sailed for France in July 1917 and during World War I was commanding general of the Line of Communications, A. E. F. Following his return to the United States he served in Panama, Ohio, California, and Washington, retiring from active service December 1, 1922. He died on August 31, 1934 in San Francisco, California. Template:Persondata This biographical article related to the United States Army is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Tiout,_Algeria | Tiout,_Algeria 2010-06-29T03:17:26Z Tiout (Arabic: تيوت) is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is part of the district of Aïn Séfra and has a population of 3. 161, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 45210 and its municipal code is 4504. This article about a location in Naama Province is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Tiout,_Algeria 2012-12-23T11:32:27Z Tiout (Arabic: تيوت) is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is part of the district of Aïn Séfra and has a population of 3,161, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 45210 and its municipal code is 4504. This article about a location in Naama Province is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Valencia Basket | Valencia Basket 2016-01-06T19:39:02Z Valencia Basket Club, S.A.D. is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the Eurocup. Having its origins in a basketball section of Valencia CF, the team was established in 1986, and gained popularity under its former denomination Pamesa Valencia. On May 4, 1988 the team won its first promotion to the ACB where the team remained until the 1994/1995 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the EBA League after falling in the relegation playoff against Somontano Huesca. In the next season, after being runner-up in Liga EBA in a non-promoting season, Valencia BC bought Amway Zaragoza's ACB place to join the league until nowadays. Valencia Basket has received diverse sponsorship names along the years: BC roster ACB Most Valuable Player Spanish Cup MVP All-ACB Team ACB Slam Dunk Champion Eurocup Finals MVP Eurocup Rising Star Award All-Euroleague Second Team All-Eurocup First Team All-Eurocup Second Team Since 2014, Valencia BC has also a women's team. It was created after integrating the youth system of Ros Casares Valencia, former EuroLeague Women champion club which dissolved its senior squad in 2012. In its first season, Valencia BC plays in Primera División, the third tier of Spanish women's basketball. , Valencia Basket 2017-12-30T15:15:33Z Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket (pronounced ), is a professional basketball team that is based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, with home games played at the Fuente de San Luis. The club is sponsored by the Spanish billionaire Juan Roig. Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after Valencia CF decided to fold its basketball section. On 4 May 1988, while in its second season in the Primera División B, which was the second tier league of Spanish basketball at that time, the team won its first promotion to the Spanish top-tier level ACB, where the team remained until the 1994–95 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the Spanish 2nd-tier level EBA League, after falling in the league's relegation playoff against Somontano Huesca. In the next season, after being the runner-up in Liga EBA, in a non-promoting season, Valencia BC bought Amway Zaragoza's ACB place to join the top league, where it has remained until nowadays. On 2 February 1998, Pamesa Valencia won its first Spanish national title, after beating Pinturas Bruguer Badalona, by a score of 89–75, in the final of the 1998 Copa del Rey, which was played in Valladolid. One year later, on 13 April 1999, the club played in the final of the 1998–99 FIBA Saporta Cup, but was defeated by Benetton Treviso, 64–60, in the final played in Zaragoza. Three years later, the club repeated the same success, but Montepaschi Siena won the final of the 2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup, by a score of 81–71, in Lyon, France. Continuing on with some of the club's best years, the 2001–02 ACB season was historic for the club, as it reached the Spanish ACB League finals, where they could not win any games in their series against FC Barcelona. Before this first success in reaching the finals of the Spanish league's playoffs, Pamesa Valencia won its first European-wide title, by defeating Krka Novo Mesto in the 2002–03 ULEB Cup, which would then also allow the club to make its debut in the European top-tier level EuroLeague. In its first EuroLeague participation, Pamesa Valencia qualified for the Top 16, but was eliminated there, after not contesting its game at Nokia Arena against Maccabi Elite, adducing security issues in Israel. On 18 April 2010, Power Electronics Valencia won its second European title, by beating Alba Berlin, 67–44, in the 2010 EuroCup Finals, which was played in Vitoria-Gasteiz. This allowed the club to come back to the top level EuroLeague, seven years after its first participation in the tournament. This time, Valencia reached the EuroLeague quarterfinals, where it was eliminated by Real Madrid, who won the playoff series by a 3–2 margin. The club's third European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 7 May 2014, when Valencia beat UNICS Kazan, in the double-legged finals. On 5 June 2017, Valencia Basket qualified for its second Spanish Liga ACB Finals series, after defeating Baskonia in the semifinals of the 2017 national league playoffs. This time, the club won its first ever Spanish national domestic league championship, on 16 June 2017, by defeating Real Madrid with a 3–1 series score in the AC league's finals. In the same season, the club also reached the finals of both the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup), and the EuroCup, but they lost those finals to Real Madrid, and fellow Spanish side, Unicaja, respectively. By winning the Spanish League championship, Valencia also sealed their return to the next season's top-tier level EuroLeague competition, for the 2017–18 season. Valencia Basket plays its home games at the 8,500 seat Fuente de San Luis arena, however the arena is better known as La Fonteta. Valencia Basket has had several sponsorship names over the years: Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. Source: ACBColours: Blue = homegrown player; Red = non-FIBA Europe player ACB Most Valuable Player ACB Finals MVP Spanish Cup MVP Spanish Supercup MVP All-ACB First Team ACB Slam Dunk Champion EuroCup Finals MVP EuroCup Rising Star Award EuroCup Coach of the Year All-EuroLeague Second Team All-EuroCup First Team All-EuroCup Second Team Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. To appear in this section a player must have either: Since 2014, Valencia BC has also a women's team. It was created after integrating the youth system of Ros Casares Valencia, former EuroLeague Women champion club which dissolved its senior squad in 2012. In its first season, Valencia BC plays in Primera División, the third tier of Spanish women's basketball. | 1 |
Topsmelt_silverside | Topsmelt_silverside 2012-07-15T22:14:34Z Atherinops affinis, the topsmelt silverside or simply topsmelt, is a species of neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. This fish is found along the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia to Baja California. It is marine and it often schools in relatively shallow water such as estuaries, bays, rocky intertidal zones and kelp forests, where it feeds on zooplankton. This is a common fish of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California. The topsmelt is silver, with a shiny silver lateral band running its length, and blue or green coloration dorsally. . Their gills are a golden-yellow. The eyes of the topsmelt are small and beady. Its top lip is folded down. Topsmelts have long pelvic fins compared to other fish. On the jaw of the topsmelt are pointy, small teeth. It is edible and may be fished recreationally. It is the only known member of its genus. , Topsmelt_silverside 2012-11-24T19:20:35Z Atherinops affinis, the topsmelt silverside or simply topsmelt, is a species of Neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. This fish is found along the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia to Baja California. It is marine and it often schools in relatively shallow water such as estuaries, bays, rocky intertidal zones and kelp forests, where it feeds on zooplankton. This is a common fish of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California. The topsmelt is silver, with a shiny silver lateral band running its length, and blue or green coloration dorsally. . Their gills are a golden-yellow. The eyes of the topsmelt are small and beady. Its top lip is folded down. Topsmelts have long pectoral fins compared to other fish. On the jaw of the topsmelt are pointy, small teeth. It is edible and may be fished recreationally. It is the only known member of its genus. | 0 |
Matt Baker | Matt Baker 2022-01-01T15:06:46Z Matthew James Baker MBE (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. Matt Baker co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 2020, with Alex Jones. Baker was born on 23 December 1977 at Easington in County Durham where his father ran a newsagent's shop, and his parents had a smallholding in the village. He has one sister and two half-sisters. Matt attended Easington Village School, then, when he was aged 10, his parents bought a farm west of Durham, which they moved into and renovated. From the age of 5 Baker was a keen dancer and began competing as a gymnast whilst at school. He continued his education at Belmont Comprehensive School in Durham and was a budding gymnast, but was forced to give up after being diagnosed with anaemia aged 14. He took A-levels in Drama, Biology and Sports Science at Durham Sixth Form Centre. In the late 1990s, as a drama student at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Baker worked as an entertainer, and with a 1970s comedy disco-dancing revival show called "Disco Inferno", which toured the north of England. Baker wanted to become a physiotherapist, but did not achieve the necessary academic standards. After an appearance in the school production of Grease, it was suggested that he attend drama school. Having just finished the second year of a three-year course at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, his future wife's aunt spotted that Blue Peter was looking for a new presenter. After calling into the Editor's office direct, Baker put together a showreel with footage in the farmyard; reading a story; and riding a unicycle. He was asked to come to London the next day for an interview, and made his first appearance on the show on 25 June 1999. His gymnastic background helped him in physical challenges, including training as a stuntman, and passing the recruitment courses for both the Royal Marines and the Parachute Regiment. In 2003, Baker learned to fly hang gliders and made a successful tandem world record-breaking flight with Airways Airsports instructor Judy Leden MBE. During his seven years on Blue Peter, Matt's colleagues were Katy Hill, Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Liz Barker, Zöe Salmon and Gethin Jones. He won two BAFTAs for Best Children's Presenter two years in a row and a Royal Television Society award. Baker left Blue Peter at the end of its 2005–06 series; his last live show was broadcast on 26 June. Baker's dog Meg, seen alongside him on the programme from 2000 onwards, left with him. Baker co-presented Countryfile Summer Diaries on weekday mornings on BBC One, along with Open Country for Radio 4 and Animal Rescue Squad and Animal Rescue Squad International for Channel 5. From 2009, he has co-presented BBC One's Countryfile on Sunday evenings. In August 2010, Baker co-presented the first series of Secret Britain with Julia Bradbury and presented One Man and His Dog with Kate Humble. From May to August 2010, Baker was a guest presenter on BBC One's magazine programme The One Show, standing in for Jason Manford. Following Manford's resignation on 18 November 2010, Baker acted as a guest co-host on the programme. He later took over as a permanent presenter on the show, co-hosting with Alex Jones from Monday to Thursday. On 8 March 2011, Baker gained media attention by asking then-Prime Minister David Cameron, "How on earth do you sleep at night?". Will Heaven, Deputy Editor of Telegraph Blogs, wrote: "Was this the unearthing of a true Northern lefty? Or did Baker just misspeak?". On 4 December 2019, Baker announced on The One Show that he would be leaving in the spring of 2020. He announced it in an emotional speech to camera where he thanked everyone for their support, especially for the money donated to The Rickshaw Challenges. Matt's last show on "The One Show" was on Tuesday 31 March 2020, where he wasn't on the couch with co-presenter Alex Jones, but was at home in self isolation. In 2003, Baker was a guest on A Song For Europe contest to decide the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, where he announced the scores for the North of England. He was one of three main presenters on the final series of the BBC One reality series City Hospital. In March 2007, and again in 2008, Baker co-presented coverage of Crufts. Also in 2007, he co-presented five episodes of Animal Rescue Live with Selina Scott. The episodes were shown across a week and were broadcast live from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London. As part of the celebration for London's winning bid to host the 2012 Olympics, Baker co-hosted the London 2012 party with Claudia Winkleman on 24 August 2008, after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. For the BBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Baker commentated on the gymnastics events. He provided commentary for the gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as well as doing some presenting work. Matt Baker was also a Torch Bearer for the Olympic Flame as it was carried into Durham City as part of the flame's tour of Great Britain. In 2016, Baker again provided the BBC commentary on the gymnastic events at the Rio Olympics. Matt continued his previous commentating work by providing commentary for the Tokyo 2020 gymnastics events. In October 2009, Baker took part in the reality programme Around the World in 80 Days to raise money for Children in Need. He undertook the Kazakhstan to Mongolia leg with Julia Bradbury. For Children in Need, Baker rode a bicycle towing a rickshaw 484 miles from Edinburgh to London in 2011, which took about a week up to the fund raising night on 18 November. He averaged around 60 miles per day, raising well over £1.5 million for the charity. In the summer of 2006, Baker was a celebrity showjumper in the Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses. In 2015, Baker along with Mel Giedroyc co-hosted four-part BBC One series The Gift. In 2015, Baker co-hosted a three-part factual series Big Blue Live for BBC One. The series focussed on marine wildlife in Monterey Bay, California. He hosted alongside Steve Backshall, Liz Bonnin, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Lindsey Chapman. In July 2017, Baker co-presented Wild Alaska Live on BBC One with Steve Backshall and Liz Bonnin. In 2010, Baker participated in the eighth series of Strictly Come Dancing, where he was partnered with professional ballroom dancer Aliona Vilani, finishing in second place to the winners Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev in the final. Baker and Vilani also participated in the 2011 Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour. They performed in all thirty-five shows on the tour in arenas throughout Britain and Ireland, winning on twenty-six occasions. In 2002, Baker played himself in an episode of the BBC Drama series Cutting It. In 2005, he briefly appeared as himself, as the presenter of Blue Peter, in an episode of sci-fi series Doctor Who, when The Doctor was flicking through television channels. In June 2006, Baker played the role of Dick from The Famous Five in The Queen's Handbag. In 2008, Baker returned to his native North East England to play the role of Caractacus Potts in a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Sunderland Empire. Baker met his wife Nicola, a physiotherapist, when he was performing in the disco show at Pier 39 in Cleethorpes. The couple married at Winston in Teesdale, in 2004 and live in Buckinghamshire with their son and daughter. In early 2011, Baker was elected as the president for the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. He is president for Here4Horses. Peter presenters, Matt Baker 2023-12-06T20:34:37Z Matthew James Baker MBE (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 2020, with Alex Jones. Baker was born on 23 December 1977 at Easington in County Durham where his father ran a newsagent's shop, and his parents had a smallholding in the village. He has one sister and two half-sisters. Matt attended Easington Village School, then, when he was aged 10, his parents bought a farm west of Durham, which they moved into and renovated. From the age of 5 Baker was a keen dancer and began competing as a gymnast whilst at school. He continued his education at Belmont Comprehensive School in Durham and was a budding gymnast, but was forced to give up after being diagnosed with anaemia aged 14. He took A-levels in Drama, Biology and Sports Science at Durham Sixth Form Centre. Baker moved to Edinburgh to undertake training as an actor at Queen Margaret University’s School of Drama. In the late 1990s, as a drama student at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Baker worked as an entertainer, and with a 1970s comedy disco-dancing revival show called "Disco Inferno", which toured the north of England. Baker wanted to become a physiotherapist, but did not achieve the necessary academic standards. After an appearance in the school production of Grease, it was suggested that he attend drama school. Having just finished the second year of a three-year course at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, his future wife's aunt spotted that Blue Peter was looking for a new presenter. After calling into the Editor's office direct, Baker put together a showreel with footage in the farmyard; reading a story; and riding a unicycle. He was asked to come to London the next day for an interview, and made his first appearance on the show on 25 June 1999. His gymnastic background helped him in physical challenges, including training as a stuntman, and passing the recruitment courses for both the Royal Marines and the Parachute Regiment. In 2003, Baker learned to fly hang gliders and made a successful tandem world record-breaking flight with Airways Airsports instructor Judy Leden MBE. During his seven years on Blue Peter, Matt's colleagues were Katy Hill, Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Liz Barker, Zöe Salmon and Gethin Jones. He won two BAFTAs for Best Children's Presenter two years in a row and a Royal Television Society award. Baker left Blue Peter at the end of its 2005–06 series; his last live show was broadcast on 26 June. Baker's dog Meg, seen alongside him on the programme from 2000 onwards, left with him. Baker co-presented Countryfile Summer Diaries on weekday mornings on BBC One, along with Open Country for Radio 4 and Animal Rescue Squad and Animal Rescue Squad International for Channel 5. From 2009, he has co-presented BBC One's Countryfile on Sunday evenings. In August 2010, Baker co-presented the first series of Secret Britain with Julia Bradbury and presented One Man and His Dog with Kate Humble. From May to August 2010, Baker was a guest presenter on BBC One's magazine programme The One Show, standing in for Jason Manford. Following Manford's resignation on 18 November 2010, Baker acted as a guest co-host on the programme. He later took over as a permanent presenter on the show, co-hosting with Alex Jones from Monday to Thursday. On 8 March 2011, Baker gained media attention by asking then-Prime Minister David Cameron, "How on earth do you sleep at night?". Will Heaven, Deputy Editor of Telegraph Blogs, wrote: "Was this the unearthing of a true Northern lefty? Or did Baker just misspeak?". On 4 December 2019, Baker announced on The One Show that he would be leaving in the spring of 2020. He announced it in an emotional speech to camera where he thanked everyone for their support, especially for the money donated to The Rickshaw Challenges. Matt's last show on "The One Show" was on Tuesday 31 March 2020, where he wasn't on the couch with co-presenter Alex Jones, but was at home in self isolation. In 2003, Baker was a guest on A Song For Europe contest to decide the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, where he announced the scores for the North of England. He was one of three main presenters on the final series of the BBC One reality series City Hospital. In March 2007, and again in 2008, Baker co-presented coverage of Crufts. Also in 2007, he co-presented five episodes of Animal Rescue Live with Selina Scott. The episodes were shown across a week and were broadcast live from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London. As part of the celebration for London's winning bid to host the 2012 Olympics, Baker co-hosted the London 2012 party with Claudia Winkleman on 24 August 2008, after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. For the BBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Baker commentated on the gymnastics events. He provided commentary for the gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as well as doing some presenting work. Matt Baker was also a Torch Bearer for the Olympic Flame as it was carried into Durham City as part of the flame's tour of Great Britain. In 2016, Baker again provided the BBC commentary on the gymnastic events at the Rio Olympics. Matt continued his previous commentating work by providing commentary for the Tokyo 2020 gymnastics events. In October 2009, Baker took part in the reality programme Around the World in 80 Days to raise money for Children in Need. He undertook the Kazakhstan to Mongolia leg with Julia Bradbury. For Children in Need, Baker rode a bicycle towing a rickshaw 484 miles from Edinburgh to London in 2011, which took about a week up to the fund raising night on 18 November. He averaged around 60 miles per day, raising well over £1.5 million for the charity. In the summer of 2006, Baker was a celebrity showjumper in the Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses. In 2015, Baker along with Mel Giedroyc co-hosted four-part BBC One series The Gift. In 2015, Baker co-hosted a three-part factual series Big Blue Live for BBC One. The series focussed on marine wildlife in Monterey Bay, California. He hosted alongside Steve Backshall, Liz Bonnin, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Lindsey Chapman. In July 2017, Baker co-presented Wild Alaska Live on BBC One with Steve Backshall and Liz Bonnin. In 2010, Baker participated in the eighth series of Strictly Come Dancing, where he was partnered with professional ballroom dancer Aliona Vilani, finishing in second place to the winners Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev in the final. Baker and Vilani also participated in the 2011 Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour. They performed in all thirty-five shows on the tour in arenas throughout Britain and Ireland, winning on twenty-six occasions. In 2002, Baker played himself in an episode of the BBC Drama series Cutting It. In 2005, he briefly appeared as himself, as the presenter of Blue Peter, in an episode of sci-fi series Doctor Who, when The Doctor was flicking through television channels. In June 2006, Baker played the role of Dick from The Famous Five in The Queen's Handbag. In 2008, Baker returned to his native North East England to play the role of Caractacus Potts in a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Sunderland Empire. Baker met his wife Nicola, a physiotherapist, when he was performing in the disco show at Pier 39 in Cleethorpes. The couple married at Winston in Teesdale, in 2004 and live in Buckinghamshire with their son and daughter. Baker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for charitable and voluntary services to fundraising. In early 2011, Baker was elected as the president for the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. He is president for Here4Horses. | 1 |
Andrés Guardado | Andrés Guardado 2006-05-29T21:41:37Z Andrés Guardado (born 28 September 1986) is a Mexican football (soccer) player who currently plays as a defender for Atlas. He was called up to the Mexico national team just three months after his first team debut for Atlas. He has also been called up to represent his country in the 2006 World Cup. , Andrés Guardado 2007-12-28T11:21:29Z José Andrés Guardado Hernández (born September 28 , 1986 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican international footballer who plays as a Left Winger. He plays for Deportivo La Coruña in La Liga, having been signed from Atlas in the summer of 2007 for €7m . Guardado started in Atlas on the bench not playing. At age 14, Guardado quit playing, but returned to Atlas after 2 weeks. At 20 years of age, Guardado is one of Mexico's brightest young soccer players. He is an aggressive marker and attacker, known for his explosive speed and dribbling skills. Guardado made his league debut for Atlas in August 2005, in a 3-2 victory over CF Pachuca in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He made his first international appearance for Mexico in a friendly match against Hungary on December 14, 2005, just four months after his first team debut for Atlas. Displaying his stupendous form, Guardado was called up to represent his country in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. He played his first World Cup match against Argentina in the Round of 16, which Mexico lost 2-1 in extra time. The Mexico coach, Ricardo Lavolpe, was sacked shortly after the finals, but the new coach, Hugo Sanchez, kept Guardado in the setup. Guardado played in Mexico's first friendly under Sanchez against his country's CONCACAF rival USA. Guardado's introduction from the bench saw the game turn in Mexico's favour, as his skillful dribbling and speed were a major threat. Although the match resulted in a 2-0 loss for Mexico, Guardado showed once again that he was a vital part of the team, and has henceforth been called upon numerous times, and has become a starting player. On February 28, 2007, in a friendly match against Venezuela, Andres scored his first goal for Mexico. On June 24 2007, in Mexico's 2-1 Gold Cup loss to the USA, Guardado scored his second goal for his country. Guardado's third goal came against the team of Uruguay for the third spot in Copa America, on July 15 2007. In June and July 2006, press speculations and rumours linked Guardado to several Italian Serie A teams, the Spanish club Real Madrid, and Portuguese club Benfica. Real Madrid offered a deal in the summer of 2006 which would send Guardado on loan to Real for 2 years for around €400k per year. Atlas rejected the offer on the basis that Guardado is one of the gems of the team and they would only sell him for at least €5m. FCK was also interested In 2007, the press rumoured that Guardardo would join English giants Manchester United. Others showing interest for Guardado's services included PSV Eindhoven of the Dutch Eredivisie, La Liga's Atletico Madrid, Greek champions Olympiacos and English side Arsenal, but Atlas refused to sell him for less than €6m. It was rumoured that a deal was made between Atlas and PSV, with the Dutch club offering to buy 75% of the rights to the player and pay a transfer fee of about €4.5m. However, Deportivo La Coruña moved quickly and made an offer of €5.25m, for 75% of his rights which in turn will be worth a total of €7m. Atlas accepted the offer and the transfer was finalized on July 7, 2007. Atlas are entitled a 25% sell-on-fee as long as they holds th rest of 25% of his rights. He is said to be really happy, saying that he prefers to go Spain, since he won't have to learn any additional languages or cope with a non-Hispanic culture. . It is unknown whether he will be a starting player or if he'll have to work his way up at Deportivo. He was officially presented on July 24, 2007 with the team giving him the number 18 which he also used in the Mexico national football team. The coach of Deportivo stated that Guardado was a key player, and admired his talent and character. | 1 |
Nedbank Cup | Nedbank Cup 2007-02-25T12:37:24Z File:ABSAcup logo.jpg The ABSA Cup is a tournament held in South African club football (soccer). The knockout tournament, based on the English FA Cup format, is aptly themed the battle 'David versus Goliath'. The 16 Premier Soccer League clubs, 8 Mvela Golden League teams, as well as 8 teams from the amateur ranks compete for the prize money of R2.5 million. The winner qualifies for the CAF Confederation Cup. 'ABSA' stands for Amalgamated Banks of South Africa. The teams are not seeded at any stage and the first 16 sides out of the hat receive home-ground advantage. As usual, there are no replays with games ending in a draw after 90 minutes subject to 30 minutes extra time followed by penalties if necessary. participants: all 16 PSL clubs + Bay United, City Pillars, Fidentia Rangers, Dynamos, Free State Stars, Garankuwa United, PJ Stars, Winners Park (First Division) and Ajax Safa, Bloemfontein Young Tigers, Birds FC, Island FC, Leandra FC, Mighty FC, Moresterjeug FC, Yebo Yes (lower leagues) 1978-1987: Mainstay Cup 1988-2001: Bobsave Superbowl start end, Nedbank Cup 2008-09-27T23:17:28Z Nedbank Cup is a South African club football (soccer) tournament. The knockout tournament, based on the English FA Cup format, carries a 'David versus Goliath' theme. The competition was sponsored by ABSA until 2007, after which Nedbank took over sponsorship. The 16 Premier Soccer League clubs, 8 National First Division teams, as well as 8 teams from the amateur ranks compete for the prize money of R6 million. The winner also qualifies for the CAF Confederation Cup. The teams are not seeded at any stage, and the first 16 sides drawn out of the hat receive a home-ground advantage. There are no longer any replays in the tournament, and any games which end in a draw after 90 minutes are subject to 30 minutes extra time followed by penalties if necessary. start end | 1 |
Ivan_Marchuk | Ivan_Marchuk 2010-05-05T16:55:41Z Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Марчук) (born May 12, 1936 in Moskalivka) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures, which he calls "dabbing-on", thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works. Ivan Marchuk was born in a family of a weaver. He studied applied art in Lviv till 1965. Later he worked in Kiev. In 1989 he left USSR and lived in the USA, Canada and Australia, where he became renowned. After the September 11, 2001 attacks which he saw, Marchuk returned to Kiev. Not having been valued in the Soviet Union, Marchuk was well accepted in the independent Ukraine obtaining a prestigious T. Shevchenko award in 1997. A museum of Ivan Marchuk is planned to be constructed in Kiev. , Ivan_Marchuk 2012-03-12T03:04:08Z Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Марчук) (born May 12, 1936 in Moskalivka) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures, which he calls "dabbing-on", thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works. Ivan Marchuk was born in a family of a weaver. He studied applied art in Lviv till 1965. Later he worked in Kiev. In 1989 he left USSR and lived in the USA, Canada and Australia, where he became renowned. After the September 11, 2001 attacks which he saw, Marchuk returned to Kiev. Not having been valued in the Soviet Union, Marchuk was well accepted in the independent Ukraine obtaining a prestigious T. Shevchenko award in 1997. A museum of Ivan Marchuk is planned to be constructed in Kiev. Template:Persondata | 0 |
John_Alexander_Tilleard | John_Alexander_Tilleard 2011-10-26T15:59:32Z John Alexander Tilleard (born circa 1850, died 22 September 1913) was a British solicitor and the philatelist who helped King George V to constitute his collection, known as the Royal Philatelic Collection. John Tilleard was a solicitor of the City of London. He spent his free times to collect stamps and study philately. He was a specialist of stamps issued by Prince Edward Island and British India. About the latter, he wrote Notes on the De La Rue Series of Adhesive Postage Stamps and Telegraph Stamps of India published in 1896. Member of the Philatelic Society, London, he served as honorary secretary from 1894 to 1913. He permitted the participation of two philatelist princes to the Society : Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, brother of future King Edward VII, elected honorary president in 1890, and Alfred's nephew George, Duke of York. On the Duke of Edinburgh's initiative, Tilleard met the Duke of York on 28 February 1893. He accepted to become George's advisor to help manage his stamp collection. Tilleard sold his own stamps to have for main philatelic purpose stamp sales and philatelic exhibitions of the Prince's collection. These activities occupied long times of the two men's life : George V's biographer, Harold Nicolson, precised that Tilleard was seen at the Duke of York's palace more often than Tanner who taught the future king law and constitutional knowledge. In 1903, Tilleard and George designed the Canada stamp series figuring King Edward VII, issued between 1903 and 1912. In 1906, he helped the Philatelic Society, London obtain the "Royal" title, to become the Royal Philatelic Society London whose president was the Duke of York from 1896. After the accession of the Duke as King George V in 1910, Tilleard was named "Philatelist to the King" with a yearly 750 pounds salary. The next year the King made him a Member in the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for his services to the King and philately. In the history of the Royal Philatelic Collection, Tilleard was the principal force behind George V creating the most comprehensive collection of United Kingdom and Commonwealth stamps in the world. However, at the time of his death, the mounting was still to be done; performing this task was the main success of Tilleard's successor Edward Denny Bacon. In memory of Tilleard, the Royal Philatelic Society London created the Tilleard Medal, first awarded in 1920 to one (or two, if they are associated) members of the Society for the best philatelic display. Template:Persondata, John_Alexander_Tilleard 2012-06-02T10:40:11Z John Alexander Tilleard (born circa 1850, died 22 September 1913) was a British solicitor and the philatelist who was the first curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection. John Tilleard was a solicitor of the City of London. He spent his free time on collect stamps and the study philately. He was a specialist of stamps issued by Prince Edward Island and British India. About the latter, he wrote Notes on the De La Rue Series of Adhesive Postage Stamps and Telegraph Stamps of India published in 1896. On the Duke of Edinburgh's initiative, Tilleard met the Duke of York on 28 February 1893. He accepted to become George's advisor to help manage his stamp collection. Tilleard sold his own stamps to have for main philatelic purpose stamp sales and philatelic exhibitions of the Prince's collection. These activities occupied long times of the two men's life : George V's biographer, Harold Nicolson, precised that Tilleard was seen at the Duke of York's palace more often than Tanner who taught the future king law and constitutional knowledge. In 1903, Tilleard and George designed the Canada stamp series figuring King Edward VII, issued between 1903 and 1912. After the accession of the Duke as King George V in 1910, Tilleard was named "Philatelist to the King" with a yearly 750 pounds salary. The next year the King made him a Member in the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for his services to the King and philately. In the history of the Royal Philatelic Collection, Tilleard was the principal force behind George V creating the most comprehensive collection of United Kingdom and Commonwealth stamps in the world. However, at the time of his death, the mounting was still to be done; performing this task was the main success of Tilleard's successor Edward Denny Bacon. Member of the Philatelic Society, London, he served as honorary secretary from 1894 to 1913. He permitted the participation of two philatelist princes to the Society : Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, brother of future King Edward VII, elected honorary president in 1890, and Alfred's nephew George, Duke of York. In 1906, he helped the Philatelic Society, London obtain the "Royal" title, to become the Royal Philatelic Society London whose president was the Duke of York from 1896. In memory of Tilleard, the Royal Philatelic Society London created the Tilleard Medal, first awarded in 1920 to one (or two, if they are associated) members of the Society for the best philatelic display. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Reno–Tahoe Open | Reno–Tahoe Open 2014-06-12T16:12:29Z Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 525: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/USA relief" does not exist. The Reno–Tahoe Open is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in northwestern Nevada. Founded in 1999, it is an alternate event played annually in August at the Montrêux Golf and Country Club, located midway between Reno and Lake Tahoe. Opened in 1997, the par-72 course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and plays at 7,472 yards (6,832 m); its average elevation is 5,600 feet (1,710 m) above sea level with an elevation change of 800 feet (240 m). The Reno–Tahoe Open gained its first title sponsor after the 2007 event, the Legends at Sparks Marina. After two years the name was returned to "Reno–Tahoe Open" in 2010. Until 2010, the tournament was played in August, the same week as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. For its first three years, it had a full field of 156 players, while the World Golf Championship event had a field of about 40. When the WGC event expanded to about 80 players in 2002, the field for the Reno–Tahoe Open was reduced to 132 players. With the launch of the FedEx Cup in 2007, the tournament and the WGC event were moved from late to early August. In 2010 the Reno–Tahoe Open was played several weeks earlier, opposite the British Open in mid-July. This lasted only one year, as it returned to early August in 2011, opposite the WGC-Bridgestone. The total purse in 2011 was $3 million, with a winner's share of $540,000. For 2012, the Reno–Tahoe Open used the modified Stableford scoring system, last used in a PGA Tour event at the 2006 International. The Reno-Tahoe open is considered an alternate event, which means the winner does not earn a Masters invitation. The winner still earns 24 OWGR points, 300 FedEx Cup points, a two-year exemption, and entry to the PGA Championship. Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. Main sources 39°21′52″N 119°49′41″W / 39.3645°N 119.828°W / 39.3645; -119.828, Reno–Tahoe Open 2015-10-26T18:58:19Z Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 525: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/USA relief" does not exist. The Barracuda Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in western Nevada. Founded in 1999 as the Reno–Tahoe Open, it is an alternate event played annually in August at the Montrêux Golf and Country Club, located midway between Reno and Lake Tahoe. Opened in 1997, the par-72 course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and plays at 7,472 yards (6,832 m); its average elevation is 5,600 feet (1,710 m) above sea level with an elevation change of 800 feet (240 m). Until 2010, the tournament was played in August, the same week as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. For its first three years, it had a full field of 156 players, while the World Golf Championship event had a field of about 40. When the WGC event expanded to about 80 players in 2002, the field for the Reno–Tahoe Open was reduced to 132 players. With the launch of the FedEx Cup in 2007, the tournament and the WGC event were moved from late to early August. In 2010 the Reno–Tahoe Open was played several weeks earlier, opposite the British Open in mid-July. This lasted only one year, as it returned to early August in 2011, opposite the WGC-Bridgestone. The total purse in 2014 was $3 million, with a winner's share of $540,000. The Reno–Tahoe Open gained its first title sponsor after the 2007 event, the Legends at Sparks Marina. After two years the name was returned to "Reno–Tahoe Open" in 2010. Barracuda Networks became the title sponsor in 2014. Since 2012, the tournament has used the Modified Stableford scoring system, last used in a PGA Tour event at the 2006 International. The Barracuda Championship is an alternate event, which means the winner does not earn a Masters Tournament invitation. The winner still earns 24 OWGR points, 300 FedEx Cup points, a two-year tour exemption, and entry to the PGA Championship. ^ Modified Stableford System (2012−present) Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. Source: 39°21′52″N 119°49′41″W / 39.3645°N 119.828°W / 39.3645; -119.828 | 1 |
Sergei Plotnikov | Sergei Plotnikov 2015-03-19T19:29:33Z Sergei Plotnikov (born June 3, 1990) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He won a gold medal with Russia at the 2014 World Championship and finished the tournament third in scoring. , Sergei Plotnikov 2016-07-25T21:45:14Z Sergei Sergeyevich Plotnikov (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Плотников; born 3 June 1990) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Plotnikov previously played in the KHL with Amur Khabarovsk and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. He has played briefly in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Arizona Coyotes. Plotnikov was not drafted by any NHL team. On 1 July 2015, Plotnikov bought out the final year of his contract with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. He signed a one-year, entry-level contract with the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. In his first North American season in 2015–16, Plotnikov scored just two points in 32 games. From December 2015 on, he was a healthy scratch for almost two months. Displeased with his lack of playing time, Plotnikov requested a trade and was subsequently traded to the Arizona Coyotes on 29 February 2016, in exchange for Matthias Plachta and a conditional seventh round draft pick in 2016, dependent on if the Coyotes resigned him. Plotnikov's struggles continued with the Coyotes, unable to find his offensive touch with 1 assist from 13 games. As a free agent from the Coyotes and with little success in the NHL, Plotnikov returned to Russia in agreeing to a two-year KHL contract with SKA Saint Petersburg on 1 July 2016. Plotnikov won a gold medal with Russia at the 2014 World Championship. He finished the tournament third overall in scoring. Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database | 1 |
Ali Riley | Ali Riley 2021-02-03T19:32:13Z Alexandra "Ali" Lowe Riley (born 30 October 1987) is an American-born New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a defender for Swedish club Rosengård on loan from Orlando Pride of the NWSL. Riley captains the New Zealand women's national football team. As a collegiate athlete, she captained the Stanford soccer team to two NCAA semi-finals and one final. Born in Los Angeles, California to parents John Graham Riley and Beverly Fong Lowe, Ali attended St. Matthew's Parish School in Pacific Palisades and Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California. She was named captain of the soccer team during her senior season and was a two-time Mission League Offensive MVP as well as a two-time first-team San Fernando Valley selection. As a senior, she helped lead the Wolverines to the 2006 Southern Section Division I final and was named to the All-CIF Southern Section Division I first team. Riley also competed for local soccer clubs, LA Breakers FC (formerly Westside Breakers) and Real SoCal (formerly SoCal United). Riley attended Stanford University and played for the Stanford Cardinal from 2006 to 2009. During her freshman year, she started in fifteen of the eighteen matches she played. She played forward and scored four goals with two assists. As a sophomore, she played sixteen games and started in fourteen of them. She scored two goals and had two assists. During her junior year, Riley converted from her position at forward to an outside back, which is what she plays for the New Zealand National Team. As a senior, Riley started in each of the twenty-four games and scored one goal with one assist. In January 2010, Riley was selected as the tenth pick in the first round of the 2010 WPS Draft by FC Gold Pride. While she plays on her natural right wing-back position for the NZ Women's National Team, she plays professionally as a left wing-back and had three assists in the 2010 run to the WPS championship by FC Gold Pride. Riley won the WPS Rookie of the Year award. Riley signed for Western New York Flash for the 2011 season becoming a free agent after FC Gold Pride failed to find financial backers. In the 2011 season Riley was a finalist for Defender of the year as the Flash swept both the league season title and then won the 2011 WPS Championship. In 2012, Riley re-signed with Western New York Flash for the 2012 season, however, the league folded before play began. With the suspension of the WPS, she signed in 2012 with LdB FC Malmö, 2011 Swedish League Champions. In her first game, (the Super Cupen) she assisted on the winning goal. She played her first full season in the Damallsvenskan in 2013. With LdB FC Malmö she finished top of the table. In September 2013 Riley re-signed with LdB FC Malmö (since December 2013 renamed FC Rosengård) for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. FC Rosengård again won gold in the Damallsvenskan. In March 2015 she played both at full-back and forward in her second Super Cupen victory with Rosengård. In September 2015 she re-signed with Rosengård. The team went on to win the Damallsvenskan for the third straight year earning Riley earned her fifth league championship in her eight-year career. On 26 June 2018, it was announced that Riley would be leaving Rosengård in July to join Chelsea in the English FA Women's Super League. On 18 July 2019, Riley moved to Bayern Munich of the Frauen Bundesliga. On 10 February 2020, Ali Riley returned to the US and signed for Orlando Pride on a one-year contract with an option for an additional year. The season was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic with the NWSL eventually scheduling a smaller schedule 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup tournament. However, on 22 June 2020, the team withdrew from the tournament following positive COVID-19 tests among both players and staff. On 13 July 2020, having been unable to feature for Orlando Pride, Riley returned to Sweden to be with her partner during the pandemic and rejoined Rosengård on loan. Ali Riley's father is from New Zealand. Riley represented New Zealand at the 2006 Women's U-20 World Cup finals. She was named Player of the game v. Russia. She made her Football Ferns debut in a 0–5 loss to Australia on 6 February 2007, and represented New Zealand at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup finals in China, where they lost to Brazil 0–5, Denmark (0–2) and China (0–2). Riley also played every minute for the New Zealand squad in the 2008 Summer Olympics where they drew with Japan (2–2) before losing to Norway (0–1) and the United States (0–4). Riley's first international goal was scored in the final of the OFC Women's Nations Cup as New Zealand qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup with an 11–0 win over Papua New Guinea. On 27 June 2011, Riley earned her 50th A-international cap in a 2–1 loss to Japan in New Zealand's opening group stage match at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. In the final seconds of extra time in the match v. Mexico she assisted on the tying goal that gave the Football Ferns their first point in a World Cup final. In the 2012 Olympics Riley played every minute of the Football Ferns' four games. In the preliminary round games the Ferns lost 0–1 to Great Britain and Brazil and beat Cameroon 3–1. This was the first victory by a NZ football team in the Olympics. With the victory the Ferns advanced to the second round based on goal differential. In the quarter-final the Ferns played the USA losing 0–2. In 2013 Riley started for New Zealand in a series of games establishing the Football Ferns as a growing force in international competition. The Ferns won the Vallais Cup beating #4 Brazil 1–0 and #16 China 4–0 and also had ties playing #10 Australia, #3 Japan and #1 USA. She featured in all New Zealand's three matches at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. In the 2016 Rio Olympics Riley played every minute of the Football Ferns' three games. The Ferns lost 0–2 to USA, 0–3 to France and beat Colombia 1–0. Riley has been the captain of the Football Ferns since the 2017 Cyprus Cup. In April 2019, Riley was named to the final 23-player squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. FC Gold Pride Western New York Flash FC Rosengård (formerly LdB FC Malmö) New Zealand International Club College, Ali Riley 2022-12-31T03:59:18Z Alexandra Lowe Riley (born 30 October 1987) is an American-born New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a defender for Angel City of the American National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), as well as the New Zealand women's national football team. She captains both her club and national teams. As a collegiate athlete, she captained the Stanford soccer team to two NCAA semi-finals and one final. Born in Los Angeles, California to parents John Graham Riley and Beverly Fong Lowe, Ali attended St. Matthew's Parish School in Pacific Palisades and Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California. She was named captain of the soccer team during her senior season and was a two-time Mission League Offensive MVP as well as a two-time first-team San Fernando Valley selection. As a senior, she helped lead the Wolverines to the 2006 Southern Section Division I final and was named to the All-CIF Southern Section Division I first team. Riley also competed for local soccer clubs, LA Breakers FC (formerly Westside Breakers) and Real SoCal (formerly SoCal United). Riley attended Stanford University and played for the Stanford Cardinal from 2006 to 2009. During her freshman year, she started in fifteen of the eighteen matches she played. She played forward and scored four goals with two assists. As a sophomore, she played sixteen games and started in fourteen of them. She scored two goals and had two assists. During her junior year, Riley converted from her position at forward to an outside back and she has played almost exclusively at left or right full-back ever since, As a senior, Riley started in each of the twenty-four games and scored one goal with one assist. In January 2010, Riley was selected as the tenth pick in the first round of the 2010 WPS Draft by FC Gold Pride. While she played on her natural right wing-back position for the NZ Women's National Team, she played professionally as a left wing-back and had three assists in the 2010 run to the WPS championship by FC Gold Pride. Riley won the WPS Rookie of the Year award. Riley signed for Western New York Flash for the 2011 season becoming a free agent after FC Gold Pride failed to find financial backers. In the 2011 season Riley was a finalist for Defender of the year as the Flash swept both the league season title and then won the 2011 WPS Championship. In 2012, Riley re-signed with Western New York Flash for the 2012 season, however, the league folded before play began. With the suspension of the WPS, she signed in 2012 with LdB FC Malmö, 2011 Swedish League Champions. In her first game, (the Super Cupen) she assisted on the winning goal. She played her first full season in the Damallsvenskan in 2013. With LdB FC Malmö she finished top of the table. In September 2013 Riley re-signed with LdB FC Malmö (since December 2013 renamed FC Rosengård) for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. FC Rosengård again won gold in the Damallsvenskan. In March 2015 she played both at full-back and forward in her second Super Cupen victory with Rosengård. In September 2015 she re-signed with Rosengård. The team went on to win the Damallsvenskan for the third straight year earning Riley earned her fifth league championship in her eight-year career. On 26 June 2018, it was announced that Riley would be leaving Rosengård in July to join Chelsea in the English FA Women's Super League. On 18 July 2019, Riley moved to Bayern Munich of the Frauen-Bundesliga. On 10 February 2020, Ali Riley returned to the US and signed a one-year contract with an option for an additional year for the Orlando Pride. The season was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic with the NWSL eventually scheduling a smaller schedule 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup tournament. However, on 22 June 2020, the team withdrew from the tournament following positive COVID-19 tests among both players and staff. On 13 July 2020, having been unable to feature for the Pride, Riley returned to Sweden to be with her partner during the pandemic and rejoined Rosengård on loan. On 27 January 2022, Riley was traded to Angel City FC in exchange for $15,000 in allocation money and a third-round pick in the 2023 NWSL Draft. As a result of the trade, she was able to play in her hometown for the first time in her career. Riley represented New Zealand at the 2006 Women's U-20 World Cup finals. She made her senior debut in a 0–5 loss to Australia on 6 February 2007, and represented New Zealand at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup finals in China, where they lost to Brazil 0–5, Denmark (0–2) and China (0–2). Riley also played every minute for the New Zealand squad in the 2008 Summer Olympics where they drew with Japan (2–2) before losing to Norway (0–1) and the United States (0–4). Riley's first international goal was scored in the final of the OFC Women's Nations Cup as New Zealand qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup with an 11–0 win over Papua New Guinea. On 27 June 2011, Riley earned her 50th A-international cap in a 2–1 loss to Japan in New Zealand's opening group stage match at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. In the final seconds of extra time in the match v. Mexico she assisted on the tying goal that gave the Football Ferns their first point in a World Cup final. In the 2012 Olympics Riley played every minute of the Football Ferns' four games. In the preliminary round games the Ferns lost 0–1 to Great Britain and Brazil and beat Cameroon 3–1. This was the first victory by a NZ football team in the Olympics. With the victory the Ferns advanced to the second round based on goal differential. In the quarter-final the Ferns played the USA losing 0–2. In 2013 Riley started for New Zealand in a series of games establishing the Football Ferns as a growing force in international competition. The Ferns won the Vallais Cup beating #4 Brazil 1–0 and #16 China 4–0 and also had ties playing #10 Australia, #3 Japan and #1 USA. She featured in all New Zealand's three matches at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. In the 2016 Rio Olympics Riley played every minute of the Football Ferns' three games. The Ferns lost 0–2 to USA, 0–3 to France and beat Colombia 1–0. Riley has been the captain of the Football Ferns since the 2017 Cyprus Cup. In April 2019, Riley was named to the final 23-player squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Riley hosts a Off the Ball show for sports website Just Women's Sports since 2021. FC Gold Pride Western New York Flash FC Rosengård (formerly LdB FC Malmö) New Zealand International Club College | 1 |
