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Cifu (footballer, born 1990) | Cifu (footballer, born 1990) 2015-04-04T20:41:17Z name Miguel Ángel Garrido Cifuentes (born 5 October 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Girona FC on loan from Elche CF as a right back. Born in Alicante, Valencian Community, Garrido graduated from Elche CF's youth setup, made his senior debuts 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 Garrido 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 Garrido 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 (footballer, born 1990) 2016-08-28T19:04:38Z name Miguel Ángel Garrido Cifuentes (born 5 October 1990), commonly known as Cifu, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Girona FC on loan from Málaga CF as a right back. Born in Zújar, Granada, Andalusia, Cifu graduated from Elche CF's youth setup, made his senior debuts 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 Valencian's 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. Cifu is part of the Hipster subculture, distinguishing himself with a thick beard and tattoos. | 1 |
Sawston Village College | Sawston Village College 2008-03-14T05:05:47Z Sawston Village College is a Village College in the village of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, UK. It was the first Village College, and opened in 1930 by Henry Morris, the then Chief Education Officer for Cambridgeshire, who had a vision for schools that would serve the whole community, and stem migration from the countryside to the towns. As of 2005 it has 1,085 pupils in 5 year groups and approximately 50 teaching staff. The current principal is Mrs June Cannie, and the Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year for 2006, Janet McLeod, is Head of Music at the school. Children from the following schools generally transfer to Sawston Village College at age 11: Some children from the Fawcett Primary School, Trumpington also transfer to Sawston Village College. Students continuing in Further Education beyond 16 generally transfer to one of the following:, Sawston Village College 2009-12-08T20:42:44Z Sawston Village College, the first community college in the country and the first Village College, was founded in 1930 and realised the vision of Henry Morris, then Secretary of Education for Cambridgeshire. In 1924, Henry Morris wrote a ‘Memorandum on the Provision of Education and Social Facilities for the Countryside, with Special Reference to Cambridgeshire’. In his memorandum, Morris avowed that: Morris’s vision of a school indivisible from its community still holds true today at Sawston, his first village college. Its 1060 pupils aged 11 – 16 share the campus with adults who come to the college for a range of purposes, educational, social, leisure and sporting. The college has a partnership for community education and the arts: the Broadening Education Partnership, and a community sports centre that has 900 members. The college also has the only youth-led cinema in the country. Its pupils take responsibility for the function of the cinema – front of house, projection, business planning, for example – offering regular screenings to the local community. Children from the following schools generally start attending Sawston Village College at age 11: Students continuing in Further Education beyond 16 are generally attend to one of the following: | 1 |
Eric_Studesville | Eric_Studesville 2010-11-29T00:47:05Z Eric Studesville is an American football coach. He is currently the running backs coach for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Studesville played defensive back at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Studesville is the current running backs coach for the Denver Broncos. Template:NFLRBCoaches, Eric_Studesville 2012-01-02T19:27:07Z Eric Studesville (born May 29, 1967) is an American football coach. In December 2010, Studesville became the interim head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He replaced Josh McDaniels after 12 games in the 2010 NFL Season. He was the first African American head coach in Broncos history, although only on an interim basis. Studesville played defensive back at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Studesville began his NFL coaching career working for the Chicago Bears in the year 1997 handing their offensive quality control duties. In 2001, he was hired as the New York Giants running backs coach. There, he guided running back Tiki Barber to two consecutive 1,000 yard rushing seasons and paved the way for Barber to become one of the best offensive weapons for the Giants in the coming years. In 2002, Barber recorded 1,387 rushing yards which was not only a career high for the running back, but the second-most total in Giants franchise history. He left the Giants in 2004 and joined the Buffalo Bills as their running backs coach. In his first year, he helped 2003 first-round draft choice Willis McGahee to reach 1,000 yards rushing. The following year in 2005, McGahee again rushed for over 1,000 yards. In 2006, McGahee fell 10 yards short of his third consecutive 1,000 yard season as he finished the year with 990 rushing yards. In 2007, the Bills selected running back Marshawn Lynch with the 12th overall pick. Studesville guided Lynch to a total of 1,115 rushing yards, making Lynch the fifth rookie in team history to reach the 1,000 yard milestone. Studesville was promoted to running backs coordinator in 2008. That year, he helped Lynch earn a Pro Bowl selection with his second consecutive 1,000 yard rushing year, rushing for 1,036 yards. The following year, however, an injury to Lynch opened the door to undrafted running back Fred Jackson who rushed for 1,082 total yards. In January 2010, Studesville was hired by the Broncos as the running backs coach. By week 13 of the 2010 season, starting running back Knowshon Moreno had rushed for 633 yards and 4 total touchdowns for a 4. 3 yards-per-carry average, including rushing for a career high 161 yards that week in a loss against the Kansas City Chiefs. On December 6, 2010, then-Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels was fired by owner Pat Bowlen and Studesville was promoted to interim head coach in his place. The choice of Studesville to replace McDaniels was viewed by some as a surprise. He held the interim head coaching position for the final four games of the 2010 season, during which the team went 1-3. His sole win as a head coach came December 26, 2010 when the Broncos defeated the Houston Texans 24-23. On January 13, 2011, the Broncos announced they had hired John Fox as the new head coach. Fox retained Studesville as running back coach for the 2011 season. # denotes interim head coach Template:NFLRBCoaches Template:Persondata | 0 |
Sepahan S.C. | Sepahan S.C. 2006-01-04T17:56:55Z Sepahan ( سپاهان in Persian) is one of the teams in Iran's Premier Football League. It became the champion of the IPL in 2003, the first league champion which was not from Tehran. Sepahan is based in the city of Isfahan. In 1944, with the help of Mahmoud Hariri, the Shahin Isfahan club was created. , Sepahan S.C. 2007-12-25T06:41:47Z Sepahan ( is an Iranian football club based in Esfahan, Iran. They compete in the Iran Pro League and became IPL Champions in the 2002-03 season, the first league champion outside of Tehran. Sepahan Football Club is the football division of Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan Sport Club and is owned by steel company Mobarakeh Steel Co.. Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan also has a successful handball team, the current champions of the Iranian Handball League and the Silver Medalists at the 2004 Asian Club League Championships. Sepahan also operates a reserve football team Foolad Sepahan Novin, currently competing in the Azadegan League. In 1944, with the help of Mahmoud Hariri, the Shahin Esfahan club was created. This club was one of teams attached to the more popular and successful Shahin F.C. of Tehran. In 1967 due to the problems that arose in the Shahin F.C. organization in Tehran, the Esfahan branch was forced to cease operations. The club changed its name to Sepahan. The club played in the local Esfahan leagues for many years until 1993. That year the club was purchased by the Siman (cement) factory of Esfahan. It participated in the Azadegan League until the year 2000, when Foolad Mobarekeh (Steel Mill of Mobarekeh Esfahan) bought the team from the Siman factory. The team now plays under the name of Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan, and enjoys very good support by the club board, and has been able to attain a respectable fan base in its hometown. The club was able to demonstrate its worth when it captured the league title in the 2002-2003 season of the IPL, and qualified for the AFC Champions League tournament. It also won the Hazfi Cup in 2004 and was able to qualify for another season of the ACL competition, though the club did not have much success in the continental tournaments of ACL 2004 and 2005. With Luka Bonačić, Sepahan was able to once again win the Hazfi Cup on September 22, 2006. With this win, they gained Iran's final and second spot in the AFC Champions League 2007. They were impressive in continental stage as they finished top of their group and defeated Kawasaki Frontale of Japan and Al Wahda of the UAE to reach the final of the newly established continental tournament for the first time. Although they lost the final to Urawa Red Diamonds on aggregate, by reaching the final, Sepahan became the first Iranian club to qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup. In the opening match of the FIFA Club World Cup 2007, Sepahan defeated Waitakere United of New Zealand to reach the quarterfinal where they met Urawa Red Diamonds for a spot in the semifinal match against AC Milan. Urawa Reds managed to defeat Sepahan for the second time in just one month, reaching the semifinals of the FIFA Club World Cup. By winning the Hazfi Cup once again in 2007, Sepahan also qualified for the AFC Champions League 2008. Sepahan is also one of the few clubs in Iranian football to have a senior reserve team, Foolad Sepahan Novin F.C., that as of the 2007/08 season, participates in Iran's Azadegan League and the Hazfi Cup. The table below chronicles the achievements of Sepahan in various competitions since 2001. As of 24 November 2007, according to FIFA official website. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. For details on former players, see Category:Sepahan players. start {{IPL}} may refer to: {{Template disambiguation}} should never be transcluded in the main namespace. end | 1 |
Ben Whishaw | Ben Whishaw 2011-01-24T07:46:34Z Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whishaw is perhaps best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, and his role as the lead character in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Whishaw was born and raised in Bedfordshire, the son of Linda, who works in cosmetics, and Josey Whishaw, who works in information technology. He has a twin brother, James, and was a member of the Bancroft Players Youth Theatre at Hitchin's Queen Mother Theatre. He attended Henlow Middle School and then Samuel Whitbread Community College in Clifton, Bedfordshire. During his time with the group, he first rose to prominence during collaborations with their offshoot theatre company, Big Spirit. He was involved in many productions – perhaps most notably, If This Is A Man (also performed as The Drowned & The Saved). This was a piece devised by the company based on the book of the same name by Primo Levi, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. This harrowing and moving book was adapted into a physical theatre piece by the group and taken to the 1995 Edinburgh Festival where it garnered five-star reviews and great critical acclaim. Whishaw played the character of Levi in this and subsequent productions of the show. As the lead in Trevor Nunn's 2004 young-cast production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, he received highly favourable reviews. The role was shared with Al Weaver in an unusual arrangement that saw Whishaw playing all nights except for Mondays and matinées. Nunn is reported to have made this arrangement due to the youth of the two actors playing the lead, to relieve some of the pressure on each. It was Whishaw, however, who featured most prominently in the marketing materials and in the majority of reviews. Whishaw's film and TV credits include Layer Cake and Chris Morris's 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley, in which he played a character called Pingu. He was named 'Most Promising Newcomer' at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards (for My Brother Tom) and, in 2005, nominated as best actor in four award ceremonies for his Hamlet. He also played Keith Richards in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned. In the spring of 2005, Whishaw received lots of press for his turn as a drug dealer, acting alongside Robert Boulter and Fraser Ayres in Philip Ridley's post-apocalyptic fringe play Mercury Fur. In Perfume, Whishaw plays Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume maker whose craft turns deadly. The film was released in Germany in September 2006 and in the U.S. in December 2006. In the same year Whishaw worked on Pawel Pawlikowski's abandoned The Restraint of Beasts. Whishaw appeared in I'm Not There in 2007 as one of the Bob Dylan reincarnations; in Criminal Justice, a Tiger Aspect series for the BBC, in 2008; a new adaptation of Brideshead Revisited; and ...some trace of her, an adaptation of The Idiot at the National Theatre. At the end of 2009 he starred in Cock, a new play by Mike Bartlett at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2009 he also starred as the poet John Keats in the film Bright Star, which was written and directed by Jane Campion. In February, 2010 Whishaw made a very successful off-broadway debut at MCC Theater in the US premiere of the awarding winning play The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The performance co-starred Hugh Dancy and Andrea Riseborough and was directed by Joe Mantello. He appears in Julie Taymor's forthcoming big-screen adaptation of The Tempest and is attached to work on the film Kill Your Darlings (in which he plays Lucien Carr). Ben Whishaw's most recent project is The Hour, a BBC Two drama series, written and created by