Pittsburgh Steelers | Pittsburgh Steelers 2003-02-02T05:08:20Z The Pittsburgh Steelers are a National Football League team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team was so named because of the abundant steel industry in the city. The team won four Super Bowls and is regarded as The Team of The 70's. The team had a dominant defense known as The Steel Curtain and an offense led by Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. Their coach was Chuck Noll. The Steelers had a long history of futility before 1972, their first postseason appearance. In fact, they had only eight winning seasons prior to that season. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises in order to field a team. In 1942 they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as the "Car-Pitts" or "Carpets". During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and were known as the "Steagles". Football Hall of Famers: Current stars: Retired numbers: Not to be forgotten: Pittsburgh Steelers official web site, Pittsburgh Steelers 2004-12-27T08:29:00Z The Pittsburgh Steelers are a National Football League team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team was so named because of the abundant steel industry in the city. The team won four Super Bowls and is regarded as The Team of The Seventies. The team had a dominant defense known as The Steel Curtain and an offense led by Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. Their coach was Chuck Noll. Longtime sportscaster Myron Cope is well known in Pittsburgh for his distinctive commentary. The Steelers had a long history of futility before 1972, their first postseason appearance. In fact, they had only eight winning seasons prior to that season, despite being one of the oldest teams in the league. The Immaculate Reception game happened in this postseason. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises in order to field a team. In 1942 they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were informally known as the "Car-Pitts" or "Carpets" (due to their ineptitude; they won no games). During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and were known as the "Steagles". In 1991, much-celebrated coach Chuck Noll, who lead the Steelers to four Super Bowl victories, retired, and the Steelers hired Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton, PA who had coached special teams in Kansas City. He lead the Steelers to the playoffs on his first six seasons as coach, a feat that had only been before accomplished by legendary Paul Brown of the Browns. It has become an article of faith among NFL pundits that the Steelers do not have a bad team two years in a row -- they have never lost 10 or more in consecutive years since the 1970 NFL merger. This season, the Steelers currently have the best record in the NFL holding strong at 14-1, a half game ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles. The Steelers have locked up homefield advantage for the AFC playoffs. Pro Football Hall of Famers: Current stars: Retired numbers: The Steelers are one of the few teams in the NFL that don't officially retire player's numbers. Other Notable Players: | 1 |
Turner Classic Movies | Turner Classic Movies 2012-01-07T13:54:27Z Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a movie-oriented cable television channel, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment (pre-1986 MGM and RKO) and Warner Bros. film libraries. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, in Midtown. Unlike AMC (TV channel), Turner Classic Movies is essentially commercial-free, advertising only TCM products, promos for specific films scheduled to air on the channel in primetime, typically using the film's original movie trailer. It also airs promos for special programming and featurettes about classic film actors and actresses in between features. TCM's content has also remained mostly uncut and uncolorized (depending upon the original content of movies, particularly movies rated by the MPAA after 1968). Because of the uncut and commercial-free nature of the channel, TCM is formatted similarly to a premium channel; as such, viewers might find that certain films, particularly those made from the 1960s onward, may feature nudity, sexual content, violence and strong profanity; the channel also features premium channel-style ratings bumpers seconds before a film starts. From time to time, the channel shows restored versions of films, particularly old silent films with newly commissioned musical soundtracks. TCM is also a major backer of WGBH's Descriptive Video Service program, and many of the films aired on the network have visual description for the blind and visually impaired, which are accessible through the SAP option through a television or cable/satellite receiver. As a result, viewers interested in tracing the career development of actresses like Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo or actors like Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart have the unique opportunity to see most of the feature films made during their careers, from beginning to end. Unlike AMC and Fox Movie Channel, Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original screen aspect ratio (widescreen or full screen) whenever possible. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any home video release. In 2008 TCM was given a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. Eight years before the launch of TCM, Ted Turner had acquired Metro Goldwyn Mayer, but shortly after sold the studio while retaining the library for itself. The vast library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the base program upon its launch; Turner Classic Movies officially debuted on April 14, 1994 at 6 p.m. ET with Ted Turner ceremonially launching the channel in New York City's Times Square district. The date was chosen for its significance as "the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City." The very first movie ever screened on TCM was the 1939 classic epic Gone with the Wind, exactly what its sister station, TNT, had aired as its debut program six years before. At the time of its launch, TCM was available to only approximately one million cable subscribers; the channel served as a competitor of AMC (at the time, called American Movie Classics), which had a virtually identical format to TCM as both cable channels ran mostly pre-1970 films; though by 2002, AMC had reformatted itself to feature films from all eras, leaving TCM as the only cable movie channel devoted entirely to classic films. Before the creation of TCM, quite a few titles from its vast library of movies were broadcast — with commercial interruptions — on Turner's TNT channel, along with Turner's controversial colorized versions of black-and-white classics such as The Maltese Falcon. When TCM was created in 1994, however, colorization did not carry over to the new channel. As Gary R. Edgerton wrote in the winter 2000 issue of The Journal of Popular Film and Television, TCM immediately advertised itself in April 1994 "with the promise: 'uninterrupted, uncolorized and commercial-free!' Attitudes had evidently come full circle. Colorization was now unfashionable and unprofitable — even for Ted Turner and his colleagues at TBS." In 1996, the Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner. Not only did this put TCM and Warner Bros. under the same corporate umbrella, but it also gave TCM access to the post-1949 Warner Bros. library (which itself includes other acquired properties such as the Lorimar, Saul Zaentz, and National General Pictures libraries); incidentally, TCM had already been running some of Warner's film titles through a licensing agreement with the studio made prior to the launch of the channel. In 2000, TCM launched the annual Young Composers Film Competition, inviting aspiring composers to participate in a judged competition. Grand prize has been the opportunity to score a restored, feature-length silent film, mentored by a well-known composer, with subsequent premiere of the new work on the TCM channel. As of 2006, films which have been rescored include Camille (1921) with Rudolph Valentino, two Lon Chaney films, Ace of Hearts (1921) and Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), and Greta Garbo's The Temptress (1926). More recently, TCM has collaborated in boxed set DVD releases of previously unreleased films by noted actors, directors, or studios. The sets often include bonus discs including documentaries and shorts from the TCM library. In April 2010, TCM held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, at the Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Hosted by Robert Osborne, the four-day long annual festival celebrated Hollywood and its movies, and featured celebrity appearances, special events and screenings of around 50 classic movies including several newly restored by the Film Foundation, an organization devoted to preserving Hollywood's classic film legacy. Upon completion of the festival, TCM announced that they would hold a second festival in 2011. TCM's vast library of films spans several decades of cinema and includes thousands of film titles. TCM's programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Gaps between features are filled with theatrically released movie trailers and classic short subjects (from series such as The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay, Pete Smith Specialties, Robert Benchley, etc.) under the banner name TCM Extras (formerly One Reel Wonders). In 2007, some of the short films featured on TCM began appearing on TCM's website. In part to allow these interstitials, Turner Classic Movies airs its feature films at the top or bottom to the hour, or at one-quarter past or before the hour, instead of in varying time slots. The network also airs original content, mostly documentaries about classic movie personalities and particularly notable films. Besides MGM, United Artists and Warner Bros. releases, TCM also shows films under license from Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Productions, Columbia Pictures, StudioCanal and Janus Films. Most pre-1950 Paramount releases are owned by EMKA, Ltd. /NBCUniversal Television Distribution, while Paramount (currently owned by Viacom) holds on to most of its post-1949 releases, which are handled for television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Columbia's output is owned by Sony through Sony Pictures Television, the films of 20th Century Fox (owned by the News Corporation), are handled for television by 20th Television, and Walt Disney Productions (owned by The Walt Disney Company) has their output handled for television by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. TCM occasionally shows some classic films from 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures, but they are licensed individually. Although a vast majority of the movies shown on Turner Classic Movies are from the 1930s through 1960s, some are more contemporary; it is not uncommon for TCM to air films released in the 1970s, 1980s or (in rare cases) the 1990s and early 2000s. Most feature movies shown in prime time (8 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Eastern Time) are presented by film historian Robert Osborne, who has been with the network since its launch in 1994 (with the exception of a period beginning in July 2011, due to an extended medical leave following an undisclosed minor surgery, during which guest hosts presented each night's films; Osbourne is slated to return on December 1, 2011). More recently, movies shown during the daytime on weekends are presented by Ben Mankiewicz, talk radio host (The Young Turks), Herman J. Mankiewicz's grandson and great-nephew of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. As such, TCM is the last remaining movie channel in the United States to feature hosts providing information about a film prior to the movie, a practice once used by some premium channels until the late 1990s. The Essentials is a weekly program on Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET, spotlighting a specific movie and containing a special introduction and post-movie discussion; the spotlight movie is often replayed the following Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. The current hosts are Osborne and Alec Baldwin. Each August, TCM suspends its regular schedule for a special "month of stars", featuring entire days devoted to a single star, offering movies and specials pertaining to the star of the day; however, Turner Classic Movies airs a "Star of the Month" year-round, except during special programming, in which every Wednesday during each month starting at 8 p.m. ET the majority of (if not all) feature films from a classic film star are shown during primetime and the late night/early morning hours. "Silent Sunday Nights", airing Sunday nights at midnight ET, features silent films from the United States and abroad, usually in the latest restored version and often with new music scores; "Silent Sunday Nights" is occasionally pre-empted for other special programming. Following the "Silent Sunday Nights" feature(s), "TCM Imports" airing on Sunday nights around 2 a.m. ET, is a weekly presentation that features foreign films; "TCM Imports" previously ran on Saturdays until the early 2000s. TCM also features a monthly program block called the "TCM Guest Programmer", in which once a month the channel features a selection of films that are favorites of that month's celebrity guest, in which the guest discusses the film with Robert Osborne (an offshoot of this block featuring TCM employees was done throughout the month of February 2011). In addition, TCM occasionally commemorates a recent death of a classic film star by running a 24-hour marathon of their signature film work in their honor. In October 2006, the network premiered TCM Underground, a Friday late-night series hosted by rocker/filmmaker Rob Zombie, which features a number of cult films personally selected by Zombie. Films in the series include Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Sisters (1973), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Bride of the Monster (1955), Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), and Electra Glide in Blue (1973). Rob Zombie no longer hosts "TCM Underground", and the presentation no longer has a host. In the summer of 2007, the network began airing "Funday Night at the Movies", hosted by voice-over actor Tom Kenny (best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants). This series of programming, which lasted throughout the summer, brought classic films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sounder (1972), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) to a whole new generation of children and their families. For the summer of 2008, TCM launched "Essentials Jr.", a youth-oriented version of its The Essentials weekly series hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O’Donnell, which included such family-themed films as National Velvet (1944), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Captains Courageous (1937), and Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), as well as more eclectic selections as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The Music Box (1932), Harvey (1950), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), On the Town (1949), and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). In 2009, John Lithgow became the host of "The Essentials Jr." All featured programming has their own distinctive feature presentation open for the particular scheduled presentation. Bill Hader serves as host of the 2011 season of Essentials, Jr. In December 1999, TCM debuted "TCM Remembers", which is a tribute to recently deceased film personalities (actors, producers, composers, directors) airing occasionally during promo breaks between films; the segments appear in two forms: following the recent death of a single particular film personality, the segment will feature clips of the work during the deceased's career; in addition during the second half of the month of December each year, a compilation "TCM Remembers" interstitial will run honoring most (if not all) of the film personalities who died during the calendar year. Very often, when a well known actor, producer, or director dies; the network will devote an entire day to showing movies associated with the individual, within a few days after the person has died. In June 2009, Turner Classic Movies launched a high definition version of the channel, showing the same programming as its standard-definition channel. Initial programming was not in native high definition and was instead upconverted from standard definition, but benefited from the greater bandwidth allocated to the channel. Programs available on the high definition feed are broadcast in upconverted 1080i. The Vault Collection consists of several different DVD lines of rare classic films that have been licensed, remastered, and released by Turner Classic Movies. These releases are the DVD debuts of all of the films featured in the collection. The initial batch of DVDs are pressed in limited quantities and subsequent batches are Made-On-Demand (MOD). TCM is available in many other countries around the world. In Canada, Turner Classic Movies debuted in 2005 on the Shaw Cable system and Shaw Direct satellite service. Rogers Cable started offering TCM in December 2006 as a free preview channel for all digital customers, and added to the analogue package in February 2007. While the schedule for the Canadian channel is generally the same as the U.S. channel, some films are replaced for broadcast into Canada due to rights issues and other reasons. Other versions of TCM are available in Australia, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Asia, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Poland. The UK version operates two channels, including a spinoff called TCM 2., Turner Classic Movies 2013-12-31T15:58:09Z Turner Classic Movies (commonly abbreviated as TCM) is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia's Midtown business district. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood studios as well as its Time Warner sibling Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows theatrical films made after the classic era. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, Ted Turner acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $1.5 billion. Concerns over Turner Entertainment's corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGM's library of films released up to 1986. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the base form of programming for TCM upon the channel's launch. Before the creation of Turner Classic Movies, films from Turner's library of movies were broadcast on the commercial Turner Broadcasting System's TNT, along with colorized versions of black-and-white classics such as The Maltese Falcon. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14, 1994 with Ted Turner launching the channel at a ceremony in New York City's Times Square district. The date was chosen for its significance as "the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City." The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, the same film that served as the debut broadcast of its sister channel TNT six years before in October 1988. Unlike TNT, Turner Classic Movies does not broadcast colorized films. At the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. The channel originally served as a competitor to AMC – which at the time was known as "American Movie Classics" and maintained a virtually identical format to TCM as both channels largely focused on films released prior to 1970 and aired them in an uncut, uncolorized and commercial-free format – AMC had broadened its film content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002 and abandoned its commercial-free format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which not only put Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Entertainment under the same corporate umbrella, but also gave TCM access to the library of Warner Bros. films released after 1949 (which itself includes other acquired entities such as the Lorimar, Saul Zaentz and National General Pictures libraries); incidentally, TCM had already been running select Warner Bros. film titles through a licensing agreement with the studio that was signed prior to the launch of the channel. In 2000, TCM started the annual Young Composers Film Competition, inviting aspiring composers to participate in a judged competition that offers the opportunity to score a restored, feature-length silent film as a grand prize, mentored by a well-known composer, with the new work subsequently premiering on the TCM channel. As of 2006, films which have been rescored include the 1921 Rudolph Valentino film Camille, two Lon Chaney films: 1921's The Ace of Hearts and 1928's Laugh, Clown, Laugh and Greta Garbo's 1926 film The Temptress. In 2008, TCM was given a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. In April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival (which has since become an annual event) at the Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Hosted by Robert Osborne, the four-day long annual festival celebrated Hollywood and its movies, and featured celebrity appearances, special events and screenings of around 50 classic movies including several newly restored by the Film Foundation, an organization devoted to preserving Hollywood's classic film legacy. Turner Classic Movies essentially operates as a commercial-free service, with the only advertisements on the channel being shown between features – which advertise TCM products, channel promotions for special programs and the original trailers for films that are scheduled to be broadcast on the channel (particularly films that will air during the primetime hours), and featurettes about classic film actors and actresses. TCM's film content has remained mostly uncut and uncolorized (depending upon the original content of movies, particularly movies rated by the Motion Picture Association of America after 1968). Because of this, TCM is formatted similarly to a premium channel with certain films – particularly those made from the 1960s onward – sometimes featuring nudity, sexual content, violence and/or strong profanity; the channel also features rating bumpers prior to the start of a program (most programs on TCM, especially films, are rated for content using the TV Parental Guidelines, in lieu of the MPAA's rating system). As a result of its devoted format to classic feature films, viewers that are interested in tracing the career development of actresses like Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo or actors like Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart have the unique opportunity to see most of the films that were made during their careers, from beginning to end. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio (widescreen or full screen) whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the channel's standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any home video release. Occasionally, the channel shows restored versions of films, particularly old silent films with newly commissioned musical soundtracks. Turner Classic Movies is also a major backer of the Descriptive Video Service (created by Boston PBS station WGBH-TV), with many of the films aired on the network offering visual description for the blind and visually impaired, which is accessible through the second audio program option through a television, or cable or satellite receiver. TCM's programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Gaps between features are filled with theatrically released movie trailers and classic short subjects – from series such as The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay, Pete Smith Specialties and Robert Benchley – under the banner name TCM Extras (formerly One Reel Wonders). In 2007, some of the short films featured on TCM began appearing on TCM's website. In part to allow these interstitials, Turner Classic Movies schedules its feature films either at the top of the hour or at :15, :30 or :45 minutes past the hour, instead of in timeslots of varying five-minute increments. TCM's library of films spans several decades of cinema and includes thousands of film titles. Besides its deals to broadcast film releases from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies also maintains movie licensing rights agreements with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (primarily film content from Walt Disney Productions), Sony Pictures Entertainment (primarily film content from Columbia Pictures), StudioCanal and Janus Films. Most Paramount releases made prior to 1950 are owned by EMKA, Ltd. /NBCUniversal Television Distribution, while Paramount (currently owned by Viacom) holds on to most of its post-1949 releases, which are handled for television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Columbia's film output is owned by Sony (through Sony Pictures Television); 20th Century Fox's film library are handled for television by its 21st Century Fox subsidiary 20th Television, and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (owned by The Walt Disney Company) has their library film output handled for television by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Classic films released by 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and Toho are licensed individually for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies. Although the majority of movies shown on TCM are releases from the 1930s through the 1960s, some are more contemporary – Turner Classic Movies sometimes airs films from the 1970s, and may occasionally broadcast movies released during the 1980s, 1990s and the early 2000s on certain occasions. Most feature movies shown during the prime time and early overnight hours (8 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Eastern Time) are presented by film historian Robert Osborne (who has been with the network since its 1994 launch, except for a five-month medical leave from July to December 2011, when guest hosts presented each night's films) on Sunday through Thursday evenings – with Osborne only presenting primetime films on Sundays – and Ben Mankiewicz (who also hosts weekend afternoon films and previously hosted TCM's Saturday morning classic animation series Cartoon Alley from 2004 and 2007) on Friday through Sunday evenings – with Mankiewicz presenting only late evening films on Saturdays, and the "Silent Sunday Nights" and "TCM Imports" blocks on Sundays. TCM regularly airs a "Star of the Month" throughout the year on Wednesdays starting at 8 p.m. ET, in which most, if not all, feature films from a classic film star are shown during that night's schedule. The channel also marks the occurrence of a film actor's birthday (either antemortem or posthumously) or recent death with day- or evening-long festivals showcasting several of that artist's best, earliest or least-known pictures. TCM also features a monthly program block called the "TCM Guest Programmer", in which Osborne is joined by celebrity guests responsible for choosing that evening's films (examples of such programmers during 2012 include Jules Feiffer, Anthony Bourdain, Debra Winger, Ellen Barkin, Spike Lee, Regis Philbin and Jim Lehrer); an offshoot of this block featuring Turner Classic Movies employees aired during February 2011. Turner Classic Movies also airs regularly scheduled weekly film blocks, which are periodically preempted for special themed month-long or seasonal scheduling events, such as the "31 Days of Oscar" film series in the month preceding the Academy Awards and the month-long "Summer Under the Stars" in August; all featured programming has their own distinctive feature presentation bumper for the particular scheduled presentation. The Essentials, currently hosted by Osborne and Drew Barrymore as of 2013, is a weekly film showcase airing on Saturday evenings (with a replay on the following Sunday at 6 p.m. ET), which spotlights a different movie and contains a special introduction and post-movie discussion. The channel also broadcasts two movie blocks during the late evening hours each Sunday: "Silent Sunday Nights", which features silent films from the United States and abroad, usually in the latest restored version and often with new musical scores; and "TCM Imports" (which previously ran on Saturdays until the early 2000s), a weekly presentation that features foreign films. TCM Underground – which debuted in October 2006 – is a Friday late night block which focuses on cult films, the block was originally hosted by rocker/filmmaker Rob Zombie until December 2006 (though as of 2013, it is the only regular film presentation block on the channel that does not have a host). Each August, Turner Classic Movies suspends its regular schedule for a special month of film marathons called "Summer Under the Stars", which features entire daily schedules devoted to the work of a particular actor, with movies and specials that pertain to the star of the day. In the summer of 2007, the channel debuted "Funday Night at the Movies", a block hosted by actor Tom Kenny (best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants). This summer block features classic feature films (such as The Wizard of Oz, Sounder, Bringing Up Baby, Singin' in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Adventures of Robin Hood and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) aimed at introducing these movies to new generations of children and their families. "Funday Night at the Movies" was replaced in 2008 by "Essentials Jr.", a youth-oriented version of its weekly series The Essentials (originally hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O'Donnell, then by John Lithgow from 2009 to 2011, and then by Bill Hader starting with the 2011 season), which included such family-themed films as National Velvet, Captains Courageous and Yours, Mine and Ours, as well as more eclectic selections as Sherlock, Jr., The Music Box, Harvey, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Man Who Knew Too Much. In addition to films, Turner Classic Movies also airs original content, mostly documentary films about classic movie personalities, the world of filmmaking and particularly notable films. An occasional month-long series, Race and Hollywood, showcases films by and about people of non-white races, featuring discussions of how these pictures influenced white people's image of said races, as well as how people of those races viewed themselves. Previous installments have included "Asian Images on Film" in 2008, "Native American Images on Film" in 2010, "Black Images on Film" in 2006 "Latino Images on Film" in 2009 and "Arab Images on Film" in 2011. The channel aired the film series Screened Out exploring gay images on film in 2007 and "Religion on Film" in 2005. In 2011, TCM debuted a new television series entitled AFI's Master Class: The Art of Collaboration. In December 1998, TCM debuted "TCM Remembers", which is a tribute to recently deceased notable film personalities (including actors, producers, composers, directors, writers and cinematographers) airing occasionally during promotional breaks between films. The segments appear in two forms: individual tributes and a longer end-of-year compilation. Following the recent death of an especially famous film personality (usually an actor, producer or director), the segment will feature a montage of select shots of the deceased's work. During the second half of each December, a longer, more inclusive "TCM Remembers" interstitial is run honoring most or all of the noted film personalities who died during the past year. The soundtracks for these clipreels are introspective melodies by indie artists such as Badly Drawn Boy (2007) or Steve Earle (2009). Turner Classic Movies operates a high definition simulcast feed with programs broadcast in HD upconverted to the 1080i resolution format; the HD feed of the channel launched in June 2009. Initial programming was not available in native high definition and was instead upconverted from standard definition, but benefited from the greater bandwidth allocated to the channel. The TCM Vault Collection consists of several different DVD collections of rare classic films that have been licensed, remastered and released by Turner Classic Movies (through corporate sister Warner Home Video). These boxed set releases are of films by notable actors, directors or studios that were previously unreleased on DVD or VHS. The sets often include bonus discs including documentaries and shorts from the TCM library. The initial batch of DVDs are printed in limited quantities and subsequent batches are made-on-demand (MOD). Turner Classic Movies is available in many other countries around the world. In Canada, TCM debuted in 2005 on the Shaw Cable and satellite provider Shaw Direct. Rogers Cable started offering TCM in December 2006 as a free preview channel for all digital customers, and added to the analogue package in February 2007. While the schedule for the Canadian feed is generally the same as the U.S. channel, some films are replaced for broadcast into Canada due to rights issues and other reasons. Other versions of TCM are available in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Asia, Latin America, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Poland. The UK version operates two channels, including a spinoff called TCM 2. | 1 |
Joe Allen | Joe Allen 2021-01-02T21:33:32Z Joseph Michael Allen (born 14 March 1990) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship club Stoke City and the Welsh national team. Allen began his career at Swansea City, making his first-team debut in January 2007 at age 16. He played in 150 matches across all competitions in six years at the Liberty Stadium, also having a loan at Wrexham. During his time at Swansea, they won two promotions, going from League One to the Premier League. In 2012, he joined Liverpool for £15 million, signed by his former Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers. Allen spent four seasons at Anfield, making 132 appearances. In July 2016, he signed for Stoke City for a £13 million transfer fee. A full international for Wales since 2009, Allen has earned over 50 caps for his nation and represented Wales at UEFA Euro 2016, helping the team to reach the semi-finals. He also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics. Born in Carmarthen, Allen was raised in the Pembrokeshire town of Narberth, and is a former student of Narberth Primary School and Ysgol y Preseli. He is a fluent Welsh speaker. Allen started his career playing in local team Tenby up to age ten. Allen was part of the Swansea City youth set-up from age nine. As a first-year scholar in the youth team in the 2006–07 season, he featured as an unused first-team substitute in a 3–0 away win over then Premier League side Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup. Two weeks later, when Allen was just 16, Swansea manager Kenny Jackett gave him his debut in the FAW Premier Cup away tie to local Welsh Premier League side Port Talbot Town. He played the first half of the match as Swansea lost 2–1 after extra time. Allen made his league debut for Swansea as a 75th-minute substitute for Andy Robinson in a 6–3 home defeat to Blackpool on 7 May, the final day of the League One season, as Swansea missed out on a play-off position under new manager and former team captain Roberto Martínez. Allen made a first start on 14 August 2007 in a 2–0 home win over Walsall in the first round of the League Cup. He was named man of the match for his performance, which included assisting in the first goal by providing a left-footed chipped cross to Paul Anderson. Two days later, Martínez awarded Allen his first professional contract, to keep him at Swansea until 2010. Allen started in the next round of the tournament at home to Reading and again received the man of the match award, despite a 1–0 loss. He made 14 appearances over the campaign, six in the Swans' victorious capture of the League One title. The following season, Swansea's first in the Championship, Allen struggled to get into the first team due to competition from midfielders Darren Pratley, Ferrie Bodde, Owain Tudur Jones, Jordi Gómez and Leon Britton. On 7 October 2008, Allen joined Conference Premier club Wrexham on a one-month loan and scored a goal from 25 yards on his debut for the North Wales team the same day, in a 3–1 win over York City at the Racecourse Ground. His loan was curtailed after only one more match, when he damaged ankle ligaments and was sidelined for a month. Allen returned from the injury in December, entering the Swansea squad at home to Barnsley after regular midfielder Ferrie Bodde had been ruled out for the remainder of the season due to injury. With Swansea 2–0 down and playing poorly, manager Martínez was prompted to bring Allen on from the substitutes' bench. The club went on to earn a late 2–2 draw and despite only playing 25 minutes, Allen once more received the man of the match award. On 5 April 2009, Allen came on as a 68th-minute substitute for Mark Gower, and 20 minutes later scored his first goal for Swansea in a South Wales derby 2–2 draw away at Cardiff City. At the end of the season, he signed a new three-year contract lasting until 2012. After frequently being injured in the 2009–10 season, Allen returned to regular first-team football at the start of the 2010–11 season. A string of impressive performances prompted manager Brendan Rodgers to play Allen in the South Wales derby in November 2010, with Allen receiving the man of the match award in the 1–0 win. He played 40 league matches and scored twice over the Championship campaign, and featured for the full 90 minutes as Swansea won promotion with a 4–2 victory over Reading in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium. However, he scored an own goal in that match. A few days prior to the beginning of the 2011–12 Premier League, Allen signed a new four-year contract with Swansea lasting until 2015. He played 36 out of 38 top-flight fixtures that season, scoring four goals. On 3 December 2011, he was sent off for two bookings in a 4–2 loss to Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. On 10 August 2012, after passing a medical at Melwood, Allen signed a long-term contract with Liverpool in a transfer deal worth £15 million, following Brendan Rodgers' move to Anfield. Allen made his Premier League debut on 18 August 2012, starting in a 3–0 loss against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns. He started Liverpool's next match of the league campaign against Manchester City, where he was voted man of the match on the club's official website by fans and journalists. He went on to win the Liverpool Player of the Month award for August 2012. Allen scored his first goal for Liverpool on 27 January 2013 in a 3–2 defeat to Oldham Athletic in the fourth round of the FA Cup. He scored his first European goal on 21 February in a 3–1 win over Zenit Saint Petersburg in the UEFA Europa League. On 20 March, it was announced Allen would be ruled out for the remainder of the 2012–13 season, with him requiring surgery on his left shoulder. On 5 May 2014, Allen scored his first goal for Liverpool in the 2013–14 Premier League season with a header from a corner to give Liverpool the lead in a 3–3 draw against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Allen played 26 times for Liverpool in 2013–14 as the side narrowly missed out on the Premier League title. In the 2014–15 season, Allen made 32 appearances as the side finished in sixth position. Allen was praised when he played the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 win against Manchester City, where he outplayed City star Yaya Touré. On 13 April 2015, Allen scored the second goal in a 2–0 win over Newcastle United, his first at Anfield. Before the start of the 2015–16 season, Allen suffered an injury during one of the pre-season matches and was ruled out for a month. On 13 January 2016, he scored a last-minute equalizer in a 3–3 home draw against league leaders Arsenal. Thirteen days later, he scored the winning penalty in a shootout against Stoke City to send Liverpool to the 2016 League Cup Final. Allen was an unused substitute for Liverpool as they lost the final on penalties to Manchester City. However, Allen did play in the 2016 UEFA Europa League Final against Sevilla on 18 May 2016 in Basel, where despite initially taking the lead, Liverpool were defeated 3–1. At the end of the season, Allen expressed his desire to play regular football. On 25 July 2016, Allen joined Stoke City on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million transfer fee. He made his Premier League debut for Stoke on 13 August 2016 in a 1–1 draw away at Middlesbrough. Speaking after his move to Stoke, Allen said he "had to move on" from Liverpool in order to receive regular playing time. He scored his first goal for Stoke on 24 September 2016 in a 1–1 draw against West Bromwich Albion. Allen then scored against Manchester United on 2 October as Stoke earned their first point at Old Trafford since 1980. Allen continued his goal scoring run with both goals in a 2–0 win against Sunderland earning Stoke their first victory of the 2016–17 season. In November 2016, Allen was included in the 40-man shortlist for the UEFA Team of the Year. He scored a vital winning goal against Crystal Palace on 11 February 2017. Allen made 39 appearances in 2016–17, scoring six goals, as Stoke finished in 13th position. Allen played 38 times in 2017–18, scoring four goals as Stoke suffered relegation to the Championship. Following relegation, Allen said he would be willing to stay with the club. Allen signed new four-year contract with the Potters in June 2018. Allen was the only member of the squad to play every Championship game in 2018–19, as Stoke failed to mount a promotion challenge finishing in 16th. He scored six goals during the campaign most notably winning ones against Leeds United and his former club Swansea. Stoke began the 2019–20 season in poor form with Allen being sent-off against Bristol City on 14 September 2019. Allen scored in Michael O'Neill's first match in a 4–2 win against Barnsley which lifted Stoke off the bottom of the table. Allen scored twice against Luton Town on 10 December 2019 in a 3–0 victory but came in for criticism after he celebrated by cupping his ears at the crowd. Allen was ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering a achilles tendon rupture on 7 March 2020 playing against Hull City. In his absence Stoke managed to avoid relegation and finished in 15th position. Soon after receiving his first professional contract for Swansea City in August 2007, Allen was called up for the Wales under-21 team in a friendly match away to Sweden. He scored the winning goal in a 4–3 victory. In May 2009, Allen made his debut for the senior Wales team as an 80th-minute substitute for Jack Collison during a friendly against Estonia. Wales, who won 1–0 in Llanelli, were fielding their youngest team ever, with an average age of 21. He made his first start for Wales in a 2–0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group G match against Switzerland at his club's Liberty Stadium in October 2011. He was awarded the prize for the Wales' Player of the Year for 2012 in October of that year. Allen captained Wales for the first time in the absence of Ashley Williams through injury on 4 June 2014 against the Netherlands. He played throughout the nation's successful qualification for UEFA Euro 2016. On 13 November 2015, in a 3–2 home loss to the Dutch, he had a penalty saved by Jasper Cillessen, but Joe Ledley scored from the rebound. At Euro 2016, Allen set-up Aaron Ramsey's goal in a 3–0 win over Russia on 20 June, which allowed Wales to top their group and advance to the knockout round of the tournament. Wales were eliminated following a 2–0 defeat to eventual champions Portugal in the semi-final on 6 July. Allen was named to the team of the tournament for his performances. Allen chose to be included in Team GB's 2012 Summer Olympics football squad. He was one of five Welsh players—including captain Ryan Giggs—but a mistake in the official Team GB programme for their first match described Allen as English. Allen is a hard-working, tactically disciplined and tenacious—albeit not overly physical—midfielder, who is capable of aiding his team both creatively and offensively courtesy of his ability to transition the ball from defence to attack effectively after winning back possession. A versatile and gifted player with a low centre of gravity and quick feet, he is capable of playing in several midfield roles. Due to his vision, composure in possession, efficient passing and ability to dictate the tempo of his team's play in midfield as a playmaker, Allen has been described as the "Welsh Xavi" and as the "Welsh Pirlo" by his former manager at Swansea City and Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers. Allen is married to Lacey, with whom he has a son. Inspired by her involvement in animal welfare, he adopts hens to save them when they can no longer lay eggs. Allen's brother Harry lost his hearing at age three due to meningitis, and Joe became ambassador for Action on Hearing Loss Cymru in March 2015. Harry also played football and became captain of the Welsh deaf futsal team. Swansea City Liverpool Individual, Joe Allen 2022-12-31T00:01:07Z Joseph Michael Allen (born 14 March 1990) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Swansea City and the Wales national team. Allen began his career at Swansea City, making his first-team debut in January 2007 at age 16. He played in 150 matches across all competitions in six years at the Liberty Stadium, also having a loan at Wrexham. During his time at Swansea, they won two promotions, going from League One to the Premier League. He also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics. In the same year, he joined Liverpool for £15 million, signed by his former Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers. Allen spent four seasons at Anfield, making 132 appearances. In July 2016, he signed for Stoke City for a £13 million transfer fee. After making over 220 appearances for the Potters, he returned to Swansea in 2022. A full international for Wales since 2009, Allen has earned over 70 caps for his nation and represented Wales at UEFA Euro 2016, helping the team reach the semi-finals, and UEFA Euro 2020. Allen also helped Wales qualify for the FIFA World Cup in 2022 for the first time since 1958. Born in Carmarthen, Allen was raised in the Pembrokeshire town of Narberth, and is a former student of Narberth Primary School and Ysgol y Preseli. He is a fluent Welsh language speaker. Allen started his career playing in local team Tenby up to age ten. Allen was part of the Swansea City youth set-up from age nine. As a first-year scholar in the youth team in the 2006–07 season, he featured as an unused first-team substitute in a 3–0 away win over then Premier League side Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup. Two weeks later, when Allen was just 16, Swansea manager Kenny Jackett gave him his debut in the FAW Premier Cup away tie to local Welsh Premier League side Port Talbot Town. He played the first half of the match as Swansea lost 2–1 after extra time. Allen made his league debut for Swansea as a 75th-minute substitute for Andy Robinson in a 6–3 home defeat to Blackpool on 7 May, the final day of the League One season, as Swansea missed out on a play-off position under new manager and former team captain Roberto Martínez. Allen made a first start on 14 August 2007 in a 2–0 home win over Walsall in the first round of the League Cup. He was named man of the match for his performance, which included assisting in the first goal by providing a left-footed chipped cross to Paul Anderson. Two days later, Martínez awarded Allen his first professional contract, to keep him at Swansea until 2010. Allen started in the next round of the tournament at home to Reading and again received the man of the match award, despite a 1–0 loss. He made 14 appearances over the campaign, six in the Swans' victorious capture of the League One title. The following season, Swansea's first in the Championship, Allen struggled to get into the first team due to competition from midfielders Darren Pratley, Ferrie Bodde, Owain Tudur Jones, Jordi Gómez and Leon Britton. On 7 October 2008, Allen joined Conference Premier club Wrexham on a one-month loan and scored a goal from 25 yards on his debut for the North Wales team the same day, in a 3–1 win over York City at the Racecourse Ground. His loan was curtailed after only one more match, when he damaged ankle ligaments and was sidelined for a month. Allen returned from the injury in December, entering the Swansea squad at home to Barnsley after regular midfielder Ferrie Bodde had been ruled out for the remainder of the season due to injury. With Swansea 2–0 down and playing poorly, manager Martínez was prompted to bring Allen on from the substitutes' bench. The club went on to earn a late 2–2 draw and despite only playing 25 minutes, Allen once more received the man of the match award. On 5 April 2009, Allen came on as a 68th-minute substitute for Mark Gower, and 20 minutes later scored his first goal for Swansea in a South Wales derby 2–2 draw away at Cardiff City. At the end of the season, he signed a new three-year contract lasting until 2012. After frequently being injured in the 2009–10 season, Allen returned to regular first-team football at the start of the 2010–11 season. A string of impressive performances prompted manager Brendan Rodgers to play Allen in the South Wales derby in November 2010, with Allen receiving the man of the match award in the 1–0 win. He played 40 league matches and scored twice over the Championship campaign, and featured for the full 90 minutes as Swansea won promotion with a 4–2 victory over Reading in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium. However, he scored an own goal in that match. A few days prior to the beginning of the 2011–12 Premier League, Allen signed a new four-year contract with Swansea lasting until 2015. He played 36 out of 38 top-flight fixtures that season, scoring four goals. On 3 December 2011, he was sent off for two bookings in a 4–2 loss to Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. On 10 August 2012, after passing a medical at Melwood, Allen signed a long-term contract with Liverpool in a transfer deal worth £15 million, following Brendan Rodgers' move to Anfield. Allen made his Premier League debut on 18 August 2012, starting in a 3–0 loss against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns. He started Liverpool's next match of the league campaign against Manchester City, where he was voted man of the match on the club's official website by fans and journalists. He went on to win the Liverpool Player of the Month award for August 2012. Allen scored his first goal for Liverpool on 27 January 2013 in a 3–2 defeat to Oldham Athletic in the fourth round of the FA Cup. He scored his first European goal on 21 February in a 3–1 win over Zenit Saint Petersburg in the UEFA Europa League. On 20 March, it was announced Allen would be ruled out for the remainder of the 2012–13 season, with him requiring surgery on his left shoulder. On 5 May 2014, Allen scored his first goal for Liverpool in the 2013–14 Premier League season with a header from a corner to give Liverpool the lead in a 3–3 draw against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Allen played 26 times for Liverpool in 2013–14 as the side narrowly missed out on the Premier League title. In the 2014–15 season, Allen made 32 appearances as the side finished in sixth position. Allen was praised when he played the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 win against Manchester City, where he outplayed City star Yaya Touré. On 13 April 2015, Allen scored the second goal in a 2–0 win over Newcastle United, his first at Anfield. Before the start of the 2015–16 season, Allen suffered an injury during one of the pre-season matches and was ruled out for a month. On 13 January 2016, he scored a last-minute equalizer in a 3–3 home draw against league leaders Arsenal. Thirteen days later, he scored the winning penalty in a shootout against Stoke City to send Liverpool to the 2016 League Cup Final. Allen was an unused substitute for Liverpool as they lost the final on penalties to Manchester City. However, Allen did play in the 2016 UEFA Europa League Final against Sevilla on 18 May 2016 in Basel, where despite initially taking the lead, Liverpool were defeated 3–1. At the end of the season, Allen expressed his desire to play regular football. On 25 July 2016, Allen joined Stoke City on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million transfer fee. He made his Premier League debut for Stoke on 13 August 2016 in a 1–1 draw away at Middlesbrough. Speaking after his move to Stoke, Allen said he "had to move on" from Liverpool in order to receive regular playing time. He scored his first goal for Stoke on 24 September 2016 in a 1–1 draw against West Bromwich Albion. Allen then scored against Manchester United on 2 October as Stoke earned their first point at Old Trafford since 1980. Allen continued his goal scoring run with both goals in a 2–0 win against Sunderland earning Stoke their first victory of the 2016–17 season. In November 2016, Allen was included in the 40-man shortlist for the UEFA Team of the Year. He scored a vital winning goal against Crystal Palace on 11 February 2017. Allen made 39 appearances in 2016–17, scoring six goals, as Stoke finished in 13th position. Allen played 38 times in 2017–18, scoring four goals as Stoke suffered relegation to the Championship. Following relegation, Allen said he would be willing to stay with the club. Allen signed new four-year contract with the Potters in June 2018. Allen was the only member of the squad to play every Championship game in 2018–19, as Stoke failed to mount a promotion challenge finishing in 16th. He scored six goals during the campaign most notably winning ones against Leeds United and his former club Swansea. Stoke began the 2019–20 season in poor form with Allen being sent-off against Bristol City on 14 September 2019. Allen scored in Michael O'Neill's first match in a 4–2 win against Barnsley which lifted Stoke off the bottom of the table. Allen scored twice against Luton Town on 10 December 2019 in a 3–0 victory but came in for criticism after he celebrated by cupping his ears at the crowd. Allen was ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering an achilles tendon rupture on 7 March 2020 playing against Hull City. In his absence Stoke managed to avoid relegation and finished in 15th position. Allen returned to match fitness in December 2020 making his return from injury on Boxing day against Coventry City. He went on to play nineteen times in the 2020–21 season, before he suffered another injury set-back in March 2021 whilst on international duty with Wales. Prior to the start of the 2021–22 season, Allen was made captain by Michael O'Neill. Stoke had a frustrating season as after being in the top six for the first half of the campaign a poor second half saw them slip down the table and finish in 14th. Allen left Stoke at the end of the season following the expiration of his contract. On 8 July 2022, Allen returned to his first club Swansea City, signing a two-year contract. Soon after receiving his first professional contract for Swansea City in August 2007, Allen was called up for the Wales under-21 team in a friendly match away to Sweden. He scored the winning goal in a 4–3 victory. In May 2009, Allen made his debut for the senior Wales team as an 80th-minute substitute for Jack Collison during a friendly against Estonia. Wales, who won 1–0 in Llanelli, were fielding their youngest team ever, with an average age of 21. He made his first start for Wales in a 2–0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group G match against Switzerland at his club's Liberty Stadium in October 2011. He was awarded the prize for the Wales' Player of the Year for 2012 in October of that year. Allen captained Wales for the first time in the absence of Ashley Williams through injury on 4 June 2014 against the Netherlands. He played throughout the nation's successful qualification for UEFA Euro 2016. On 13 November 2015, in a 3–2 home loss to the Dutch, he had a penalty saved by Jasper Cillessen, but Joe Ledley scored from the rebound. At Euro 2016, Allen set-up Aaron Ramsey's goal in a 3–0 win over Russia on 20 June, which allowed Wales to top their group and advance to the knockout round of the tournament. Wales were eliminated following a 2–0 defeat to eventual champions Portugal in the semi-final on 6 July. Allen was named to the team of the tournament for his performances. In May 2021 he was selected for the Wales squad for the delayed UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. In November 2022 he was named in the Wales squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Allen was included in Team GB's 2012 Summer Olympics football squad. He was one of five Welsh players—including captain Ryan Giggs—but a mistake in the official Team GB programme for their first match described Allen as English. Allen is a hard-working, tactically disciplined and tenacious—albeit not overly physical—midfielder, who is capable of aiding his team both creatively and offensively courtesy of his ability to transition the ball from defence to attack effectively after winning back possession. A versatile and gifted player with a low centre of gravity and quick feet, he is capable of playing in several midfield roles. Due to his vision, composure in possession, efficient passing and ability to dictate the tempo of his team's play in midfield as a playmaker, Allen has been described as the "Welsh Xavi" and as the "Welsh Pirlo" by his former manager at Swansea City and Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers. Allen is married to Lacey, with whom he has a son. Inspired by her involvement in animal welfare, he adopts hens to save them when they can no longer lay eggs. Allen's brother Harry lost his hearing at age three due to meningitis, and Joe became ambassador for Action on Hearing Loss Cymru in March 2015. Harry also played football and became captain of the Welsh deaf futsal team. Swansea City Liverpool Individual | 1 |