award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan. , Ben Whishaw 2012-12-29T21:44:27Z Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He is known for his breakthrough stage role as Hamlet, as well as his roles in the television series Criminal Justice and The Hour and film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I'm Not There, Brideshead Revisited, and Cloud Atlas. He played the role of Q in the James Bond film Skyfall. Whishaw was born and brought up in Clifton, Bedfordshire, the son of Linda (née Hope), who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw, who works in information technology. He has a fraternal twin brother, James, and was a member of the Bancroft Players Youth Theatre at Hitchin's Queen Mother Theatre. He attended Henlow Middle School and then Samuel Whitbread Community College. During his time with the group, he first rose to prominence during collaborations with their offshoot theatre company, Big Spirit. Whishaw was involved in many productions with Big Spirit, perhaps most notably If This is a Man (also performed as The Drowned & The Saved), a piece devised by the company based on the book of the same name by Primo Levi, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was adapted into a physical theatre piece by the group and taken to the 1995 Edinburgh Festival, where it garnered five-star reviews and great critical acclaim. As the lead in Trevor Nunn's 2004 production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, he received highly favourable reviews and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award. The role was shared with Al Weaver in an unusual arrangement that saw Whishaw playing all nights except for Mondays and matinées. Nunn is reported to have made this arrangement due to the youth of the two actors playing the lead, to relieve some of the pressure on each. It was Whishaw, however, who featured most prominently in the marketing materials and in the majority of reviews. Whishaw's film and television credits include Layer Cake and Chris Morris's 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley, in which he played a character called Pingu. He was named "Most Promising Newcomer" at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards for My Brother Tom, and in 2005 he was nominated as best actor in four award ceremonies for his portrayal of Hamlet. He also played Keith Richards in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned. In the spring of 2005, Whishaw received lots of attention for his role as a drug dealer in Philip Ridley's controversial stage play Mercury Fur. In Perfume, Whishaw played Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume maker whose craft turns deadly. The film was released in Germany in September 2006 and in America in December 2006. In the same year, Whishaw worked on Pawel Pawlikowski's abandoned The Restraint of Beasts. Whishaw appeared as one of the Bob Dylan reincarnations in I'm Not There in 2007, in the BBC's Criminal Justice in 2008, in a new adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and in a stage adaptation of The Idiot at the National Theatre called ...some trace of her. At the end of 2009, he starred in Cock, a new play by Mike Bartlett at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2009 he also starred as the poet John Keats in the film Bright Star. In February 2010, Whishaw made a successful off-Broadway debut at MCC Theater in the American premiere of the awarding-winning play The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. He played Ariel in Julie Taymor's recent film adaptation of The Tempest, and is attached to play Lucien Carr in the film Kill Your Darlings. Whishaw was featured in The Hour, a BBC Two drama series. Whishaw appeared in the 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall, in the role of Q. He portrayed a younger Q than in previous films; Peter Burton and Desmond Llewelyn both received the role when they were in their 40s, while Llewelyn and John Cleese played the role into their 80s and 60s, respectively. On stage, Whishaw is set to star alongside Judi Dench in the world premiere of a new play by John Logan, at the Noel Coward Theatre, from March to June 2013. Whishaw guards his personal life, having stated: "As an actor, you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities." | 1 |
Patrick Bergin | Patrick Bergin 2005-07-29T19:42:30Z Very tall Dublin-born actor best known for menacing Julia Roberts in the melodrama Married to the Enemy. Also appeared as Robin Hood in a TV movie. Former Maths teacher in Dublin. , Patrick Bergin 2006-12-25T19:03:53Z Patrick Connolly Bergin (born February 4, 1951) is an Irish actor. He is best known for menacing Julia Roberts in the melodrama Sleeping with the Enemy. Bergin also appeared as Robin Hood in a 1991 TV movie. He most recently played the role of psychotic IRA gunman in Johnny Was, opposite Vinnie Jones and Roger Daltrey. Bergin was born in Dublin. He later took the name James at confirmation. Bergin stands about 6'4", and was formerly a mathematics teacher. In 1992, Bergin married Paula Frazier, a British woman of Afro-Caribbean descent. They were married in Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago. | 1 |
Peoria_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts | Peoria_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts 2009-10-28T00:58:26Z The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts is a 250 seat theater in Peoria, Arizona. It opened in December 2006 and is operated by the acting company "Theater Works". Received Best New Playhouse in 2008 by Phoenix New Times. Best New Playhouse. Designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky. Architectural Record Peoria Center for the Performing Arts. , Peoria_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts 2011-02-01T02:05:49Z The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts is a 250 seat theater in Peoria, Arizona. It opened in December 2006 and is operated by the acting company "Theater Works". Received Best New Playhouse in 2008 by Phoenix New Times. Best New Playhouse. Designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky. Architectural Record Peoria Center for the Performing Arts. | 0 |
Peter_Nugent | Peter_Nugent 2019-04-28T17:08:52Z Peter Edward Nugent (1 April 1938 – 24 April 2001), Australian politician, was the Liberal Party member of parliament for the Division of Aston in the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2001. He entered parliament when he defeated the incumbent Labor candidate, John Saunderson, in the 1990 federal election. However, he died suddenly at his home on the morning of 24 April 2001, from a myocardial infarction. This triggered a by-election for Aston, which was won by the Liberal candidate Chris Pearce. In his time in parliament, Nugent was known as a moderate in the Liberal Party, with a passion for human rights and the well-being of indigenous Australians. This article about a Liberal Party of Australia politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Peter_Nugent 2021-02-23T04:20:24Z Peter Edward Nugent (1 April 1938 – 24 April 2001) was an Australian politician who served as the Liberal Party member of parliament for the Division of Aston in the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2001. He entered parliament when he defeated the incumbent Labor candidate, John Saunderson, in the 1990 federal election. However, he died suddenly at his home on the morning of 24 April 2001, from a myocardial infarction. This triggered a by-election for Aston, which was won by the Liberal candidate Chris Pearce. In his time in parliament, Nugent was known as a moderate in the Liberal Party, with a passion for human rights and the well-being of indigenous Australians. This article about a Liberal Party of Australia politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Anyang Jung Kwan Jang Red Boosters | Anyang Jung Kwan Jang Red Boosters 2022-03-18T18:46:07Z The Anyang Korea Ginseng Corporation, or Anyang KGC, is a professional basketball club in the Korean Basketball League, based at Anyang Arena in the city of Anyang. The club has won three KBL championship titles, in 2011–12, 2016–17, and 2020–21. Anyang KGC traces its lineage to the amateur basketball team started by Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS). It was one of several basketball teams started by corporate companies hoping to take advantage of the "basketball craze" taking place during the early to mid-1990s. By then, the Korean Basketball Association was starting to organize a professional league. Prior to 1997, domestic basketball was an amateur sport and all teams, whether sponsored by a corporate company or university, participated in the National Basketball Festival (Korean: 농구대잔치) competition. When domestic basketball turned professional, SBS decided to register its team with the upcoming league. They decided to move to Anyang, where the team has been ever since. The Anyang municipal government agreed to invest in building a new sports complex to house the basketball team in addition to the football team (Anyang LG Cheetahs) and ice hockey team (Anyang Halla). SBS registered its team as Anyang SBS Stars. As their new arena was still not completed, the team spent its first several years playing at Jamsil Arena (now home to Seoul Samsung Thunders), Uijeongbu Gymnasium (repurposed for volleyball and now home to Uijeongbu KB Insurance Stars) and Daelim University College's gymnasium. Anyang Gymnasium was completed on schedule ahead of the 2000–01 season. At the end of the 2004–05 season, SBS sold the team to Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation (KT&G). At that time, it was the only basketball team sponsored by a broadcasting company. Taeyoung Group, the parent company of SBS, decided to consolidate its financial resources in the broadcasting sector, hence the sale. Under their new sponsors, Anyang spent the next several seasons in the middle ranks of the league table and changed names several times. The 2011–12 season was a major milestone for the team as they won their first ever Championship. At that time, Anyang had a relatively young and inexperienced squad comprising of center Oh Se-keun, forward Yang Hee-jong and guards Kim Tae-sul, Park Chan-hee and Lee Jung-hyun while their own head coach Lee Sang-beom was only in his third season as a head coach of a KBL team. The team suffered the embarrassment of scoring only 41 points, the lowest ever on KBL record, in the January game against eventual regular season champions Wonju Dongbu Promy. Despite the setbacks, Anyang managed to reach the final of the play-offs, where they were up against Dongbu. Pundits and observers had predicted the young squad was not match for a Dongbu team which earned the nickname "Dongbu Mountain Fortress" (Korean: 동부산성) for recording the league's best defensive record. Anyang won four out of two games to lift the Championship trophy for the first time in its history. Oh, Yang, Kim, Park and Lee all went on to carve out their own careers and establish themselves as the backbone of the national team. The year 2012 would later be dubbed the "Golden Age of KGC" as its athletes all achieved success that year: its men's table tennis players, badminton players and golfers each won titles in their respective sport while the women's volleyball team won their first ever V-League Championship. , Anyang Jung Kwan Jang Red Boosters 2023-10-15T10:18:40Z The Anyang Jung Kwan Jang Red Boosters (Korean: 안양 정관장 레드부스터스) is a professional basketball club in the Korean Basketball League, based at Anyang Gymnasium in the city of Anyang. The club has won four KBL championship titles (2011–12, 2016–17, 2020–21, and 2022–23). Anyang KGC traces its lineage to the amateur basketball team started by Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) in 1992. It was one of several basketball teams started by corporate companies hoping to take advantage of the "basketball craze" taking place during the early to mid-1990s. Prior to 1997, domestic basketball was an amateur sport and all teams, whether sponsored by a corporate company or a university, participated in the National Basketball Festival (Korean: 농구대잔치) competition. The SBS team lacked the financial resources to attract the era's biggest stars and was mostly overshadowed by the dominance of the Kia, Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Electronics and the college teams from Yonsei University and Korea University. One of the better-known players from this era was Jung Jae-kun. When domestic basketball turned professional, SBS decided to register its team for the upcoming league. The Anyang SBS Stars would move to Anyang, where the team has been ever since. The Anyang municipal government agreed to invest in building a new sports complex to house the basketball team in addition to the football team (Anyang LG Cheetahs) and ice hockey team (Anyang Halla). However the project would take several years to complete so the Anyang SBS Stars had to play their "home" games elsewhere, even though it had "Anyang" in its name. The team spent its first several years playing at Jamsil Arena (now home to Seoul Samsung Thunders), Uijeongbu Gymnasium (repurposed for volleyball and now home to Uijeongbu KB Insurance Stars) and Daelim University College's gymnasium. Anyang Gymnasium was completed on schedule ahead of the 2000–01 season. At the end of the 2004–05 season, SBS sold the team to Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation (KT&G). At that time, it was the only basketball team sponsored by a broadcasting company. Taeyoung Group, the parent company of SBS, decided to consolidate its financial resources in the broadcasting sector, hence the sale. Under their new sponsors, Anyang KT&G Kites spent the next several seasons in the middle ranks of the league table and changed names several times. Red, the color of KGC's best-known product Cheong Kwan Jang, was adopted as the team color and has been associated with Anyang KGC ever since. In 2010, KT&G opted to transfer ownership and naming rights of its sponsored sports teams to subsidiary Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC) as company directors felt that the sports teams being associated with a tobacco company would be detrimental to marketing efforts. The team, although keeping the signature red color, went through a rebranding with a new team logo and mascot. The 2011–12 season was a major milestone for the team as they