Makedonikos_B.C. | Makedonikos_B.C. 2008-01-16T20:32:43Z Makedonikos BC is a Greek professional basketball club. It competed in Greece's A1 League for years until going bankrupt in 2006 and being relegated to the third division of Greek professional basketball. Makedonikos was the runner up of the ULEB Cup competition in 2005. The ULEB Cup is the 3rd highest professional basketball league in the world after the NBA and the Euroleague. Makedonikos means Macedonian in the Greek Language. Since its foundation Makedonikos' home city was Thessaloniki, Greece. Otherwise, when the team was bought by Dimitris Mesaikos, the franchise was moved to Kozani, Greece for a short period. The team returned to Thessaloniki, Greece after it went bankrupt in 2006. Makedonikos Sports Club Official Website Template:Bb start Template:Bb end, Makedonikos_B.C. 2009-08-03T06:04:15Z Makedonikos Kozani B. C. (or Μακεδονικός K. A. E. in Greek) is a Greek professional basketball club. The club is located in Neapoli, Thessaloniki, Greece. Makedonikos competed in Greece's A1 League for years until going bankrupt in 2006 and being relegated to the third division of Greek professional basketball. Makedonikos was the runner up of the ULEB Cup competition in 2005. The ULEB Cup is the 3rd highest professional basketball league in the world after the NBA and the Euroleague. The club was founded in the year 1928. Makedonikos won the A2 Ethniki, which is the second division of the professional Greek basketball league in the years 2000 and 2002. During the 2001-02 season the team set the A2 season record for most wins with 24. Makedonikos means "Macedonian" in Greek. Since its foundation Makedonikos' home city was Thessaloniki, Greece. Otherwise, when the team was bought by Dimitris Mesaikos, the franchise was moved to Kozani, Greece for a short period to play in a newer, larger arena that had just opened there. The team returned to Thessaloniki, Greece after it went bankrupt playing in Kozani. Template:Bb start Template:Bb end | 0 |
Mapa_de_Cuauhtinchan_No._2 | Mapa_de_Cuauhtinchan_No._2 2018-05-23T21:32:54Z Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (Cuauhtinchan Map #2, also known in the literature by the abbreviation MC2) is one of five indigenous maps from the sixteenth century Valley of Puebla, that documents the history of the Chichimeca Cucuhtinchantlacas. This map is a post-conquest document done in amate paper in a traditional cartographic history style very common in Mesoamerica (Boone, 2000) and used to recount creation myths, migrations, battles and allegiances, and to document lineages and territorial boundaries (Reyes, 1977). Mapmaking is a cultural expression evidenced in different forms in any human community over time and space: From fourth century BC (400 BC) China to nineteenth century Europe, maps have been a medium that materialized or translated man's relationship to the world around it; as Harley puts it “There are few aspects of human action and thought that have not been mapped at one time or another” (Harley, 1991). Maps are a representation of place. As part of the Greek legacy, cartography stressed the “scientific”, methodical, and measurable aspects of these representations, which the European tradition embraced, dismissing the other more subjective discourses; and referring to these non-European maps as “primitive". (see History of Cartography). Ranging from paintings produced by the Aboriginal people of Australia (Indigenous Australians) to maps of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Native Americans), and from the Marshall Islands stick charts to the battle plans drawn on the ground by Māori warriors in New Zealand, they were widely regarded as an inchoate stage in the cognitive history of cartography. To the extent that they lacked orientation, regular scales, and the Euclidean geometry of modern maps, or were drawn on unfamiliar media, little effort was made to crack their codes of representation. They remained on the periphery of Western cartographic achievement. (Harley, 1991) As cartography encompassed both the Western world and non-Western world expressions its definition expanded from just being cognitive structures to understand space to be a contextual historical discourse. Post-conquest indigenous cartographic expressions were an example of the conscientious combination of the foreign and indigenous styles, an active reflection of the cultural changes taking place at that moment in Mesoamerica. The maps and the mapmaking that came from Europe to the New World during the conquest were “framed by a scientific rationale, primarily accentuating economic, social, and political boundaries and often ignoring levels of signs and abstractions deeply rooted in the cultural context and social order where a map is produced” (Botero, 2006). With this in mind Aztec maps were not just layouts of the empire, but actually cartographic histories. Not only those documented how things were arranged in space but they told stories and were a common method of presenting space and movement through it and Mexican historians made remarkable use of this technique (Boone, 2000). According to Elizabeth Hill Boone any story is tied to a protagonist (who), a date (when), and a location (where); and maps such as the MC2 allowed the representation of these three elements, therefore they were a suitable discourse for their stories. The map, using an undoubtedly Mesoamerican cartographic discourse, though with minor European accents (for example in the detail of the facial expressions), describes a pilgrimage. A ritual (Boone, 2000) and cultural journey from the mythical cave of Chicomoztoc to the town of Cuauhtinchan in the heart of today’s Valley of Puebla in the immediacies of the Amozoc-Tepeaca mountain range (Yoneda, 2005). It tells a story that spans about four hundred years, between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (Reyes, 1977). The story told in this manuscript starts while the Olmeca-Xicallanca were attacking the city of Cholula, the Tolteca capital. The Tolteca rulers send two lords/priests, Icxicouatl (“Serpent Foot”) and Quetzalteueyac (“Feather Lip”) (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976; Wake, 2007) to find and hire the famous Chichimeca mercenaries, “son valientes hombres, animosos y esforzados soldados (tiyacuah)” (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976) that lived in Chicomoztoc to fight for them (Reyes, 1977). The Chichimeca tribes left the sacred site led by Itzpapalotl, their goddess of war (Yoneda, 2002a), followed their Tolteca guides for thirteen days (Yoneda, 2002b), arrived to the city of Cholula, and defeated the Tolteca enemies, the Olmeca-Xicallanca. As reward for their services the Chichimeca-Cuauhtinchantlacas (the mapmakers’ ancestors) were given the title of teuchtli and allowed to settle in the immediacies of the mountain range of Amozoc-Tepeaca, where after surveying the valley they founded Cuauhtinchan (Reyes, 1977; Yoneda, 2005). Additionally, the Map tells the story of the tensions between Cuauhtinchantlacas and Popollocas, their claims to the lands of the alteptl of Cuauhtinchan, and their ultimate defeat by the Mixteca Lord 13, who pursued and killed Teuchtlecozauhqui (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976). After this the Cuauhtinchantlaca survivors took refuge in Matlazinco, south of Cuauhtinchan in the bank of the Atoyac River near the current town of San Juan of Tzictlacoya (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976). From 2002 to 2007 research on this manuscript was conducted at Harvard University. The work was carried through the Moses Mesoamerican Archive in the Department of Anthropology and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. The Mexican American historian of religions David Carrasco was responsible for organizing the five year study at Harvard that resulted in Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest, edited by Carrasco and his former student and colleague Scott Sessions. For a useful history of this project see the introduction to the book written by the co-editors. Carrasco did a lecture tour about the MC2 Codex in 2008 and 2009. Some interesting internal and external links to indigenous manuscripts and studies on these documents are: Carrasco (Ed. ), The cave, the city, and the eagle’s nest: An interpretative journey through the MC2. In press, Mapa_de_Cuauhtinchan_No._2 2020-10-25T20:06:32Z Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (Cuauhtinchan Map #2, also known in the literature by the abbreviation MC2) is one of five indigenous maps from the sixteenth century Valley of Puebla, that documents the history of the Chichimeca Cucuhtinchantlacas. This map is a post-conquest document done in amate paper in a traditional cartographic history style very common in Mesoamerica (Boone, 2000) and used to recount creation myths, migrations, battles and allegiances, and to document lineages and territorial boundaries (Reyes, 1977). Mapmaking is a cultural expression evidenced in different forms in any human community over time and space: From fourth century BC (400 BC) China to nineteenth century Europe, maps have been a medium that materialized or translated man's relationship to the world around it; as Harley puts it “There are few aspects of human action and thought that have not been mapped at one time or another” (Harley, 1991). Maps are a representation of place. As part of the Greek legacy, cartography stressed the “scientific”, methodical, and measurable aspects of these representations, which the European tradition embraced, dismissing the other more subjective discourses; and referring to these non-European maps as “primitive". (see History of Cartography). Ranging from paintings produced by the Aboriginal people of Australia (Indigenous Australians) to maps of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Native Americans), and from the Marshall Islands stick charts to the battle plans drawn on the ground by Māori warriors in New Zealand, they were widely regarded as an inchoate stage in the cognitive history of cartography. To the extent that they lacked orientation, regular scales, and the Euclidean geometry of modern maps, or were drawn on unfamiliar media, little effort was made to crack their codes of representation. They remained on the periphery of Western cartographic achievement. (Harley, 1991) As cartography encompassed both the Western world and non-Western world expressions its definition expanded from just being cognitive structures to understand space to be a contextual historical discourse. Post-conquest indigenous cartographic expressions were an example of the conscientious combination of the foreign and indigenous styles, an active reflection of the cultural changes taking place at that moment in Mesoamerica. The maps and the mapmaking that came from Europe to the New World during the conquest were “framed by a scientific rationale, primarily accentuating economic, social, and political boundaries and often ignoring levels of signs and abstractions deeply rooted in the cultural context and social order where a map is produced” (Botero, 2006). With this in mind Aztec maps were not just layouts of the empire, but actually cartographic histories. Not only those documented how things were arranged in space but they told stories and were a common method of presenting space and movement through it and Mexican historians made remarkable use of this technique (Boone, 2000). According to Elizabeth Hill Boone any story is tied to a protagonist (who), a date (when), and a location (where); and maps such as the MC2 allowed the representation of these three elements, therefore they were a suitable discourse for their stories. The map, using an undoubtedly Mesoamerican cartographic discourse, though with minor European accents (for example in the detail of the facial expressions), describes a pilgrimage. A ritual (Boone, 2000) and cultural journey from the mythical cave of Chicomoztoc to the town of Cuauhtinchan in the heart of today's Valley of Puebla in the immediacies of the Amozoc-Tepeaca mountain range (Yoneda, 2005). It tells a story that spans about four hundred years, between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (Reyes, 1977). The story told in this manuscript starts while the Olmeca-Xicallanca were attacking the city of Cholula, the Tolteca capital. The Tolteca rulers send two lords/priests, Icxicouatl (“Serpent Foot”) and Quetzalteueyac (“Feather Lip”) (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976; Wake, 2007) to find and hire the famous Chichimeca mercenaries, “son valientes hombres, animosos y esforzados soldados (tiyacuah)” (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976) that lived in Chicomoztoc to fight for them (Reyes, 1977). The Chichimeca tribes left the sacred site led by Itzpapalotl, their goddess of war (Yoneda, 2002a), followed their Tolteca guides for thirteen days (Yoneda, 2002b), arrived to the city of Cholula, and defeated the Tolteca enemies, the Olmeca-Xicallanca. As reward for their services the Chichimeca-Cuauhtinchantlacas (the mapmakers' ancestors) were given the title of teuchtli and allowed to settle in the immediacies of the mountain range of Amozoc-Tepeaca, where after surveying the valley they founded Cuauhtinchan (Reyes, 1977; Yoneda, 2005). Additionally, the Map tells the story of the tensions between Cuauhtinchantlacas and Popollocas, their claims to the lands of the alteptl of Cuauhtinchan, and their ultimate defeat by the Mixteca Lord 13, who pursued and killed Teuchtlecozauhqui (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976). After this the Cuauhtinchantlaca survivors took refuge in Matlazinco, south of Cuauhtinchan in the bank of the Atoyac River near the current town of San Juan of Tzictlacoya (Kirchhoff et al. , 1976). From 2002 to 2007 research on this manuscript was conducted at Harvard University. The work was carried through the Moses Mesoamerican Archive in the Department of Anthropology and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. The Mexican American historian of religions David Carrasco was responsible for organizing the five-year study at Harvard that resulted in Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest, edited by Carrasco and his former student and colleague Scott Sessions. For a useful history of this project see the introduction to the book written by the co-editors. Carrasco did a lecture tour about the MC2 Codex in 2008 and 2009. Some interesting internal and external links to indigenous manuscripts and studies on these documents are: | 0 |
Teerasil Dangda | Teerasil Dangda 2008-03-06T03:15:12Z Teerasil Dangda is a Thai footballer, currently playing for Manchester City F.C.. Teerasil is a Thailand international, and was in the squad for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Teerasil completed a successful trial with Manchester City, and after some work permit issues, finally completed his move to the English Premier League side on the 16th November, 2007 along with fellow Thai internationals Kiatprawut Saiwaeo & Suree Sukha. However, all three have been loaned out to Grasshoppers Zurich, who are a feeder club of Manchester City F.C.. , Teerasil Dangda 2009-12-05T08:00:30Z Teerasil Dangda (Thai: ธีรศิลป์ แดงดา) is a Thai footballer, currently playing for Muang Thong United. Teerasil is a Thailand international, and was in the squad for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Teerasil completed a successful trial with Manchester City,. He was brought in when former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was owner of the club. On October 16, 2008, he and fellow Thai players Kiatprawut Saiwaeo and Suree Sukha were released by City and are now back in Thailand. Dangda has been an ever present in the international fold since October 2007, in a World Cup Qualifying match against Macau. He has recently been named in the 2008 T&T Cup squad to be played in Vietnam. Teerasil was a member of the victorious T&T Cup 2008 winning squad. Squad 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup | 1 |
Gaston_Litaize | Gaston_Litaize 2009-12-22T17:11:03Z Gaston Gilbert Litaize (August 11, 1909 - August 5, 1991) was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris. Blind from infancy, he studied and taught for most of his life at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for the Blind). Litaize was born in Ménil-sur-Belvitte, Vosges, in northeast France. An illness caused him to lose his sight just after birth. He entered the Institute for the Blind at a young age, studying with Charles Magin, who encouraged him to move to Paris and study with Magin and Adolphe Marty at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, which he did from 1926 to 1931. Concurrently, he entered the Paris Conservatoire in October 1927, studying with Marcel Dupré and Henri Büsser, as well as privately with Louis Vierne. Over the course of six years, he won first prizes in organ, improvisation, fugue, and composition, as well as the Prix Rossini for his cantata Fra Angelico. In 1938 he finished second to Henri Dutilleux in the Prix de Rome, said to be the first time that a blind person was accepted in the competition; subsequently he asked Dutilleux many times to compose for the organ, but nothing came of it. He began working as organist at Saint-Cloud in 1934, and after leaving the Paris Conservatoire in 1939 he returned to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles to teach harmony. In 1944 he began a thirty-year directorship of religious radio programs, where he oversaw five weekly broadcasts. He took up a position in 1946 at St François-Xavier, Paris, where he remained the organist until his death. In 1975 he retired from the radio and began teaching organ at St Maur-des-Fossés Conservatoire, where he "gained numerous disciples. " He died in 1991 in Bruyères, Vosges. As a performer, Litaize toured France, western Europe, the USA, and Canada. His first American tour was in the autumn of 1957. His recording of the Messe pour les paroisses by François Couperin on the organ at Saint-Merri earned highly positive reviews, called "admirably recorded" in The Musical Times and a "fine, sensitive performance" in Music and Letters. Unusually, he elected not to use notes inégales in the performance, although he was very interested in researching "old" music. His improvisations were called "shattering displays" and compared favorably to Dupré, Demessieux, Cochereau, and Heiller. Litaize was highly influential on generations of French organists. He inspired Olivier Latry to choose his career: At 16 I won piano first prize . . . and I thought I might continue piano studies at the Paris Conservatoire. . . . However, I decided to play the organ, choosing Gaston Litaize at the CNR de St-Maur-des-Fossés as my teacher as I had heard him give a very exciting recital at the Cathedral of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It was this that confirmed my desire to play the organ. Norbert Dufourcq summarized Litaize's compositional style: "Litaize inclines . . . to restlessness and gloom, but his idiom is virile and glowing. He is a fine melodist and skilful polyphonist. " A review of Litaize's Douze Pièces in The Musical Times was generally negative, however, finding the music dry and calling Litaize a "virtuoso writing for virtuosos". Of the Prière, Henry Willis wrote that "extreme modernity was the key-note". Archibald Farmer wrote that the Préludes Liturgiques were "clever, interesting, often good, and always modishly French. " Litaize was involved with experimental music; soon after the inception of musique concrète he was asked to write a piece for African xylophone, four bells, three zanzas, and two whirligigs, which Pierre Schaeffer fragmented and reformed into Étude aux Tourniquets in 1948-9. References are from Cantagrel unless otherwise noted. , Gaston_Litaize 2010-10-06T12:06:59Z Gaston Gilbert Litaize (August 11, 1909 - August 5, 1991) was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris. Blind from infancy, he studied and taught for most of his life at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for the Blind). Litaize was born in Ménil-sur-Belvitte, Vosges, in northeast France. An illness caused him to lose his sight just after birth. He entered the Institute for the Blind at a young age, studying with Charles Magin, who encouraged him to move to Paris and study with Magin and Adolphe Marty at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, which he did from 1926 to 1931. Concurrently, he entered the Paris Conservatoire in October 1927, studying with Marcel Dupré and Henri Büsser, as well as privately with Louis Vierne. Over the course of six years, he won first prizes in organ, improvisation, fugue, and composition, as well as the Prix Rossini for his cantata Fra Angelico. In 1938 he finished second to Henri Dutilleux in the Prix de Rome, said to be the first time that a blind person was accepted in the competition; subsequently he asked Dutilleux many times to compose for the organ, but nothing came of it. He began working as organist at Saint-Cloud in 1934, and after leaving the Paris Conservatoire in 1939 he returned to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles to teach harmony. In 1944 he began a thirty-year directorship of religious radio programs, where he oversaw five weekly broadcasts. He took up a position in 1946 at St François-Xavier, Paris, where he remained the organist until his death. In 1975 he retired from the radio and began teaching organ at St Maur-des-Fossés Conservatoire, where he "gained numerous disciples. " He died in 1991 in Bruyères, Vosges. As a performer, Litaize toured France, western Europe, the USA, and Canada. His first American tour was in the autumn of 1957. His recording of the Messe pour les paroisses by François Couperin on the organ at Saint-Merri earned highly positive reviews, called "admirably recorded" in The Musical Times and a "fine, sensitive performance" in Music and Letters. Unusually, he elected not to use notes inégales in the performance, although he was very interested in researching "old" music. His improvisations were called "shattering displays" and compared favorably to Dupré, Demessieux, Cochereau, and Heiller. Litaize was highly influential on generations of French organists. He inspired Olivier Latry to choose his career: At 16 I won piano first prize . . . and I thought I might continue piano studies at the Paris Conservatoire. . . . However, I decided to play the organ, choosing Gaston Litaize at the CNR de St-Maur-des-Fossés as my teacher as I had heard him give a very exciting recital at the Cathedral of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It was this that confirmed my desire to play the organ. Norbert Dufourcq summarized Litaize's compositional style: "Litaize inclines . . . to restlessness and gloom, but his idiom is virile and glowing. He is a fine melodist and skilful polyphonist. " A review of Litaize's Douze pièces in The Musical Times was generally negative, however, finding the music dry and calling Litaize a "virtuoso writing for virtuosos". Of the Prière, Henry Willis wrote that "extreme modernity was the key-note". Archibald Farmer wrote that the Préludes liturgiques were "clever, interesting, often good, and always modishly French. " Litaize was involved with experimental music; soon after the inception of musique concrète he was asked to write a piece for African xylophone, four bells, three zanzas, and two whirligigs, which Pierre Schaeffer fragmented and reformed into Étude aux tourniquets in 1948-9. References are from Cantagrel unless otherwise noted. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Mark Birighitti | Mark Birighitti 2017-02-11T15:05:34Z Mark Romano Birighitti (born 17 April 1991) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League side Swansea City. Born in Perth, Birighitti played youth football at the Australian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Adelaide United. In 2012, he moved to Newcastle Jets and spent time on loan to Italian club Varese in 2015. Birighitti has played once for the Australian national team, in 2013. He has also represented Australia's youth teams on many occasions, including at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and winning the 2010 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Birighitti started his career at the AIS before moving to Adelaide United in 2008. He made his first team debut against Queensland Roar on 17 October 2008 helping Adelaide to a 1–0 win. Aurelio Vidmar praised the young goalkeeper after the game saying "I think Birighitti played well he's got a really good future, he had big shoes to fill and I think he did an outstanding job tonight." His second successive A-League start came against Perth Glory at Hindmarsh Stadium after Adelaide's number one goalkeeper, 28-year-old Eugene Galekovic, was injured during the Asian Champions League game against FC Bunyodkor. Despite conceding the game's first goal at the near post, Birighitti played his part in the 2–1 win taking Adelaide to the top of the league table. With Galekovic again ruled out with injury Birighitti started the second leg of the 2008 AFC Champions League Final against Gamba Osaka on 12 November 2008; Adelaide lost the match 2–0. He injured his ankle after falling awkwardly in a training session on 17 December 2008 ruling him out of the remaining A-League 2008-09 season. On 17 January 2012 it was announced he had signed a two-year contract with A-League club Newcastle Jets starting post the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage. He quickly became the first choice goalkeeper for the Newcastle Jets, edging out Ben Kennedy and Jack Duncan. In late 2013 he signed a contract extension with the Jets until the end of the 2015–16 season On 24 March 2014, Birighitti flew to Germany to discuss a possible transfer to Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. After failing to secure a contract with Bayer Leverkusen he then came back to the Jets for the 2014–15 season. In October 2015, Birighitti was involved in an on-field collision with Sydney FC striker Shane Smeltz. Birightitti suffered multiple broken teeth and required facial surgery after the incident. He returned to action within weeks, missing only one A-League game. On 27 January 2015, Birighitti joined Serie B club Varese on a six-month loan deal. He made his league debut for Varese in a 1–0 away loss to Vicenza on 25 April 2015. On 18 July 2016, Birighitti joined Premier League side Swansea City on a two-year deal. Birighitti was selected to represent the Australian under-20 squad at the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship. He made his debut for the senior Australian side in their final match of the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup against China, a 4–3 loss. Australia U19, Mark Birighitti 2018-09-25T09:57:36Z Mark Romano Birighitti (born 17 April 1991) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A League side Melbourne City. Born in Perth, Birighitti played youth football at the Australian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Adelaide United. In 2012, he moved to Newcastle Jets and spent time on loan to Italian club Varese in 2015. Birighitti has played once for the Australian national team, in 2013. He has also represented Australia's youth teams on many occasions, including at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and winning the 2010 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Birighitti started his career at the AIS before moving to Adelaide United in 2008. He made his first team debut against Queensland Roar on 17 October 2008 helping Adelaide to a 1–0 win. Aurelio Vidmar praised the young goalkeeper after the match saying "I think Birighitti played well he's got a really good future, he had big shoes to fill and I think he did an outstanding job tonight." His second successive A-League start came against Perth Glory at Hindmarsh Stadium after Adelaide's number one goalkeeper, 28-year-old Eugene Galekovic, was injured during the Asian Champions League match against FC Bunyodkor. Despite conceding the match's first goal at the near post, Birighitti played his part in the 2–1 win taking Adelaide to the top of the league table. With Galekovic again ruled out with injury Birighitti started the second leg of the 2008 AFC Champions League Final against Gamba Osaka on 12 November 2008; Adelaide lost the match 2–0. He injured his ankle after falling awkwardly in a training session on 17 December 2008 ruling him out of the remaining A-League 2008-09 season. On 17 January 2012 it was announced he had signed a two-year contract with A-League club Newcastle Jets starting post the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage. He quickly became the first choice goalkeeper for the Newcastle Jets, edging out Ben Kennedy and Jack Duncan. In late 2013 he signed a contract extension with the Jets until the end of the 2015–16 season. On 24 March 2014, Birighitti flew to Germany to discuss a possible transfer to Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. After failing to secure a contract with Bayer Leverkusen he then came back to the Jets for the 2014–15 season. In October 2015, Birighitti was involved in an on-field collision with Sydney FC striker Shane Smeltz. Birightitti suffered multiple broken teeth and required facial surgery after the incident. He returned to action within weeks, missing only one A-League game. On 27 January 2015, Birighitti joined Serie B club Varese on a six-month loan deal. He made his league debut for Varese in a 1–0 away loss to Vicenza on 25 April 2015. On 18 July 2016, Birighitti joined Premier League side Swansea City on a two-year deal. After the 2016–17 season, Birighitti went on trial at Dutch side Willem II, following a lack of opportunities at Swansea. On 1 September 2017, Birighitti joined Eredivisie side NAC Breda on a two-year deal. On 11 September 2018, Birighitti joined Australian A-League side Melbourne City FC on a three-year deal. Birighitti was selected to represent the Australian under-20 squad at the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship. He made his debut for the senior Australian side in their final match of the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup against China, a 4–3 loss. Australia U19 | 1 |
James Tupper | James Tupper 2015-01-02T20:34:39Z James Tupper (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy, and David Clarke on ABC's Revenge. Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. After high school, he lived on a coffee farm in Kenya and studied Swahili. He studied acting at Concordia University, Montreal, and later at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he earned a Master's Degree. Tupper acted in several off-Broadway plays, including An Actor Prepares and After the Rain. He co-wrote and appeared in 2005's Loudmouth Soup, a fully improvised independent film that was filmed in one night with no script and no second takes. From 2006, Tupper portrayed Jack Slattery in the ABC series Men in Trees, credited for all 36 episodes of the show's run. He then appeared as Dr. Chris Sands in the NBC medical drama Mercy for 22 episodes before it was cancelled in 2010. 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. Tupper has been appearing on ABC's Revenge since 2011. He portrays the character of David Clarke, the supposedly deceased father of the main character. Clarke was a recurring character for the first three seasons, appearing only in flashbacks and videos. Tupper has been promoted to Main cast for the forthcoming season 4, after it was revealed in the season 3 finale that his character is still alive. Tupper split from his wife in November 2006 and moved in with actress Anne Heche in August, 2007, after they met on the set of Men in Trees. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born on March 7, 2009., James Tupper 2016-12-22T15:54:33Z James Tupper (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy, and David Clarke on ABC's Revenge. As of autumn 2016, he is the star of the post-apocalyptic thriller Aftermath, on Space in Canada and Syfy in the U.S. Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. After high school, he lived on a coffee farm in Kenya and studied Swahili. He studied acting at Concordia University, Montreal, and later at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he earned a Master's Degree. Tupper acted in several off-Broadway plays, including An Actor Prepares and After the Rain. He co-wrote and appeared in 2005's Loudmouth Soup, a fully improvised independent film that was filmed in one night with no script and no second takes. From 2006, Tupper portrayed Jack Slattery in the ABC series Men in Trees, credited for all 36 episodes of the show's run. He then appeared as Dr. Chris Sands in the NBC medical drama Mercy for 22 episodes before it was cancelled in 2010. Tupper appeared as Dr. Andrew Perkins, a trauma counselor, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. He appeared in seven episodes in the show's seventh season. Tupper appeared on ABC's Revenge from 2011 to its cancellation in 2015. He portrayed the character of David Clarke, the supposedly deceased father of the main character. Clarke was a recurring character for the first three seasons, appearing only in flashbacks and videos. Tupper was promoted to main cast for season four after it was revealed in the season three finale that his character was still alive. On September 27, 2016, the British Columbia, Canada-produced post-apocalyptic action thriller Aftermath debuted on Canada's Space network and on America's Syfy network. The science-fiction drama stars Tupper as university professor Josh Copeland who, with his family, endure what appears to be the beginning of The Bible's final Book of Revelation and its end times, with terrifying storms, volcano eruptions, and the reappearance of previously-thought-extinct raptor birds. But the worst danger comes from so-called "fever-heads," humans who contract a disease that make them deliriously dangerous and ultimately murderous. Tupper's TV family includes real-life partner Anne Heche as his tough-but-tender wife Karen, a U.S. Air Force pilot, and their three nearly-grown children. In addition to his acting role on the series, Tupper serves as co-producer. The freshman season's 13-episode run ends December 20, 2016. Tupper split from his wife in November 2006 and moved in with actress Anne Heche in August 2007, after they met on the set of Men in Trees. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born on March 7, 2009. | 1 |
On_the_Fire | On_the_Fire 2012-10-02T12:25:27Z On the Fire is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. , On_the_Fire 2014-08-07T11:47:49Z On the Fire is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in several film archives, and it is available on dvd. This article about a short silent comedy film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Cifu (footballer, born 1990) | Cifu (footballer, born 1990) 2021-03-08T06:55:27Z Miguel Ángel Garrido Cifuentes (born 5 October 1990), commonly known as Cifu, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right back for Elche CF. Born in Zújar, Granada, Andalusia, Cifu graduated from Elche CF's youth setup, and made his senior debut for Torrellano Illice CF (the club's farm team) in Tercera División, in 2009. On 11 August 2011 he joined Orihuela CF in Segunda División B, appearing regularly for the side. In July 2012 Cifu returned to Elche, being assigned to the reserves in the fourth level. He appeared in 38 matches during his first campaign, scoring once and achieving promotion. On 17 July 2014 Cifu was loaned to Segunda División's Girona FC, in a season-long deal. On 24 August he made his debut in the competition, starting in a 1–0 home win against Racing de Santander. Cifu scored his first professional goal on 9 May 2015, netting the last in a 4–2 away win against FC Barcelona B. After his loan expired, he was subsequently assigned to the Valencians' main squad. On 26 January 2016, as his contract was due to expire in the summer, Cifu was loaned to La Liga side Málaga CF, with a three-year permanent deal being effective at the expiration of the loan. On 15 July, after making no appearances for the Andalusians, he returned to his previous club Girona again in a temporary deal. On 30 January 2018, Cifu was loaned to Albacete Balompié still in the second division, for six months. Upon returning, he became a regular starter for the Albicelestes, now also in division two. On 22 September 2020, Cifu terminated his contract with Málaga, and returned to his former side Elche, now in the top tier, on a two-year contract just hours later. Cifu is part of the Hipster subculture, distinguishing himself with a thick beard and tattoos. , Cifu (footballer, born 1990) 2022-09-10T19:37:03Z Miguel Ángel Garrido Cifuentes (born 5 October 1990), commonly known as Cifu, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right back. Born in Zújar, Granada, Andalusia, Cifu graduated from Elche CF's youth setup, and made his senior debut for Torrellano Illice CF (the club's farm team) in Tercera División, in 2009. On 11 August 2011 he joined Orihuela CF in Segunda División B, appearing regularly for the side. In July 2012 Cifu returned to Elche, being assigned to the reserves in the fourth level. He appeared in 38 matches during his first campaign, scoring once and achieving promotion. On 17 July 2014 Cifu was loaned to Segunda División's Girona FC, in a season-long deal. On 24 August he made his debut in the competition, starting in a 1–0 home win against Racing de Santander. Cifu scored his first professional goal on 9 May 2015, netting the last in a 4–2 away win against FC Barcelona B. After his loan expired, he was subsequently assigned to the Valencians' main squad. On 26 January 2016, as his contract was due to expire in the summer, Cifu was loaned to La Liga side Málaga CF, with a three-year permanent deal being effective at the expiration of the loan. On 15 July, after making no appearances for the Andalusians, he returned to his previous club Girona again in a temporary deal. On 30 January 2018, Cifu was loaned to Albacete Balompié still in the second division, for six months. Upon returning, he became a regular starter for the Albicelestes, now also in division two. On 22 September 2020, Cifu terminated his contract with Málaga, and returned to his former side Elche, now in the top tier, on a two-year contract just hours later. On 20 July 2021, Cifu left Elche and signed a one-year deal with second division newcomers UD Ibiza. Cifu is part of the Hipster subculture, distinguishing himself with a thick beard and tattoos. | 1 |
G._E._Lowman | G._E._Lowman 2008-06-21T07:55:56Z Guerdon Elmer Lowman, more familiarly G. E. Lowman (November 16, 1897 - January 18, 1965) was an American Christian clergyman and a pioneering international radio evangelist beginning in 1930, following a successful business career. G. E. Lowman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked in the local shipyards as a teenager, becoming a Christian at the age of 17. He married Minnie Wagner on December 8, 1917, and they had six children. In his early twenties, he began a commercial electrical contracting company. Later, he acquired a spinoff supermarket chain in the Baltimore region from Sanitary Grocery Stores, which he renamed "Twin Food". In the late 1920s, Pastor Lowman began preaching at area Methodist churches and started using a bus to hold evangelistic rallies on Baltimore street corners. So popular was his preaching that he founded the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle on October 19, 1930, and began a weekly radio broadcast from the church, which eventually was broadcast coast-to-coast in the U. S. , including such high-powered, Class 1-A clear channel radio stations as WABC in New York City, WLS in Chicago, and WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. Worldwide, the program was broadcast on major mediumwave and shortwave stations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, originated by flagship station WBAL (AM). In the late 1950s, a second weekly program was also carried on the Mutual Broadcasting System network in the U. S. He authored several books in the series, Prophecies for the Times. His ministry was nondenominational. He wrote, "Many claims are made by certain religions. But no one denomination can rightfully claim that it is the only one. The true church of our Lord and Master is made up of born again people. It is not what we belong to on this earth; it is what we are in Christ". The weekly radio broadcast originated live from the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle on Sunday mornings at 11 a. m. until December, 1959, when the program was moved to a studio in St. Petersburg, Florida. The broadcasts were also noted for their music, featuring the Tabernacle's large Möller pipe organ accompanying the congregation singing hymn favorites. Daughters Ruth, Edna, and Doris sang as the Lowman Sisters Trio, ending each broadcast with the Maori melody theme song, "Search Me O God". In honor of his ministry, he was presented with the Key to the City of Baltimore by then-Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin on September 14, 1943. Pastor Lowman received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Burton College and Seminary in Manitou Springs, Colorado, on May 20, 1957. G. E. Lowman died on January 18, 1965, of leukemia, ending the worldwide radio ministry of the International Gospel Broadcasters. He is interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Maryland. , G._E._Lowman 2009-12-05T18:09:43Z Guerdon Elmer Lowman, more familiarly G. E. Lowman (November 16, 1897 – January 18, 1965) was an American Christian clergyman and a pioneering international radio evangelist beginning in 1930, following a successful business career. He was called by contemporary newspapers "a noted preacher", whose "forceful sermons" addressed "timely and interesting topics". His non-denominational radio ministry had a worldwide audience from the 1930s until 1965. G. E. Lowman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked in the local shipyards as a teenager, becoming a Christian at the age of 17. He married Minnie Wagner on December 8, 1917, and they had six children. In his early twenties, he began a commercial electrical contracting company. Later, he acquired a spinoff supermarket chain in the Baltimore region from Sanitary Grocery Stores, which he renamed "Twin Food". In the late 1920s, G. E. Lowman was ordained as a Methodist minister and began preaching at churches and missions in the Baltimore area. He also became a familiar sight in the city, using a specially equipped bus with a platform and loudspeakers to hold outdoor evangelistic rallies on Baltimore street corners. So popular was his preaching that G. E. Lowman founded the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle in 1930, building a large stone church at the corner of Federal and Wolfe Streets, in an east Baltimore neighborhood near Johns Hopkins Hospital. A Lutheran church had previously occupied a portion of the site since 1897, and the newly constructed Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle incorporated the former structure in its design, more than tripling the building's overall size. Several large stained glass windows were installed in the new edifice, one of which was donated by a Titanic survivor. Atop the Tabernacle's west tower was an illuminated cross, which revolved when services were underway, one of four revolving crosses in existence in the U. S. at the time. The newly completed church was dedicated on October 19, 1930, and Pastor Lowman began weekly live radio broadcasts of the services on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the church's first anniversary in October 1931, the Baltimore Post reported: "The Gospel Tabernacle is interdenominational in character and from 10 to 15 different denominations are represented at the services". In celebration of the anniversary, "jubilee services were held nightly for two weeks, with ministers from different churches conducting the services," the newspaper said. Further expansion of the church occurred in 1933 with the addition of a south transept and a second balcony to accommodate the overflow crowds. The Tabernacle broadcasts eventually reached coast-to-coast in the U. S. , including such high-powered, Class 1-A clear channel radio stations as WABC in New York City, WLS in Chicago, and WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. Worldwide, the program was broadcast on major mediumwave and shortwave stations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, originated by flagship station WBAL (AM). By the late 1930s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said of Rev. Lowman, "the noted radio evangelist and founder of the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle . . . is well-known to Pittsburghers inasmuch as his forceful sermons are transmitted here from the Baltimore Tabernacle". In August 1941, WNOX (now WNML) in Knoxville, Tennessee, began carrying the broadcast, which it advertised as "inspiring and timely messages by one of America's religious leaders", but six months later a controversy ensued when the radio station refused to broadcast a sermon in which Rev. Lowman mentioned the word "fornication", prompting protests from disappointed listeners. When the program debuted on WELI in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1940, a radio columnist for the New Haven Register described the broadcasts as "one of America's most unique and varied religious programs, conducted by Rev. G. E. Lowman, a noted preacher who takes for his topics timely and interesting subjects that are up-to-the moment". By the late 1950s, a second weekly radio program was also carried on the Mutual Broadcasting System network in the U. S. on Sunday nights. The programs were also noted for their music, featuring the Tabernacle's Möller pipe organ accompanying the congregation singing hymn favorites. Each broadcast began with the signature theme song, "O That Will Be Glory". Daughters Ruth, Edna, and Doris sang as the "Lowman Sisters", ending each broadcast with the Maori melody hymn, "Search Me, O God". Pastor Lowman authored several books in the series, Prophecies for the Times. His ministry was nondenominational. He wrote, "Many claims are made by certain religions. But no one denomination can rightfully claim that it is the only one. The true church of our Lord and Master is made up of born again people. It is not what we belong to on this earth; it is what we are in Christ". The weekly radio broadcast originated live from the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle on Sunday mornings at 11 a. m. until the final service there on December 13, 1959. The program then moved to studios in St. Petersburg, Florida, where it was produced and distributed by the International Gospel Broadcasters, a non-profit ministry founded by G. E. Lowman. The broadcasts ended on January 31, 1965, shortly after his death. The former Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle sanctuary became the St. Paul Community Baptist Church, whose pastor at the time, Rev. Revels, had listened to G. E. Lowman's radio broadcasts while working as a Pullman porter in his younger years. In honor of his ministry, he was presented with the Key to the City of Baltimore by then-Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin on September 14, 1943. Pastor Lowman was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree from Burton College and Seminary in Manitou Springs, Colorado, on May 20, 1957. The former Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle sanctuary, now the St. Paul Community Baptist Church, was designated as an historic landmark on May 6, 2009, by legislative act of the City of Baltimore, because of its "association with historic events and important people". In making the award announcement at City Hall ceremonies, Mayor Sheila Dixon said, "The City of Baltimore cherishes these jewels because they are unique and authentic . . . the real places that tell the real Baltimore stories". G. E. Lowman moved from his home in Hampton, Maryland, to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1960, where he died five years later on January 18, 1965, of acute leukemia, ending the worldwide radio ministry of the International Gospel Broadcasters. He is interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Maryland. | 0 |
Yusof Haslam | Yusof Haslam 2016-03-23T16:26:34Z Mohd. Yusof bin Md. Haslam Khan is a Malaysian film maker and director. His film production are mainly focus on the world of police, such as Gerak Khas and Roda-Roda Kuala Lumpur. Now his legacy is passed down to his sons, namely Syamsul and Syafiq Yusof. He is of Pakistani descent. , Yusof Haslam 2017-12-27T18:16:42Z Datuk Mohd. Yusof bin Md. Haslam Khan (born April 24, 1954) is a Malaysian actor, filmmaker, director and producer. His film production are mainly focus on the world of police, such as the TV series Gerak Khas and Roda-Roda Kuala Lumpur, the former spurring three feature films. The immense popularity of his films had led him to be nicknamed the "Six Million Dollar Man". His legacy in entertainment showbiz is now carried by his two sons, Syamsul and Syafiq. Yusof also has his own film production company, Skop Productions. Yusof was born on April 24, 1954 in Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur to housewife Bahyah Talib and lorry driver Md. Haslam Khan. He is a fourth child from among seven siblings who together lived in a house in the squatter settlement. He received his education at the SMK Aminuddin Baki in Kuala Lumpur. He became enamoured with movies through his experiemces seeing Hollywood westerns and Bollywood films - with the latter, he considered one of the stars Shashi Kapoor as his acting idol. Yusof thus decided that he would become an actor, much to objections by his father who believed that the entertainment scene held no future prospects. Yusof took up profession as a bus conductor, but he also secretly attended acting auditions. He began his involvement in acting by playing an extra character in Laksamana Do Re Mi in 1970, as the guard of the Minister of Fasola. It would only be until in 1975 that he would take a leading main role through the film Permintaan Terakhir. He began directing films in 1991 with Bayangan Maut, a mystery action thriller film starring rock singer Ella. This was later followed by Pemburu Bayang in 1992, Sembilu in 1994, best-selling blockbuster film, Maria Mariana in 1996 plus its sequel two years after among others. Apart from film and television, he is also a managing director of his production company, Skop Productions which he had established since 1985. The company has four subsidiaries - Haslam Trading (restaurant), Haslam Properties (real estate and properties), Skop Publishing (print publications) and ME Communications (post-production facilities). He was awarded the Ahli Mangku Negara in 1993 and the Panglima Jasa Negara in 2001, which carries the title of Dato', for his contributions to Malaysian cinema. Yusof married Fatimah Ismail in 1982. They have four children namely Faizal, Syamsul, Shamin and Syafiq. Syamsul and Syafiq themselves are also film directors. † Year | 1 |