won their first ever Championship. At that time, Anyang had a relatively young and inexperienced squad, consisting of center Oh Se-keun, forward Yang Hee-jong and guards Kim Tae-sul, Park Chan-hee and Lee Jung-hyun, while their own head coach Lee Sang-beom was only in his third season as a head coach of a KBL team. The team suffered the embarrassment of scoring only 41 points in the January game against eventual regular season champions Wonju Dongbu Promy and setting an all-time record for the lowest score in a league game. Despite the setbacks, Anyang managed to reach the final of the play-offs, where they were up against Dongbu. Pundits and observers had predicted the young squad was no match for a Dongbu team which earned the nickname "Dongbu Mountain Fortress" (Korean: 동부산성) for recording the league's best defensive record. Anyang won four out of six games to lift the Championship trophy for the first time in its history. Oh, Yang, Kim, Park and Lee became collectively known as Insamshinki (Hangul: 인삼신기), a portmanteau of KGC's Korean name Insamgongsa (Hangul: 인삼공사) and Dong Bang Shin Ki (Hangul: 동방신기). The quintet went on to carve out their own decorated careers as the league's top domestic players and establish themselves as the backbone of the national team. KGC spent the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons in the lower half of the league table, failing to qualify for the play-offs on both occasions. The 2011–12 team was soon broken up with the departure of Kim to Jeonju KCC Egis and Park, Lee and Oh each enlisting for mandatory military service one after another. They were dealt another blow when Lee Sang-beom's successor Jun Chang-jin was investigated for allegations of match-fixing during his time at Busan KT Sonicboom. Jun never had the chance to coach the team in a league game as he resigned before the 2015–16 season began. To add to the turmoil, Oh was also investigated in connection with the match-fixing case after it was discovered that he and several college teammates had placed bets with the illegal sports betting site back when they were students. Jun's assistant Kim Seung-gi took over and found himself having to fill the void left by Oh, who was suspended for 20 games, and other key players who were absent due to injury or enlistment. Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. | 1 |
See,_amid_the_Winter's_Snow | See,_amid_the_Winter's_Snow 2016-11-27T00:17:38Z "See, amid the Winter's Snow", also known as "Hymn for Christmas Day" and "The Hymn for Christmas", is an English Christmas carol. It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880). As "Hymn for Christmas Day", it featured in Christmas Carols New And Old, which was published in 1871 by Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833–1917) and John Stainer (1840–1901). Caswall wrote "See, amid the Winter's Snow" shortly after leaving the Church of England and joining the Catholic Oxford Movement and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. In 1871, John Goss wrote the tune "Humility" specifically for the carol. Later in the year, Bramley and Stainer selected "See, Amid the Winter's Snow" to be published nationwide in their "Christmas Carols Old and New" hymn book. It was selected to be included in "Christmas Carols Old and New" as one of the carols that had "proved their hold upon the popular mind". While the carol became popular, a number of verses were cut from later publications of "See, amid the Winter's Snow". This includes the original final verse about the Virgin Mary, which was often cut out of non-Catholic hymnals. The artist Edward Dalziel used the words of this hymn below his engraving of the English downland with animals, even though the engraving did not have any snow in it. "See, amid the Winter's Snow" was initially composed with seven verses of four lines with a chorus after each one. The chorus' line calls for the listener to "sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem". Several hymnbooks do not contain all seven verses. Goss gave advice in the music that the carol would be best performed solo by a "Treble or Tenor or, alternatively". Writer, J. R. Watson commented on study of the hymn that was an example of Caswell's objectivity. He also stated that the hymn develops a dialogue with the singers and the shepherds collectively rather than individually. Aled Jones commented that the usage of snow in the carol was a message of purity against the sins of the world. The lyrics to this carol's usage in the majority of hymnals are as follows: See, amid the winter's snow, Born for us on Earth below, See, the tender Lamb appears, Promised from eternal years. Chorus: Hail, thou ever blessed morn, Hail redemption's happy dawn, Sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Lo, within a manger lies He who built the starry skies; He who, throned in height sublime, Sits among the cherubim. Chorus Say, ye holy shepherds,say, What your joyful news today; Wherefore have ye left your sheep On the lonely mountain steep? Chorus "As we watched at dead of night, Lo, we saw a wondrous light: Angels singing 'Peace On Earth' Told us of the Saviour's birth. " Chorus Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this. Chorus Teach, O teach us, Holy Child, By Thy face so meek and mild, Teach us to resemble Thee, In Thy sweet humility. Chorus The omitted seventh verse is as follows: Virgin Mother, Mary blest By the joys that fill thy breast, Pray for us, that we may prove Worthy of the Saviour's love. , See,_amid_the_Winter's_Snow 2017-11-12T15:02:44Z "See, amid the Winter's Snow", also known as "Hymn for Christmas Day" and "The Hymn for Christmas", is an English Christmas carol. It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880). As "Hymn for Christmas Day", it featured in Christmas Carols New And Old, which was published in 1871 by Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833–1917) and John Stainer (1840–1901). Caswall wrote "See, amid the Winter's Snow" shortly after leaving the Church of England and joining the Catholic Oxford Movement and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. The hymn was published earliest in 1858 as part of The Masque of Mary and Other Poems by Caswall. In 1871, John Goss wrote the tune "Humility" specifically for the carol. Later in the year, Bramley and Stainer selected "See, Amid the Winter's Snow" to be published nationwide in their "Christmas Carols Old and New" hymn book. It was selected to be included in "Christmas Carols Old and New" as one of the carols that had "proved their hold upon the popular mind". While the carol became popular, a number of verses were cut from later publications of "See, amid the Winter's Snow". This includes the original final verse about the Virgin Mary, which was often cut out of non-Catholic hymnals. The artist Edward Dalziel used the words of this hymn below his engraving of the English downland with animals, even though the engraving did not have any snow in it. The tune has been re-used in a variety of social protest and union songs in the late 20th century, beginning with "No Coal, No Dole," written in the mid 1980s by Kay Sutcliffe about the closing of the Kent coal fields to a tune by Paul Abrahams, but later reset