Scott Adkins | Scott Adkins 2014-01-04T22:48:41Z Scott Edward Adkins (born 17 June 1976) is an English actor and martial artist who currently is living in USA and who is best known for playing Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing and Undisputed III: Redemption, Bradley Hume in Holby City, Ed Russell in Mile High and as Hector in The Expendables 2. Adkins has also appeared in Dangerfield, Hollyoaks, The Tournament TV series and many others, as well as many films. Scott Adkins was born in Sutton Coldfield, England, on June 17, 1976. he is skilled in ninjutsu, taekwondo, judo, kickboxing and wushu he is also skilled in kung fu His first break came when he was offered a role in a Hong Kong martial arts film called Dei Seung Chui Keung (2001) (aka Extreme Challenge). Spotted by Head of The Hong Kong Stuntmen Association and director Wei Tung and English-born Hong Kong movie expert Bey Logan, Adkins found himself in the East for the first time. Scott got the chance to work with some of Hong Kong cinema's leading action directors including Woo-ping Yuen, Corey Yuen, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and the legendary Jackie Chan. Acting roles started to come in and he was offered a guest role in BBC's "Doctors" (2000) filmed at Birmingham's Pebble Mill. A few episodes in BBC's "EastEnders" (1985) and "City Central" (1998), and a lead role in Sky One comedy drama Mile High (2003) followed by a regular role in BBC's "Holby City" (1999) as Bradley Hume, the assistant General Manager of Holby General. Starring roles in feature films soon followed with his portrayal of Talbot in Special Forces (2003) and Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006). It was this film that broke him into the mainstream with his villainous portrayal of a Russian MMA underground fighter Boyka. After this Scott had guest starring roles in bigger budget films like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Tournament (2009), and played Jean-Claude Van Damme's main adversary in Sony Pictures The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008). Adkins has been cast in the role of King Amphitryon in Hercules: The Legend Begins. , Scott Adkins 2015-12-27T22:58:35Z Scott Edward Adkins (born 17 June 1976) is an English actor and martial artist who is best known for playing Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing and Undisputed III: Redemption, Bradley Hume in Holby City, Ed Russell in Mile High and as Hector in The Expendables 2. Adkins has also appeared in Dangerfield, Hollyoaks, The Tournament TV series and many others, as well as many films. Scott Adkins was born at Sutton Coldfield, England, on 17 June 1976. He became interested in martial arts at the age of 10 when he and his father and older brother, Craig visited the local Judo club. His interest towards martial arts grew even more at age 14 when he adopted Bruce Lee as his idol. That same year, he started practicing taekwondo and received his first black belt at the age 19. Since age 16, Adkins has also trained in kickboxing which he holds black belt in. He also has trained in Ninjutsu, Judo, Karate, Jujutsu, Wushu, Krav Maga, Capoeira, Jeet Kune Do and gymnastics. His first break came when he was offered a role in a Hong Kong martial arts film called Dei Seung Chui Keung (2001) (aka Extreme Challenge). Spotted by Head of The Hong Kong Stuntmen Association and director Wei Tung and English-born Hong Kong movie expert Bey Logan, Adkins found himself in the East for the first time. Scott got the chance to work with some of Hong Kong cinema's leading action directors including Woo-ping Yuen, Corey Yuen, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and the legendary Jackie Chan. Acting roles started to come in and he was offered a guest role in BBC's Doctors (2000) filmed at Birmingham's Pebble Mill. A few episodes in BBC's EastEnders (1985) and City Central (1998), and a lead role in Sky One comedy drama Mile High (2003) followed by a regular role in BBC's Holby City (1999) as Bradley Hume, the assistant general manager of Holby General. Starring roles in feature films soon followed with his portrayal of Talbot in Special Forces (2003) and Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006). It was this film that broke him into the mainstream with his villainous portrayal of a Russian MMA underground fighter Boyka. After this Scott had guest starring roles in bigger budget films like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Tournament (2009), and played Jean-Claude Van Damme's main adversary in Sony Pictures The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008). Adkins appears in the role of King Amphitryon in The Legend of Hercules . In 2012, he is casted to play in Metal Hurlant chronicles, a sci-fi franco-belgium Tv show, adapted from the French comic books Metal Hurlant. He will star in 2 episodes; "King's crown" with Michael Jai White, "Second chance" in the episode "Loyal Khondor" with Karl E. Landler and John Rhys davies, his character from "Second chance" is doing a cameo, encountering Khondor, played by Karl E. Landler, in front of an intergalactic pub. Guillaume Lubrano creator and director of the show decided to cross the univers of two originals stories. | 1 |
Cahit_Külebi | Cahit_Külebi 2008-05-01T12:55:17Z Cahit Külebi (b. 1917 – d. June 20 1997) was a leading Turkish poet and author. Külebi was born in Tokat, Ottoman Empire in 1917. He completed his secondary education in Sivas. Then he went to Istanbul and graduated from the Teachers' High School. Having finished his education, he worked as a teacher of literature in Antalya and Ankara. Then he served as a cultural attaché of Turkey in Switzerland. Having returned to Turkey, he worked as the general secretary of the Turkish Language Association. He died in Ankara in 1997. == nisaaa == This article about a poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Cahit_Külebi 2009-12-22T05:24:20Z Cahit Külebi (1917 – 20 June 1997) was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions. Külebi was born in Tokat, Ottoman Empire in 1917. He completed his secondary education in Sivas. Then he went to Istanbul and graduated from the Teachers' High School. Having finished his education, he worked as a teacher of literature in Antalya and Ankara. In 1964 he served as a cultural attaché of Turkey in Switzerland. Having returned to Turkey, he worked as the general secretary of the Turkish Language Association. He died in Ankara in 1997. This article about a Turkish poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
MV_Golden_Nori | MV_Golden_Nori 2008-11-20T09:44:41Z The MV Golden Nori is a Japanese chemical tanker that was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia on 28 October 2007. In news reports, she has at times been mistakenly referred to as the Golden Nory and Golden Mori. The Golden Nori, which operates under a Panamanian flag, was reportedly seized by Somali pirates eight nautical miles off the coast of the East African nation. A radio distress call sent by the crew late on October 28 was received by the USS Porter (DDG-78). The United States Navy responded, sinking the pirates' skiffs. The tanker's captain made contact with his family via telephone, and indicated that the crew was safe. At the time she was hijacked, the cargo of the Golden Nori consisted of four different chemicals, including highly flammable benzene. There are believed to be around five well-organized pirate groups operating in Somali waters. Maritime agencies continue to caution ships to avoid Somali waters or travel with escorts. US and German naval vessels shadowed the captured vessel and blockaded from entering the port of Bosaso. Eventually, after demanding a ransom, the pirates freed the ship and its crew of 21 on December 12., MV_Golden_Nori 2009-09-07T01:24:19Z The MV Golden Nori is a Japanese chemical tanker that was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia on 28 October 2007. In news reports, she has at times been mistakenly referred to as the Golden Nory and Golden Mori. The Golden Nori, which operates under a Panamanian flag, was reportedly seized by Somali pirates eight nautical miles off the coast of the East African nation. A radio distress call sent by the crew late on October 28 was received by the USS Porter. The United States Navy responded, sinking the pirates' skiffs. The tanker's captain made contact with his family via telephone, and indicated that the crew was safe. At the time she was hijacked, the cargo of the Golden Nori consisted of four different chemicals, including highly flammable benzene. There are believed to be around five well-organized pirate groups operating in Somali waters. Maritime agencies continue to caution ships to avoid Somali waters or travel with escorts. US and German naval vessels shadowed the captured vessel and blockaded from entering the port of Bosaso. Eventually, after demanding a ransom, the pirates freed the ship and its crew of 21 on December 12. | 0 |
James_Carson_(American_football) | James_Carson_(American_football) 2010-10-09T18:48:22Z James "Big Daddy" Carson (1940-1999) was head football coach of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi from 1992 to 1998, compiling a record of 54-25-1 and leading the school to three NCAA Division I-AA playoff appearances, as well as a Black College National Championship in 1996. The Clarksdale, Mississippi native played offensive guard and nose tackle at JSU, garnering NAIA honorable mention All-America honors in 1962. His son, Ricardo, played football at the school from 1991 to 1994. # denotes interim head coach This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , James_Carson_(American_football) 2012-04-18T21:49:22Z James "Big Daddy" Carson (1940–1999) was head football coach of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi from 1992 to 1998, compiling a record of 54-25-1 and leading the school to three NCAA Division I-AA playoff appearances, as well as a Black College National Championship in 1996. The Clarksdale, Mississippi native played offensive guard and nose tackle at JSU, garnering NAIA honorable mention All-America honors in 1962. His son, Ricardo, played football at the school from 1991 to 1994. # denotes interim head coach Template:Persondata This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
School_Girl_(film) | School_Girl_(film) 2010-04-30T05:02:14Z Template:Rescue School Girl (aka The Schoolgirl) is a 1971 pornographic film directed by Paul David Gerber (aka David Reberg) and on Time Magazine's list of "All-Time 100 best films". The film starred Debra Allen and George S. MacDonald of Behind the Green Door. A college coed researches a sex subculture by answering ads in the college's underground newspaper. Critic Richard Corliss wrote in 1978 that "All critics should have a sex movie among their guilty pleasures", and expanded that his favorite was School Girls because it was "one of the few porn comedies to poke holes in the inanities of the genre without letting the air escape from the spectator's libido". The film was later among Time Magazine's list of "All-Time 100 best films", where Corliss described the film as a "mini-masterpiece", offering that the film was "a funny, telling comment on how directors bring an audience's gamiest desires to life, and on how power helps define any human relationship. " Corliss later wrote that the film was the "friendliest, most naturalistic porno I know" and that it was "a lovely, and hot, demonstration of the thesis that sex is power". The film was the subject of litigation, being decared obscene and its distribution in violation of 18 U. S. C. §§ 371 and 1462 (1976). Originally found so in 1973 by a federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, the finding was appealed in 1978 and confirmed in 1979. , School_Girl_(film) 2011-09-30T00:06:07Z School Girl (aka The Schoolgirl) is a 1971 pornographic film directed by Paul David Gerber (aka David Reberg) and on Time Magazine's list of "All-Time 100 best films". The film starred Debra Allen and George S. MacDonald of Behind the Green Door. A college coed researches a sex subculture by answering ads in the college's underground newspaper. Critic Richard Corliss wrote in 1978 that "All critics should have a sex movie among their guilty pleasures", and expanded that his favorite was School Girl because it was "one of the few porn comedies to poke holes in the inanities of the genre without letting the air escape from the spectator's libido". The film was later among Time Magazine's list of "All-Time 100 best films", where Corliss described the film as a "mini-masterpiece", offering that the film was "a funny, telling comment on how directors bring an audience's gamiest desires to life, and on how power helps define any human relationship. " Corliss later wrote that the film was the "friendliest, most naturalistic porno I know" and that it was "a lovely, and hot, demonstration of the thesis that sex is power". The film was the subject of litigation, being decared obscene and its distribution in violation of 18 U. S. C. §§ 371 and 1462 (1976). Originally found so in 1973 by a federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, the finding was appealed in 1978 and confirmed in 1979. | 0 |
Richard Herring | Richard Herring 2016-01-13T22:53:15Z 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-led 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 2015 show, Happy Now? is his twelfth consecutive stand-up show in as many years. He is also recognized as 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 and maths teacher. This later formed the basis of his 2008 stand-up show, The Headmaster's Son. He was a student 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. He recorded Christ on a Bike at the Leicester Square Theatre in 2011 and What is Love, Anyway? Talking Cock, We're All Going To Die! and Lord of the Dance Settee at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively. 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 A sixth series was recorded between September and November 2014 with guests including Sarah Millican, Steve Coogan and Milton Jones. Series 7 was recorded in June and July of 2015 and guests included Bob Mortimer and Louis Theroux. 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. The last two episodes were released in early 2015. 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. His 2014 Fringe shows "Lord of the Dance Settee" and his play "I Killed Rasputin" premiered at the George Square Theatre in August. In August and September 2015, taking a year off from the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since 2003, he performed all 11 of his previous one man shows, plus a new one Happy Now? at the Leicester Square Theatre over the course of six weekends in a season called "The Twelve Shows of Herring". 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. They had their first child, Phoebe Herring, in February, 2015. 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. , Richard Herring 2017-12-29T14:19:17Z Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian, comedy writer, podcaster and diarist 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". Towards the end of the double act, Herring also worked as a writer, producing four plays. After Lee and Herring went their separate ways he co-wrote the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, but quickly returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike as well as regular circuit stand-up. Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD. His 2016–17 show was a 'best of' tour, drawing from these shows. He is recognised as 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 Simon Pegg, Russell Brand and Stephen Fry on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. He has maintained a daily blog called Warming Up without a break since 25 November 2002. His blog is archived by the British Library for purposes of UK documentary heritage. 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 and maths teacher. This later formed the basis of his 2008 stand-up show, The Headmaster's Son. He was a student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Oxford Revue. He attained a 2:1 in History, though never collected the diploma, making him a graduand of Oxford University. Between 1992 and 2000, Richard was half of the stand-up comedy double act with Stewart Lee. They were probably best known for their television work, notably Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy but had been collaborating on stage and radio projects since the 1980s. Lee and Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour in 1991 and the duo contributed to the creation of the character that was to be Alan Partridge. In 1992 and 1993, they wrote and performed Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World for Radio 4. For Radio 1, they wrote and performed one series of Fist of Fun in 1993, remaking it for television in 1995 and 1996. They hosted a series on Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, called Lee and Herring. A final television partnership with Lee, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, ran for 18 episodes over two series was eventually cancelled "as a result 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. Herring has written and performed in thirteen one-person shows, eleven of them consecutively. A Herring show typically starts with a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, continues with an extensive UK tour and ends with a recorded performance for DVD. For radio, Herring co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now. For television he wrote Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. He also contributed to the third series of Little Britain as script editor. 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 10 episodes in total. Herring made weekly appearances on Andrew Collins's BBC Radio 6 Music radio show on Saturday afternoons, where the two would discuss the week's newspapers. 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 February 2007, filming began on Herring's comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends. As well as writing the script, he also acted 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 the Collings and Herrin (sic) podcast with Andrew Collins. They celebrated their two-year anniversary with a live "100th" podcast (it was actually the 105th recording) at the Leicester Square Theatre. On 30 January 2010 the pair began a tenure of sitting in for Adam and Joe on BBC Radio 6 Music on Saturdays mornings, a slot they occupied for more than a year. Herring's 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 been the origin of his fondness for telling 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. Herring launched his show, Hitler Moustache in 2009 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 material from his show was misrepresented in a Guardian column by critic Brian Logan. On 8 April 2010, Herring made his first appearance on the BBC's Have I Got News For You, returning for a second appearance on 13 May 2011. On 14 October 2010, his Radio 4 series Richard Herring's Objective was first broadcast. Here Herring attempts to reclaim controversial items, starting with the toothbrush moustache and moving onto the hoodie, Flag of England 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, Page 3 and the old school tie. On 27 December 2010, Herring finished second on Celebrity Mastermind with a final score of 34 points. His specialist subject was Rasputin. He was The Pod Delusion "Comedian of the Year 2010" In May 2011 it was announced that Fist of Fun would be released on DVD by Go Faster Stripe. The first series was released in December 2011 and the second in November 2012, winning 'Best DVD' at the 2013 Chortle Awards In August and September 2015, he performed all 11 of his previous one man shows, plus a new one, Happy Now? , at the Leicester Square Theatre over the course of six weekends in a season called "The Twelve Shows of Herring". Happy Now? was taken on a 50-plus date UK tour between October 2015 and June 2016. His 2017 tour show was called Richard Herring -- The Best. His 2017 Edinburgh Fringe show is called "Oh Frig, I'm 50!" This will be taken on a UK tour in the Spring of 2018. 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 day and the blog stands at over 5,000 consecutive entries. It is estimated that he has a regular readership of around 3,000. Some ideas recorded in Warming Up have been used in his live shows. The first year of his blog is collected in two books, Bye Bye Balham and The Box Lady and Other Pesticles. On 12 October 2009, he recorded the first episode of As It Occurs To Me, a weekly radio-style stand-up and sketch show made for the Internet. It stars him, Emma Kennedy, Dan Tetsell and Christian Reilly and currently stands at 18 episodes and 5 bonus mini-episodes. It was nominated for best internet show at the 2010 Sony Awards, though it failed to place. On 7 February 2011, As It Occurs to Me won the first Chortle Internet award On 20 March 2012 he retained it. In 2017, As It Occurs To Me returns as a six-episode web series. In 2013, Herring won the Chortle Award for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, which again won the award in 2014. In 2012 he had recorded the first 16 episodes of the long-running 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. The show won the Bronze Award. In May and June 2013 he recorded nine podcasts with guests including Stephen Fry, Russell Brand and Mary Beard. His interview with Stephen Fry, was covered by national and international news media including the BBC and Sky News when Fry revealed a recent suicide attempt. The series continued with Harry Shearer, Eddie Izzard and David Cross. On 17 November 2013, he recorded the first episode of a six-part internet stand-up, sketch and interview show Richard Herring's Meaning of Life, structured around the philosophical concepts of 'Creation', 'the Paranormal', 'Love', 'Death', 'Good & Evil' and 'the Shape of Things To Come', the episode being broadcast online between February 2014 and early 2015. In February 2014, the first Richard Herring Show was broadcast on Fubar Radio. Herring presented this with comedian Lou Sanders weekly, before quitting the show together; 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. They had their first child, Phoebe Doris Joy, in February 2015. 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. It’s the 21st century and it’s time the human race accepted that we’re flying this plane and no one out there is going to save us from crashing it. So let’s work together, hey? | 1 |
Lindsay Pearce | Lindsay Pearce 2011-08-23T20:00:08Z Lindsay Heather Pearce (Born on April 30, 1991) is an American actress and singer best known for her role on The Glee Project and her up coming role on Glee. Lindsay was born and raised in Modesto, California. She is of Cherokee, French, Norweigan, and Irish descent and began acting in plays at a very young age. Heather was adopted at birth and has three brothers, including Heath Pearce, a soccer player for the USA. Robert Ulrich also lives in Modesto, and prior to The Glee Project, he watched a musical performance with Lindsay in it. After seeing her performance, he asked her to audition for The Glee Project where Lindsay was picked as one of the top twelve. On episode 8, after Hannah was eliminated, she became the only girl, and on episode 10, aired August 21, 2011, she was announced as one of the two runner ups of the show and will receive a two(or more) episode arch on Glee. Lindsay, like Dianna Agron, shares her birthday as well as the fact that she is a vegetarian. She is currently rooming with co-star Hannah. Lindsay's Twitter Lindsay'sYoutube Fansite for Lindsay Lindsays Tumblr, Lindsay Pearce 2012-12-20T09:50:23Z Lindsay Heather Pearce (born April 30, 1991) is an American actress and singer. Pearce is best known for being one of the runners-up on The Glee Project, which gave her a recurring role on the TV show Glee. Pearce was born in Modesto, California and is an adopted child. She has starred in amateur shows since the age of thirteen. For the first six months of her life she was deaf, and appreciates her ear for music because of this. Lindsay has also been in theatre since the age of 6. She is the sister of New York Red Bulls soccer player Heath Pearce. In early 2011, Pearce auditioned for The Glee Project, a singing/acting reality show where the winner would receive a seven-episode arc on the third season of Glee. Throughout the show, her identity has become "the theater girl", mostly because the producers and other participants of the show felt like she was always enacting, instead of trying to show her true feelings, even when asked. She reached the show's finale, but did not win the competition; however, the producers gave her and the other runner-up, Alex Newell, each a two-episode arc on Glee. In the third season premiere of Glee, Pearce was introduced as Harmony, an ambitious and talented singer who awes characters Kurt and Rachel when they watch her and her group sing a mash-up of "Anything Goes" from the musical Anything Goes and "Anything You Can Do" from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. This first episode featuring her character aired September 20, 2011. Her debut was widely acclaimed by critics such as TVLine's Michael Slezak, who said Harmony was "brilliantly brought to life" by Pearce, and Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club, who wrote that she "may be the best new character ever". The mash-up was released as a single for digital download after the episode aired. She appeared for a second time in the eighth episode, "Hold On to Sixteen", in which Harmony was the lead singer of a different group, the Unitards, a rival show choir competing against the show's main glee club, New Directions. In the episode, she sings "Buenos Aires" from the musical Evita, which was also released as a single. Pearce was complimented for her rendition by Billboard's Rae Votta, who said she was a "fantastic singer". Harmony tells Kurt that she is a sophomore, leaving open the possibility that she could return to the show in future seasons. The day after The Glee Project finale aired, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Pearce had been cast to star as Snow White in El Portal Theatre's production of the musical A Snow White Christmas. Marina Sirtis co-starred as the Wicked Queen, and Neil Patrick Harris in the onscreen role of the Magic Mirror. The Lythgoe Family Productions show ran from November 30, 2011 through December 18, 2011. Bobbie Whiteman of Variety wrote that Pearce as "a very sassy Snow belts out Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' in true Broadway fashion", and that "her voice blends beautifully with Bergen's", the show's prince. TheaterMania's Jonas Schwartz called the production "rather endearing, thanks mostly to The Glee Project's Lindsay Pearce in the title role". He added, "Pearce has a wonderful presence, an earthy charm, and her belting voice is used to fine effect on Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' and Katy Perry's 'Fireworks'." She next starred in the role of Cathy in Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years at the Brauntex Theatre in New Braunfels, Texas. There were three performances, on January 6 and 7, 2012. Deborah Martin of the San Antonio Express-News wrote of Pearce and co-star Alex Trevino that they "give charismatic, vocally assured performances, fully capturing the relationship and their characters' inner lives. Highlights include Pearce's pain-drenched 'Still Hurting', tender 'I'm Part of That' and witty 'Audition Sequence'". She also noted that "when they actively share the stage, Pearce and Trevino show off great chemistry". Ten days later, Pearce had been cast as Wendla Bergman, the female lead in the musical Spring Awakening, which is being presented in Los Angeles by Over the Moon Productions. The show opened on March 16, 2012, and ended its run on April 22, 2012. | 1 |
The_Country_Club_(play) | The_Country_Club_(play) 2014-06-22T06:07:02Z The Country Club was originally an off-Broadway stage play written by Douglas Carter Beane. The story is set in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, in the womblike cub room of the club of the title, as the comedy follows a year in the lives of six insular friends (and one outsider) through a series of holiday-themed parties where drinks are bolted and truths are spewed. The plot finds Soos, a young, witty and charmingly neurotic, who retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. The type of WASP domain with the houses "that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish", she says. As party after party unfolds, the getaway weekend gives way to a year, and ultimately the rest of her life. Brittle conversation is bandied about, and Soos is reunited with her onetime boyfriend, the ever charming Zip. She also returns to her circles of old friends: the highly strung party planner Froggy and her starchy husband Bri; the wry and sarcastic Pooker; and the alcoholic good ol' boy Hutch. But cracks soon begin to show in the veneer. Zip falls in and out of an easy relationship with Soos, as he starts an affair with Chloe, a working-class Roman Catholic girl from Philadelphia who is engaged to Hutch. Lives are casually destroyed, lives go on and through it all, tragedies are discussed without being mentioned. As Pooker observes between cocktail sips, "We all have our little stories and nobody brings them up. That's what's known as community spirit. " * 45th Annual Drama Desk Awards nomination (2000), The_Country_Club_(play) 2016-01-03T22:23:59Z The Country Club is an off-Broadway play written by Douglas Carter Beane. The story is set in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, in the womblike cub room of the club of the title, as the comedy follows a year in the lives of six insular friends (and one outsider) through a series of holiday-themed parties where drinks are bolted and truths are spewed. The plot finds Soos, a young, witty and charmingly neurotic, who retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. The type of WASP domain with the houses "that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish", she says. As party after party unfolds, the getaway weekend gives way to a year, and ultimately the rest of her life. Brittle conversation is bandied about, and Soos is reunited with her onetime boyfriend, the ever charming Zip. She also returns to her circles of old friends: the highly strung party planner Froggy and her starchy husband Bri; the wry and sarcastic Pooker; and the alcoholic good ol' boy Hutch. But cracks soon begin to show in the veneer. Zip falls in and out of an easy relationship with Soos, as he starts an affair with Chloe, a working-class Roman Catholic girl from Philadelphia who is engaged to Hutch. Lives are casually destroyed, lives go on and through it all, tragedies are discussed without being mentioned. As Pooker observes between cocktail sips, "We all have our little stories and nobody brings them up. That's what's known as community spirit. " The play was presented Off-Broadway by the Drama Dept. at the Greenwich House Theater, running from September 14, 1999 to December 18, 1999. The production received 2000 Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Costume Design and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Sedaris). The play premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut in January 1998. The play had "small productions" at the Dorset Theater Festival (Vermont) and Mojo Ensemble (Los Angeles) prior to the production at the Long Wharf Theatre. * 45th Annual Drama Desk Awards nomination (2000) | 0 |
Ryan Harnden | Ryan Harnden 2022-01-08T00:48:14Z Ryan Harnden (born June 28, 1986) is a Canadian curler. He currently throws lead stones for the Canadian champion Brad Jacobs rink. The team represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal. Ryan joined forces with his father Eric Harnden for the 2007–08 season, as his second. The team, which also included brother E. J. and Caleb Flaxey at lead won the Dominion Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship that season, and would represent Northern Ontario at the 2008 Tim Hortons Brier. The team would have an unsuccessful Brier, finishing with a 3–8 record. Following the season, Harnden joined forces with Brad Jacobs, and has played with Jacobs ever since. He would play second for the team from 2008 to 2011 and then lead since 2012, after Ryan Fry joined the team as third, and E. J. replaced Ryan at second. In their first season together, the team lost in the 2009 Northern Ontario final to Mike Jakubo. The following season would be more successful. The team played in one Grand Slam, the 2012 The National that season, Harnden's first. The team went 0–5. However, the team did win The Dominion 2010 Northern Ontario Provincial Men's Championship and had a tremendous Brier that season. At the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, the team finished 2nd after the round robin with a 9–2 record. However, they lost both of their playoff games and would have to settle for a bronze medal. During the 2010–11 season, the team played in two Grand Slams. They first played in the 2010 World Cup of Curling, where they finished 2–3. The team also played in the 2011 Players' Championship, but Harnden sat the event out, and was replaced by Ted Appelman. That season, the team would then go on to win their second straight provincial title, by winning The Dominion 2011 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship. While they had a decent 7–4 record at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier, it was not enough to make the playoffs, and they had to settle for 5th. For the 2011–12 season, the team entered two Slams, the 2011 World Cup of Curling where they had a 2–3 record) and the 2011 BDO Canadian Open where they made the playoffs for the first time, but lost in the quarter final. The team would then go on to win The Dominion 2012 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship, their third straight title. At the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier, they once again finished 5th, but with a worse 5–6 record. The 2012–13 season would be the team's best season to date. The team welcomed Manitoba-born Ryan Fry at the third position, bumping E. J. to play second and Ryan to play lead. The team would make the playoffs in all three Slams they entered, losing in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Masters of Curling and 2013 The National. They made it to the final in their first ever slam at the 2012 Canadian Open of Curling where they lost to the Glenn Howard rink. The team won The Dominion 2013 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship once again, qualifying for the Brier for the fourth straight year. At the Brier, the team finished the round robin with an 8–3 record, good enough for 4th. The team pulled off victories against Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue, Ontario's Glenn Howard and Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton en route to win Northern Ontario's first Brier title in 28 years. The team would later represent Canada at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship where they won a silver medal. The next season, the team won the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, earning them the right to represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the Olympics in Sochi, they led Canada to a 9–3 victory in the men's final, defeating Great Britain to claim the gold medal. Following their Olympic success, the Jacobs rink once again made it to the Brier in 2015. After posting a 10–1 round robin record in first place, they won the 1 vs. 2 game sending them to the finals against the defending Brier champions, Team Canada (skipped by Pat Simmons), which they lost. Later in the season the Jacobs rink won their first career Grand Slam event, winning the 2015 Players' Championship. At the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier, the Jacobs rink once again tore through the round robin, going undefeated to finish in first place. However, they ran into trouble in the playoffs, losing to Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1 vs. 2 game and to Alberta in the semifinal. They did rebound in the bronze medal game, defeating Manitoba to finish third overall. The 2016–17 season would be the best to date for the Jacobs rink on the World Curling Tour, winning two slams, the 2016 Boost National and the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup. At the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, the team would once again make the playoffs, after posting an 8-3 round robin record. However, they lost both of their playoff games, settling for fourth place. The Jacobs team played in the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials attempting to head to the Olympics again, but his team would finish with a disappointing 3–5 record, missing the playoffs. The team again represented Northern Ontario at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, making it to the playoffs with an 8–3 record, but lost to Alberta's Brendan Bottcher rink in the 3 vs. 4 game. The next season, the Jacobs rink won the 2018 Tour Challenge Grand Slam event. A month later, the team won the 2018 Canada Cup, their first Canada Cup title, defeating Kevin Koe's rink in the final. The team had Marc Kennedy playing third, filling in for Ryan Fry, who was on sabbatical following unsportsmanlike behaviour and excessive drinking at the 2018 Red Deer Curling Classic. The team once again represented Northern Ontario at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier. The team went 9-2 in the round robin and championship round combined. Jacobs lost the 1 vs. 2 game to Kevin Koe and the semifinal to Brendan Bottcher resulting in the team getting the bronze medal. The following season, the team officially added Kennedy to the line-up at third with Fry going to play with John Epping. In their first event, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, the team went undefeated up until the final where they would lose to former teammate Fry and Team Epping. Team Jacobs won three straight Grand Slam events, at the Tour Challenge, National and the Canadian Open. They would win the 2020 Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Curling Championship for the sixth year in a row. At the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, they battled through two tiebreakers before losing to Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue in the 3 vs. 4 game, all within the same day. It would be the team's last event of the season as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Team Jacobs played in two tour events during the 2020–21 season, winning the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and losing in the qualification game of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, the 2021 provincial championship was cancelled. As the reigning provincial champions, Team Jacobs was chosen to represent Northern Ontario at the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier. At the Brier, they finished with a 7–5 record. Harnden is the son of three-time Northern Ontario champion Eric Harnden. He attended Sault College (where he received a business diploma), the University of British Columbia (for real estate appraisal) and Algoma University (geography). He is married to Jasmine Gassi. He is currently employed as a sales representative for Royal LePage and is a substitute teacher with the Algoma District School Board. , Ryan Harnden 2023-10-23T16:28:26Z Ryan Harnden (born June 28, 1986) is a Canadian curler. He currently plays lead on Team Matt Dunstone. He is the former lead for the Brad Jacobs rink, with whom he represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal. Ryan joined forces with his father Eric Harnden for the 2007–08 season, as his second. The team, which also included brother E. J. and Caleb Flaxey at lead won the Dominion Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship that season, and would represent Northern Ontario at the 2008 Tim Hortons Brier. The team would have an unsuccessful Brier, finishing with a 3–8 record. Following the season, Harnden joined forces with Brad Jacobs, and has played with Jacobs ever since. He would play second for the team from 2008 to 2011 and then lead since 2012, after Ryan Fry joined the team as third, and E. J. replaced Ryan at second. In their first season together, the team lost in the 2009 Northern Ontario final to Mike Jakubo. The following season would be more successful. The team played in one Grand Slam, the 2012 The National that season, Harnden's first. The team went 0–5. However, the team did win The Dominion 2010 Northern Ontario Provincial Men's Championship and had a tremendous Brier that season. At the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, the team finished 2nd after the round robin with a 9–2 record. However, they lost both of their playoff games and would have to settle for a bronze medal. During the 2010–11 season, the team played in two Grand Slams. They first played in the 2010 World Cup of Curling, where they finished 2–3. The team also played in the 2011 Players' Championship, but Harnden sat the event out, and was replaced by Ted Appelman. That season, the team would then go on to win their second straight provincial title, by winning The Dominion 2011 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship. While they had a decent 7–4 record at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier, it was not enough to make the playoffs, and they had to settle for 5th. For the 2011–12 season, the team entered two Slams, the 2011 World Cup of Curling where they had a 2–3 record) and the 2011 BDO Canadian Open where they made the playoffs for the first time, but lost in the quarter-final. The team would then go on to win The Dominion 2012 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship, their third straight title. At the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier, they once again finished 5th, but with a worse 5–6 record. The 2012–13 season would be the team's best season to date. The team welcomed Manitoba-born Ryan Fry at the third position, bumping E. J. to play second and Ryan to play lead. The team would make the playoffs in all three Slams they entered, losing in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Masters of Curling and 2013 The National. They made it to the final in their first ever slam at the 2012 Canadian Open of Curling where they lost to the Glenn Howard rink. The team won The Dominion 2013 Northern Ontario Men's Curling Championship once again, qualifying for the Brier for the fourth straight year. At the Brier, the team finished the round robin with an 8–3 record, good enough for 4th. The team pulled off victories against Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue, Ontario's Glenn Howard and Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton en route to win Northern Ontario's first Brier title in 28 years. The team would later represent Canada at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship where they won a silver medal. The next season, the team won the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, earning them the right to represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the Olympics in Sochi, they led Canada to a 9–3 victory in the men's final, defeating Great Britain to claim the gold medal. Following their Olympic success, the Jacobs rink once again made it to the Brier in 2015. After posting a 10–1 round robin record in first place, they won the 1 vs. 2 game sending them to the finals against the defending Brier champions, Team Canada (skipped by Pat Simmons), which they lost. Later in the season the Jacobs rink won their first career Grand Slam event, winning the 2015 Players' Championship. At the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier, the Jacobs rink once again tore through the round robin, going undefeated to finish in first place. However, they ran into trouble in the playoffs, losing to Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1 vs. 2 game and to Alberta in the semifinal. They did rebound in the bronze medal game, defeating Manitoba to finish third overall. The 2016–17 season would be the best to date for the Jacobs rink on the World Curling Tour, winning two slams, the 2016 Boost National and the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup. At the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, the team would once again make the playoffs, after posting an 8-3 round robin record. However, they lost both of their playoff games, settling for fourth place. The Jacobs team played in the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials attempting to head to the Olympics again, but his team would finish with a disappointing 3–5 record, missing the playoffs. The team again represented Northern Ontario at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, making it to the playoffs with an 8–3 record, but lost to Alberta's Brendan Bottcher rink in the 3 vs. 4 game. The next season, the Jacobs rink won the 2018 Tour Challenge Grand Slam event. A month later, the team won the 2018 Canada Cup, their first Canada Cup title, defeating Kevin Koe's rink in the final. The team had Marc Kennedy playing third, filling in for Ryan Fry, who was on sabbatical following unsportsmanlike behaviour and excessive drinking at the 2018 Red Deer Curling Classic. The team once again represented Northern Ontario at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier. The team went 9-2 in the round robin and championship round combined. Jacobs lost the 1 vs. 2 game to Kevin Koe and the semifinal to Brendan Bottcher resulting in the team getting the bronze medal. The following season, the team officially added Kennedy to the line-up at third with Fry going to play with John Epping. In their first event, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, the team went undefeated up until the final where they would lose to former teammate Fry and Team Epping. Team Jacobs won three straight Grand Slam events, at the Tour Challenge, National and the Canadian Open. They would win the 2020 Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Curling Championship for the sixth year in a row. At the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, they battled through two tiebreakers before losing to Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue in the 3 vs. 4 game, all within the same day. It would be the team's last event of the season as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Team Jacobs played in two tour events during the 2020–21 season, winning the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and losing in the qualification game of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, the 2021 provincial championship was cancelled. As the reigning provincial champions, Team Jacobs was chosen to represent Northern Ontario at the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier. At the Brier, they finished with a 7–5 record. Harnden is the son of three-time Northern Ontario champion Eric Harnden. He attended Sault College (where he received a business diploma), the University of British Columbia (for real estate appraisal) and Algoma University (geography). He is married to Jasmine Gassi. He is currently employed as a sales representative for Royal LePage and has been a substitute teacher with the Algoma District School Board. | 1 |
Madura United F.C. | Madura United F.C. 2012-01-01T05:20:48Z Pelita Jaya FC is an Indonesian football team located in Karawang, Indonesia founded in 1986. It was one of the most successful clubs in the Galatama era. The club's finance is mostly supported by The Bakrie Group. In the mid 90s, Pelita Jaya FC recruited several legendary World Cup footballers such as Mario Kempes, Roger Milla, Jules Onana, and Maboang Kessack. In 2011, the club made a phenomenal transfer when landed Malaysian striker Safee Sali, who crowned as top scorer at 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup. Pelita Jaya played at Singaperbangsa Stadium, Karawang, West Java Last updated 14 October 2011. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. AFC CAF CONMEBOL UEFA Pelita Jaya FC have a very tough competitor in the League of Persib Bandung. Since the beginning of the meeting of the league,, Madura United F.C. 2013-12-26T08:09:29Z Pelita Bandung Raya (formerly Pelita Jaya FC) is an Indonesian football team based in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, founded on November 11, 1986. It was one of the most successful clubs in the Galatama era. In the mid 90s, Pelita Jaya FC recruited several legendary World Cup footballers such as Mario Kempes, Roger Milla, Jules Onana, and Maboang Kessack. In 2011, the club made a phenomenal transfer when landed Malaysian striker Safee Sali, who crowned as top scorer at 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup. In October 2012, Pelita Jaya was sold by the club owner PT Pelita Jaya Cronus to Ari Dewanto Sutedi, the owner of Bandung Raya and President Director of PT Retower Asia. "Since 100 percent of the shares Pelita Jaya, has been purchased by the Bandung Raya, then automatically powers the club next season will be held entirely by the Bandung Raya, the name of the new club of course," said Commissioner of PT Pelita Jaya Cronus, Andika Andrayudha Bakrie. After Bandung Raya official purchase Pelita Jaya as well as the right to perform in the Indonesian Super League next season. President Retower Asia Ari Dewanto Sutedi, as the owner of the club Bandung Raya forward with the acquisition ambitions to revive the club's golden era can be realized. "We want to restore the glory of Bandung Raya in the past," said Ari. Pelita recently played its home match at Jalak Harupat Soreang Stadium, Bandung, West Java & 2013- ( Pelita Bandung Raya ) Pelita Bandung Raya have a very tough competitor in the league of Persib Bandung. Since the beginning of the meeting of the league, This game is also often called the Derby Bandung. But Persib Bandung still dominating victory and become the ruler of football in West Java. | 1 |
Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur | Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur 2005-01-22T05:30:05Z Plays at KR-Svöllur, the most prestigious team in the Icelandic Premier division (KSÍ). Kind of like the NY Yankees are, viewed by most non-reykjavík dwellers as "too lucky". , Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur 2006-12-29T15:03:08Z Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, (Icelandic for "Reykjavík Football Club"), for short KR or KR Reykjavík, is an Icelandic athletic club based in the capital, Reykjavík. KR has won the Icelandic league four times in the last seven years. KR was established on February 16 1899, making it the oldest of its kind in Iceland. KR was the only football club in Reykjavík for a decade but as soon as other clubs were established there were plans for competitions. KR won the inaugural championship in 1912 after a play-off with Fram. After winning the title the club chose to wear the colors of the English champions of that year, whoever they might be, and have since then worn the black and white stripes of Newcastle United. They won the first title after the Icelandic league was divided into two division in 1955, and in 1959 when the 1st Division was played on a home-and-away basis for the first time. KR also won the first Cup competiton in 1960. KR was the first Icelandic club to play in European competition, facing Liverpool in 1964 (The game was also Liverpool's first European game). KR’s women's team was also the first Icelandic contender in Europe, entering the inaugural European Competition in 2001. Recent success has made decades of waiting for major trophies look like the distant past. When KR won their twentieth title in 1968, it was regarded as yet another title. No one could have foreseen that the club would have to wait for 31 years until its next success. Relegation to the Second Division in 1977 and heart-breaking near misses in 1990, 1996 and 1998, when KR lost out in the title race on the final day, only seemed to strengthen the solidarity within the club. In KR’s centenary year in 1999 the men's team ended its long quest for glory in the most spectacular manner. The team had not won the league title for 31 years but nothing could stop them that year. They clinched the title with a 4-0 win over Víkingur in the penultimate round and then beat ÍA 3-1 in the cup final in front of a capacity crowd at the national stadium. The women's team was equally successful, winning the league and the cup, and KR celebrated its centenary year with an unprecedented double-double. In total, the men's team has won the league title 24 times and the cup ten times and during the last decade the women's team has won six league titles and twice won the cup. The men's team has three times won the double, in 1961, 1963 and in 1999. After the season of 2006, KR introduced their new jerseys for the year of 2007. They will be playing in Nike jerseys. KR play, as previously stated, in the black and white stripes of Newcastle United. The current sponsor of KR is the oil company Shell. The company is well known in Iceland. Above the club badge on the shirt, although not featured in sold shirts, there are four stars. Each star represents 5 league titles. KR currently have 24 titles and only need one more title if they want to add one more star above the badge. On October 20 2006, KR introduced a new deal with sport equipment manufacturer Nike and will KR wear products from Nike for the 2007 season. The KR shorts are all-black and only carry the logo of Shell and the squad number of the player. The KR socks are all-black and are without a club badge Besides football (soccer), which is the original sport for which the club was founded, KR today also practices badminton, table tennis basketball, bowling, darts, team handball, skiing, and swimming. KR has been playing at their own ground, KR-völlur in the west-end of Reykjavík, since 1984, having previously played at the national stadium (Laugardalsvöllur) and the old municipal stadium (Melavöllur). KR has had the highest attendances for the last nine years. Only 376 attended the first match at KR-völlur in 1984 but in the centenary year an average crowd of 2,501 saw KR’s home matches. KR lost the attendance record to FH's stadium, Kaplakriki in the year of 2005. These may not be the attendances seen at Old Trafford but not many clubs get close to 1% of the nation to their home matches! Provisional as of November 28th Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. In Out Their most common starting line up during the 2006 season was the following: Amongst famous supporters of KR there are: Björgólfur Guðmundsson, Björgólfur Thor, Bubbi Morthens, Gísli Marteinn Baldursson, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Bogi Ágústsson, Þröstur Emilsson, Mörður Árnason, Egill Helgason, Haukur Hólm, Geir Haarde, Óli Björn Kárason, Gunnar Smári Egilsson and Bjarni Felixson. | 1 |