to Goss's tune at the suggestion of John Tams and recorded by Coope Boyes and Simpson. Shelley Posen wrote "No More Fish, No Fishermen" in 1996 about the end of the cod fishery in Newfoundland. Australian John Warner wrote "Bring out the Banners" on the 150th anniversary of Australia's eight-hour work day rule in 1996. "See, amid the Winter's Snow" was initially composed with seven verses of four lines with a chorus after each one. The chorus' line calls for the listener to "sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem". Several hymnbooks do not contain all seven verses. Goss gave advice in the music that the carol would be best performed solo by a "Treble or Tenor or, alternatively". Writer, J. R. Watson commented on study of the hymn that was an example of Caswell's objectivity. He also stated that the hymn develops a dialogue with the singers and the shepherds collectively rather than individually. Aled Jones commented that the usage of snow in the carol was a message of purity against the sins of the world. The lyrics to this carol's usage in the majority of hymnals are as follows: See, amid the winter's snow, Born for us on Earth below, See, the tender Lamb appears, Promised from eternal years. Chorus: Hail, thou ever blessed morn, Hail redemption's happy dawn, Sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Lo, within a manger lies He who built the starry skies; He who, throned in height sublime, Sits among the cherubim. Chorus Say, ye holy shepherds,say, What your joyful news today; Wherefore have ye left your sheep On the lonely mountain steep? Chorus "As we watched at dead of night, Lo, we saw a wondrous light: Angels singing 'Peace On Earth' Told us of the Saviour's birth. " Chorus Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this. Chorus Teach, O teach us, Holy Child, By Thy face so meek and mild, Teach us to resemble Thee, In Thy sweet humility. Chorus The omitted seventh verse is as follows: Virgin Mother, Mary blest By the joys that fill thy breast, Pray for us, that we may prove Worthy of the Saviour's love. | 0 |
Al-Ahli Saudi FC | Al-Ahli Saudi FC 2011-01-09T11:57:41Z Al-Ahli (Arabic: الأهلي السعودي) (formerly known as Al-Thaghar) is a Saudi Arabian professional sports club based in Jeddah. The club is one of the largest in Saudi Arabia and it has had many Saudi internationals on the club roster. Exactly like the Saudi national team, Al-Ahli plays in a green and white jersey. Al-Ahli won the Saudi Premier League twice in 1978 and 1984. Al-Ahli was the first club to win the double in 1978, and is the only club in Saudi Arabia that won 10 titles of the King's Cup. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Saudi Arabia Asia Africa South America Europe Champions League 2010, Al-Ahli Saudi FC 2012-12-30T23:57:59Z Al-Ahli Saudi Sports Club (Arabic: النادي الأهلي الرياضي السعودي) is a Saudi Arabian professional sports club based in Jeddah. The club known by it football team Al-Ahli Saudi FC. It's one of the largest in Saudi Arabia and it has had many Saudi internationals on the club roster. Exactly like the Saudi national team, Al-Ahli plays in a green and white jersey. Al-Ahli is one of -the big four- clubs in Saudi Arabia. The team is famous for the fine and entertaining football the team has always been known for. Al-Ahli is the third club in Saudi Arabia with the most titles in the history of the country. In addition to football, the club has very strong Volleyball, Team handball, Basketball, Swimming (sport), and Athletics (sport) teams. Al-Ahli won the Saudi Premier League twice in 1978 and 1984. In 1984, Al-Ahli was under the management of the legendary coach, Telê Santana. Under Santana, Al-Ahli won Saudi Champions Cup in 1983, Saudi Professional League in 1984, and Gulf Club Champions Cup in 1985. Santana had had a great influence on Al-Ahli as he helped shaping Al-Ahli's Brazilian identity along with the other well-known Brazilian coach Didi (footballer). Al-Ahli was the first club to win the double in 1978, and is the only club in Saudi Arabia that won 12 titles of the King's Cup. The team, along with only few teams, to have always played in the first division. The club was founded Al-Ahli in 1937, by four young men from the Al-Falah High School and was named Al-Ahli named after Al-Ahly Egyptian well-known at the time, the headquarters is located in the heart of the city of Jeddah, dreamy, and is the largest Mnaratha sports strategic on the biggest streets, Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz and grew the idea of founding a number of students at the School of the farmer the oldest schools in the city of Jeddah was the beginning of the start of civil toward broader horizons and is now progressing to lead gradually to become in the past and the present name giant, a pioneer and a successful ambassador for the sport of the country in many games, and the culmination this success called the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz save him the title of ambassador home on Friday, July 3, 2009 AD and went shield sporting excellence when he received at his palace in Amer His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, chairman of the honorary members and members of the honor of the club and his superiors over the history and the club headed by Abdul Aziz al-Angari and players of the club in a historic day that will be remembered athletes in general and particularly as the largest honor received by Al-Ahli in history, having achieved a unique achievement in the same year where he achieved four championships Foreign Affairs and embraced by the world handball team who won the first Asian Championship and Gulf Cup, also the first volleyball team have achieved after the first Gulf Championships also in the same year. Does not mention the name of the club Al-Ahli only mention the name of His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz, since he resigned his from his job as minister of the interior, so-called Royal club, a period known as the Al-Ahli the arena tournaments, and has represented the love of Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud for Al-Ahli model unique and high in the sacrifice and giving and giving, it was founded by Prince Abdullah himself positively in this club, upscale large and with its members and his sons, and he saw that the planted produce and support to bear fruit, and the club became popular to himself what was found in the sons of giving and giving and sacrifice, and to touch them from wrapping, loyalty, and love, which was looking for him, were loyal to him, including the fate of the club at all levels and in all games to achieve championships and represented the nation the best representation to achieve the ambitious Prince who wanted to Al-Ahli that this is the model . . Before this picture describes his club Al-Ahli environment which is based on the foundations of mathematical concepts and noble, and he was asked: (I sang a club model in all things, perfect in every picture, having resigned from the Interior Ministry and moved away from the sports field of official capacity, the area in front of me a broad to move seriously in the scope of my ambitions was the personal environment, Al-Ahli club attracts me to it strongly, because