Celulosa_Arauco_y_Constitución | Celulosa_Arauco_y_Constitución 2008-07-25T11:39:37Z Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (also called CELCO) is a Chilean wood pulp, engineered wood and forestry company controlled by Anacleto Angelini's economic group; Empresas Copec. As of 2006, CELCO has five pulp mills in Chile and one in Argentina. Apart from pulp mills CELCO has 4 engineered wood manufacturing plants in Chile, 2 in Argentina and 2 in Brazil. The company was founded in September 1979 as result of the fusion of Celulosa Arauco S. A. (1967) and Celulosa Constitución S. A. (1969), both companies had been privatized from CORFO in 1977 and 1979 respectively. In 2004 and 2005 thousands of Black-necked Swans in the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary in Chile died or migrated away following major contamination by a newly opened CELCO pulp mill located near the city of Mariquina and Cruces River which feeds the wetlands. By August 2005 the birds in the Sanctuary had been "wiped out"; only 4 birds could be observed from a population formerly estimated at 5,000 birds. Autopsies on dead swans attributed the deaths to high levels of iron and other metals polluting the water . The company had been dumping dioxins and heavy metals into the river illegally from a wastetube that had not been approved by the authorities. The plant was closed in 2005 after the company lawyers reportedly produced a misleading environmental study regarding pollution on the Cruces River. The scandal prompted Celco's chief executive to resign in June 2005 and the company to pledge to adopt cleaner technologies. The plant reopened two months later at limited production capacity. Even in 2006 the Latin American water tribunal recommended to close down the mill . In July of 2007 CELCO agreed to pay $614 millions Chilean Pesos to Valdivian tourism companies to avoid legal actions for supposed loses of the tourism sector of Valdivia due to contamination of Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary. In a document signed the tourism companies CELCO was exemted from all resposability involving the contamination of Cruces River. CELCO also promised to pay $2 millions monthly each of the coming 3 years to promote tourism. In december 1999 the pulpmill Licancel (located in the coast of Curicó, Maule Region) is accused of causing the death of dozens of fishes due to the dumping of wastewater into Mataquito River. In Juny 2007 Licancel once again cause the death fishes in the river. The sanitary authorities ordered a temporary closure of the plant for 30 days and CELCO fired 3 executives. Two weeks later 200,000 liters of industrial wastewater escaped from a broken pipeline, of which 50,000 reached the river. CELCO suppose it's an accidental roture a choose to paralize the plant. , Celulosa_Arauco_y_Constitución 2010-01-20T17:54:12Z Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (also called CELCO) is a Chilean wood pulp, engineered wood and forestry company controlled by Anacleto Angelini's economic group; Empresas Copec. As of 2006, CELCO has five pulp mills in Chile and one in Argentina. Apart from pulp mills CELCO has 4 engineered wood manufacturing plants in Chile, 2 in Argentina and 2 in Brazil. The company was founded in September 1979 as result of the fusion of Celulosa Arauco S. A. (1967) and Celulosa Constitución S. A. (1969), both companies had been privatized from CORFO in 1977 and 1979 respectively. In May 2009 Arauco and the Finnish company Stora Enso announced a € 253 million deal that would make their joint venture the largest landowner in Uruguay. In September 2009, Arauco purchased the Brazilian panel company Tafisa Brasil for a deal worth US$227m. In 2004 and 2005 thousands of Black-necked Swans in the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary in Chile died or migrated away following major contamination by the newly opened Valdivia Pulp Mill located near the city of Mariquina and Cruces River which feeds the wetlands. By August 2005 the birds in the Sanctuary had been "wiped out"; only 4 birds could be observed from a population formerly estimated at 5,000 birds. Autopsies on dead swans attributed the deaths to high levels of iron and other metals polluting the water . The company had been dumping dioxins and heavy metals into the river illegally from a wastetube that had not been approved by the authorities. The plant was closed in 2005 after the company lawyers reportedly produced a misleading environmental study regarding pollution on the Cruces River. The scandal prompted Celco's chief executive to resign in June 2005 and the company to pledge to adopt cleaner technologies. The plant reopened two months later at limited production capacity. Even in 2006 the Latin American water tribunal recommended to close down the mill . In July 2007 CELCO agreed to pay $614 millions Chilean Pesos to Valdivian tourism companies to avoid legal actions for supposed loses of the tourism sector of Valdivia due to contamination of Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary. In a document signed the tourism companies CELCO was exempted from all responsibility involving the contamination of Cruces River. CELCO also promised to pay $2 million monthly each of the coming 3 years to promote tourism. In December 1999 the pulpmill Licancel (located in the coast of Curicó, Maule Region) is accused of causing the death of dozens of fishes due to the dumping of wastewater into Mataquito River. In Juny 2007 Licancel once again cause the death fishes in the river. The sanitary authorities ordered a temporary closure of the plant for 30 days and CELCO fired 3 executives. Two weeks later 200,000 liters of industrial wastewater escaped from a broken pipeline, of which 50,000 reached the river. CELCO suppose it's an accidental roture a choose to paralize the plant. | 0 |
Niyamasara | Niyamasara 2011-04-29T08:18:50Z Niyamasara is a 1st Century CE spiritual treatise by Kundakunda described by its commentators as the Bhagavat Shastra. It expounds the path of liberation. Niyamasara deals with the three ethico-spiritual standpoints of understanding ultimate Reality –the Nishcaya naya, the Vyavahara naya and the Shuddha Naya. Niyamasara effectively removes doubts related to Parayayarthika naya and Dravyarthika nayas and elaborates on Vyavahara caritra. He stresses that Vyavahara caritra is based on samyama (self-restraint) and hence rooted in appropriate psychic disposition. He places great stress on cleansing the soul of vibhavas, internal impurities,through self-discipline. A unique feature of the Niyamasara is that Kundakunda characterises both Nichcaya caritra and Vyavahara caritra as tapa, or practice of austerity from their respective nayas. This characterization is based on psychological and pragmatic considerations and if put in practice properly it would lead to internal and external purity and annihilation of the four passions. Kundakunda concludes that Vyavahara caritra and Nishcaya caritra together constitute Samyak caritra. Another unique feature of this text is its description of parama samadhi, not found elsewhere in Jain literature. Hindi translation of Niyamsaar Gujarati translation of Niyamsaar NIYAMASARA: SALVATION THROUGH SELF-DISCIPLINE (Prakrit - English) Original Text in Prakrit By Acarya Kundakunda Translation and Introduction in English by J P Jain Sadhak, 2005 ISBN 8170272424, Niyamasara 2012-05-11T05:15:12Z Niyamasara is a 1st Century CE spiritual treatise by Kundakunda described by its commentators as the Bhagavat Shastra. It expounds the path of liberation. Niyamasara deals with the three ethico-spiritual standpoints of understanding ultimate Reality –the Nishcaya naya, the Vyavahara naya and the Shuddha Naya. Niyamasara effectively removes doubts related to Parayayarthika naya and Dravyarthika nayas and elaborates on Vyavahara caritra. He stresses that Vyavahara caritra is based on samyama (self-restraint) and hence rooted in appropriate psychic disposition. He places great stress on cleansing the soul of vibhavas, internal impurities,through self-discipline. A unique feature of the Niyamasara is that Kundakunda characterises both Nichcaya caritra and Vyavahara caritra as tapa, or practice of austerity from their respective nayas. This characterization is based on psychological and pragmatic considerations and if put in practice properly it would lead to internal and external purity and annihilation of the four passions. Kundakunda concludes that Vyavahara caritra and Nishcaya caritra together constitute Samyak caritra. Another unique feature of this text is its description of parama samadhi, not found elsewhere in Jain literature. Hindi translation of Niyamsaar Gujarati translation of Niyamsaar PDF Audio NIYAMASARA: SALVATION THROUGH SELF-DISCIPLINE (Prakrit - English) Original Text in Prakrit By Acarya Kundakunda Translation and Introduction in English by J P Jain Sadhak, 2005 ISBN 81-7027-242-4 | 0 |
Clayton Donaldson | Clayton Donaldson 2019-01-03T19:41:25Z Clayton Andrew Donaldson (born 7 February 1984) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League One club Bolton Wanderers. Donaldson started his career with Hull City in 2002, scoring on his first-team debut in the Football League Trophy later that year. He was sent out on loan to non-League clubs on four occasions, and with chances in the first team at Hull limited, he was released in 2005 and subsequently joined York City. In his first season at the club, he was voted as their Clubman of the Year and his second season saw him finish as the team's highest scorer and third highest scorer in the league. He joined Scottish Premier League club Hibernian in July 2007, after signing a pre-contract agreement with them in January whilst with York. After a season at the club he left to return to England with Crewe Alexandra. After three years with Crewe, being the top goalscorer in League Two in his last season, he joined Brentford in 2011. He spent three years with the club, helping them gain promotion into the Championship in 2013–14, before signing for Birmingham City at the end of that season when his contract expired. After three seasons with Birmingham, he signed for another Championship club, Sheffield United, in August 2017. Spending just a year with the club, he moved to Bolton Wanderers in June 2018. He played internationally for the England National Game XI, who represent England at non-League level, with whom he earned two caps, before accepting an invitation to represent Jamaica in 2015. Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, Donaldson grew up in Manningham and attended Manningham Middle School and Rhodesway School. He played football for his school team before joining his hometown club Bradford City, who he supported as a child. Donaldson was released by the club aged 16, with only one player, Lewis Emanuel, being retained from his age group. He was soon signed by Hull City, having been spotted by their youth-team coach Billy Russell. Donaldson was a trainee with Hull's youth system when scoring from close range on his first-team debut in Hull's Football League Trophy 3–1 away defeat to Port Vale on 22 October 2002, having replaced Gary Alexander as a 60th-minute substitute. He was sent out on loan to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Harrogate Town in November 2002, and scored in the 68th minute of his debut, a 3–1 away win over Gateshead on 12 November. He stayed with Harrogate for three months, in that time scoring 5 goals in 10 appearances before returning to Hull. He made his Football League debut for Hull on 8 February 2003, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute for Damien Delaney in a 1–0 defeat at home to Lincoln City. Two days later, he signed a two-year professional contract with Hull. He made one further appearance in the 2002–03 season, as a 69th-minute substitute in a 1–0 away win against Boston United. In August 2003, Donaldson joined Football Conference club Scarborough on a one-month loan. His debut came in a 2–1 home defeat to Burton Albion on 23 August 2003, and made only one more appearance before his loan expired. On his return to Hull he made two further appearances, both as a substitute in the Football League Trophy, before joining Football Conference club Halifax Town in February 2004 on a one-month loan. Having made his debut as a 58th-minute substitute for Jake Sagare in a 2–0 away defeat to Margate on 8 February 2004, Donaldson finished his spell at Halifax with four appearances. With little prospect of a first-team place at Hull, he rejoined Harrogate in September 2004 on a one-month loan, and scored in the 18th minute of his second debut for the club, a 3–0 home win over Lancaster City on 18 September. He was voted the Conference North Player of the Month for October 2004, having scored three goals from five appearances in that period. His second loan spell with Harrogate ended having scored 4 goals from 11 appearances. At the end of 2004–05, Donaldson was released by Hull, as manager Peter Taylor was unable to guarantee him first-team football. After his release by Hull, Donaldson was spoken to by Barrow, but was signed by Conference National club York City on 23 June 2005, with manager Billy McEwan saying: "He's a young player who is very hungry for his chance and he'll bring competition up front". He made his debut in a 0–0 home draw with Crawley Town on 13 August 2005. His first goal came in a 1–0 win against Cambridge United on 2 September 2005. Picking the ball up on the half-way line, he ran past two opposition defenders on the left wing before shooting the ball into the bottom-right corner from outside the penalty area. During 2005–06, Donaldson scored 18 goals for York and was awarded the Clubman of the Year award, voted for by the club's supporters, before the final match of the season against Hereford United on 29 April 2006. He agreed a contract extension with York for 2006–07 in July 2006. York manager McEwan compared Donaldson to Paulo Wanchope in September 2006, but following York's 2–0 away defeat against Oxford United later that month, McEwan criticised Donaldson's selfishness in attack, saying it cost them the match. In late 2006, Donaldson became subject of much transfer speculation. Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy watched him in York's 1–0 home victory over Altrincham, in which he scored his 12th goal of the season, on 5 November 2006. He was also watched by Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. In response to this speculation, Donaldson said: "I don't read too much into the speculation. I've heard it before and nothing has happened so I will just keep my head down and enjoy my football until a point comes when the manager or board come and tell me they have had an offer they want to consider". On 18 December 2006, he rejected the offer of a new contract at York, meaning he would be out of contact at the end of the season. Scunthorpe United and Peterborough United Director of Football Barry Fry both watched him in December 2006. Fry tabled a £100,000 bid for Donaldson, but this failed to meet York's valuation and they halted their bid at this amount. He was reportedly given a £500,000 transfer valuation by York in January 2007. A cash-plus-player offer from League Two club Accrington Stanley for Donaldson was rejected in January 2007, which according to York was £25,000 and was termed as an "embarrassment" by York manager McEwan, and Accrington then upped their bid to a six-figure fee, but were told that Donaldson was not for sale. Donaldson was suspended for three matches following his 51st-minute sending off for using his elbow in York's 2–1 defeat away to Kidderminster Harriers on 20 January 2007. York rejected a bid from Scunthorpe for Donaldson, with their approach falling short of York's valuation, after which Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins said he would not pay "stupid money" for Donaldson. On 29 January 2007, Hibernian announced that Donaldson had signed a pre-contract agreement with them for a three-year contract, effective in the summer. As he was 23 years old a month later, York were not entitled to any compensation under FIFA regulations. York later turned down a £50,000 offer from Hibernian, which would have allowed them to bring Donaldson to the club immediately. York manager McEwan wanted Donaldson to give his complete commitment for York for the rest of the season, who also revealed that the club intended to fight against the "international loophole" that meant Donaldson could join Hibernian for free. Donaldson's agent, Andy Sprott, said suggestions he deliberately found Donaldson a transfer in Scotland so York would not receive any compensation were "not the case". Donaldson returned from his suspension for York's reserves against Sheffield United on 6 February 2007, but the match was frozen off, and he eventually returned in a 4–0 away win over Altrincham on 10 February 2007. His first goals since his suspension came against Cambridge United, with a hat-trick on 13 March 2007. Donaldson insisted he remained fully committed to York, after speculation concerning his commitment grew in April 2007. In the play-off semi-final second leg away to Morecambe on 7 May 2007, Donaldson collided with the onrushing opposition goalkeeper Steven Drench in the penalty area while trying to collect the ball. With Donaldson still groggy, York's penalty was taken by Steve Bowey, who successfully converted in the 20th minute. However, York lost the match 2–1 and were eliminated on aggregate. Donaldson finished 2006–07 with 26 goals for York from 48 appearances, including 24 goals in the Conference National, meaning he was the division's third top scorer. Donaldson made his Scottish Premier League debut for Hibernian in a 1–0 away win over their rivals Hearts on 6 August 2007, his first league goal coming against Falkirk on 15 September, after winning and scoring a penalty. Donaldson was sent off in this match, resulting in a one-match suspension. His first match back was his home debut against Motherwell in the Scottish League Cup on 26 September 2007, starting in place of the injured Steven Fletcher. Donaldson scored in the 11th minute after a solo run, beating two defenders and shooting under goalkeeper Graeme Smith, although Hibs lost the match 4–2. He scored his first hat-trick for Hibs in a 4–1 home win Kilmarnock on 29 September 2007. He was linked with a move to League One club Crewe Alexandra in February 2008, having been unable to figure in Mixu Paatelainen's plans at Hibs, meaning he was frozen out of the first team. Donaldson finished 2007–08 with 21 appearances and 6 goals, his last goal of the season coming against Falkirk in December 2007. In the summer of 2008, he was told that he was available for transfer by Hibs. Crewe were believed to be lining up a bid for him in July 2008, who had money available after selling striker Nicky Maynard to Bristol City for £2.25 million and held negotiations with Donaldson. The move stalled after a six-figure fee had been agreed but Donaldson later agreed personal terms. Donaldson's move to League One club Crewe Alexandra was completed on 18 August 2008 on a three-year contract for an undisclosed six-figure fee. The contract could not be signed until international clearance was given from the Scottish Football Association, which was received on 22 August 2008. He made his debut as an 81st-minute substitute in a 2–1 home victory against Walsall on 23 August 2008. Donaldson's former club York made an attempt to re-sign him on loan in October 2008, but were told to make an inquiry four weeks later as he was injured. Despite this, he came on as a substitute in Crewe's 3–0 away defeat to Scunthorpe on 11 October 2008, which was followed a week later by his first start in a 2–2 home draw with Milton Keynes Dons. He scored his first Crewe goals against Huddersfield Town on 1 November 2008 in a match that eventually finished as a 3–2 away defeat. He displayed the ability of long throw-ins, which he initially developed while in the Hull youth team, on several occasions, including a 3–2 home victory over Scunthorpe on 17 January 2009, a match in which he also scored. He scored three goals in four matches later in the season, with the final goal, against Carlisle United, proving to be his last of 2008–09. Donaldson finished the season with 43 appearances and 7 goals. He broke his fibula during August 2009, which resulted in him being ruled out of playing for eight weeks. He finished 2009–10 with 39 appearances and 13 goals. His first appearance of 2010–11 came in the opening match, a 1–0 home defeat to Hereford on 7 August 2010, in which he missed an early opportunity to score, shooting wide of the goal having been one-on-one with goalkeeper Adam Bartlett. His first goals of the season came after scoring twice in a 7–0 home victory over Barnet on 21 August 2010, the first a shot into the bottom left of the goal and the second a close-range header. He finished the season with 48 appearances and 29 goals, including 28 goals in the League Two, making him the division's top scorer. Donaldson signed a three-year contract with League One club Brentford on 1 July 2011 on a free transfer. He was named Brentford's Player of the Year for 2012–13, in which he scored 24 goals from 56 appearances. After helping Brentford gain promotion into the Championship in 2013–14 as League One runners-up, manager Mark Warburton confirmed that Donaldson would be offered a new contract with the club. Donaldson turned down Brentford's contract offer, and signed a two-year contract with their 2014–15 Championship rivals Birmingham City, to begin on 1 July 2014 when his Brentford contract expired. He made his debut as a second-half substitute in the opening-day defeat at Middlesbrough, opened the scoring as Birmingham beat Cambridge United 3–1 at St Andrew's in the League Cup, and collected Wes Thomas's through ball to run on and score in a 2–2 home draw with Ipswich Town on 19 August 2014. Although attracting praise for his general play, Donaldson was disappointed with his lack of goals; by the end of October 2014, he had added only one more. A change of management and change of formation – Gary Rowett preferred to play Donaldson as a lone striker – brought a change of fortune in front of goal. He scored both goals in a 2–1 home win against Watford, who had been on a nine-match unbeaten run, and followed up with the only goal of the visit to Rotherham United, when his shot was parried back out to him and he was alert enough to produce a more accurate and powerful second attempt. Donaldson's "customary selfless performance" was rewarded with a two goals in a 3–1 away win over Nottingham Forest, and a hat-trick against Wigan Athletic prompted thoughts of a 20-goal season. An eight-week lean spell put paid to that target – he finished 2014–15 with 16 goals in all competitions, 15 in the league, – but his efforts for the team were recognised with both Players' Player and Supporters' Player of the Season awards. In the first month of 2015–16, Donaldson provided four assists for teammates but did not score himself. At home to Bristol City on 12 September 2015, he completed a first-half hat-trick; the match ended 4–2. His fifth goal of the season came in a 5–2 away win against Fulham on 7 November 2015, the last match before he made his international debut for Jamaica. He returned with a groin injury that was predicted to keep him out for six weeks. Rowett suggested the damage could have been less serious had Donaldson not played the whole match despite being obviously unfit, but Jamaica coach Winfried Schäfer denied the accusations, stating that he had wanted to substitute Donaldson but the player insisted on continuing. He returned to first-team action on 26 December 2015, as a late substitute with Birmingham already 3–0 down at Sheffield Wednesday, and remained in the starting eleven thereafter, although it took some time for his rhythm and form to return. Donaldson was also used on the left wing in support of loan striker Kyle Lafferty. He said he enjoyed that position "because strikers are always getting battered and from there you can sneak in unopposed", although it had not gone as well for him this season as he had hoped. By the end of the season, which he finished as the club's top scorer with 11 goals from 40 league appearances as well as contributing 7 assists, he claimed to be "back to normal self". Away to Wigan Athletic on 16 August 2016, Donaldson's penalty was saved, although the encroaching David Davis scored from the rebound to give Birmingham a lead they failed to protect. Two weeks later, he converted a penalty to open his account for the season before taking advantage of a defensive error to complete a 3–0 win over Norwich City. In the next match, Donaldson again missed a penalty, then ignored managerial orders that Jacques Maghoma should take any further spot kick and scored the winning goal from the penalty awarded after 49 minutes. After the match, Rowett confirmed that Donaldson would remain as designated taker, but advised him to practise. He duly scored from the spot in the very next match. Donaldson's sixth goal, again a penalty, came against Ipswich Town in December. He was stretchered off soon afterwards with an Achilles tendon injury which kept him out for three months, by which time the team were in a relegation battle under the management of Gianfranco Zola, who had taken over the day after the Ipswich match. He made four appearances, with only one start, before a knee injured in training forced him out until the last 20 minutes of the final match, away to Bristol City, in which he helped Birmingham defend a 1–0 lead to avoid relegation. Harry Redknapp had come in as manager for Birmingham's last three matches of 2016–17, and agreed to stay on for the new season. Donaldson started the first four league matches – he did not score, but against Burton Albion he combined with strike partner Lukas Jutkiewicz to create a goal for Maghoma – and took his Birmingham record to 33 goals from 117 appearances in all competitions. Redknapp completely revamped the team during the last couple of weeks of the transfer window, bringing in two strikers and other attacking players, and late on deadline day, Donaldson moved on. Donaldson signed a one-year contract with another Championship club, Sheffield United, on 31 August 2017. The undisclosed fee was described by the Birmingham Mail as "nominal". After scoring both of his team's goals in a 2–1 away win against Sunderland on his debut on 9 September, Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder commented: "Not bad for 50 grand that, is it? Not bad from Aldi... We are delighted to get Clayton. He's a good kid. I know a lot about him. I've tried to sign him enough times, I should know about him. He said yes to me eventually." He was released by Sheffield United at the end of the 2017–18 season. Donaldson signed a one-year contract with Championship club Bolton Wanderers on 26 June 2018. Donaldson was called up by the England National Game XI, who represent England at non-League level, for a European Challenge Trophy match against Belgium in November 2005. He was named in the initial 35-man squad for the Four Nations Tournament in May 2006, but did not make the final 18-man squad. Donaldson finally made the cut when being named in the final 16-man squad for the team to play the Netherlands in November 2006. He made his debut in this match, coming on as a substitute in the last 15 minutes, in which he set up Craig Mackail-Smith for the final goal of a 4–1 victory. This result meant England won the inaugural European Challenge Trophy, topping the table with maximum points. Donaldson was included in the squad to play Northern Ireland in February 2007, although York manager McEwan contemplated withdrawing Donaldson from the squad, after his comeback for York against Altrincham in February 2007. Donaldson eventually started against Northern Ireland, but was substituted after 50 minutes for Paul Benson, who scored England's only goal two minutes after coming on in a 3–1 defeat. This was the final of two caps he earned for England National Game XI. In April 2015, Donaldson stated that he wanted to play for Jamaica, his parents' country. He had hoped to be selected for the 2015 Copa América or for the Gold Cup, but did not receive his Jamaican passport in time. He was called up for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November 2015 against Panama and Haiti, and made his full international debut in the first of those matches, at Independence Park in Kingston on 13 November. He entered the match with Jamaica already 2–0 down, replacing Darren Mattocks after 62 minutes, but was unable to affect the score. Donaldson started against Haiti, and scored the only goal of the match after 62 minutes with a header from a corner. His brother, Jahsiah Donaldson, was a schoolboy with Leeds United before injury ended his career. In June 2014, Donaldson married Pippa (née Fulton) and their son Hendrix was born in August 2015. Brentford England National Game XI Individual, Clayton Donaldson 2020-12-29T04:54:34Z Clayton Andrew Donaldson (born 7 February 1984) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Bradford City. Donaldson started his career with Hull City in 2002, scoring on his first-team debut in the Football League Trophy later that year. He was sent out on loan to non-League clubs on four occasions, and with chances in the first team at Hull limited, he was released in 2005 and subsequently joined York City. In his first season at the club, he was voted as their Clubman of the Year and his second season saw him finish as the team's highest scorer and third highest scorer in the league. He joined Scottish Premier League club Hibernian in July 2007, after signing a pre-contract agreement with them in January whilst with York. After a season at the club he left to return to England with Crewe Alexandra. After three years with Crewe, being the top goalscorer in League Two in his last season, he joined Brentford in 2011. He spent three years with the club, helping them gain promotion into the Championship in 2013–14, before signing for Birmingham City at the end of that season when his contract expired. After three seasons with Birmingham, he signed for another Championship club, Sheffield United, in August 2017. Spending just a year with the club, he moved to Bolton Wanderers in June 2018. He played internationally for the England National Game XI, who represent England at non-League level, with whom he earned two caps, before accepting an invitation to represent Jamaica in 2015. Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, Donaldson grew up in Manningham and attended Manningham Middle School and Rhodesway School. He played football for his school team before joining his hometown club Bradford City, who he supported as a child. Donaldson was released by the club aged 16, with only one player, Lewis Emanuel, being retained from his age group. He was soon signed by Hull City, having been spotted by their youth-team coach Billy Russell. Donaldson was a trainee with Hull's youth system when scoring from close range on his first-team debut in Hull's Football League Trophy 3–1 away defeat to Port Vale on 22 October 2002, having replaced Gary Alexander as a 60th-minute substitute. He was sent out on loan to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Harrogate Town in November 2002, and scored in the 68th minute of his debut, a 3–1 away win over Gateshead on 12 November. He stayed with Harrogate for three months, in that time scoring 5 goals in 10 appearances before returning to Hull. He made his Football League debut for Hull on 8 February 2003, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute for Damien Delaney in a 1–0 defeat at home to Lincoln City. Two days later, he signed a two-year professional contract with Hull. He made one further appearance in the 2002–03 season, as a 69th-minute substitute in a 1–0 away win against Boston United. In August 2003, Donaldson joined Football Conference club Scarborough on a one-month loan. His debut came in a 2–1 home defeat to Burton Albion on 23 August 2003, and made only one more appearance before his loan expired. On his return to Hull he made two further appearances, both as a substitute in the Football League Trophy, before joining Football Conference club Halifax Town in February 2004 on a one-month loan. Having made his debut as a 58th-minute substitute for Jake Sagare in a 2–0 away defeat to Margate on 8 February 2004, Donaldson finished his spell at Halifax with four appearances. With little prospect of a first-team place at Hull, he rejoined Harrogate in September 2004 on a one-month loan, and scored in the 18th minute of his second debut for the club, a 3–0 home win over Lancaster City on 18 September. He was voted the Conference North Player of the Month for October 2004, having scored three goals from five appearances in that period. His second loan spell with Harrogate ended having scored 4 goals from 11 appearances. At the end of 2004–05, Donaldson was released by Hull, as manager Peter Taylor was unable to guarantee him first-team football. After his release by Hull, Donaldson was spoken to by Barrow, but was signed by Conference National club York City on 23 June 2005, with manager Billy McEwan saying: "He's a young player who is very hungry for his chance and he'll bring competition up front". He made his debut in a 0–0 home draw with Crawley Town on 13 August 2005. His first goal came in a 1–0 win against Cambridge United on 2 September 2005. Picking the ball up on the half-way line, he ran past two opposition defenders on the left wing before shooting the ball into the bottom-right corner from outside the penalty area. During 2005–06, Donaldson scored 18 goals for York and was awarded the Clubman of the Year award, voted for by the club's supporters, before the final match of the season against Hereford United on 29 April 2006. He agreed a contract extension with York for 2006–07 in July 2006. York manager McEwan compared Donaldson to Paulo Wanchope in September 2006, but following York's 2–0 away defeat against Oxford United later that month, McEwan criticised Donaldson's selfishness in attack, saying it cost them the match. In late 2006, Donaldson became subject of much transfer speculation. Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy watched him in York's 1–0 home victory over Altrincham, in which he scored his 12th goal of the season, on 5 November 2006. He was also watched by Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. In response to this speculation, Donaldson said: "I don't read too much into the speculation. I've heard it before and nothing has happened so I will just keep my head down and enjoy my football until a point comes when the manager or board come and tell me they have had an offer they want to consider". On 18 December 2006, he rejected the offer of a new contract at York, meaning he would be out of contact at the end of the season. Scunthorpe United and Peterborough United Director of Football Barry Fry both watched him in December 2006. Fry tabled a £100,000 bid for Donaldson, but this failed to meet York's valuation and they halted their bid at this amount. He was reportedly given a £500,000 transfer valuation by York in January 2007. A cash-plus-player offer from League Two club Accrington Stanley for Donaldson was rejected in January 2007, which according to York was £25,000 and was termed as an "embarrassment" by York manager McEwan, and Accrington then upped their bid to a six-figure fee, but were told that Donaldson was not for sale. Donaldson was suspended for three matches following his 51st-minute sending off for using his elbow in York's 2–1 defeat away to Kidderminster Harriers on 20 January 2007. York rejected a bid from Scunthorpe for Donaldson, with their approach falling short of York's valuation, after which Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins said he would not pay "stupid money" for Donaldson. On 29 January 2007, Hibernian announced that Donaldson had signed a pre-contract agreement with them for a three-year contract, effective in the summer. As he was 23 years old a month later, York were not entitled to any compensation under FIFA regulations. York later turned down a £50,000 offer from Hibernian, which would have allowed them to bring Donaldson to the club immediately. York manager McEwan wanted Donaldson to give his complete commitment for York for the rest of the season, who also revealed that the club intended to fight against the "international loophole" that meant Donaldson could join Hibernian for free. Donaldson's agent, Andy Sprott, said suggestions he deliberately found Donaldson a transfer in Scotland so York would not receive any compensation were "not the case". Donaldson returned from his suspension for York's reserves against Sheffield United on 6 February 2007, but the match was frozen off, and he eventually returned in a 4–0 away win over Altrincham on 10 February 2007. His first goals since his suspension came against Cambridge United, with a hat-trick on 13 March 2007. Donaldson insisted he remained fully committed to York, after speculation concerning his commitment grew in April 2007. In the play-off semi-final second leg away to Morecambe on 7 May 2007, Donaldson collided with the onrushing opposition goalkeeper Steven Drench in the penalty area while trying to collect the ball. With Donaldson still groggy, York's penalty was taken by Steve Bowey, who successfully converted in the 20th minute. However, York lost the match 2–1 and were eliminated on aggregate. Donaldson finished 2006–07 with 26 goals for York from 48 appearances, including 24 goals in the Conference National, meaning he was the division's third top scorer. Donaldson made his Scottish Premier League debut for Hibernian in a 1–0 away win over their rivals Hearts on 6 August 2007, his first league goal coming against Falkirk on 15 September, after winning and scoring a penalty. Donaldson was sent off in this match, resulting in a one-match suspension. His first match back was his home debut against Motherwell in the Scottish League Cup on 26 September 2007, starting in place of the injured Steven Fletcher. Donaldson scored in the 11th minute after a solo run, beating two defenders and shooting under goalkeeper Graeme Smith, although Hibs lost the match 4–2. He scored his first hat-trick for Hibs in a 4–1 home win Kilmarnock on 29 September 2007. He was linked with a move to League One club Crewe Alexandra in February 2008, having been unable to figure in Mixu Paatelainen's plans at Hibs, meaning he was frozen out of the first team. Donaldson finished 2007–08 with 21 appearances and 6 goals, his last goal of the season coming against Falkirk in December 2007. In the summer of 2008, he was told that he was available for transfer by Hibs. Crewe were believed to be lining up a bid for him in July 2008, who had money available after selling striker Nicky Maynard to Bristol City for £2.25 million and held negotiations with Donaldson. The move stalled after a six-figure fee had been agreed but Donaldson later agreed personal terms. Donaldson's move to League One club Crewe Alexandra was completed on 18 August 2008 on a three-year contract for an undisclosed six-figure fee. The contract could not be signed until international clearance was given from the Scottish Football Association, which was received on 22 August 2008. He made his debut as an 81st-minute substitute in a 2–1 home victory against Walsall on 23 August 2008. Donaldson's former club York made an attempt to re-sign him on loan in October 2008, but were told to make an inquiry four weeks later as he was injured. Despite this, he came on as a substitute in Crewe's 3–0 away defeat to Scunthorpe on 11 October 2008, which was followed a week later by his first start in a 2–2 home draw with Milton Keynes Dons. He scored his first Crewe goals against Huddersfield Town on 1 November 2008 in a match that eventually finished as a 3–2 away defeat. He displayed the ability of long throw-ins, which he initially developed while in the Hull youth team, on several occasions, including a 3–2 home victory over Scunthorpe on 17 January 2009, a match in which he also scored. He scored three goals in four matches later in the season, with the final goal, against Carlisle United, proving to be his last of 2008–09. Donaldson finished the season with 43 appearances and 7 goals. He broke his fibula during August 2009, which resulted in him being ruled out of playing for eight weeks. He finished 2009–10 with 39 appearances and 13 goals. His first appearance of 2010–11 came in the opening match, a 1–0 home defeat to Hereford on 7 August 2010, in which he missed an early opportunity to score, shooting wide of the goal having been one-on-one with goalkeeper Adam Bartlett. His first goals of the season came after scoring twice in a 7–0 home victory over Barnet on 21 August 2010, the first a shot into the bottom left of the goal and the second a close-range header. He finished the season with 48 appearances and 29 goals, including 28 goals in the League Two, making him the division's top scorer. Donaldson signed a three-year contract with League One club Brentford on 1 July 2011 on a free transfer. He was named Brentford's Player of the Year for 2012–13, in which he scored 24 goals from 56 appearances. After helping Brentford gain promotion into the Championship in 2013–14 as League One runners-up, manager Mark Warburton confirmed that Donaldson would be offered a new contract with the club. Donaldson turned down Brentford's contract offer, and signed a two-year contract with their 2014–15 Championship rivals Birmingham City, to begin on 1 July 2014 when his Brentford contract expired. He made his debut as a second-half substitute in the opening-day defeat at Middlesbrough, opened the scoring as Birmingham beat Cambridge United 3–1 at St Andrew's in the League Cup, and collected Wes Thomas's through ball to run on and score in a 2–2 home draw with Ipswich Town on 19 August 2014. Although attracting praise for his general play, Donaldson was disappointed with his lack of goals; by the end of October 2014, he had added only one more. A change of management and change of formation – Gary Rowett preferred to play Donaldson as a lone striker – brought a change of fortune in front of goal. He scored both goals in a 2–1 home win against Watford, who had been on a nine-match unbeaten run, and followed up with the only goal of the visit to Rotherham United, when his shot was parried back out to him and he was alert enough to produce a more accurate and powerful second attempt. Donaldson's "customary selfless performance" was rewarded with a two goals in a 3–1 away win over Nottingham Forest, and a hat-trick against Wigan Athletic prompted thoughts of a 20-goal season. An eight-week lean spell put paid to that target – he finished 2014–15 with 16 goals in all competitions, 15 in the league, – but his efforts for the team were recognised with both Players' Player and Supporters' Player of the Season awards. In the first month of 2015–16, Donaldson provided four assists for teammates but did not score himself. At home to Bristol City on 12 September 2015, he completed a first-half hat-trick; the match ended 4–2. His fifth goal of the season came in a 5–2 away win against Fulham on 7 November 2015, the last match before he made his international debut for Jamaica. He returned with a groin injury that was predicted to keep him out for six weeks. Rowett suggested the damage could have been less serious had Donaldson not played the whole match despite being obviously unfit, but Jamaica coach Winfried Schäfer denied the accusations, stating that he had wanted to substitute Donaldson but the player insisted on continuing. He returned to first-team action on 26 December 2015, as a late substitute with Birmingham already 3–0 down at Sheffield Wednesday, and remained in the starting eleven thereafter, although it took some time for his rhythm and form to return. Donaldson was also used on the left wing in support of loan striker Kyle Lafferty. He said he enjoyed that position "because strikers are always getting battered and from there you can sneak in unopposed", although it had not gone as well for him this season as he had hoped. By the end of the season, which he finished as the club's top scorer with 11 goals from 40 league appearances as well as contributing 7 assists, he claimed to be "back to normal self". Away to Wigan Athletic on 16 August 2016, Donaldson's penalty was saved, although the encroaching David Davis scored from the rebound to give Birmingham a lead they failed to protect. Two weeks later, he converted a penalty to open his account for the season before taking advantage of a defensive error to complete a 3–0 win over Norwich City. In the next match, Donaldson again missed a penalty, then ignored managerial orders that Jacques Maghoma should take any further spot kick and scored the winning goal from the penalty awarded after 49 minutes. After the match, Rowett confirmed that Donaldson would remain as designated taker, but advised him to practise. He duly scored from the spot in the very next match. Donaldson's sixth goal, again a penalty, came against Ipswich Town in December. He was stretchered off soon afterwards with an Achilles tendon injury which kept him out for three months, by which time the team were in a relegation battle under the management of Gianfranco Zola, who had taken over the day after the Ipswich match. He made four appearances, with only one start, before a knee injured in training forced him out until the last 20 minutes of the final match, away to Bristol City, in which he helped Birmingham defend a 1–0 lead to avoid relegation. Harry Redknapp had come in as manager for Birmingham's last three matches of 2016–17, and agreed to stay on for the new season. Donaldson started the first four league matches – he did not score, but against Burton Albion he combined with strike partner Lukas Jutkiewicz to create a goal for Maghoma – and took his Birmingham record to 33 goals from 117 appearances in all competitions. Redknapp completely revamped the team during the last couple of weeks of the transfer window, bringing in two strikers and other attacking players, and late on deadline day, Donaldson moved on. Donaldson signed a one-year contract with another Championship club, Sheffield United, on 31 August 2017. The undisclosed fee was described by the Birmingham Mail as "nominal". After scoring both of his team's goals in a 2–1 away win against Sunderland on his debut on 9 September, Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder commented: "Not bad for 50 grand that, is it? Not bad from Aldi... We are delighted to get Clayton. He's a good kid. I know a lot about him. I've tried to sign him enough times, I should know about him. He said yes to me eventually." He was released by Sheffield United at the end of the 2017–18 season. Donaldson signed a one-year contract with Championship club Bolton Wanderers on 26 June 2018. His first goal came on 5 January 2019 in the FA Cup third round against Walsall scoring the equaliser in an eventually 5–2 win. Donaldson signed for newly relegated League Two club Bradford City on 14 June 2019 on a one-year contract. He became captain in January 2020, after regular captain James Vaughan left the club on loan. In September 2020 he was replaced as captain Richard O'Donnell. Donaldson was called up by the England National Game XI, who represent England at non-League level, for a European Challenge Trophy match against Belgium in November 2005. He was named in the initial 35-man squad for the Four Nations Tournament in May 2006, but did not make the final 18-man squad. Donaldson finally made the cut when being named in the final 16-man squad for the team to play the Netherlands in November 2006. He made his debut in this match, coming on as a substitute in the last 15 minutes, in which he set up Craig Mackail-Smith for the final goal of a 4–1 victory. This result meant England won the inaugural European Challenge Trophy, topping the table with maximum points. Donaldson was included in the squad to play Northern Ireland in February 2007, although York manager McEwan contemplated withdrawing Donaldson from the squad, after his comeback for York against Altrincham in February 2007. Donaldson eventually started against Northern Ireland, but was substituted after 50 minutes for Paul Benson, who scored England's only goal two minutes after coming on in a 3–1 defeat. This was the final of two caps he earned for England National Game XI. In April 2015, Donaldson stated that he wanted to play for Jamaica, his parents' country. He had hoped to be selected for the 2015 Copa América or for the Gold Cup, but did not receive his Jamaican passport in time. He was called up for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November 2015 against Panama and Haiti, and made his full international debut in the first of those matches, at Independence Park in Kingston on 13 November. He entered the match with Jamaica already 2–0 down, replacing Darren Mattocks after 62 minutes, but was unable to affect the score. Donaldson started against Haiti, and scored the only goal of the match after 62 minutes with a header from a corner. His brother, Jahsiah Donaldson, was a schoolboy with Leeds United before injury ended his career. In June 2014, Donaldson married Pippa (née Fulton) and their son Hendrix was born in August 2015. Brentford England National Game XI Individual | 1 |
Aga_Khan_Fund_for_Economic_Development | Aga_Khan_Fund_for_Economic_Development 2008-05-13T17:11:42Z The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) (AKFED) is the sole for-profit agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) (AKDN) and works in partnership with international organizations and governments to stimulate the private sectors of developing economies, with the aim of generating capital for investment into long-lasting and sustainable development initiatives. The agency’s operations include, but are not limited to, industry and tourism. Critical to the development process are goods and services including financial institutions, and infrastructure, such as power generation and communications, which together comprise some of AKFED’s initiatives. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) is one of eight agencies operating under the direction of the umbrella organization, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), founded and Chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. Of these eight, AKFED is the sole for-profit agency, the purpose of which is to build high-performing institutions and to sustain long-lasting development projects in developing regions. The agency works to build infrastructures that support economic development. Its major investments include the Financial Services, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) (IPS), and Tourism Promotion Services (TPS) (TPS), . These initiatives span improvements in banking, electricity, agriculture, hotels, aviation, and communications linkages. In conjunction with the governments of certain developing countries, AKFED operates to promote the private sector. Through the support of industries, the agency aims to bolster the participation of developing regions in market economies. In addition, essential to sustaining development initiatives is a stable human resource bank from which to draw support. To this end, AKFED provides training in administrative, managerial and marketing skills with the aim of fostering locally owned enterprises. Where capital is unavailable, the agency provides the initial investment for companies through the use of microloans. As a for profit organisation AKFED however conducts its businesses as a standard employer with ups and downs associated with financial results. Operating in East Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, AKFED supports the creation of financial institutions including banks and insurance groups within these regions. The agency is a major supporter of corporate activity and is a prime lender for local business both in Bangladesh and the Kyrgyz Republic where it founded the Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank (KICB). One of the agency’s earliest holdings was the Diamond Trust Bank of Kenya, founded in 1930, the aim of which was to use locally generated funds to create loans for small business and the construction of homes. Soon after, Jubilee Insurance Group joined the agency’s banks in East Africa. In India, the agency became an important shareholder for the Development Credit Bank Ltd. In 2004, AKFED acquired holdings in Pakistan’s largest private-sector financial institution, Habib Bank Limited (HBL). By stimulating the corporate sector in the regions where it operates, the agency generates capital for the purpose of reinvestment into services essential for development. AKFED operates in conjunction with private donors, international economic organizations and individual governments to address constraints and hindrances to development. Working primarily in Africa and Asia, the agency encourages the growth of industry and infrastructure in order for developing regions to generate the capital necessary for investment into AKFED’s many projects and more generally, for a country’s growth. Since the 1960’s, the agency has supported a group of enterprises under the Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), each of which was conceptualized to spur investment and increase activity in the corporate sectors of developing countries. However with the international climate largely favouring countries with export-oriented economies in place of popular import substitution industrialization (ISI), IPS adjusted its approach. The changes would include an emphasis upon privatization and the agency embarked on its goal with a new approach in the 1980’s. Private enterprises and entrepreneurs became generators for capital investment into agribusiness and infrastructure, both crucial to the development process. In the domain of food and agriculture, IPS facilitates agricultural extension to farmers, in order to make possible their participation in global markets. Using a participatory programme of education and technical skills training for farmers, IPS supports the rural economies of developing countries by facilitating exports to developed regions. For the initial costs of such production until harvest revenues are generated, microloans are provided to farmers by non-profit agencies of the AKDN. In addition to microfinance and education, the agency works to improve the health and sanitation conditions of its beneficiaries, and considers employee welfare to be of paramount concern, providing equitable opportunity between genders and making child-care provisions for its employees. Within the IPS, AKFED operates in conjunction with international economic organizations, private donors and individual governments to resolve issues of electricity and water supply, as well as communications infrastructure. Private enterprises in the form of power plants have been a major project of the agency, through which it invested in the largest plant within sub-Saharan Africa, Azito Energy. The project’s counterpart in Kenya, is Mombasa’s Tsavo Power plant. In neighbouring Uganda, the agency is working to establish the critical Bujagali Hydro Power Project. Currently, the agency is working to establish the Pamir power plant in Tajikistan, the aim of which is to reinvigorate the country’s economy and resolve electricity inadequacies. AKFED’s first telecommunications initiative is known as Indigo, a GSM mobile phone project based in Tajikistan. An important aspect of the reconstruction and development process, the agency embarked on its second mobile phone initiative in Afghanistan. Today the country’s company, Roshan has expanded to create over 500 jobs for the country. The Tourism Promotion Services, known as TPS, aims at creating sustainable tourist attractions in underdeveloped communities. Paying attention to cultural values as well as environmental issues, TPS creates a wide variety of tourist facilities that generate sustainable community capital, stimulate local economic growth and promote positive investment opportunities. Under the brand name Serena, TPS constructs and maintains a multitude of resorts, hotels and other tourist attractions that serve to stimulate local economic growth through increased employment, development of a skilled workforce, increased productivity of local businesses (particularly in the design and craft spheres) and the general development of given areas. In all of these aspects, emphasis is placed on the active employment and input of the local community. In regions that are neglected by commercial tourism corporations, TPS aims to develop facilities that meet the international standards for hospitality, accommodation and service. Attention to such factors further promotes economic growth as well as the potential for local business development within less-frequented regions. While seeking to stimulate economic growth and generate sustainable capital, TSP aims at protecting and maintaining the local environment. His Highness the Aga Khan founded the Kenya’s major media service, the Nation Media Group in 1960. In the year’s leading up to Kenya’s independence, Nation Media’s predecessors, Taifa and Nation newspapers, served as vehicles of independent opinion. Today, the group operates nation-wide newspapers in English and Kiswahili languages, as well as radio and television stations. At present, the group has expanded to serve Uganda and Tanzania also. The Aviation division of the foundation is dedicated to providing support to the existing aviation infrastructure, which serves to support various projects of economic development. By providing worker training, investment knowledge and general management guidance, the division seeks to strengthen existing airline companies and provide them with efficient equipment and resources. In areas such as Mali and Uganda, the division supports previously existing airlines by increasing fleet size and reviving currently non-functional companies in order to provide much-needed air support for the development projects within the region. In addition, the multiple airline companies of AKFED are connected through a network known as “Group Celestair”, which serves to collectively increase the efficiency and scope of support for the various airlines throughout the region. Presently, AFKED is currently considering possible airport management opportunities at a multitude of locations. , Aga_Khan_Fund_for_Economic_Development 2009-11-30T02:40:59Z The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) (AKFED) is the sole for-profit agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) (AKDN) and works in partnership with international organizations and governments to stimulate the private sectors of developing economies, with the aim of generating capital for investment into long-lasting and sustainable development initiatives. The agency’s operations include, but are not limited to, industry and tourism. Critical to the development process are goods and services including financial institutions, and infrastructure, such as power generation and communications, which together comprise some of AKFED’s initiatives. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) is one of eight agencies operating under the direction of the umbrella organization, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), founded and Chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. Of these eight, AKFED is the sole for-profit agency, the purpose of which is to build high-performing institutions and to sustain long-lasting development projects in developing regions. The agency works to build infrastructures that support economic development. Its major investments include the Financial Services, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) (IPS), and Tourism Promotion Services (TPS) (TPS), . These initiatives span improvements in banking, electricity, agriculture, hotels, aviation, and communications linkages. In conjunction with the governments of certain developing countries, AKFED operates to promote the private sector. Through the support of industries, the agency aims to bolster the participation of developing regions in market economies. In addition, essential to sustaining development initiatives is a stable human resource bank from which to draw support. To this end, AKFED provides training in administrative, managerial and marketing skills with the aim of fostering locally owned enterprises. Where capital is unavailable, the agency provides the initial investment for companies through the use of microloans. As a for profit organisation AKFED however conducts its businesses as a standard employer with ups and downs associated with financial results. Operating in East Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, AKFED supports the creation of financial institutions including banks and insurance groups within these regions. The agency is a major supporter of corporate activity and is a prime lender for local business both in Bangladesh and the Kyrgyz Republic where it founded the Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank (KICB). One of the agency’s earliest holdings was the Diamond Trust Bank of Kenya and Uganda, founded in 1930, the aim of which was to use locally generated funds to create loans for small business and the construction of homes. Soon after, Jubilee Insurance Group joined the agency’s banks in East Africa. In India, the agency became an important shareholder for the Development Credit Bank Ltd. In 2004, AKFED acquired holdings in Pakistan’s largest private-sector financial institution, Habib Bank Limited (HBL). By stimulating the corporate sector in the regions where it operates, the agency generates capital for the purpose of reinvestment into services essential for development. AKFED operates in conjunction with private donors, international economic organizations and individual governments to address constraints and hindrances to development. Working primarily in Africa and Asia, the agency encourages the growth of industry and infrastructure in order for developing regions to generate the capital necessary for investment into AKFED’s many projects and more generally, for a country’s growth. Since the 1960’s, the agency has supported a group of enterprises under the Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), each of which was conceptualized to spur investment and increase activity in the corporate sectors of developing countries. However with the international climate largely favouring countries with export-oriented economies in place of popular import substitution industrialization (ISI), IPS adjusted its approach. The changes would include an emphasis upon privatization and the agency embarked on its goal with a new approach in the 1980’s. Private enterprises and entrepreneurs became generators for capital investment into agribusiness and infrastructure, both crucial to the development process. In the domain of food and agriculture, IPS facilitates agricultural extension to farmers, in order to make possible their participation in global markets. Using a participatory programme of education and technical skills training for farmers, IPS supports the rural economies of developing countries by facilitating exports to developed regions. For the initial costs of such production until harvest revenues are generated, microloans are provided to farmers by non-profit agencies of the AKDN. In addition to microfinance and education, the agency works to improve the health and sanitation conditions of its beneficiaries, and considers employee welfare to be of paramount concern, providing equitable opportunity between genders and making child-care provisions for its employees. Within the IPS, AKFED operates in conjunction with international economic organizations, private donors and individual governments to resolve issues of electricity and water supply, as well as communications infrastructure. Private enterprises in the form of power plants have been a major project of the agency, through which it invested in the largest plant within sub-Saharan Africa, Azito Energy. The project’s counterpart in Kenya, is Mombasa’s Tsavo Power plant. In neighbouring Uganda, the agency is working to establish the critical Bujagali Hydro Power Project. Currently, the agency is working to establish the Pamir power plant in Tajikistan, the aim of which is to reinvigorate the country’s economy and resolve electricity inadequacies. AKFED’s first telecommunications initiative is known as Indigo, a GSM mobile phone project based in Tajikistan. An important aspect of the reconstruction and development process, the agency embarked on its second mobile phone initiative in Afghanistan (mobile network operators in Afghanistan). Today the country’s company, Roshan (telco) has expanded to create over 500 jobs for the country. The Tourism Promotion Services, known as TPS, aims at creating sustainable tourist attractions in underdeveloped communities. Paying attention to cultural values as well as environmental issues, TPS creates a wide variety of tourist facilities that generate sustainable community capital, stimulate local economic growth and promote positive investment opportunities. Under the brand name Serena, TPS constructs and maintains a multitude of resorts, hotels and other tourist attractions that serve to stimulate local economic growth through increased employment, development of a skilled workforce, increased productivity of local businesses (particularly in the design and craft spheres) and the general development of given areas. In all of these aspects, emphasis is placed on the active employment and input of the local community. In regions that are neglected by commercial tourism corporations, TPS aims to develop facilities that meet the international standards for hospitality, accommodation and service. Attention to such factors further promotes economic growth as well as the potential for local business development within less-frequented regions. While seeking to stimulate economic growth and generate sustainable capital, TSP aims at protecting and maintaining the local environment. Aga Khan founded the Kenya’s major media service, the Nation Media Group in 1960. In the year’s leading up to Kenya’s independence, Nation Media’s predecessors, Taifa and Nation newspapers, served as vehicles of independent opinion. Today, the group operates nation-wide newspapers in English and Kiswahili languages, as well as radio and television stations. At present, the group has expanded to serve Uganda and Tanzania also. The Aviation division of the foundation is dedicated to providing support to the existing aviation infrastructure, which serves to support various projects of economic development. By providing worker training, investment knowledge and general management guidance, the division seeks to strengthen existing airline companies and provide them with efficient equipment and resources. In areas such as Mali, the division supports previously existing airlines by increasing fleet size and reviving currently non-functional companies in order to provide much-needed air support for the development projects within the region. In Uganda, a new airline, Air Uganda, formed in 2007, fills a void that has been vacant since the national airline, Uganda Airlines, collapsed in 2000. In addition, the multiple airline companies of AKFED are connected through a network known as “Group Celestair”, which serves to collectively increase the efficiency and scope of support for the various airlines throughout the region. AFKED is currently considering possible airport management opportunities at a multitude of locations. | 0 |
Suranne Jones | Suranne Jones 2004-10-30T16:10:18Z Suranne Jones has played Karen McDonald in Coronation Street on ITV1 for four years. In May 2004 it was announced that Suranne Jones is quitting the show in November. Suranne, who had just won the best actress award at the British Soap Awards is leaving to "explore other roles" with Granada TV who produce Coronation Street. , Suranne Jones 2005-12-16T10:22:43Z Suranne Jones (born Sarah Jones on January 2, 1979) is a British actress. She played Karen McDonald (née Phillips) in Coronation Street on ITV1 for four years. She was born in Oldham, England. In May 2004 it was announced that Suranne Jones was quitting the show in the November of that year. Suranne, who had just won the best actress award at the British Soap Awards left to "explore other roles" with Granada Television, the company that produces Coronation Street. In autumn 2005 she starred in an ITV detective series called "Vincent" with Ray Winstone in the title role about a group of private investigators. | 1 |
Tom Pope | Tom Pope 2021-01-02T17:34:29Z Thomas John Pope (born 27 August 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for EFL League Two club Port Vale. A Crewe Alexandra Academy graduate, he turned professional with the club in 2005 after impressing at non-league side Biddulph Victoria in 2004–05. He was loaned out to Conference North sides Lancaster City and Stafford Rangers in 2005–06, before he spent 2006–07 on loan at Barrow, also of the Conference North. He established himself in the Crewe first team picture in 2007–08, before becoming the club's top scorer in 2008–09 with ten League One goals. He became Rotherham United's joint-record signing when he made a £150,000 move to the Yorkshire club in June 2009. He scored five goals in the 2009–10 campaign, before he was loaned out to Port Vale in January 2011. The loan was made permanent in time for the start of the 2011–12 season. He scored 33 goals and was voted League Two Player of the Year as he helped the club to secure promotion out of League Two in 2012–13. He was voted Port Vale's Player of the Year in 2013 and 2014. He signed with Bury in June 2015, and remained with the club for two seasons before rejoining Port Vale. He claimed the club's Player of the Year award for a record third time in 2018 and the following year he became the second highest goalscorer in the club's history. Pope was a part of Crewe Alexandra Youth Academy, but was not offered a professional contract with the club. He instead was forced to make his name in the Midland Football Alliance with Biddulph Victoria after coming through the Hanley Town under-18 side to find first team football. He also played Sunday league football for Sneyd, and scored four goals for the club as they beat the Butcher's Arms 6–4 in the 2004 final of the Potteries and District Sunday League Cup final. During this time the teenager found work as a window-fitter. He scored fifteen goals in his first season with Biddulph, and added a further twelve to his tally before returning to Crewe as a professional in October 2005 — manager Dario Gradi now convinced of Pope's potential. Pope chose to head to Crewe after two unsuccessful trials with boyhood club Port Vale. Pope spent much of the 2005–06 season in the Conference North, playing on loan for Lancaster City and then Stafford Rangers. He returned to the Conference North in 2006–07 with Barrow, again on loan, after Lancaster manager Phil Wilson moved on to Holker Street. On 10 March 2007, Pope made his debut for Crewe in a 1–0 defeat to Gillingham at the Priestfield Stadium, replacing Gary Roberts on 86 minutes. He made three further appearances from the bench during the rest of the season, all three games ending in defeat. He scored his first goal for the club against Bristol Rovers on 18 August 2007, in a 1–1 draw at the Memorial Stadium. He established himself in the Alex first team in 2007–08, and his seven goals put him as the club's second-highest scorer after Nicky Maynard. He signed a two-year contract extension in November 2008, keeping him at the "Alex" until summer 2011. He believed the players could win round disgruntled Crewe fans, and blamed the players for Steve Holland's sacking. He bettered his goal tally in 2008–09, and became the club's top scorer with ten goals, though this was not enough to prevent Crewe from suffering relegation out of League One. His ten league goals reflected good value for his seventeen league starts, and additional nine appearances from the bench. This achievement came despite criticism from assistant manager Neil Baker that Pope lacked consistency on the pitch and professionalism off the pitch. In all he scored 17 goals in 64 games for the Crewe, and he remained thankful to the club, the fans and former manager Dario Gradi for rescuing his career, despite his falling out with then-manager Guðjón Þórðarson. "No one at Crewe ever told me if I was doing a decent job. They told me the things I did wrong, but they never gave me any chance to build my confidence or give me any encouragement. It started to get me down towards the end, it was frustrating but that's football. I wanted a new challenge and I've got one at Rotherham."In June 2009, Pope joined League Two club Rotherham United for a joint-club-record fee of £150,000, signing a three-year contract with the club. Impressing in the pre-season games, his first two goals for Rotherham came in a League Cup Second Round tie with West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on 26 August. However manager Mark Robins departed in September, and in his absence Pope went on to score only three league goals in 35 appearances in 2009–10, and did not feature in the "Millers"' defeat in the play-off final due to a metatarsal injury. Pope did not hit scoring form at the start of the 2010–11 season, and numerous other League Two clubs expressed an interest in acquiring the player permanently, as Ronnie Moore was willing to sell Pope to the highest bidder. Jim Gannon found top-scorer Marc Richards out injured, and so Pope finally achieved his dream of playing for the club he supported all his life, when he joined Port Vale on a month-long loan starting on 28 January 2011. He missed a penalty in his second appearance for the club, but in the next game he made his first full start and won a penalty – which Justin Richards converted. He scored both of the club's goals in his fourth game, a 2–1 win over Bradford City at Vale Park, which was broadcast live on Sky Sports. This final man-of-the-match winning performance was enough to convince Gannon to 'fight tooth and nail' to keep Pope at the club beyond the initial month long spell. Indeed, his loan spell was extended into a second month. His third goal for the club came on 22 March, and was enough to rescue a point at home to Hereford United for caretaker-manager Mark Grew. Following this his loan deal was extended into a third month. However the loan spell was terminated three weeks early following a change of circumstances – parent club Rotherham had dropped out of the play-offs and manager Ronnie Moore had departed. Pope remained hopeful of a permanent switch in the summer, and a move away from the Don Valley Stadium seemed inevitable after new manager Andy Scott omitted him from United's pre-season tour of Portugal. He got his wish in August, as he switched to Port Vale on a free transfer. He signed a one-year deal with the "Valiants" despite more lucrative two-year offers from Morecambe and Mansfield Town, as well as interest from Macclesfield Town. He went straight into manager Micky Adams' first team for the start of the 2011–12 season. He scored twice in his opening ten games, including a headed winning goal against Bradford City which took the Vale into the automatic promotion places in mid-September; however after the match he was still forced to respond to criticism levelled at him from a minority of fans. Adams added that "Tom shouldn't listen to the supporters – with the greatest of respect to them". Pope added to his tally with the equalizing goal in a 1–1 draw with Vale's local rivals, and his former club, Crewe Alexandra on 24 September. Though he only hit four goals in his first 25 games of the season, he picked up a hat-trick of assists in the 4–0 win over Aldershot Town on 17 December. He ended a run of fifteen games without a goal by coming off the bench to net a late winner at home to Plymouth Argyle on 28 January; the strike was his first goal of the season not to come from his head. However the following month he picked up a groin injury and was forced to undergo 'hernia-related' surgery. He agreed to sign a new one-year deal with the club in June 2012, though assistant manager Mark Grew warned him to improve his scoring tally. Pope repeatedly stated to the local press that he was determined to improve his goals tally. "I've made no secret of my desire to stay and I'm really pleased we have come to an agreement on a new deal. I know people have been talking about my goal tally this season but I think that's down to the style we play and how all of the players work for each other. The gaffer has put a lot of faith in me and I'm really pleased I have been able to repay that faith by committing to the club for a further term." — Speaking after signing a new two and a half year contract, Pope remained humble despite his impressive goal tally. Pope had a quietly consistent start to the 2012–13 season, before hitting four goals in a 6–2 home win over former club Rotherham on 8 September. He was quoted as saying that this was the best game of his career, as he proved a point to his detractors at former club Rotherham. A brace in a 2–0 win over Exeter City at St James Park on 6 October took him to 11 goals in 13 games; this meant that, with the season only a quarter of the way in, the 27-year-old had reached his best ever goal tally. It also made him the fastest Vale player to reach double figures since Tom Nolan hit ten goals within the first eleven games of the 1933–34 season. Pope was quick to credit wing duo Jennison Myrie-Williams and Ashley Vincent for supplying him with the chances he needed to find the net so frequently. His seven goals in seven games saw him named as League Two Player of the Month for September 2012. Fans at Vale Park began to chant "Feed the Pope and he will score" throughout matches, and he picked up the nickname of the "Sneyd Green Sniper / Assassin", in reference to his hometown. A hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Bristol Rovers on 20 November meant that he became the quickest player to reach 20 goals (from the start of the season) in the club's Football League history. In February, he signed a new contract to keep him at the club until summer 2015. The next month he was named as League Two's Player of the Year after leading the division's scoring charts by five goals despite hitting an 11-game goal drought. After winning the award he claimed his third hat-trick of the season on 29 March, as Vale beat promotion rivals Cheltenham Town 3–2. Vale secured promotion with a third-place finish at the end of the season, and Pope finished on 33 goals in 51 games. He was voted onto the PFA Team of the Year, alongside teammate Jennison Myrie-Williams. He was further voted as Port Vale's Player of the Year. Pope was dropped from the starting line-up on 22 October 2013, ending a run of 66 consecutive league starts for the club, but marked his appearance from the bench in the following game with a goal to take Vale to within two points of the League One play-offs by the end of the month. He continued to hold down a first team starting place, and on 6 December he scored his fiftieth goal for Port Vale during a 4–1 FA Cup win over Salisbury City. He ended the 2013–14 campaign as the club's top-scorer with 16 goals in 51 appearances. The club secured a ninth-place finish in League One and Pope became the first player in the club's history to win the club's Player of the Year award in successive years. He opened the 2014–15 campaign by scoring in each of the first four games of the season. After Rob Page took over as caretaker-manager in September, Pope said that he was happy to act as a "battering ram" to help create chances for new signing Jordan Slew. The following month Pope was named as a transfer target by Barnsley manager Danny Wilson, and an unnamed Championship club also had a formal approach to Port Vale turned down. Vale chairman Norman Smurthwaite told him that a new contract offer in the summer would mean a 50% reduction in his wages, despite other clubs indicated they would pay him almost double his current wage. In late October he picked up a knee injury and was ruled out of action for three months after undergoing surgery. He managed to finish as the club's top-scorer for the third successive season despite admitting that he was not fully fit at any point following his recovery from injury. Pope entered formal talks with Doncaster Rovers in May 2015, before signing a three-year contract with newly promoted League One club Bury. He scored six goals in 33 games in the 2015–16 season before breaking his wrist in February. He continue to play with his wrist in plaster, and also played as a makeshift midfielder after coming on as a substitute against Sheffield United. He ended the 2015–16 campaign with seven goals in 43 appearances, and was made available on a free transfer by manager David Flitcroft in July 2016. On 8 October 2016, he collided with Peterborough United goalkeeper Luke McGee and was hospitalised with two broken ribs and a punctured lung. He criticised his teammates the following month after Bury went on a 12-game winless run. He returned to action after six weeks out, and defended caretaker-manager Chris Brass, saying the team's "downright stupid defending" was down to the players not the coaches. The team improved after new manager Lee Clark installed a new 5–2–3 formation, and Pope scored seven goals in 40 games as Bury rose clear of the relegation zone at the end of the 2016–17 season. Pope signed a two-year contract with Port Vale in May 2017 after agreeing a settlement with Bury on his contract. Manager Michael Brown said that the signing was a statement of intent for the club. Brown was sacked after a poor start to the 2017–18 season, with Pope only scoring one goal in his first 13 appearances. However he managed to find his form under new manager Neil Aspin, scoring five goals in Aspin's first three games as manager to help Vale to pick up back-to-back wins; this included a brace in a 3–1 win over Cheltenham Town that saw Pope named in the EFL team of the week. He went on to be nominated for the League Two Player of the Month award for October, having claimed five goals and one assist in five games. After winning the award, he stated that it "is a reflection on my team mates, how hard they have worked and the chances they have created for me". He was appointed club captain in December. The club turned down a bid of £25,000 from Coventry City during the January transfer window. Speaking at the end of February, Aspin said Pope had been playing through a hernia injury since Christmas and would require an operation in order to return to anything approaching full fitness. He quickly returned from injury and his total of 19 goals was essential in helping the club to avoid relegation; he finished the campaign as the club's top-scorer and was named Port Vale Player of the Year for a record third time. On 1 September 2018, Pope scored in a 2–1 home defeat to Newport County, to take his tally at the Vale Park ground one clear of Stan Steele to a record 56; after the game Pope said that "I would rather not have scored and have got the three points I would give up any individual award and any record for another promotion. It's a team game, not an individual sport". In December he signed a new two-year contract to keep him tied to the club until summer 2021. On 12 January, he picked up a hamstring injury during a 3–0 home loss to Colchester United and was ruled out of action for 'a few weeks'. On 30 March, he scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Northampton Town, and in doing so became only the third player (after Wilf Kirkham and Martin Foyle) to score 100 goals for the club. He finished as the club's top-scorer for the fifth time for the 2018–19 season, and was named as that year's PFA Community Champion at the club's end of the year awards. New manager John Askey confirmed that Pope would continue in his role as club captain in July 2019. He was mainly used as a substitute at the start of the 2019–20 season, but started in his 500th game as a professional footballer in a 2–2 home draw with Mansfield Town on 21 September. On having to regularly sit on the bench, he went on to say "it has been the lowest point of my career really". He scored a brace in a 3–1 home win over Morecambe on 5 October to earn himself a place on the EFL team of the week. However, later that month he lost the club captaincy to Leon Legge after being increasingly started from the substitute's bench. On 30 November, Pope scored an eight-minute hat-trick to secure a 3–1 victory over Cheltenham Town in the FA Cup second round. In the following round he scored his 109th Port Vale goal, making him the outright second-highest goalscorer in the club's history (behind Wilf Kirkham), in a 4–1 defeat to Premier League champions Manchester City on 4 January. This was later named as Port Vale's goal of the season. He had previously criticised Manchester City and England centre-back John Stones on Twitter, saying he'd "get 40 a season" playing against Stones every week, and after the game tweeted that "I was completely wrong and bang out of order to say I'd score 40 a season it's more like 50." The following month he was named in Port Vale's best XI of the 2010s by local newspaper The Sentinel. On 5 January, he tweeted a World War III prediction that "We invade Iran then Cuba then North Korea then the Rothchilds are crowned champions of every bank on the planet"; the FA concluded that these remarks amounted to Antisemitic canard and handed him a £3,500 fine and a six game ban to start at the beginning of the 2020–21 season. The club announced that they would appeal the ban, adding that "the Commission did not find that Mr. Pope had been intentionally discriminatory and noted that the FA had not alleged any such intent on his part". A 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) centre forward, he has a natural advantage in the air. A target man, he is able to hold the ball up and bring other players into the game. As he said in an interview in September 2011, "I do the nitty-gritty and the dirty stuff." In terms of motivation, he also said that "some players need an arm around the shoulder but a kick up the backside seems to work better for me". His goal tally is not supplemented by penalty kicks, as he converted his first penalty in normal time at the age of 32. He does not possess great pace however. Pope, and two accomplices, were charged with affray for an incident in Hanley on 8 February 2009, and Pope received 200 hours community service and a six-month suspended jail sentence. Pope's defence team claimed that he was provoked when the victims verbally abused and assaulted his girlfriend. In November 2019, January 2020 and July 2020 he was suspended for ten matches and fined a total of £7,600 by The Football Association for "bringing the game into disrepute" in regards to unspecified posts he made on social media, with one Tweet being judged to have been antisemitic. A native of Stoke-on-Trent, Pope grew up as a Port Vale supporter. He is an accomplished amateur golfer, having reached the quarter-finals of Stoke-on-Trent's Sentinel Shield competition. He wears contact lenses. He married Melissa, and had a son, Bobby Joseph Pope, in May 2016. He also has a daughter, Millie. Pope and teammate Adam Yates began the 2011–12 season as joint-managers of local amateur Sunday League side Sneyd, fitting their management duties around their professional careers at Vale Park. The pair took the club to the Potteries and District Premier Division title and the final of the Sentinel Sunday Cup in 2012–13. He began writing a column in The Sentinel in 2014. Port Vale Individual, Tom Pope 2022-08-25T22:10:09Z Thomas John Pope (born 27 August 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for Midland League Premier Division side Congleton Town. A Crewe Alexandra Academy graduate, he turned professional with the club in 2005 after impressing at non-league side Biddulph Victoria in 2004–05. He was loaned out to Conference North sides Lancaster City and Stafford Rangers in 2005–06, before he spent 2006–07 on loan at Barrow, also of the Conference North. He established himself in the Crewe first team picture in 2007–08, before becoming the club's top scorer in 2008–09 with ten League One goals. He became Rotherham United's joint-record signing when he made a £150,000 move to the Yorkshire club in June 2009. He scored five goals in the 2009–10 campaign, before he was loaned out to Port Vale in January 2011. The loan was made permanent in time for the start of the 2011–12 season. He scored 33 goals and was voted League Two Player of the Year as he helped the club to secure promotion out of League Two in 2012–13. He was voted Port Vale's Player of the Year in 2013 and 2014. He signed with Bury in June 2015, and remained with the club for two seasons before rejoining Port Vale. He claimed the club's Player of the Year award for a record third time in 2018 and the following year he became the second highest goalscorer in the club's history. He scored 115 goals in 343 league and cup appearances before leaving the club in May 2021. He was released at the end of the 2020–21 season and went on to play for Congleton Town. Pope was a part of Crewe Alexandra Youth Academy, but was not offered a professional contract with the club. He instead was forced to make his name in the Midland Football Alliance with Biddulph Victoria after coming through the Hanley Town under-18 side to find first team football. He also played Sunday league football for Sneyd, and scored four goals for the club as they beat the Butcher's Arms 6–4 in the 2004 final of the Potteries and District Sunday League Cup final. During this time the teenager found work as a window-fitter. He scored fifteen goals in his first season with Biddulph, and added a further twelve to his tally before returning to Crewe as a professional in October 2005 — manager Dario Gradi now convinced of Pope's potential. Pope chose to head to Crewe after two unsuccessful trials with boyhood club Port Vale. Pope spent much of the 2005–06 season in the Conference North, playing on loan for Lancaster City and then Stafford Rangers. He returned to the Conference North in 2006–07 with Barrow, again on loan, after Lancaster manager Phil Wilson moved on to Holker Street. On 10 March 2007, Pope made his debut for Crewe in a 1–0 defeat to Gillingham at the Priestfield Stadium, replacing Gary Roberts on 86 minutes. He made three further appearances from the bench during the rest of the season, all three games ending in defeat. He scored his first goal for the club against Bristol Rovers on 18 August 2007, in a 1–1 draw at the Memorial Stadium. He established himself in the Alex first team in 2007–08, and his seven goals put him as the club's second-highest scorer after Nicky Maynard. He signed a two-year contract extension in November 2008, keeping him at the "Alex" until summer 2011. He believed the players could win round disgruntled Crewe fans, and blamed the players for Steve Holland's sacking. He bettered his goal tally in 2008–09, and became the club's top scorer with ten goals, though this was not enough to prevent Crewe from suffering relegation out of League One. His ten league goals reflected good value for his seventeen league starts, and additional nine appearances from the bench. This achievement came despite criticism from assistant manager Neil Baker that Pope lacked consistency on the pitch and professionalism off the pitch. In all he scored 17 goals in 64 games for the Crewe, and he remained thankful to the club, the fans and former manager Dario Gradi for rescuing his career, despite his falling out with then-manager Guðjón Þórðarson. "No one at Crewe ever told me if I was doing a decent job. They told me the things I did wrong, but they never gave me any chance to build my confidence or give me any encouragement. It started to get me down towards the end, it was frustrating but that's football. I wanted a new challenge and I've got one at Rotherham."In June 2009, Pope joined League Two club Rotherham United for a joint-club-record fee of £150,000, signing a three-year contract with the club. Impressing in the pre-season games, his first two goals for Rotherham came in a League Cup Second Round tie with West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on 26 August. However manager Mark Robins departed in September, and in his absence Pope went on to score only three league goals in 35 appearances in 2009–10, and did not feature in the "Millers"' defeat in the play-off final due to a metatarsal injury. Pope did not hit scoring form at the start of the 2010–11 season, and numerous other League Two clubs expressed an interest in acquiring the player permanently, as Ronnie Moore was willing to sell Pope to the highest bidder. Jim Gannon found top-scorer Marc Richards out injured, and so Pope finally achieved his dream of playing for the club he supported all his life, when he joined Port Vale on a month-long loan starting on 28 January 2011. He missed a penalty in his second appearance for the club, but in the next game he made his first full start and won a penalty – which Justin Richards converted. He scored both of the club's goals in his fourth game, a 2–1 win over Bradford City at Vale Park, which was broadcast live on Sky Sports. This final man-of-the-match winning performance was enough to convince Gannon to 'fight tooth and nail' to keep Pope at the club beyond the initial month long spell. Indeed, his loan spell was extended into a second month. His third goal for the club came on 22 March, and was enough to rescue a point at home to Hereford United for caretaker-manager Mark Grew. Following this his loan deal was extended into a third month. However the loan spell was terminated three weeks early following a change of circumstances – parent club Rotherham had dropped out of the play-offs and manager Ronnie Moore had departed. Pope remained hopeful of a permanent switch in the summer, and a move away from the Don Valley Stadium seemed inevitable after new manager Andy Scott omitted him from United's pre-season tour of Portugal. He got his wish in August, as he switched to Port Vale on a free transfer. He signed a one-year deal with the "Valiants" despite more lucrative two-year offers from Morecambe and Mansfield Town, as well as interest from Macclesfield Town. He went straight into manager Micky Adams' first team for the start of the 2011–12 season. He scored twice in his opening ten games, including a headed winning goal against Bradford City which took the Vale into the automatic promotion places in mid-September; however after the match he was still forced to respond to criticism levelled at him from a minority of fans. Adams added that "Tom shouldn't listen to the supporters – with the greatest of respect to them". Pope added to his tally with the equalizing goal in a 1–1 draw with Vale's local rivals, and his former club, Crewe Alexandra on 24 September. Though he only hit four goals in his first 25 games of the season, he picked up a hat-trick of assists in the 4–0 win over Aldershot Town on 17 December. He ended a run of fifteen games without a goal by coming off the bench to net a late winner at home to Plymouth Argyle on 28 January; the strike was his first goal of the season not to come from his head. However the following month he picked up a groin injury and was forced to undergo 'hernia-related' surgery. He agreed to sign a new one-year deal with the club in June 2012, though assistant manager Mark Grew warned him to improve his scoring tally. Pope repeatedly stated to the local press that he was determined to improve his goals tally. "I've made no secret of my desire to stay and I'm really pleased we have come to an agreement on a new deal. I know people have been talking about my goal tally this season but I think that's down to the style we play and how all of the players work for each other. The gaffer has put a lot of faith in me and I'm really pleased I have been able to repay that faith by committing to the club for a further term." — Speaking after signing a new two and a half year contract, Pope remained humble despite his impressive goal tally. Pope had a quietly consistent start to the 2012–13 season, before hitting four goals in a 6–2 home win over former club Rotherham on 8 September. He was quoted as saying that this was the best game of his career, as he proved a point to his detractors at former club Rotherham. A brace in a 2–0 win over Exeter City at St James Park on 6 October took him to 11 goals in 13 games; this meant that, with the season only a quarter of the way in, the 27-year-old had reached his best ever goal tally. It also made him the fastest Vale player to reach double figures since Tom Nolan hit ten goals within the first eleven games of the 1933–34 season. Pope was quick to credit wing duo Jennison Myrie-Williams and Ashley Vincent for supplying him with the chances he needed to find the net so frequently. His seven goals in seven games saw him named as League Two Player of the Month for September 2012. Fans at Vale Park began to chant "Feed the Pope and he will score" throughout matches, and he picked up the nickname of the "Sneyd Green Sniper / Assassin", in reference to his hometown. A hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Bristol Rovers on 20 November meant that he became the quickest player to reach 20 goals (from the start of the season) in the club's Football League history. In February, he signed a new contract to keep him at the club until summer 2015. The next month he was named as League Two's Player of the Year after leading the division's scoring charts by five goals despite hitting an 11-game goal drought. After winning the award he claimed his third hat-trick of the season on 29 March, as Vale beat promotion rivals Cheltenham Town 3–2. Vale secured promotion with a third-place finish at the end of the season, and Pope finished on 33 goals in 51 games. He was voted onto the PFA Team of the Year, alongside teammate Jennison Myrie-Williams. He was further voted as Port Vale's Player of the Year. Pope was dropped from the starting line-up on 22 October 2013, ending a run of 66 consecutive league starts for the club, but marked his appearance from the bench in the following game with a goal to take Vale to within two points of the League One play-offs by the end of the month. He continued to hold down a first team starting place, and on 6 December he scored his fiftieth goal for Port Vale during a 4–1 FA Cup win over Salisbury City. He ended the 2013–14 campaign as the club's top-scorer with 16 goals in 51 appearances. The club secured a ninth-place finish in League One and Pope became the first player in the club's history to win the club's Player of the Year award in successive years. He opened the 2014–15 campaign by scoring in each of the first four games of the season. After Rob Page took over as caretaker-manager in September, Pope said that he was happy to act as a "battering ram" to help create chances for new signing Jordan Slew. The following month Pope was named as a transfer target by Barnsley manager Danny Wilson, and an unnamed Championship club also had a formal approach to Port Vale turned down. Vale chairman Norman Smurthwaite told him that a new contract offer in the summer would mean a 50% reduction in his wages, despite other clubs indicating they would pay him almost double his current wage. In late October he picked up a knee injury and was ruled out of action for three months after undergoing surgery. He managed to finish as the club's top-scorer for the third successive season despite admitting that he was not fully fit at any point following his recovery from injury. Pope entered formal talks with Doncaster Rovers in May 2015, before signing a three-year contract with newly promoted League One club Bury. He scored six goals in 33 games in the 2015–16 season before breaking his wrist in February. He continue to play with his wrist in plaster, and also played as a makeshift midfielder after coming on as a substitute against Sheffield United. He ended the 2015–16 campaign with seven goals in 43 appearances, and was made available on a free transfer by manager David Flitcroft in July 2016. On 8 October 2016, he collided with Peterborough United goalkeeper Luke McGee and was hospitalised with two broken ribs and a punctured lung. He criticised his teammates the following month after Bury went on a 12-game winless run. He returned to action after six weeks out, and defended caretaker-manager Chris Brass, saying the team's "downright stupid defending" was down to the players not the coaches. The team improved after new manager Lee Clark installed a new 5–2–3 formation, and Pope scored seven goals in 40 games as Bury rose clear of the relegation zone at the end of the 2016–17 season. Pope signed a two-year contract with Port Vale in May 2017 after agreeing a settlement with Bury on his contract. Manager Michael Brown said that the signing was a statement of intent for the club. Brown was sacked after a poor start to the 2017–18 season, with Pope only scoring one goal in his first 13 appearances. However he managed to find his form under new manager Neil Aspin, scoring five goals in Aspin's first three games as manager to help Vale to pick up back-to-back wins; this included a brace in a 3–1 win over Cheltenham Town that saw Pope named in the EFL team of the week. He went on to be nominated for the League Two Player of the Month award for October, having claimed five goals and one assist in five games. After winning the award, he stated that it "is a reflection on my team mates, how hard they have worked and the chances they have created for me". He was appointed club captain in December. The club turned down a bid of £25,000 from Coventry City during the January transfer window. Speaking at the end of February, Aspin said Pope had been playing through a hernia injury since Christmas and would require an operation in order to return to anything approaching full fitness. He quickly returned from injury and his total of 19 goals was essential in helping the club to avoid relegation; he finished the campaign as the club's top-scorer and was named Port Vale Player of the Year for a record third time. On 1 September 2018, Pope scored in a 2–1 home defeat to Newport County, to take his tally at the Vale Park ground one clear of Stan Steele to a record 56; after the game Pope said that "I would rather not have scored and have got the three points I would give up any individual award and any record for another promotion. It's a team game, not an individual sport". In December he signed a new two-year contract to keep him tied to the club until summer 2021. On 12 January, he picked up a hamstring injury during a 3–0 home loss to Colchester United and was ruled out of action for 'a few weeks'. On 30 March, he scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Northampton Town, and in doing so became only the third player (after Wilf Kirkham and Martin Foyle) to score 100 goals for the club. He finished as the club's top-scorer for the fifth time for the 2018–19 season, and was named as that year's PFA Community Champion at the club's end of the year awards. New manager John Askey confirmed that Pope would continue in his role as club captain in July 2019. He was mainly used as a substitute at the start of the 2019–20 season, but started in his 500th game as a professional footballer in a 2–2 home draw with Mansfield Town on 21 September. On having to regularly sit on the bench, he went on to say "it has been the lowest point of my career really". He scored a brace in a 3–1 home win over Morecambe on 5 October to earn himself a place on the EFL team of the week. However, later that month he lost the club captaincy to Leon Legge after being increasingly started from the substitute's bench. On 30 November, Pope scored an eight-minute hat-trick to secure a 3–1 victory over Cheltenham Town in the FA Cup second round. In the following round he scored his 109th Port Vale goal, making him the outright second-highest goalscorer in the club's history (behind Wilf Kirkham), in a 4–1 defeat to Premier League champions Manchester City on 4 January. This was later named as Port Vale's goal of the season. He had previously criticised Manchester City and England centre-back John Stones on Twitter, saying he'd "get 40 a season" playing against Stones every week, and after the game tweeted that "I was completely wrong and bang out of order to say I'd score 40 a season it's more like 50." The following month he was named in Port Vale's best XI of the 2010s by local newspaper The Sentinel. On 5 January, he tweeted a World War III prediction that "We invade Iran then Cuba then North Korea then the Rothchilds are crowned champions of every bank on the planet"; the FA concluded that these remarks amounted to Antisemitic canard and handed him a £3,500 fine and a six-game ban to start at the beginning of the 2020–21 season. The club announced that they would appeal the ban, adding that "the Commission did not find that Mr. Pope had been intentionally discriminatory and noted that the FA had not alleged any such intent on his part". On 12 January 2021, Pope broke his arm after landing awkwardly following a clash of heads in an EFL Trophy tie with Sunderland and played on for the remaining 19 minutes until the full-time whistle as caretaker-manager Danny Pugh had already used his allocation of substitutions. He was limited to 23 appearances in the 2020–21 campaign and was released by new manager Darrell Clarke in May 2021, leaving his final tally for the club to stand at 115 goals in 343 first-team appearances. On 21 July 2021, Pope joined North West Counties Premier Division side Congleton Town, linking up with former Port Vale teammate and now Congleton manager Richard Duffy. He got off to an excellent start to his "Bears" career, being named as Premier Division Player of the Month for August after scoring six goals, providing two assists and winning five man of the match awards in six games. He scored 20 goals in 49 appearances throughout the 2021–22 season, collecting ten man of the match awards. A 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) centre forward, he has a natural advantage in the air. A target man, he is able to hold the ball up and bring other players into the game. As he said in an interview in September 2011, "I do the nitty-gritty and the dirty stuff." In terms of motivation, he also said that "some players need an arm around the shoulder but a kick up the backside seems to work better for me". His goal tally is not supplemented by penalty kicks, as he converted his first penalty in normal time at the age of 32. He does not possess great pace however. Pope, and two accomplices, were charged with affray for an incident in Hanley on 8 February 2009, and Pope received 200 hours community service and a six-month suspended jail sentence. Pope's defence team claimed that he was provoked when the victims verbally abused and assaulted his girlfriend. In November 2019, January 2020 and July 2020 he was suspended for ten matches and fined a total of £7,600 by The Football Association for "bringing the game into disrepute" in regards to unspecified posts he made on social media, with one Tweet being judged to have been antisemitic. A native of Stoke-on-Trent, Pope grew up as a Port Vale supporter. He is an accomplished amateur golfer, having reached the quarter-finals of Stoke-on-Trent's Sentinel Shield competition. He wears contact lenses. He married Melissa, and had a son, Bobby Joseph Pope, in May 2016. He also has a daughter, Millie. Pope and teammate Adam Yates began the 2011–12 season as joint-managers of local amateur Sunday League side Sneyd, fitting their management duties around their professional careers at Vale Park. The pair took the club to the Potteries and District Premier Division title and the final of the Sentinel Sunday Cup in 2012–13. He began writing a column in The Sentinel in 2014. Port Vale Individual | 1 |