it is based on the foundations of mathematical concepts and noble, in addition to that he was had intimate friendships, and installed, and I approached them). Their title Royal And began a relationship, Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin AbdulAziz since 1949, specifically on 10 May, when he attended the first National team, John Howard, won the National 4 / zero, and when he scored Al-Ahli his first rose love inherent in the conscience of the prince to this club, which was not as much as walked on the path to glory and after tournaments, like other clubs, the lack of tournaments to compete in the clubs and teams, but games two cups or an introduction to the games between two or more teams do not usually last . . The dream of the establishment of sports academy football Kingdom entices Prince Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Saud (Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Al-Ahly football), where he was seen Prince to the future and explores its horizons far was his belief of great pay for all these years to think and work and looking forward to the day This moves the trophy being a practitioner of the sport to the stage where the teacher and a coach and a giver of academic certificates, just as do the major world clubs. Honorary President Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Saud, son of King Abdullah. The paradigm shift of the Al-Ahli Club . . When I became aspirations a reality and began his dream of developing a first for the girls dream of the old-new Academy football club Al-Ahli, in the beginning of the year 2004 is the formation of a working group established under the supervision of his direct to take over the process of planning and preparation for the establishment of the Academy according to the best methods and systems used in the establishment of Academies world football, was chosen Stadium Omar Shams to be the seat of the Academy and began the workshop to build this edifice, which has become a reality referred to as stigmatized contribute to the development of football not only Al-Ahli but for the home where the inauguration was operational for the Academy on Saturday, 11 May 2005 for immigration Posted June 18, 2005. The Academy received on February 4, 2006 formal authorization from the General Presidency of Youth Welfare, which holds (1) as the first specialized sports academy football official in Saudi Arabia. Foyer entry with the front desk and seats for waiting - Office management center and a meeting hall with an area 30 m 2 - Hall of training Allyakyih an area of 100 m2 with the latest hardware - sauna and Jacuzzi as well as of the basin of cold water with a side entrance separate - a clinic a 70 m2 fully equipped en-room doctor and the medical store - dining area of 70 m2 extension to prepare the area in addition to a warehouse for storage - two wings players to switch clothes with an area 135 m2 - wing trainers to switch clothes with an area of 50 m2 - wing rulers to switch clothes with an area 20 m2. The main platform area of 80 m2 and the Office of the extension of - Hall main meeting area of 50 m2 - rest of the players with an area 160 m2 - has a multi-purpose area 60 m2 - hall meetings weekly with an area 80 m2 - Hall of lectures for up to 50 people, an area of 100 m2 equipped with screens Plasma connected to the computer and satellite. - Number of players bedroom can accommodate 16 rooms for 34 players each bed and Dolabh addition to your bedroom for supervisors, and consists of basement car parking, room service, and the surface contains an extension to the warehouse. The center is equipped with the latest technology, since it has an internal network of computer wired and wireless connected to the Internet, also contains a centralized network of satellite TV to receive the sports channels, as furnishing and equipping the center. 1029 Champions to June 11, 2012 (the second club in the world more after A.C. Milan) Club holds 46 official championship Note: the International Friendship Football Tournament is officially recognized by both FIFA and AFC Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Africa South America Asia Europe Lyrics: You Covenant, Love and Belonging. Behind You, We Go Every Day and Night. To Keep You Glorious, Honored and Festive. A Unique Monument Touches The Sky. Oh Castle of Glory, AHLI of Glory. Oh Fountain of Pleasure, AHLI of Pleasure. Ambassador of Nation, Praise and Delight. and Forever we will walk together. and Forever we will walk together. and Forever we will walk together. | 1 |
Mark Lee (Singaporean actor) | Mark Lee (Singaporean actor) 2005-12-14T03:59:09Z Mark Lee is a Singaporean Chinese comedian. He works in MediaCorp's J-Team with Jack Neo. , Mark Lee (Singaporean actor) 2006-12-12T00:32:15Z Mark Lee (Chinese: 李国煌; pinyin: Lǐ Guóhuáng; born 16 October 1968) is a Singaporean Chinese comedian and actor. He works in MediaCorp and J Team Productions with Jack Neo. He is famous for, amongst others, playing the title role in Singapore's MediaCorp TV Channel 5 television sitcom Police & Thief as Lee Tok Kong, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd as guest appearance Lee Kok Peng from season 5 until season 7 and in MediaCorp TV Channel 8 television sitcom Holland V as Su Hao. | 1 |
Ruben_Spachuck | Ruben_Spachuck 2010-01-05T19:11:32Z Cristian Ruben Spachuck, commonly known as Ruben Spachuck (born 14 February 1981), is an Argentine-born Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop. One of the four Belenenses players at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, he moved to the French team of Blagnac after the tournament. Spachuck's first game for Portugal came on 5 February 2005, against Georgia. He has won 21 caps, and scored one try. He played in all four games for Portugal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final. This biographical article relating to Portuguese rugby union is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Ruben_Spachuck 2010-11-07T05:47:36Z Cristian Ruben Spachuck, commonly known as Ruben Spachuck (born 14 February 1981), is an Argentine-born Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop. One of the four Belenenses players at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, he moved to the French team of Blagnac after the tournament. Spachuck's first game for Portugal came on 5 February 2005, against Georgia, in a 18-14 win. He played in all the four games of Portugal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He has won 29 caps, with 1 try scored, 5 points in aggregate. Template:Persondata This biographical article relating to Portuguese rugby union is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Beovizija_2008 | Beovizija_2008 2007-11-27T03:04:06Z Template:Future Final: February 20, 2008 Belgrade, Serbia Beovizija 2008 will be the 6th Beovizija music festival. The semi-finals will be held on February 19, 2008 while the finals will be held a day later. The winner of this Beovizija will represent Serbia in the finals of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on May 24, 2008 in the Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), the organiser of Beovizija, on October 6, 2007 set a deadline for the submission