Álvaro Negredo | Álvaro Negredo 2017-01-02T22:32:27Z name Álvaro Negredo Sánchez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 20 August 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for English club Middlesbrough on loan from Valencia CF as a striker. Nicknamed La fiera de Vallecas (The beast of Vallecas), his early career was associated with Real Madrid, although he could never become a part of its first-team setup, going on to represent other clubs in his country, with his longest spell being at Sevilla. Over the course of eight seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 264 games and 112 goals. A Spanish international since 2009, Negredo was part of the team that won Euro 2012. Born in Madrid, Negredo started his career at local Rayo Vallecano, making his professional debuts in early 2005 with the club in Segunda División B. In the middle of the year he switched to another side in the country's capital, ending his training in Real Madrid affiliate Real Madrid Castilla. Negredo developed as a striker in his last season, scoring 18 league goals although he could not prevent Castilla's drop from Segunda División. He did manage to impress first-team coach Fabio Capello and was called up for a few games in the Copa del Rey, but remained an unused substitute; finally, he made his debut for the main squad in a friendly against Atlético Madrid. In July 2007, Negredo was sold to La Liga newcomers UD Almería, with Real Madrid having an option to rebuy. He made his top flight debut on 26 August in a 3–0 shock win at Deportivo de La Coruña; on 2 February 2008, he scored from the penalty spot in a 2–0 home win against his former team and, on 19 April, he added two – after having missed a penalty kick – in a 4–1 away success against UEFA Cup and Spanish Cup holders Sevilla FC. Negredo finished the campaign as Almería's topscorer with 13 goals, as the side from Andalusia finished eighth. In 2008–09 he netted five in the team's first six matches, including a 95th-minute winner against neighbours Recreativo de Huelva (1–0) on 28 September 2008; in February of the following year he scored a brace against Valencia CF, which took his league tally to ten, albeit in a 2–3 away loss, and finished with 19 successful strikes, with the club producing a slightly less successful season. Real Madrid exercised their buyback option of a reported €5 million on Negredo in June 2009, and the player returned to training with the club on 10 July. In the pre-season he scored the fourth goal against LDU Quito, in a 4–2 win for the Peace Cup. Negredo had been tipped to join Real Zaragoza or Hull City, but finally decided to sign a reported five-year deal with Sevilla for €15 million, with Real Madrid having an option to rebuy the player in the first two years. New club manager Manuel Pellegrini could not guarantee him first-team football with the likes of Karim Benzema, Gonzalo Higuaín, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo in the squad, and subsequently advised him to leave and join Sevilla in order to fulfill his potential; Negredo later revealed his admiration for Pellegrini's honesty. Negredo made his debut for Sevilla on 31 August 2009 against Valencia, coming as a substitute in the 37th minute on a 0–2 away loss. Two weeks later he scored his first goal, against CA Osasuna in a 2–0 away success. A starter throughout most of the 2009–10 season, with Luís Fabiano and Frédéric Kanouté fighting for the other striker berth, Negredo's first year was highly irregular. He suffered a scoring drought that lasted (in the league alone) 12 games, only ending on 2 May 2010 in a 3–1 home win against Atlético Madrid, his two goals coming from penalties (he had already lost his starting position at the time, but the Malian was suspended for that game); he added another brace the following match, a 5–1 away routing of Racing de Santander for a total of 11 in the league, grabbing another in the UEFA Champions League; he was also sent off three times in the season, the last of which almost prevented his participation in the domestic cup final against Atlético Madrid after insulting the assistant referee in Sevilla's 3–2 win at former club Almería (the ban was later lifted and he was allowed to play – Fabiano was unavailable for the match through injury – in the 2–0 final win). Negredo was an undisputed first-choice for Sevilla in the 2010–11 campaign – Fabiano also returned to São Paulo FC in March 2011 – scoring 27 official goals, 20 in the league. Highlights included braces against Villarreal CF (3–3 away draw in the cup, with his team eventually reaching the semifinals), Deportivo (3–3 away draw), Real Madrid (2–6 home loss,) Osasuna (2–3 loss, away) and RCD Espanyol (3–2 away win). Negredo took his 2012–13 league total to 13 on 4 March 2013, after netting a hat-trick in a 4–1 home success over Celta de Vigo. He scored all of his team's goals on the last day of the season, a 4–3 home win against Valencia CF, clinching the Zarra Trophy in the process. On 19 July 2013, Manchester City announced the signing of Negredo. The fee was reported as £16.4 million plus add-ons, and he signed a four-year deal. He moved to the Premier League club shortly after teammate Jesús Navas. Negredo made his league debut on 19 August 2013, coming on as a substitute for countryman David Silva in a 4–0 home win against Newcastle United. He scored his first goal for the club the following match on 25 August, netting from a header in a 2–3 defeat at newly promoted Cardiff City, He scored his first goal at the City of Manchester Stadium in the next round, a 2–0 home success over Hull City. On 5 November 2013, Negredo scored his first hat-trick for City, contributing to a 5–2 group stage home win against PFC CSKA Moscow which qualified the former to the round-of-16. This was the first-ever time a Manchester City player had scored three goals in the same match in the Champions League. He repeated the feat on 8 January of the following year, contributing decisively to a 6–0 home routing of West Ham United in the first leg of the Football League Cup semi-final. Despite not scoring for City since January 2014, Negredo finished the season with 23 goals in all competitions comprised in 48 appearances. On 1 September 2014, Negredo signed a loan deal with an obligatory purchase clause with Valencia, which required the club to purchase his rights at the end of the campaign, for an amount believed to be around €27 million. He scored his first competitive goal on 7 December, starting in a 1–1 away draw against Granada CF which was also his first appearance. Negredo joined Valencia on a permanent basis on 1 July 2015. On 25 August, he helped his team reach the Champions League group phase by netting in the fourth minute of an eventual 1–2 loss at AS Monaco FC (4–3 on aggregate). In October 2015, after criticising manager Nuno Espírito Santo's choice of tactics, Negredo was completely ostracized. He again became an option under new boss Gary Neville, notably scoring three times in a 4–0 home win over Granada for the domestic cup. On 20 July 2016, Negredo joined Middlesbrough on loan. He scored in his first appearance, putting the hosts ahead in a 1–1 home draw against Stoke City. On 6 October 2009, Negredo received his first call to the Spanish senior team, for a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Armenia on the 10th, following the injuries of David Villa and Daniel Güiza. He made his debut in that game, replacing Fernando Torres early into the second half of an eventual 2–1 away win. Four days later, Negredo started and scored twice – also providing two assists – in another away fixture, against Bosnia and Herzegovina (5–2 triumph), as Spain eventually won all ten group matches. He was, however, overlooked for the final stages in South Africa, with the national team winning the tournament. Negredo was chosen by manager Vicente del Bosque for his UEFA Euro 2012 squad. He played twice in the tournament in Poland and Ukraine, including one start against Portugal in the semifinals (4–2 penalty shootout win, 0–0 after 120 minutes). Negredo was one of seven players cut from Spain's final squad for the 2014 World Cup, alongside City teammate Navas. Negredo's older brothers, César and Rubén, are also footballers, the former a defender, the latter a forward. Both played their entire careers in division three or lower. , Álvaro Negredo 2018-12-18T10:18:57Z name Álvaro Negredo Sánchez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 20 August 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Emirati club Al-Nasr Dubai SC. Nicknamed La fiera de Vallecas (The beast of Vallecas), his early career was associated with Real Madrid, although he could never become a part of its first-team setup, going on to represent other clubs in his country, with his longest spell being at Sevilla. During eight seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 264 matches and 112 goals. Negredo earned 21 caps for Spain, scoring ten goals and was part of the team that won Euro 2012. Born in Madrid, Negredo started his career at local Rayo Vallecano, making his professional debuts in early 2005 with the club in Segunda División B. In the middle of the year he switched to another side in the country's capital, ending his training in Real Madrid affiliate Real Madrid Castilla. Negredo developed as a striker in his last season, scoring 18 league goals although he could not prevent Castilla's drop from Segunda División. He did manage to impress first-team coach Fabio Capello and was called up for a few games in the Copa del Rey, but remained an unused substitute; finally, he made his debut for the main squad in a friendly against Atlético Madrid. In July 2007, Negredo was sold to La Liga newcomers UD Almería, with Real Madrid having an option to rebuy. He made his top flight debut on 26 August in a 3–0 shock win at Deportivo de La Coruña; on 2 February 2008, he scored from the penalty spot in a 2–0 home win against his former team and, on 19 April, he added two – after having missed a penalty kick – in a 4–1 away success against UEFA Cup and Spanish Cup holders Sevilla FC. Negredo finished the campaign as Almería's topscorer with 13 goals, as the side from Andalusia finished eighth. In 2008–09 he netted five in the team's first six matches, including a 95th-minute winner against neighbours Recreativo de Huelva (1–0) on 28 September 2008; in February of the following year he scored a brace against Valencia CF, which took his league tally to ten, albeit in a 2–3 away loss, and finished with 19 successful strikes, with the club producing a slightly less successful season. Real Madrid exercised their buyback option of a reported €5 million on Negredo in June 2009, and the player returned to training with the club on 10 July. In the pre-season he scored the fourth goal against LDU Quito, in a 4–2 win for the Peace Cup. Negredo had been tipped to join Real Zaragoza or Hull City, but finally decided to sign a reported five-year deal with Sevilla for €15 million, with Real Madrid having an option to rebuy the player in the first two years. New manager Manuel Pellegrini could not guarantee him first-team football with the likes of Karim Benzema, Gonzalo Higuaín, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo in the squad, and subsequently advised him to leave and join Sevilla in order to fulfill his potential; Negredo later revealed his admiration for Pellegrini's honesty. Negredo made his debut for Sevilla on 31 August 2009 against Valencia, coming as a substitute in the 37th minute on a 0–2 away loss. Two weeks later he scored his first goal, against CA Osasuna in a 2–0 away success. A starter throughout most of the 2009–10 season, with Luís Fabiano and Frédéric Kanouté fighting for the other striker berth, Negredo's first year was highly irregular. He suffered a scoring drought that lasted (in the league alone) 12 games, only ending on 2 May 2010 in a 3–1 home win against Atlético Madrid, his two goals coming from penalties (he had already lost his starting position at the time, but the Malian was suspended for that game); he added another brace the following match, a 5–1 away routing of Racing de Santander for a total of 11 in the league, grabbing another in the UEFA Champions League; he was also sent off three times in the season, the last of which almost prevented his participation in the domestic cup final against Atlético Madrid after insulting the assistant referee in Sevilla's 3–2 win at former club Almería (the ban was later lifted and he was allowed to play – Fabiano was unavailable for the match through injury – in the 2–0 final win). Negredo was an undisputed first-choice for Sevilla in the 2010–11 campaign – Fabiano also returned to São Paulo FC in March 2011 – scoring 27 official goals, 20 in the league. Highlights included braces against Villarreal CF (3–3 away draw in the cup, with his team eventually reaching the semi-finals), Deportivo (3–3 away draw), Real Madrid (2–6 home loss,) Osasuna (2–3 loss, away) and RCD Espanyol (3–2 away win). Negredo took his 2012–13 league total to 13 on 4 March 2013, after netting a hat-trick in a 4–1 home success over Celta de Vigo. He scored all of his team's goals on the last day of the season, a 4–3 home win against Valencia CF, clinching the Zarra Trophy in the process. On 19 July 2013, Manchester City announced the signing of Negredo. The fee was reported as £16.4 million plus add-ons, and he signed a four-year deal. He moved to the Premier League club shortly after teammate Jesús Navas. Negredo made his league debut on 19 August 2013, coming on as a substitute for countryman David Silva in a 4–0 home win against Newcastle United. He scored his first goal for the club the following match on 25 August, netting from a header in a 2–3 defeat at newly promoted Cardiff City, He scored his first goal at the City of Manchester Stadium in the next round, a 2–0 home success over Hull City. On 5 November 2013, Negredo scored his first hat-trick for City, contributing to a 5–2 group stage home win against PFC CSKA Moscow which qualified the former to the round-of-16. This was the first-ever time a Manchester City player had scored three goals in the same match in the Champions League. He repeated the feat on 8 January of the following year, contributing decisively to a 6–0 home routing of West Ham United in the first leg of the Football League Cup semi-final. Despite not scoring for City since January 2014, Negredo finished the season with 23 goals in all competitions comprised in 48 appearances. On 1 September 2014, Negredo signed a loan deal with an obligatory purchase clause with Valencia, which required the club to purchase his rights at the end of the campaign, for an amount believed to be around €27 million. He scored his first competitive goal on 7 December, starting in a 1–1 away draw against Granada CF which was also his first appearance. Negredo joined Valencia on a permanent basis on 1 July 2015. On 25 August, he helped his team reach the Champions League group phase by netting in the fourth minute of an eventual 1–2 loss at AS Monaco FC (4–3 on aggregate). In October 2015, after criticising manager Nuno Espírito Santo's choice of tactics, Negredo was completely ostracized. He again became an option under new boss Gary Neville, notably scoring three times in a 4–0 home win over Granada for the domestic cup. On 20 July 2016, Negredo joined Middlesbrough on loan. He scored in his first appearance, putting the hosts ahead in a 1–1 home draw against Stoke City. On 3 August 2017, Negredo signed for Süper Lig side Beşiktaş J.K. on a three-year deal. He scored his first goal for his new team on 28 October, helping to a 2–1 away win over Alanyaspor. On 18 September 2018, Negredo signed for Al-Nasr Dubai SC on a two-year contract. His maiden appearance in the UAE Pro-League took place three days later, and he missed a penalty late into a 0–3 home loss against Al Ain FC. On 6 October 2009, Negredo received his first call to the Spain senior team, for a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Armenia on the 10th, following the injuries of David Villa and Daniel Güiza. He made his debut in that game, replacing Fernando Torres early into the second half of an eventual 2–1 away win. Four days later, Negredo started and scored twice – also providing two assists – in another away fixture, against Bosnia and Herzegovina (5–2 triumph), as Spain eventually won all ten group matches. He was, however, overlooked for the final stages in South Africa, with the national team winning the tournament. Negredo was chosen by manager Vicente del Bosque for his UEFA Euro 2012 squad. He played twice in the tournament in Poland and Ukraine, including one start against Portugal in the semifinals (4–2 penalty shootout win, 0–0 after 120 minutes). Negredo was one of seven players cut from Spain's final squad for the 2014 World Cup, alongside City teammate Navas. Negredo's older brothers, César and Rubén, were also footballers, the former a defender and the latter a forward. Both played their entire careers in division three or lower. His father, José María, worked as a taxi driver in Madrid. Sevilla Manchester City Spain Individual | 1 |
SHOT Show | SHOT Show 2012-01-19T09:31:56Z The SHOT Show is an annual tradeshow for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry. It is the biggest event of this type in the world together with IWA & OutdoorClassics ("IWA Nuremberg"), also taking place annually. "SHOT", besides being a general reference to shooting, is an acronym for "Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade" (show). This trade show is open only to those in the trade and the press. It is not open to the general public. The first SHOT Show was held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1979. The show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. It rotates between Las Vegas, Nevada; Orlando, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana, and several other U.S. cities, although in the last few years it has taken place mostly in Las Vegas. The 2011 SHOT Show featured 57,390 attendees including 1,600 exhibitors in over 630,000 square feet of exhibit space. , SHOT Show 2013-08-22T08:17:59Z The SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade) Show is an annual tradeshow for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry. It is the biggest event of this type in the world together with IWA & OutdoorClassics ("IWA Nuremberg"), also taking place annually. "SHOT", besides being a general reference to shooting, is an acronym for "Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade" (show). This trade show is open only to those in the trade and the press. The SHOT Show is restricted to members of the shooting, hunting and outdoor trade industry including commercial buyers and sellers of military, law enforcement and tactical products. It is not open to the general public. The first SHOT Show was held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1979. The show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. It rotates between Las Vegas, Nevada; Orlando, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana, and several other U.S. cities, although in the last few years it has taken place mostly in Las Vegas. The 2011 SHOT Show featured 57,390 attendees including 1,600 exhibitors in over 58,000 square metres (630,000 square feet) of exhibit space. Note: All attendance information courtesy of the SHOT Show Blog. | 1 |
The_Juice_of_the_Barley | The_Juice_of_the_Barley 2009-01-09T17:45:07Z "The Juice of the Barley" is a traditional Irish drinking song from around the mid-19th century. The Clancy Brothers, as well as several other bands have made recordings, and popular dance renditions of the song. The line in the chorus, "bainne na mbó is na gamhna" is Irish, and translates as "Milk of the cows and the goats. " The Irish for milk is "bainne" and the Irish for cow is "bó", the plural being "mBó". The Irish for "Goat" is "Gamhar", the plural being "Gamhna". The "is" in this phrase is prouneced as in "this" and is the Irish shortened version of "agus", meaning "and". , The_Juice_of_the_Barley 2010-05-09T13:48:27Z "The Juice of the Barley" is a traditional Irish drinking song from around the mid-19th century. The Clancy Brothers, as well as several other bands have made recordings, and popular dance renditions of the song. The line in the chorus, "bainne na mbó is na gamhain" is Irish, and translates as "Milk of the cows for the calf. " The Irish for milk is "bainne" and the Irish for cow is "bó", the plural being "mBó". The Irish for "calf" is "gamhain". The "is" in this phrase is prouneced as in "this" and is the Irish shortened version of "agus", meaning "and". | 0 |
Renato_Capecchi | Renato_Capecchi 2008-06-24T05:21:37Z Renato Capecchi (born Cairo, November 6 1923; died Milan, June 30 1998) was an Italian baritone, actor, and opera director. He sang in the Italian premiere of Shostakovich's The Nose and Prokofiev's War and Peace, and in the world premieres of Gian Francesco Malipiero's La donna è mobile, Giorgio Federico Ghedini's Billy Budd and Lord Inferno, and Sylvano Bussotti's L'ispirazione. In 1951, Capecchi made his New York Metropolitan Opera debut as Germont in La traviata and sang regularly in leading roles there until 1954. After a period of singing primarily in European opera houses, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in 1975 where he specialized in smaller comic roles in otherwise tragic operas such the Sacristan in Tosca and Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème. Amongst the productions Capecchi directed were The Daughter of the Regiment at New York City Opera (1985), Così fan tutte in Susa, Italy (1978), and the US premiere of Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni Tenorio, ossia Il convitato di pietra with the San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program, in Saratoga, California (1977). Renato Capecchi taught at the Manhattan School of Music for many years. classical music, Renato_Capecchi 2010-04-09T11:29:53Z Renato Capecchi (born Cairo, November 6, 1923; died Milan, June 30, 1998) was an Italian baritone, actor, and opera director. He sang in the Italian premiere of Shostakovich's The Nose and Prokofiev's War and Peace, and in the world premieres of Gian Francesco Malipiero's La donna è mobile, Giorgio Federico Ghedini's Billy Budd and Lord Inferno, and Sylvano Bussotti's L'ispirazione. In 1951, Capecchi made his New York Metropolitan Opera debut as Germont in La traviata and sang regularly in leading roles there until 1954. After a period of singing primarily in European opera houses, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in 1975 where he specialized in smaller comic roles in otherwise tragic operas such the Sacristan in Tosca and Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème. Amongst the productions Capecchi directed were The Daughter of the Regiment at New York City Opera (1985), Così fan tutte in Susa, Italy (1978), and the US premiere of Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni Tenorio, ossia Il convitato di pietra with the San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program, in Saratoga, California (1977). Recordings are available of him as Figaro (Mozart and Rossini), Ford, Jago, Scarpia, and, in an Italian translation-performance of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Beckmesser. Renato Capecchi taught at the Manhattan School of Music for many years. | 0 |
The_Perfect_Murder_(short_story) | The_Perfect_Murder_(short_story) 2008-04-24T21:27:55Z The Perfect Murder is a short story by the British politician and author Jeffrey Archer, first published in his 1988 anthology A Twist in the Tale. The story is told in the first person by a married man who has been having an affair with beautiful, 31 year old Pimlico secretary Carla Moorland. After he sees another man leaving her flat, he assumes it's her lover and the two quarrel, ending in him accidentally striking her dead. He leaves unnoticed, then anonymously tips off the police so that the man he saw, a 51 one year old insurance broker called Paul Menzies, will be arrested. The murder inquiry receives vast media attention and Paul Menzies is eventually convicted and brought to trail. The protagonist takes time off work, and puts his family life on hold, attending and sitting in on the courthouse hearings everyday. His guilt grows ever larger, and his fear that Menzies will be found innocent and the police find himself as the real murder consumes him. Despite his fears of being caught, the protagonist returns to the courthouse every day, waiting for the court of law to find Menzies guilty. The protagnists fears that he will be caught, continues to grow yet after a lengthy trial and jury deliberation, is happy to know the jury has reached a verdict. The protagonists returns to the courthouse to hear the verdict, as the foreman is asked to stand by the judge, the protagonist stand and delivers the verdict of "Guilty" – revealing to the reader that the protagonists was never in any real fear of being caught as he was on the jury and in which no one would suspect him of the murder. , The_Perfect_Murder_(short_story) 2009-09-15T17:40:06Z "The Perfect Murder" is a short story by the British politician and author Jeffrey Archer, first published in his 1988 anthology A Twist in the Tale. The story is told in the first person by a married man who has been having an affair with beautiful, 31 year old Pimlico secretary Carla Moorland. After he sees another man leaving her flat, he assumes it's her lover and the two quarrel, ending in him accidentally striking her dead. He leaves unnoticed, then anonymously tips off the police so that the man he saw, a 51 one year old insurance broker called Paul Menzies, will be arrested. The murder inquiry receives vast media attention and Paul Menzies is eventually arrested and brought to trial. The protagonist takes time off work, and puts his family life on hold, attending the courthouse hearings everyday. His guilt grows ever larger, and he is consumed by the fear that Menzies will be found innocent and the police will identify him as the real murderer. Despite his fears of being caught, the protagonist returns to the courthouse every day, waiting for the court of law to find Menzies guilty. The protagonist's fears that he will be caught continue to grow, and after a lengthy trial and jury deliberation, he is happy to find out that the jury has reached a verdict. The protagonist returns to the courthouse for the verdict, and when the judge asks the foreman to stand and read the verdict, the protagonist stands and delivers the verdict of "Guilty" – revealing to the reader that the protagonist was never in any real danger of being caught, as he was on the jury and therefore no one would suspect him of the murder. This article about a short story (or stories) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Alison Brie | Alison Brie 2022-01-17T21:15:19Z Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress, writer, and producer. Her breakthrough role -- Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015) -- won her a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2009. She gained further prominence for her role as Annie Edison in the comedy series Community (2009–2015). Her notable work also includes Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020) and Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW (2017–2019). For the latter, Brie received two Golden Globe Award nominations. In addition to her television work, Brie has also starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), How to Be Single (2016), The Little Hours (2017), The Disaster Artist (2017), The Post (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), Horse Girl (2020), and The Rental (2020). Alison Brie Schermerhorn was born in Hollywood, California. Her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. Her mother, Joanne Brenner, works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit childcare agency. She has an older sister named Lauren. Brie's mother is Jewish. Her father was raised Catholic, and has Dutch, English, and Scottish ancestry. While being raised by her divorced parents, she occasionally attended a "Christian–Hindu hybrid church" called the Self-Realization Fellowship with her father. However, her mother "would always make sure we knew we were Jewish." Brie graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2001. Brie began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in theater in 2005. She also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She later worked as a clown at birthday parties and performed in theater in California. Brie's first television role came in 2006, as Nina, a novice hairdresser, on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. She received further recognition as Trudy Campbell in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015). She went on to star in the web series My Alibi, which aired from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2015, she portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC/Yahoo! View sitcom Community. For her performance, she earned acclaim and was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. In April 2010, Brie co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show! and appeared in a segment on Web Soup. She appeared in the 2010 comedy film Montana Amazon. Brie made Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 and appeared at number 49 in their 2011 list. She was voted the 57th Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2013. She was voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the world by AskMen readers in 2014. Brie starred in several major film roles, including as Rebecca Walters, Sidney Prescott's assistant, in the slasher horror film Scream 4 (2011), and Suzie Barnes in the romantic comedy film The Five-Year Engagement (2012). She voiced Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy film The Lego Movie (2014), and voiced a character in an episode of the animated series American Dad!, which aired during their eighth season. In June 2014, Brie joined the cast of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, which debuted on August 22. She has since voiced a variety of characters, including main character Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman. Brie also appeared on Lip Sync Battle and won against Will Arnett with performances of "Shoop" by Salt-N-Pepa and "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj. In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudeikis in Leslye Headland's romantic comedy film Sleeping with Other People, and played Will Ferrell's character's fiancée in the comedy film Get Hard. In 2016, Brie starred as Lucy in the romantic comedy film How to Be Single. In 2017, she co-starred in several films, including the historical comedy The Little Hours, the biographical comedy-drama The Disaster Artist, and the historical drama The Post. In 2017, Brie began her starring role as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix comedy-drama series GLOW, inspired by the 1980s female professional wrestling promotion Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling; the series began streaming on June 23, 2017. Brie noted that since appearing in GLOW and receiving critical praise for the role, she has become more focused on taking meaningful roles. For her performance, she earned multiple nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 2018, she co-starred in the music video for Beck's "Colors". In 2019, she reprised her voice role as Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy sequel film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and provided an English dub for the Japanese animated romantic fantasy film Weathering with You. In 2020, Brie starred in the acclaimed drama thriller film Promising Young Woman, directed by Emerald Fennell. Also that year, she wrote, produced and starred as Sarah in the Netflix drama film Horse Girl, which was directed by Jeff Baena. Brie then starred opposite Dan Stevens in the horror film The Rental, which was directed by her husband Dave Franco. Brie played Sloane in the romantic comedy film Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall. In June 2021, it was announced that Brie had been added as a celebrity guest to the fifth season of the animated sitcom Rick and Morty. Brie began dating Dave Franco in 2012 after meeting him at a 2011 Mardi Gras party in New Orleans. On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged. They married on March 13, 2017. In an interview with Larry King in 2017, she revealed she did not want to have children. , Alison Brie 2023-12-24T21:57:16Z Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress, writer, and producer. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition for her role as Annie Edison in the sitcom Community (2009–2015) and voicing Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). For playing Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW (2017–2019), she received nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. In addition to her television work, Brie has starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), How to Be Single (2016), The Post (2017), The Little Hours (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Happiest Season (2020). She also wrote, produced, and starred in the films Horse Girl (2020), Spin Me Round (2022), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023). Alison Brie Schermerhorn was born on December 29, 1982, in Hollywood, California. Her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. Her mother, Joanne Brenner, works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit childcare agency. She has an older sister named Lauren. Brie's mother is Jewish. Her father was raised Catholic, and has Dutch, English, and Scottish ancestry. While being raised by her divorced parents, she occasionally attended a "Christian–Hindu hybrid church" called the Self-Realization Fellowship with her father. Brie graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2001. The summer between high school and college, she worked as a clown at children's birthday parties. Brie graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in theater in 2005. Her studies included a year at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Brie began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California. Her first television role came in 2006, as Nina, a novice hairdresser, on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. She received further recognition as Trudy Campbell in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), which won her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She went on to star in the web series My Alibi, which aired from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2015, Brie portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC/Yahoo! View sitcom Community, for which she earned acclaim. She was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and won an Entertainment Weekly Award from two nominations. In April 2010, Brie co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show! (and again in March 2011) and appeared in a segment on Web Soup. She appeared in the 2010 comedy film Montana Amazon. Brie made Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 and appeared at number 49 in their 2011 list. She was voted the 57th Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2013. She was voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the world by AskMen readers in 2014. Brie starred in several major film roles, including as Rebecca Walters, Sidney Prescott's assistant, in the slasher horror film Scream 4 (2011), and Suzie Barnes in the romantic comedy film The Five-Year Engagement (2012). She voiced Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy film The Lego Movie (2014), and voiced a character in an episode of the animated series American Dad!, which aired during their eighth season. In June 2014, Brie joined the cast of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, which debuted on August 22. She has since voiced a variety of characters, including main character Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman. Brie appeared on Lip Sync Battle and won against Will Arnett with performances of "Shoop" by Salt-N-Pepa and "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj. In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudeikis in Leslye Headland's romantic comedy film Sleeping with Other People, and played Will Ferrell's character's fiancée in the comedy film Get Hard. In 2016, Brie starred as Lucy in the romantic comedy film How to Be Single and portrayed Martha Dunstable in Julian Fellowes' adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Dr. Thorne for television. In 2017, she co-starred in several films, including the historical comedy The Little Hours, the biographical comedy-drama The Disaster Artist, and the historical drama The Post. From 2017 to 2019, Brie starred as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix comedy-drama series GLOW, which was inspired by the 1980s female professional wrestling promotion Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Brie noted that since appearing in GLOW and receiving critical praise for the role, she has become more focused on taking meaningful roles. For her performance, she earned multiple nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 2018, she co-starred in the music video for Beck's "Colors". In 2019, she reprised her voice role as Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy sequel film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and provided an English dub for the Japanese animated romantic fantasy film Weathering with You. In 2020, Brie starred in the acclaimed drama thriller film Promising Young Woman, directed by Emerald Fennell. Also that year, she wrote, produced and starred as Sarah in the Netflix drama film Horse Girl, which was directed by Jeff Baena. Brie then starred opposite Dan Stevens in the horror film The Rental, which was directed by her husband Dave Franco. Brie played Sloane in the romantic comedy film Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall. In 2021, she starred as a celebrity guest voice in the fifth season of the animated sitcom Rick and Morty. In 2022, Alison Brie starred in and co-wrote the dark comedy film Spin Me Round along with frequent collaborator and director Jeff Baena. The film released in select theatres by IFC Films and on AMC+ for streaming. In 2022, Alison Brie also starred in an episode of the Apple TV+ anthology TV series ROAR titled "The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder". The series is based on the eponymous book by Cecelia Ahern. In 2022, it was also announced Brie would be reprising her role as Annie in a Community film. In 2023, Brie wrote and starred in the romantic comedy film Somebody I Used to Know with her husband Dave Franco who also co-wrote and directed the film. It released on Amazon Prime Video on February 10th and became the number one film on the platform both in the USA and worldwide. In 2023, Alison Brie also voiced the character of Aftershock in the Disney Channel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. In February 2023, it was revealed that Alison Brie had been cast in Peacock's limited TV series adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel Apples Never Fall alongside Jake Lacy, Annette Bening, and Sam Neill. Brie began dating Dave Franco in 2012 after meeting him at a 2011 Mardi Gras party in New Orleans. On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged. They married on March 13, 2017. In an interview with Larry King in 2017, she said that she did not want to have children. In a 2023 interview with Buzzfeed, Brie referred to herself as bisexual. | 1 |
Matt Lowton | Matt Lowton 2014-01-01T18:01:52Z Matthew John Lowton (born 9 June 1989) is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League. He can play in a number of defensive positions but is a natural right back. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he joined Sheffield United's academy in 2004 before eventually making the break into United's first team in 2010, playing regularly for two seasons before being sold to Villa. Lowton has also spent time on loan with both non-league Sheffield and Hungarian side Ferencváros. Lowton joined Sheffield United aged fifteen after a brief spell with Leeds United and progressed through Sheffield United's youth set up to reserve level, converting from a full-back to a central defensive role in the process. After spending a spell on loan at Sheffield FC in 2008, in January 2009 Lowton went out on loan to Sheffield United's Hungarian sister club Ferencváros, along with fellow reserve player Sam Wedgbury, to get first-team experience. He made his début in the Hungarian League Cup the next month, making eighteen appearances before returning to United towards the end of the season. Back in the Championship, Lowton found himself on the fringes of the first team and duly made his Blades début in a 1–1 draw with Cardiff City at the end of March 2010, coming on as a late substitute, before making his full début for the club in the final game of the season. The following season, Lowton started Sheffield United's opening day fixture, away to Cardiff City, but was issued with a straight red card. Despite this setback, he returned to the first-team picture and was rewarded with a new contract at the end of September. Lowton continued a run of substitute appearances and rewarded United's faith by scoring his first senior goal in mid-October, netting in a 3–3 home draw with Burnley. Lowton played regularly for the remainder of the season, scoring four goals in all, but couldn't prevent the club from slipping to relegation. With the Blades now in League One, Lowton remained a key player and was rewarded with an extended contract in August 2011, making 55 appearances in total for the Blades during the following season and scoring one goal. Lowton completed a move to Aston Villa in July 2012 for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £3 million, becoming Paul Lambert's second signing as Villa manager, and made his debut on 18 August 2012, in the Premier League against West Ham United. On 15 September, Lowton scored his first league goal for Villa in a 2–0 home win against Swansea City. On 19 July 2013, Lowton signed a new four-year deal to keep him at Aston Villa until Summer 2017., Matt Lowton 2015-12-29T19:50:39Z Matthew John Lowton (born 9 June 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Burnley. He can play in a number of defensive positions but is a natural right back. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Lowton joined Sheffield United's academy in 2004. He spent time on loan with both non-league Sheffield and Hungarian side Ferencváros before making the break into United's first team in 2010. He played regularly for two seasons before being sold to Aston Villa in 2012. After three seasons and 72 Premier League appearances, he joined Burnley in 2015. Lowton joined Sheffield United aged fifteen after a brief spell with Leeds United and progressed through Sheffield United's youth set up to reserve level, converting from a full-back to a central defensive role in the process. After spending a spell on loan at Sheffield FC in 2008, in January 2009 Lowton went out on loan to Sheffield United's Hungarian sister club Ferencváros, along with fellow reserve player Sam Wedgbury, to get first-team experience. He made his début in the Hungarian League Cup the next month, making eighteen appearances before returning to United towards the end of the season. Back in the Championship, Lowton found himself on the fringes of the first team and duly made his Blades début in a 1–1 draw with Cardiff City at the end of March 2010, coming on as a late substitute, before making his full début for the club in the final game of the season. The following season, Lowton started Sheffield United's opening day fixture, away to Cardiff City, but was issued with a straight red card. Despite this setback, he returned to the first-team picture and was rewarded with a new contract at the end of September. Lowton continued a run of substitute appearances and rewarded United's faith by scoring his first senior goal in mid-October, netting in a 3–3 home draw with Burnley. Lowton played regularly for the remainder of the season, scoring four goals in all, but couldn't prevent the club from slipping to relegation. With the Blades now in League One, Lowton remained a key player and was rewarded with an extended contract in August 2011, making 55 appearances in total for the Blades during the following season and scoring one goal. Lowton completed a move to Aston Villa in July 2012 for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £3 million, becoming Paul Lambert's second signing as Villa manager, and made his debut on 18 August 2012, in the Premier League against West Ham United. On 15 September, Lowton scored his first league goal for Villa in a 2–0 home win against Swansea City. On 19 July 2013, Lowton signed a new four-year deal to keep him at Aston Villa until Summer 2017. On 22 June 2015, Burnley secured the signing of Lowton on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £1m plus add-ons | 1 |
Anna_Constantia_von_Brockdorff | Anna_Constantia_von_Brockdorff 2007-10-29T02:11:36Z Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel (b. in Gut Depenau, today part of Stolpe, Holstein, 17 October, 1680 - d. Stolpen, 31 March, 1765), was a German noblewomen and mistress of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. She was the daughter of the Knight (Ritter) Joachim of Brockdorff by his wife Anna Margarethe, daughter of the rich Hamburg citizen Leonhard Marselis, owner of the Gut Depenau. The Brockdorffs, belonged to the Equites Originarii (Knight's noble families), give her daughter an unusual training: she learned several languages, received instruction in mathematics, classical education and hunt, loved passionately. Nevertless, this can't stop her behavior; she was considered as impetuous. In 1694 Anna Constantia was sent for her parents to the Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig, the official residence of the Duke Christian Albrecht. The fourteen years girl served the duke's daughter Sophie Amalie as Lady in Waiting. When Sophie Amalie was went to Wolfenbüttel in order to became the second wife of the Hereditary Prince August Wilhelm of Brunswick-Lüneburg -son and heir of the Duke Anton Ulrich-, Anna Constantia accompanied her. Here, the life-merry beauty make the mistake. She became pregnant, possibly of the prince Ludwig Rudolf, younger brother of the Hereditary Prince. Anna Constantia was banished of the court and sent back to her parents in Depenau. The destiny of the child is unknown. Since 1699 Anna Constantia, on the Schloss Burgscheidungen, openly lived with the director of the Saxonian Generalakzis Kollegiums, Adolph Magnus, Baron of Hoym, whom she could meet in Wolfenbüttel. After four years of concubinage, the marriage finally took place on 2 July 1703. But, by 1706, she was divorced from Hoym. When she arrived in Dresden, Anna Constantia stated she was still married with Hoym, in order to take a correct place in the court. In 1704 the King-Elector August the Strong finally meet the vivacous and rich-spirit Baroness of Hoym and fell in love with her. The Baron of Hoym tried to stop the relationship, because he considered her unsuitable for the role of official mistress. By that time, the legimitimate wife of August, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg Bayreuth, was a long exile in the Schloss Pretzsch (Elbe), were she retired by his own will. When August Anna Constantia became more closed to her, he still had another mistress, the Princess of Teschen. Finally, in 1705, the Princess was banished of the court and Anna Constantia took her place as official mistress. In 1706 she was created Imperial Countess (Reichsgräfin) of Cosel. Two years later, on 24 February 1708, she gave birth a daughter, Augusta Anna Constantia, who was named after her parents. One year later, on 27 October 1709, she bore a second daughter, Fredericka Alexandrine, and three years later, on 27 August 1712, she had a son, Frederick Augustus, named after his father. In the opinion of the court Anna Constantia interfered too much into the politic. Particularly, her attempt to affect his Poland politics encountered strong resistance. The Protestant Electorate of Saxony fought persistent for the recovery of the King from the catholic Poland, which he had lost after the defeat against Sweden in the Great Northern War. August had a pure aspiration for the power of the Catholicism; the protestant Anna Constantia disapproved his ambitions. Anna Constantia was considered increasingly dangerous to the political matters. A secretly marriage promise from August contributed to this -apparently, they signed a marriage contract-. The Polish aristocracy tried to find a catholic mistress and eliminate her from the politic scene. August finally chose Maria Magdalena of Bielinski, Countess of Dönhoff . In 1713 Anna Constantia was banished to the Schloss Pillnitz. But in 1715 she fled to Berlin; for this, she was condemned in Saxony as Landesverrat (criminal fo state). In Berlin she had wanted to get back her marriage contract, who was in the hands of his cousin Detlev Christian Rantzau, which was held in the fortress of Spandau. She did not receive the contract. Anna Constantia arrested on 22 November 1716 in Halle an der Saale and exchanged by prussian deserters in Saxony. The King put her under detention on 26 December 1716 in the Burg Stolpen, where she was kept for the next forty-nine years until her death. After the death of August the Strong (1 February 1733), during the reign of his son and successor, August III, the arrest was not waived. In the background, the details of his long detention, until today, were not totally clarified. Incomprehensible is why she did not use from herself twice the offering opportunity to escape of the Burg Stolpen (1745 and 1756). In both cases the saxonian guards, before the moving forward prussian army, had fled. August the Strong decreased gradually the entire fortune of his former mistress; however, he provided to their a appropriate education and good marriages. , Anna_Constantia_von_Brockdorff 2008-11-18T12:57:35Z Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, later the Countess of Cosel (b. Gut Depenau, today part of Stolpe, Holstein, 17 October, 1680 - d. Stolpen, 31 March, 1765), was a German noblewoman and a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Anna Constantia was the daughter of the Knight (Ritter) Joachim of Brockdorff and his wife Anna Margarethe, daughter of the rich Hamburg citizen Leonhard Marselis, owner of Gut Depenau. The Brockdorffs belonged to the Equites Originarii (knight noble families) and gave their daughter an unusual education for that time: she learned several languages, received instruction in mathematics and classical education, and passionately loved to hunt. However, her impetuous behavior worried her parents. In 1694, her parents sent Anna Constantia to the Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig, the official residence of the Duke Christian Albrecht. The fourteen-year-old girl served the Duke's daughter, Sophie Amalie, as a lady-in-waiting. Anna Constantia accompanied Sophie Amalie to Wolfenbüttel, where Sophie Amalie became the second wife of the Hereditary Prince August Wilhelm of Brunswick-Lüneburg, son and heir of the Duke Anton Ulrich. While in Wolfenbüttel, Anna Constantina became pregnant, possibly by Ludwig Rudolf, younger brother of the Hereditary Prince. Anna Constantia was expelled from the court and sent back to her parents in Gut Depenau. The fate of the child is unknown. By 1699, Anna Constantia, in the Schloss Burgscheidungen, was living openly with the director of the Saxonian Generalakzis Kollegiums, Adolph Magnus, Baron of Hoym, whom she met in Wolfenbüttel. After four years of concubinage, they were married on 2 July 1703 but were divorced by 1706. When she arrived in Dresden, Anna Constantia claimed that she was still married the Baron in order to be able to appear at court. In 1704, the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony Augustus the Strong met the vivacous Baroness von Hoym and fell in love with her. The Baron of Hoym tried unsuccessfully to prevent the relationship, because he considered his former wife unsuitable for the role of official mistress. By that time, the legitimate wife of Augustus, Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg Bayreuth, was long exiled in the Schloss Pretzsch (Elbe). Anna Constantia became close to Augustus, but he still had another mistress, the Princess Teschen. Finally, in 1705, the Princess Teschen was banished from the court, and Anna Constantia took her place as official mistress. In 1706, she was created the Imperial Countess (Reichsgräfin) of Cosel. Two years later, on 24 February 1708, she gave birth to Augustu's daughter, named Augusta Anna Constantia after her parents. One year later, on 27 October 1709, the Countess von Cosel bore a second daughter, Fredericka Alexandrine, and three years later, on 27 August 1712, she had a son, Frederick Augustus, who was named after his father and eventually inherited Gut Depenau from his maternal grandparents. In the opinion of the court, Anna Constantia interfered too much into politics, and in particular, her attempts to meddle in Augustus' Polish politics encountered strong resistance. The Protestant Electorate of Saxony was determined to turn the King's attention away from Catholic Poland, which he had lost after the defeat at the hands of Sweden's Charles XII in the Great Northern War. Anna Constantia came to be considered increasingly dangerous to the Polish political interests, especially when it became rumored that Augustus had given his mistress a secret written promise to marry her. The Polish aristocracy tried to supplant the countess von Cosel with a Catholic mistress and thus eliminate her from the political scene. Augustus finally gave in to the charms of Maria Magdalena Bielinski, Countess von Dönhoff. In 1713, Anna Constantia was banished to the Schloss Pillnitz, but in 1715, she managed to flee to Berlin, Prussia. For this, she was condemned in Saxony as Landesverrat (state criminal). In Berlin, she hoped to get her hands on Augustus' secret written marriage promise, which was in the hands of her cousin Detlev Christian Rantzau, held in the fortress of Spandau. However, the countess failed to retrieve this important document and was arrested on 22 November 1716 in Halle an der Saale and exchanged for Prussian deserters in Saxony. Augustus exiled his former mistress on 26 December 1716 to the Burg Stolpen, where she was kept for the next forty-nine years until her death. After the death of August the Strong (1 February 1733) and during the reign of his son and successor, August III, the countess' exile was apparently not lifted, although there is no certainty about that or about the details surrounding her continued residence at Burg Stolpen. It is curious that the countess did not use the opportunity to flee, twice presented to her in (1745 and 1756), in both cases the Saxon guards having fled before advancing Prussian troops. On incidents and circumstances of her life, the Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski based his historical novel Countess of Cosel ("Hrabina Cosel" 1873) which later was adapted into Polish feature movie under the same title. Template:BD | 0 |
Unger_Baptist_Arogo | Unger_Baptist_Arogo 2009-05-25T19:20:21Z Unger Baptist Arogo was founded in 1916 at Unger Village under Mokokchung District, Nagaland, India. The first recorded baptism took place in June 15, 1916, and the first baptised member of the church was Mr. Noklemchiba. Since then, Unger Baptist Arogo has celebrated Silver and Golden Jubilees. Unger is a village with about 200 households and today 99. 9% of the villagers are Christian. Unger Baptist Arogo is affiliated with the Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang, Impur, Nagaland, India. This article about a church building or other Christian place of worship in India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Unger_Baptist_Arogo 2011-03-02T13:24:26Z The Unger Baptist Arogo was founded in 1916 at Unger Village in the Mokokchung District, Nagaland, India. The first recorded baptism took place on June 15, 1916, and the first baptised member of the church was Mr. Noklemchiba. Since then, Unger Baptist Arogo has celebrated Silver and Golden Jubilees. Unger is a village with about 200 households and today 99. 9% of the villagers are Christian. Unger Baptist Arogo is affiliated with the Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang, Impur, Nagaland, India. This article about a church building or other Christian place of worship in India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
California's 19th congressional district | California's 19th congressional district 2011-01-04T02:48:20Z California's 19th congressional district covers parts of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Stanislaus counties. The current Representative for this district is Jeff Denham. 1932 • 1934 • 1936 • 1938 • 1940 • 1942 • 1944 • 1946 • 1948 • 1950 • 1952 • 1954 • 1956 • 1958 • 1960 • 1962 • 1964 • 1966 • 1968 • 1970 • 1972 • 1974 • 1976 • 1978 • 1980 • 1982 • 1984 • 1986 • 1988 • 1990 • 1992 • 1994 • 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2002 • 2004 • 2006 • 2008 • 2010 37°36′N 120°00′W / 37.6°N 120°W / 37.6; -120, California's 19th congressional district 2012-12-27T14:46:16Z California's 19th congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of California that covers parts of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Stanislaus counties. The 19th district is currently represented by Republican Jeff Denham, who succeeded fellow Republican George Radanovich in January 2011. 1932 • 1934 • 1936 • 1938 • 1940 • 1942 • 1944 • 1946 • 1948 • 1950 • 1952 • 1954 • 1956 • 1958 • 1960 • 1962 • 1964 • 1966 • 1968 • 1970 • 1972 • 1974 • 1976 • 1978 • 1980 • 1982 • 1984 • 1986 • 1988 • 1990 • 1992 • 1994 • 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2002 • 2004 • 2006 • 2008 • 2010 37°36′N 120°00′W / 37.6°N 120°W / 37.6; -120 | 1 |
Jennifer Morrison | Jennifer Morrison 2010-01-01T23:53:04Z Jennifer Marie Morrison (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress, model and film producer, best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the medical drama House. Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Her father, David L. Morrison, is a music teacher who was named Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education in 2003. Morrison's mother, Judy Morrison, was also a teacher. Both have since retired. She graduated from Prospect High School in 1997 where her parents also worked. During her time there, she played clarinet in the school's marching band, sang in the choir and did cheerleading with the school's pep squad. Morrison also has two younger siblings, Julie and Daniel Morrison. After high school, she attended Loyola University Chicago where she majored in Theatre and minored in English before graduating in 2000. She studied with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Morrison started her career as a child model, appearing in print advertisements for JCPenney and Montgomery Ward and commercials for Rice Krispies and Mondo. At the age of ten, she was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids with basketball star Michael Jordan. She made her film debut at the age of fifteen as the daughter of Richard Gere and Sharon Stone in the 1994 film, Intersection, and later appeared as Samantha in Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon in 1999. Her first leading role came in the 2000 film Urban Legends: Final Cut, and she has since gone on to appear in films including Grind with Adam Brody, Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini and Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. On television, she has worked on several hit shows including Touched by an Angel and Dawson's Creek before landing the role of immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron on House in 2004 co-starring alongside Hugh Laurie. In 2006, she starred in and produced the independent film Flourish. In 2007, Morrison appeared as Kirce James in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, a character who frequently interacts with the player during the course of the GDI campaign. She was also selected by TV Guide for its Top 10 of TV's Sexiest Stars for its 2007 Sexy Issue. Her House co-star, Omar Epps, wrote a testimonial for her which said, "She exudes a lightness and has a beautiful soul... Whenever she laughs, everyone laughs." Her film projects that year included Big Stan alongside Rob Schneider and The Murder of Princess Diana, a television movie based on the book of the same name by Noel Botham. Produced by Lifetime and Working Title Television, Morrison portrays an American journalist, Rachel, who witnesses the car crash which took the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2009, Morrison returned to the big screen, appearing in the opening scene of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot as James T. Kirk's mother, Winona. Morrison has also appeared in music videos for Nick Lachey ("Shut Up"), The Donnas ("Too Bad About Your Girl") and Jack's Mannequin ("Dark Blue"). She has also appeared on two TV Guide covers with her House co-stars, and has been featured in photoshoots with In Style, Stuff, Entertainment Weekly and Premiere among others. She is currently represented by Abrams Artists Agency. Morrison landed the cover of Health in the 2009 July/August issue. It was announced on December 17th, 2009 that Morrison will be playing the role of Kate Keller in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker. In January 2007, People magazine reported that Morrison had become engaged to Jesse Spencer in Paris over the holidays. In a post-Golden Globes interview with E! , Morrison revealed that Spencer proposed on December 23, 2006, at the Eiffel Tower. According to an interview with Spencer and Morrison in In Style Weddings in July 2007, the couple met for the first time at Vancouver International Airport in March 2004 when they were on their way to shoot the first episode of House before they started dating in July 2004. In August 2007, the couple announced that they called off their engagement. She is now dating Amaury Nolasco, who plays Fernando Sucre in the hit TV series Prison Break. , Jennifer Morrison 2011-12-26T14:26:51Z Jennifer Marie Morrison (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron in House, whom she played for five-and-a-half years, and also as Zoey Pierson in the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother. She currently has a lead role in the ABC adventure fantasy television series Once Upon a Time as Emma Swan. Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Her father, David L. Morrison, is a retired music teacher who was named Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education in 2003. Morrison's mother, Judy Morrison, is also a retired teacher. Morrison is the eldest of three children with a sister, Julia, and a brother, Daniel. Morrison graduated from Prospect High School in 1997 where her parents also worked. She played clarinet in the school's marching band, sang in the choir and was a cheerleader with the school's pep squad. She attended Loyola University Chicago where she majored in Theatre and minored in English, graduating in 2000. She studied with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Morrison started her career as a child model, appearing in print advertisements for JCPenney and Montgomery Ward and commercials for Rice Krispies and Mondo. In May 1992, she was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids with basketball star Michael Jordan. She made her film debut at the age of fifteen as the daughter of Richard Gere and Sharon Stone in the 1994 film, Intersection, and later appeared as Samantha in Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon in 1999. Her first leading role came in the 2000 film Urban Legends: Final Cut, and she has since gone on to appear in films including Grind with Adam Brody, Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. She has worked on several hit television shows, including Touched by an Angel and Dawson's Creek before landing the role of immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron on House in 2004 co-starring alongside Hugh Laurie. In 2006, she starred in and produced the independent film Flourish. Morrison is also one of the producers that found Glee during its early draft and brought it to attention of writer Ryan Murphy, who with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, adapted it into a television series. Morrison did not stay involved creatively, but is credited as an associated producer on the first season for her involvement in finding it and helping it get into the right hands. In 2007 Morrison appeared as Kirce James in the computer game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, a character who frequently interacts with the player during the course of the GDI campaign. Her film projects that year included Big Stan alongside Rob Schneider, and The Murder of Princess Diana, a television movie based on the book of the same name by Noel Botham. Produced by Lifetime and Working Title Television, Morrison portrays an American journalist, Rachel, who witnesses the car crash which took the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2009 Morrison returned to the big screen, appearing in the opening scene of J. J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot as James T. Kirk's mother, Winona. Morrison has also appeared in music videos for Nick Lachey ("Shut Up"), and The Donnas ("Too Bad About Your Girl"). She also has appeared on two TV Guide covers with her House co-stars, and has been featured in photoshoots with In Style, Stuff, Entertainment Weekly and Premiere, among others. She is currently represented by Abrams Artists Agency. Morrison landed the cover of Health in the 2009 July/August issue. After her contract on House was not renewed, it was announced on December 17, 2009, that Morrison had garnered the role of Kate Keller, Helen Keller's mother, in the Broadway-bound revival of The Miracle Worker. Morrison left House in Season 6: Episode 8 called "Teamwork". In 2010, however, she did make a return to House in Season 6: Episode 17 called "Lockdown", which was directed by Hugh Laurie. In the episode she concluded her character's storyline. In the fall of 2010 Morrison appeared as a guest-star in the fourth episode of NBC's Chase. She played the role of Faith, a single mother-turned-fugitive, who embarks on a bloody killing spree across Texas with her daughter in tow. In addition, she has joined the cast of CBS's How I Met Your Mother as recurring character Zoey Pierson, a mischievous architecture nerd and love interest of main character Ted Mosby, and "the biggest female character we’ve maybe ever added to the show in Ted’s life", according to executive producer Craig Thomas. In 2011 Morrison appeared in Warrior alongside Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy, a film about a young Mixed Martial Artist. Morrison played a mother struggling to keep her family together. Since October 2011, Morrison has had a starring role in ABC's Once Upon a Time. She plays the role of Emma Swan, a bail bonds collector, whose biological son claims that she is the missing daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. She holds the key to saving the real and fantasy worlds. Morrison started dating House co-star Jesse Spencer in July 2004. Spencer proposed on December 23, 2006, at the Eiffel Tower. The couple announced in August 2007 that they had called off their engagement. Since July 2008, she has been in a relationship with actor Amaury Nolasco. | 1 |
Nithiin | Nithiin 2015-01-02T18:21:25Z https://www.facebook.com/ActorNithiinNithiin is an Indian film actor, who works primarily for the Telugu film industry. He is from Nizamabad. He has acted in hit films like Jayam,Dil,Sye, and recently Ishq,Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Heart Attack. He won Filmfare Best Male Debut (South) for the film Jayam, Nithiin 2016-12-31T20:01:37Z Nithiin (known asNithin Kumar Reddy) is an Indian film actor and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. Nithin made his film debut with the box office hit Jayam in the year 2002 for which he received the Filmfare Best Male Debut (South). He is known for his works in box office hits such as Dil, Sambaram, Sri Anjaneyam, Sye, Ishq, Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde, and A Aa. In 2009, he made his bollywood debut with Ram Gopal Varma's Agyaat. He is also a brand ambassador of Cotton King — the leading chain of cotton attire for men. He has been listed as Brand Ambassadors for Swachh Bharat Campaign along with 9 other personalities for Telangana state by Indian Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah naidu in 2015. Nithin Reddy was born to noted film producer and distributor Sudhakar Reddy, and Vidhya Reddy. He has an elder sister Nikitha Reddy. Nitin started his career with the movie Jayam in 2002 directed by Teja. Actress Sada played the female lead role and Actor Gopi chand made the villan role in the movie. It was remade by Jayam Ravi in Tamil. In 2003, He acted in the film Dil directed by V.V. Vinayak. This film is produced by Raju who got the title "Dil raju" after this film. Later in the same year Nithiin acted in the film Sambaram directed by Teja. In 2004, Nitin starred in Sri Anjaneyam directed by Krishna vamsi. He played the role as devotee of Lord Hanuman in the movie. This is first time Nithiin dubbed his own voice for his movie, Sivaji dubbed his voice for his earlier films. Shivaji won Nandi Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist for his voice in Nithiin movie Dil . Nithiin later acted in the film Sye directed by S.S. Rajamouli's in the same year which stood a block buster at the Tollywood box office. He played the role of a Rugby player in Sye. Nithiin has gone through a professional training for Rugby for two months for the movie. From 2005 he acted in two s Dhairyam in the direction of Teja and Allari Bullodu in direction of Raghavendra rao. He made dual role in the movie Allari Bullodu. He acquired six-pack in 2008 for this film "Victory". He made his bollywood debut with Ram Gopal Varma's Agyaat in 2009. He acted in the films Takkari, Raam, Hero, Drona, Rechipo but the films were not successful at the box office. In 2012 he acted in the film Ishq with female lead played by Nitya menen and directed by Vikram. The music of this film was composed by Anup Rubens and Aravind Shankar. The film is produced by Nithiin's father Sudhakar Reddy and Vikram goud. Nithiin sang the song "Lachhamma" in this movie. He was Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Telugu for Ishq. Nithiin got a success with Ishq after many years. He acted in the film Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde in 2013. Isha Talwar and Nithya Menen played the lead roles along with Nithin. Indian badminton player Jwala Gutta made a special appearance. Nithiin sang the song "Ding Ding Ding" along with Chaitra, Ranjith, Anup Rubens, Thagubothu Ramesh, Dhananjai in this movie. Later he acted in Chinnadana Nee Kosam film written and directed by A. Karunakaran in 2014. The film was produced by Nithin's father N. Sudhakar Reddy and sister Nikhita Reddy under their home banner Sresht Movies. In the same year he acted in the film heart attack directed by Puri jaganath. He made the role of hippie and the movie got a mixed reviews. Nithiin has planned to work again with Director Puri Jaganath but Nithiin announced that the movie is cancelled and will see to work with Puri jaganath in future. He acted in the role of a courier boy in the movie Courier Boy Kalyan released in 2015 directed by Premsai and produced by Gautham Menon. Nithiin acted in the film A Aa in 2016 written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas, Produced by S. Radha Krishna under his banner Haarika & Haasine Creations, the female lead roles were done by Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Anupama Parameswaran. The film became the biggest grosser in Nithin's career. He produced the films Ishq, Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Chinnadana Nee Kosam on shreshta movies which was his home banner. He acted in lead roles in those movies and the films were successful at Box office. | 1 |
André Ayew | André Ayew 2017-01-02T21:38:40Z André Morgan Rami Ayew (English pronunciation: /ˈɑːndreɪ ˈɑːjuː/ ⓘ; born 17 December 1989), also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club West Ham United and the Ghana national team. He is the second-born son of three-time African Footballer of the Year and FIFA 100 member Abedi "Pele" Ayew and has two brothers, Ibrahim and Jordan, who also are professional footballers. In 2011 Ayew was named the BBC African Footballer of the Year and Ghanaian Footballer of the Year. Ayew began his career in Ghana, playing for Nania, while debuting for the club at age 14. In 2005, he signed with his father's former club, Marseille, and spent two seasons in the club's youth academy before making his debut in the 2007–08 season. Ayew spent the following two seasons on loan with Lorient and Arles-Avignon, helping the latter team earn promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time. In 2010, he returned to Marseille and became an integral part of the first team under manager Didier Deschamps, making over 200 appearances and winning consecutive Trophée des champions and Coupe de la Ligues in both 2010 and 2011. Ayew has been a full international for Ghana since 2008 and has earned over 65 caps. At youth level, he starred for and captained the under-20 team that won both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He has played in two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), as well as four Africa Cup of Nations (2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015), helping them finish runner-up in 2010 and 2015, and was Top Goalscorer at the latter. Ayew began his career with 1860 München, when his father played. At the age of ten, Ayew was playing for Nania, where his father is club chairman, in Accra, Ghana. After four years of plying his trade in the club's youth academy, he was promoted to the team's senior squad at the age of 14. Despite being on the senior team, he still participated in youth-sanctioned events, such as the 2004 edition of the Altstetten U-19 Tournament, in which he was named one of the tournament's most famous players. Ayew played professional football at Nania for two seasons before departing the club and returning to France to play for his father's former club Marseille. Ayew joined the club on an aspirant ("trainee") contract and, upon his arrival, was put into the club's youth system and placed onto Marseille's undeis first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal. He was officially promoted to the senior team and assigned the squad number 29 shirt. Ayew made his professional debut for Marseille on 15 August 2007 in a league match against Valenciennes, coming on as a substitute for Modeste M'bami in the 89th minute. Marseille lost the match 2–1. On 6 November, he made his UEFA Champions League debut against Portuguese champions Porto at the Estádio do Dragão, playing on the left wing in place of Bolo Zenden. Ayew played 77 minutes before being substituted out as Marseille were defeated 2–1. Ayew earned praise from the media for his performance of containing Porto right back José Bosingwa. Five days later, Ayew earned his first league start against Lyon at the Stade de Gerland. Ayew again featured in the team as Marseille pulled off a 2–1 victory. Ayew finished the season with 13 total appearances, nine in league play and two in cup play, in addition to two Champions League appearances. Ayew's first season with the club drew the attention of Premier League club Arsenal, who reportedly offered Marseille £5 million for the player. Marseille, however, denied the offer. For the 2008–09 season, Ayew switched to the squad number 8 shirt, though due to the arrival of attackers Hatem Ben Arfa, Sylvain Wiltord, Bakari Koné and Mamadou Samassa, he was deemed surplus to requirements for the season and was loaned out to fellow first division club Lorient for the season. Ayew was used by manager Christian Gourcuff as one of the team's focal points of the attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kévin Gameiro and Rafik Saïfi and made his debut on 16 August 2008, coming on as a substitute in a 0–0 draw against Lyon. On 27 September 2008, he scored his first professional goal after netting the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Sochaux. A month later, he scored his second career goal in a 4–1 rout of Saint-Étienne. Despite the initial success, Ayew was limited throughout the league campaign to just appearing as a substitute. He finished the season with 22 league appearances and three goals and, on 30 June 2009, returned to Marseille. Two months later, on 31 August 2009, the last day of the transfer window, new manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be joining newly promoted Ligue 2 club Arles-Avignon on loan for the 2009–10 season. Ayew was given the number 10 shirt and his favorable right wing position. He made his debut with the club on 11 September, appearing as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Angers. The following week, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4–2 defeat to Tours. He was ever present in the team's fall campaign, but due to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, he missed the month of January. Ayew returned to the team on 5 February 2010 and appeared as a starter in all of the team's matches for the rest of the campaign. On 9 April, with the team in the midst of a promotion battle, Ayew scored a double in the team's 2–1 victory over Le Havre. The following week, he struck again scoring the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Guingamp. On 14 May, Arles-Avignon secured promotion to Ligue 1 following the team's 1–0 win over Clermont. Ayew started and played the entire match. He finished the campaign with Arles-Avignon appearing in 26 total matches and scoring four goals. After the successful league campaign with Arles-Avignon, on 16 May 2010, Marseille manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be returning to the team and that he will be earning some significant playing time with the club for the 2010–11 season. On 5 August, Ayew signed a three-year contract extension with Marseille. The new deal kept him at the club until June 2014. Despite the arrival of Loïc Rémy, Ayew was inserted as a starter by Deschamps and scored his first goal in the second league match of the season against Valenciennes in a 3–2 defeat. Following the international break in September, he scored a double against his former club Arles-Avignon in a 3–0 win. In the Coupe de la Ligue, Ayew scored goals in victories over Guingamp and Monaco in the Round of 16 and quarter-finals, respectively. On 20 November, he scored the only goal in a victory over Toulouse. Ayew scored the goal two minutes from time. On 27 April 2011, Ayew scored his first professional hat-trick in a 4–2 victory over Nice. His younger brother, Jordan, converted the other goal for Marseille in the win. Because of his outstanding performances throughout the season, Ayew was nominated for Ligue 1 Young Player of the Season, along with Marvin Martin and Yann M'Vila. He was voted Marseille's Best Player for the Season for 2010–11. Ayew was named in the squad for the 2011 Trophée des Champions match against Lille held on 27 July 2011 at the Stade de Tanger in Morocco. He scored a hat-trick, including two 90th minute penalties, ensuring Marseille a 5–4 victory. In December 2011, Ayew signed a one-year contract extension until 2015 with a release clause of €18 million. On 4 April 2014, Ayew scored only his second hat-trick of his Marseille career, inspiring his club to a 3–1 league victory, their first in seven outings, over bottom club Ajaccio. On 10 June 2015, Premier League side Swansea City announced that Ayew had joined the club on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract with the Swans pending Premier League and international clearance. Ayew scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Chelsea on 8 August 2015 in a 2–2 draw. On 15 August 2015, Ayew scored his second goal in his second game for Swansea in their 2–0 victory against Newcastle United. He continued his form in the next league fixture against Manchester United, where he scored and created an assist. Ayew was named Premier League Player of the Month for August 2015 and also received Swansea's monthly award the GWFX Player of the Month for August after making an immediate impact, scoring three goals in his first four league appearances. On 8 August 2016, Ayew signed for West Ham United for a club record fee of £20.5 million on a three-year contract, with the option of an extra two years. Ayew's debut game for West Ham, on 15 August 2016, against Chelsea, lasted 35 minutes before he was substituted after sustaining a thigh injury. Due to having dual French and Ghanaian citizenship, Ayew was eligible for France and Ghana. He initially chose to represent France, citing the failed inquiries of the Ghana Football Association to contact him as his reason why, but declared Ghana to be his first option, citing his father. Ayew was subsequently called up and participated in a training camp with the France under-18 team. In 2007, he turned down several offers to play for the country's under-21 team. Ayew later warned the Ghana Football Association that he was on the verge of representing France at international level, stating, "At this moment there is only one choice to make because I have only received an invitation from one country and that is France." At the youth level, Ayew represented Ghana at under-20 level and captained the team to victory at both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. At the African Youth Championship, Ayew scored two goals against Cameroon in the group stage and South Africa in the semi-finals. The 4–3 semi-final result progressed Ghana to the final where the team defeated group stage opponents Cameroon 2–0. The championship victory resulted in the team qualifying for the ensuing U-20 World Cup. In the tournament, Ayew scored twice against England in a 4–0 rout and the equalizing goal against South Africa in the round of 16. Ghana later won the match in extra time through a goal from Dominic Adiyiah. Ayew then captained the team to victories over the South Korea and Hungary in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, to reach the final where they faced Brazil. In the final, Ghana defeated the Brazilians 4–3 on penalties to win the U-20 World Cup. Ayew converted Ghana's first penalty in the shootout. On 7 August 2007, Ayew was called up for the first time by Ghana coach Claude Le Roy for the team's friendly match against Senegal on 21 August. He made his international debut in the match, appearing as a late-match substitute. On 11 January 2008, Ayew was named to the Ghana squad to play in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. Ayew made his second major international tournament appearance by appearing at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. On 19 January 2010, in the team's final group stage match against Burkina Faso, he scored his first international goal in 30th minute with a header. Ghana won the match 1–0 and reached the final where they were defeated 1–0 by Egypt. Ayew appeared in all five matches the team contested. On 7 May 2010, Ayew was named to coach Milovan Rajevac's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was later named to the 23-man team to compete in the competition alongside his brother Ibrahim. On 12 June, Ayew made his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opening group stage match against Serbia, starting ahead of the more experienced Sulley Muntari. He later started in the team's ensuing group stage matches against Australia and Germany. In the team's round of 16 match against the United States, Ayew assisted on the game-winning goal scored by Asamoah Gyan after sending a lob–pass into the United States defense, which Gyan collected and then converted. For his performance in the match, Ayew was named Man of the Match by FIFA. Ayew missed the team's quarter-final defeat on penalties to Uruguay due to yellow card accumulation. He went on to play in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring against Mali and Tunisia, as the Black Stars finished in fourth place. In February 2013, Ayew retired from international football after a dispute with the Ghana Football Association. However, he returned to the team for a World Cup qualifier against Zambia on 6 September. He then went on to start in both legs of Ghana's 7–3 aggregate play-off defeat of Egypt to secure qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. On 2 June 2014, Ayew was named in Ghana's squad for the World Cup. In the team's opening match, he scored an 82nd minute equalising goal against the United States in an eventual 2–1 defeat. He then scored the Black Stars' first goal in a 2–2 draw with Germany in their second group match. On 19 January 2015, Ayew scored Ghana's first goal of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in a 2–1 loss to Senegal. Ayew missed out on the five-ma shortlist released by CAF, having initially made the previous 30-man list for the 2016 CAF player of the year. Ayew was born in Seclin, a commune in the arrondissement of Lille, to a Ghanaian mother and father. Ayew comes from a family of footballers. His father, Abedi Pele, was a professional footballer and was playing for Lille at the time of his birth. He is the nephew of Kwame Ayew and Sola Ayew, both of whom are former international footballers. Ayew also has two brothers who are footballers; Ibrahim and Jordan, and a sister, Imani. Jordan currently plays for Aston Villa and Ibrahim currently plays for Africa giants and Ghanaian club Asante Kotoko. André Ayew is a practising Muslim. , André Ayew 2018-12-28T20:26:44Z André Morgan Rami Ayew (/ˈɑːjuː/ ⓘ; born 17 December 1989), also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe, on loan from Championship club Swansea City. Ayew plays internationally for the Ghana national team. He is the second-born son of three-time African Footballer of the Year and FIFA 100 member Abedi "Pele" Ayew and has two brothers, Ibrahim and Jordan, who also are professional footballers. In 2011 Ayew was named the BBC African Footballer of the Year and Ghanaian Footballer of the Year. Ayew began his career in Ghana, playing for Nania, while debuting for the club at age 14. In 2005, he signed with his father's former club, Marseille, and spent two seasons in the club's youth academy before making his debut in the 2007–08 season. Ayew spent the following two seasons on loan with Lorient and Arles-Avignon, helping the latter team earn promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time. In 2010, he returned to Marseille and became an integral part of the first team under manager Didier Deschamps, making over 200 appearances and winning consecutive Trophée des champions and Coupe de la Ligues in both 2010 and 2011. Ayew has been a full international for Ghana since 2008 and has earned over 65 caps. At youth level, he starred for and captained the under-20 team that won both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He has played in two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), as well as five Africa Cup of Nations (2008, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017), helping them finish runner-up in 2010 and 2015, and was Top Goalscorer at the latter. Ayew began his career with 1860 München, when his father played. At the age of ten, Ayew was playing for Nania, where his father is club chairman, in Accra, Ghana. After four years of plying his trade in the club's youth academy, he was promoted to the team's senior squad at the age of 14. Despite being on the senior team, he still participated in youth-sanctioned events, such as the 2004 edition of the Altstetten U-19 Tournament, in which he was named one of the tournament's most famous players. Ayew played professional football at Nania for two seasons before departing the club and returning to France to play for his father's former club Marseille. Ayew joined the club on an aspirant ("trainee") contract and, upon his arrival, was put into the club's youth system and placed onto Marseille's first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal. He was officially promoted to the senior team and assigned the squad number 29 shirt. Ayew made his professional debut for Marseille on 15 August 2007 in a league match against Valenciennes, coming on as a substitute for Modeste M'bami in the 89th minute. Marseille lost the match 2–1. On 6 November, he made his UEFA Champions League debut against Portuguese champions Porto at the Estádio do Dragão, playing on the left wing in place of Bolo Zenden. Ayew played 77 minutes before being substituted out as Marseille were defeated 2–1. Ayew earned praise from the media for his performance of containing Porto right back José Bosingwa. Five days later, Ayew earned his first league start against Lyon at the Stade de Gerland. Ayew again featured in the team as Marseille pulled off a 2–1 victory. Ayew finished the season with 13 total appearances, nine in league play and two in cup play, in addition to two Champions League appearances. Ayew's first season with the club drew the attention of Premier League club Arsenal, who reportedly offered Marseille €6 million for the player. Marseille, however, denied the offer. For the 2008–09 season, Ayew switched to the squad number 8 shirt, though due to the arrival of attackers Hatem Ben Arfa, Sylvain Wiltord, Bakari Koné and Mamadou Samassa, he was deemed surplus to requirements for the season and was loaned out to fellow first division club Lorient for the season. Ayew was used by manager Christian Gourcuff as one of the team's focal points of the attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kevin Gameiro and Rafik Saïfi and made his debut on 16 August 2008, coming on as a substitute in a 0–0 draw against Lyon. On 27 September 2008, he scored his first professional goal after netting the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Sochaux. A month later, he scored his second career goal in a 4–1 rout of Saint-Étienne. Despite the initial success, Ayew was limited throughout the league campaign to just appearing as a substitute. He finished the season with 22 league appearances and three goals and, on 30 June 2009, returned to Marseille. Two months later, on 31 August 2009, the last day of the transfer window, new manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be joining newly promoted Ligue 2 club Arles-Avignon on loan for the 2009–10 season. Ayew was given the number 10 shirt and his favorable right wing position. He made his debut with the club on 11 September, appearing as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Angers. The following week, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4–2 defeat to Tours. He was ever present in the team's fall campaign, but due to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, he missed the month of January. Ayew returned to the team on 5 February 2010 and appeared as a starter in all of the team's matches for the rest of the campaign. On 9 April, with the team in the midst of a promotion battle, Ayew scored a double in the team's 2–1 victory over Le Havre. The following week, he struck again scoring the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Guingamp. On 14 May, Arles-Avignon secured promotion to Ligue 1 following the team's 1–0 win over Clermont. Ayew started and played the entire match. He finished the campaign with Arles-Avignon appearing in 26 total matches and scoring four goals. After the successful league campaign with Arles-Avignon, on 16 May 2010, Marseille manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be returning to the team and that he will be earning some significant playing time with the club for the 2010–11 season. On 5 August, Ayew signed a three-year contract extension with Marseille. The new deal kept him at the club until June 2014. Despite the arrival of Loïc Rémy, Ayew was inserted as a starter by Deschamps and scored his first goal in the second league match of the season against Valenciennes in a 3–2 defeat. Following the international break in September, he scored a double against his former club Arles-Avignon in a 3–0 win. In the Coupe de la Ligue, Ayew scored goals in victories over Guingamp and Monaco in the Round of 16 and quarter-finals, respectively. On 20 November, he scored the only goal in a victory over Toulouse. Ayew scored the goal two minutes from time. On 27 April 2011, Ayew scored his first professional hat-trick in a 4–2 victory over Nice. His younger brother, Jordan, converted the other goal for Marseille in the win. Because of his outstanding performances throughout the season, Ayew was nominated for Ligue 1 Young Player of the Season, along with Marvin Martin and Yann M'Vila. He was voted Marseille's Best Player for the Season for 2010–11. Ayew was named in the squad for the 2011 Trophée des Champions match against Lille held on 27 July 2011 at the Stade de Tanger in Morocco. He scored a hat-trick, including two 90th minute penalties, ensuring Marseille a 5–4 victory. In December 2011, Ayew signed a one-year contract extension until 2015 with a release clause of €18 million. On 4 April 2014, Ayew scored only his second hat-trick of his Marseille career, inspiring his club to a 3–1 league victory, their first in seven outings, over bottom club Ajaccio. On 10 June 2015, Premier League side Swansea City announced that Ayew had joined the club on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract with the Swans pending Premier League and international clearance. Ayew scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Chelsea on 8 August 2015 in a 2–2 draw. On 15 August 2015, Ayew scored his second goal in his second game for Swansea in their 2–0 victory against Newcastle United. He continued his form in the next league fixture against Manchester United, where he scored and created an assist. Ayew was named Premier League Player of the Month for August 2015 and also received Swansea's monthly award the GWFX Player of the Month for August after making an immediate impact, scoring three goals in his first four league appearances. On 8 August 2016, Ayew signed for West Ham United for a then club record fee of £20.5 million on a three-year contract, with the option of an extra two years. Ayew's debut game for West Ham, on 15 August 2016, against Chelsea, lasted 35 minutes before he was substituted after sustaining a thigh injury. He returned to first team action on 26 October 2016 in a 2–1 home win against Chelsea in the EFL Cup. On 26 December 2016 Ayew scored his first West Ham goal. Playing away at his former club, Swansea City, Ayew scored the first goal in a 4–1 West Ham win. Ayew left West Ham in January 2018 having scored 12 goals in 50 games in all competitions. On 31 January 2018, Ayew completed a deadline day return to former club Swansea City for a reported £18 million rising to £20 million with add-ons. In July 2018, Ayew joined Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe on a season-long loan. The deal reportedly included an option for the club to sign Ayew permanently at the end of the loan period. Due to having dual French and Ghanaian citizenship, Ayew was eligible for France and Ghana. He initially chose to represent France, citing the failed inquiries of the Ghana Football Association to contact him as his reason why, but declared Ghana to be his first option, citing his father. Ayew was subsequently called up and participated in a training camp with the France under-18 team. In 2007, he turned down several offers to play for the country's under-21 team. Ayew later warned the Ghana Football Association that he was on the verge of representing France at international level, stating, "At this moment there is only one choice to make because I have only received an invitation from one country and that is France." At the youth level, Ayew represented Ghana at under-20 level and captained the team to victory at both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. At the African Youth Championship, Ayew scored two goals against Cameroon in the group stage and South Africa in the semi-finals. The 4–3 semi-final result progressed Ghana to the final where the team defeated group stage opponents Cameroon 2–0. The championship victory resulted in the team qualifying for the ensuing U-20 World Cup. In the tournament, Ayew scored twice against England in a 4–0 rout and the equalizing goal against South Africa in the round of 16. Ghana later won the match in extra time through a goal from Dominic Adiyiah. Ayew then captained the team to victories over the South Korea and Hungary in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, to reach the final where they faced Brazil. In the final, Ghana defeated the Brazilians 4–3 on penalties to win the U-20 World Cup. Ayew converted Ghana's first penalty in the shootout. On 7 August 2007, Ayew was called up for the first time by Ghana coach Claude Le Roy for the team's friendly match against Senegal on 21 August. He made his international debut in the match, appearing as a late-match substitute. On 11 January 2008, Ayew was named to the Ghana squad to play in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. Ayew made his second major international tournament appearance by appearing at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. On 19 January 2010, in the team's final group stage match against Burkina Faso, he scored his first international goal in 30th minute with a header. Ghana won the match 1–0 and reached the final where they were defeated 1–0 by Egypt. Ayew appeared in all five matches the team contested. On 7 May 2010, Ayew was named to coach Milovan Rajevac's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was later named to the 23-man team to compete in the competition alongside his brother Ibrahim. On 12 June, Ayew made his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opening group stage match against Serbia, starting ahead of the more experienced Sulley Muntari. He later started in the team's ensuing group stage matches against Australia and Germany. In the team's round of 16 match against the United States, Ayew assisted on the game-winning goal scored by Asamoah Gyan after sending a lob–pass into the United States defense, which Gyan collected and then converted. For his performance in the match, Ayew was named Man of the Match by FIFA. Ayew missed the team's quarter-final defeat on penalties to Uruguay due to yellow card accumulation. He went on to play in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring against Mali and Tunisia, as the Black Stars finished in fourth place. In February 2013, Ayew retired from international football after a dispute with the Ghana Football Association. However, he returned to the team for a World Cup qualifier against Zambia on 6 September. He then went on to start in both legs of Ghana's 7–3 aggregate play-off defeat of Egypt to secure qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. On 2 June 2014, Ayew was named in Ghana's squad for the World Cup. In the team's opening match, he scored an 82nd minute equalising goal against the United States in an eventual 2–1 defeat. He then scored the Black Stars' first goal in a 2–2 draw with Germany in their second group match. On 19 January 2015, Ayew scored Ghana's first goal of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in a 2–1 loss to Senegal. Ayew was born in Seclin, a commune in the arrondissement of Lille, to a Ghanaian mother and father. Ayew comes from a family of footballers. His father, Abedi Pele, was a professional footballer and was playing for Lille at the time of his birth. He is the nephew of Kwame Ayew and Sola Ayew, both of whom are former international footballers. Ayew also has two brothers who are professional footballers; Ibrahim and Jordan, and a sister, Imani. Jordan currently plays for Crystal Palace and Ibrahim currently plays for Europa in Gibraltar. André Ayew is a practising Muslim. Marseille Ghana | 1 |
Sébastien Buemi | Sébastien Buemi 2011-01-03T08:00:39Z Sébastien Olivier Buemi (born October 31, 1988 in Aigle, Vaud) is a Swiss racing driver, who competes for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One. After graduating from karting, Buemi spent 2004 and 2005 in German Formula BMW, finishing third and second in the championship respectively. He was also runner up in the 2005 FBMW World Final. Following a single race in Spanish Formula Three in 2005, Buemi moved up to the Formula Three Euroseries for 2006, finishing 12th in the championship, ceding 11th place to Charlie Kimball on countback. He remained in the series for 2007, and finished second in the championship, behind Romain Grosjean. He has also competed in the special Masters of Formula 3 and Macau Grand Prix races. For the 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season, Buemi shared driving duties for A1 Team Switzerland with Neel Jani and Marcel Fässler. The team finished eighth in the championship. Buemi was drafted in at short notice to replace the injured Michael Ammermüller at ART Grand Prix for the Monaco round of the 2007 GP2 Series season. He performed creditably on his GP2 début, qualifying fourth and finishing seventh. He joined the Arden International team for the 2008 GP2 Asia Series, and finished as runner-up with a win and four second places. He continued with the team for the main 2008 season. He scored his first win in the French sprint race, starting 21st on the grid (after a technical problem in the feature race) on slick tyres on a drying track and benefitting as most rivals had to pit for slicks. He won one more race and ended the season sixth in the championship. On September 18, 2007 he drove the Red Bull RB3 at the F1 test session in Jerez. He was third quickest on the day, behind Timo Glock (BMW) and Vitantonio Liuzzi (Scuderia Toro Rosso) but ahead of names such as Rubens Barrichello (Honda) and Nelson Piquet Jr. (Renault). On January 16, 2008 Red Bull Racing confirmed Buemi as their test and reserve driver for the 2008 season. At the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix, Buemi drove the medical car as usual driver Dr Jacques Tropenat had been suffering from an ear problem. Scuderia Toro Rosso confirmed its signing of Buemi as one of its race drivers on January 9, 2009. He was the first Swiss driver to take part in an F1 race since Jean-Denis Délétraz drove for Pacific at the 1995 European Grand Prix. In his first race, the 2009 Australian Grand Prix, Buemi outqualified his team-mate Sébastien Bourdais and then scored a point in the race by finishing in eighth position. He was later promoted to seventh place as a result of Lewis Hamilton being disqualified. At the Chinese Grand Prix, he scored another point, finishing eighth after starting tenth. After a mid season dip in the Toro Rosso's form, Buemi rounded off a good weekend to finish 7th in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. He followed this with a third top ten qualification in a row and another points finish at the season finale in Abu Dhabi. On 9 November 2009, it was confirmed that Buemi would race for a second season with Toro Rosso. Buemi has said in an interview with F1 Racing magazine that he had his eyes on a Red Bull drive for 2011, but Red Bull will be staying with their current driver line up. During the first free practice session of the 2010 Chinese Grand Prix, a front suspension wishbone broke under braking on Buemi's Toro Rosso as he braked for Turn 14. The two front wheels flew off while Buemi was travelling at over 300 km/h (190 mph). One wheel went over the safety fence and landed in a spectator area, missing a camera man on its way. Buemi's car continued to travel forward, veering to the left and sliding along an armco barrier, knocking off the front wing. Neither Buemi nor any spectators were injured as a result of the incident. Toro Rosso blamed a failure of a new front right upright for the incident. Buemi lives with his family and his girlfriend Jennifer in Bahrain. His cousin, Natacha Gachnang, is also a racing driver, currently competing in the FIA GT1 World Championship. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap), Sébastien Buemi 2012-12-20T18:05:53Z Sébastien Olivier Buemi (born 31 October 1988 in Aigle, Vaud) is a Swiss racing driver, who formerly competed for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One. Buemi is currently a reserve driver for Scuderia Toro Rosso's sister team, Red Bull Racing, as well as being a member of Toyota's 24 Hours of Le Mans squad. After graduating from karting, Buemi spent 2004 and 2005 in German Formula BMW, finishing third and second in the championship respectively. He was also runner up in the 2005 FBMW World Final. Following a single race in Spanish Formula Three in 2005, Buemi moved up to the Formula Three Euroseries for 2006, finishing 12th in the championship, ceding 11th place to Charlie Kimball on countback. He remained in the series for 2007, and finished second in the championship, behind Romain Grosjean. He has also competed in the special Masters of Formula 3 and Macau Grand Prix races. For the 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season, Buemi shared driving duties for A1 Team Switzerland with Neel Jani and Marcel Fässler. The team finished eighth in the championship. Buemi was drafted in at short notice to replace the injured Michael Ammermüller at ART Grand Prix for the Monaco round of the 2007 GP2 Series season. He performed creditably on his GP2 début, qualifying fourth and finishing seventh. He joined the Arden International team for the 2008 GP2 Asia Series, and finished as runner-up with a win and four second places. He continued with the team for the main 2008 season. He scored his first win in the French sprint race, starting 21st on the grid (after a technical problem in the feature race) on slick tyres on a drying track and benefitting as most rivals had to pit for slicks. He won one more race and ended the season sixth in the championship. On 18 September 2007 he drove the Red Bull RB3 at the F1 test session in Jerez. He was third quickest on the day, behind Timo Glock (BMW) and Vitantonio Liuzzi (Scuderia Toro Rosso) but ahead of names such as Rubens Barrichello (Honda) and Nelson Piquet Jr. (Renault). On 16 January 2008 Red Bull Racing confirmed Buemi as their test and reserve driver for the 2008 season. At the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix, Buemi drove the medical car as usual driver Dr Jacques Tropenat had been suffering from an ear problem. Scuderia Toro Rosso confirmed its signing of Buemi as one of its race drivers on 9 January 2009. He was the first Swiss driver to take part in an F1 race since Jean-Denis Délétraz drove for Pacific at the 1995 European Grand Prix. In his first race, the 2009 Australian Grand Prix, Buemi outqualified his team-mate Sébastien Bourdais and then scored a point in the race by finishing in eighth position. He was later promoted to seventh place as a result of Lewis Hamilton being disqualified. At the Chinese Grand Prix, he scored another point, this time in the wet, finishing eighth after starting tenth. After a mid season dip in the Toro Rosso's form, Buemi rounded off a good weekend to finish 7th in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. He followed this with a third top ten qualification in a row and another points finish at the season finale in Abu Dhabi. Buemi finished the year sixteenth with 6 points. On 9 November 2009, it was confirmed that Buemi would race for a second season with Toro Rosso. During the first free practice session of the 2010 Chinese Grand Prix, a front suspension wishbone broke under braking on Buemi's Toro Rosso as he braked for Turn 14. The two front wheels flew off while Buemi was travelling at over 300 km/h (190 mph). One wheel went over the safety fence and landed in a spectator area, missing a camera man on its way. Buemi's car continued to travel forward, veering to the left and sliding along an armco barrier, knocking off the front wing. Neither Buemi nor any spectators were injured as a result of the incident. Toro Rosso blamed a failure of a new front right upright for the incident. Buemi completed 2010 with eight points to teammate Alguersuari's five. He was sixteenth again in the drivers' championship. Buemi, along with his team mate from 2009 and 2010 – Jaime Alguersuari, continued to race for Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2011. On 14 December 2011 it was announced that both Buemi and Alguersuari had been dropped by the team, and would be replaced by Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne for the 2012 season. In January 2012 it was announced that Buemi would rejoin Red Bull Racing as a test and reserve driver for the 2012 season, as well as acting as Toro Rosso's reserve driver. Buemi also signed a deal to contest the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Toyota Motorsport GmbH, driving a Toyota TS030 Hybrid with Anthony Davidson and Hiroaki Ishiura (who later withdrew and was replaced by Stéphane Sarrazin). After a strong performance, the car was running in third position in the early evening when Davidson collided with a GT Ferrari and crashed heavily. As of 2009 Buemi was officially resident in Bahrain, living with his family and his girlfriend Jennifer. He has since moved to Monaco. His cousin, Natacha Gachnang, is also a racing driver. 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