of songs to be considered for Beovizija 2008. The deadline was at first set for November 15 but was extended until December 1, 2007. The special panel of judges will select the 20 best songs which will be performed in the semi-final. Based on jury and televoting 10 songs will precede into the final. The songs to compete will firstly be shown to the public in special shows produced by the broadcaster before the audience finally makes their choice live at Beovizija. RTS as the host broadcaster of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 has started airing a show called Evropsko lice (European face). Through a team of expert judges and televoters each week couples battle for a chance to be the hosts of Beovizija 2008. They also have a chance to become the green room hosts at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. Every week a couple is voted out based on public voting. The winning host couple (to be comprised of one male and one female) will be known by the begging of 2008 when the Serbian public casts their final votes. Marija Šerifović who sang the winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 for Serbia and her production company "Beoton" have announced that they will organise an audition for young, unknown artists for which Šerifović will compose the song to compete in Beovizija and possibly represent Serbia in Eurovision that same year. Vladimir Graić, the composer of the winning song at Eurovision 2007, Molitva, has announced that it is possible that he will submit a song which would be performed by the "Beauty Queens", Marija Šerifović's back-up vocalists in Helsinki. , Beovizija_2008 2009-02-11T06:24:57Z Beovizija 2008 was the 6th Beovizija music festival. The semi-finals were to be held on February 19, 2008 while the finals were to be held a day later. However due to unilateral declaration of independence of its southern province Kosovo, the festival was delayed until March 9 when the semi-finals took place and the finals which took place on March 10. The winner of this Beovizija will represent Serbia in the final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on May 24, 2008, at the Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia The same format set by Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in Beovizija 2007 took place in 2008. The deadline for the submission of songs by artist to the national broadcaster was on December 15, 2007. One of the requirements for entry was that the songs must be performed in Serbian, however, the winning song can be sung in any language for Eurovision. On December 24, 2007, 20 semi-finalists were selected by a group of RTS judges comprising of Ana Milićević, Anja Rogljić, Zoran Dašić, Nikoleta Dojčinović, Jelena Vlahović, Bilja Krstić and Miki Stanojević. The semi-finalists performed on March 9, 2008. Via public televoting and a 3 team judging panel the scores were combined and the 10 highest ranking songs preceded to the finals. These were songs Oro, Zavet, Kvar, Iznad nas, Dunav, Beli jablan, Da si tu, Sada ili nikada, Čudesni svetovi and Čućemo, čućete. The same voting procedure occurred on the finals night, March 10, 2008, where a winning song was chosen - Oro. For the first time there were 2 host couples hosting the show. The 2008 Beovizija semi-finals interval act included singers Stefan Filipović representing Montenegro, Rebeka Dremelj representing Slovenia, Kraljevi Ulice and 75 cents representing Croatia, Tamara, Vrčak and Adrian Gaxha representing the Republic of Macedonia, Elvir Laković Laka representing Bosnia and Herzegovina and Isis Gee representing Poland. The tragically deceased singer Toše Proeski received a life time achievement award. There was also a special tribute to him. Proeski was the winner of the first ever Beovizija in 2003. In the finals interval act the Serbian music industry awards were handed out. Beovizija is known to have one of the best stage designs in the national selection process for Eurovision. This year the stage symbolised the host city of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest - Belgrade. The stage represented a large public city square and a large amount of special effects and lighting were used to make the stage more attractive to the public. RTS as the host broadcaster of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 aired a show called Evropsko lice (European face). Through a team of expert judges and televoters each week couples battled for a chance to be the hosts of Beovizija 2008. They also have a chance to become the green room hosts at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. Every week a couple was voted out based on public voting. It was decided that there will be two host couples at Beovizija, both hosting over two nights. The winners of European face are Nina Radulović and Đorđe Maričić and Kristina Radenković and Branislav Katić. Kristina Radenković and Branislav Katić was the couple voted through to co-host the semi-final and final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade with Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović. They were voted via public tele-vote. During both the semi-final and final the couples sang songs dedicated to the Eurovision host city Belgrade. The semi-finals were held on March 09, 2008 starting at 21:00 (CET). Songs that qualified for the final are in bold. The jury was composed of Vladimir Marićić, jazz pianist and composer; Katarina Gojković, actress; and Aleksander Peković, director of music production, RTS. The following are songs that competed in the final on March 10, 2008 aired at 21. 00CET on RTS1, RTS SAT, RTRS (in Bosnia and Herzegovina), rts. co. yu and eurovision. tv. | 0 |
Massaemett_Mountain | Massaemett_Mountain 2009-08-20T15:50:09Z 42°36′24″N 72°43′00″W / 42. 60667°N 72. 71667°W / 42. 60667; -72. 71667 Massaemett Mountain is a mountain in Shelburne, Massachusetts, USA. It is located east of the village of Shelburne Falls. The summit features a historic rock fire tower. Though the top cab is locked, the stairway is open to the public and features multiple view points of western Massachusetts, southwestern New Hampshire, and southern Vermont. The High Ledges Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the northern portion of the mountain. , Massaemett_Mountain 2010-03-17T12:09:59Z 42°36′24″N 72°43′00″W / 42. 60667°N 72. 71667°W / 42. 60667; -72. 71667 Massaemett Mountain is a mountain in Shelburne, Massachusetts, USA. It is located east of the village of Shelburne Falls. The summit features a historic rock fire tower. Though the top cab is locked, the stairway is open to the public and features multiple view points of western Massachusetts, southwestern New Hampshire, and southern Vermont. The High Ledges Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the northern portion of the mountain. | 0 |
Satinder Sartaaj | Satinder Sartaaj 2021-01-01T03:32:32Z Satinder Pal Singh Saini, popularly known as Satinder Sartaaj, is an Indian singer, songwriter, actor and poet of Punjabi language films and songs. He gained fame with his hit song "Sai". Since then his popularity has seen a constant surge among the Punjabi diaspora with his shows being held in many countries across the world. He made his film debut as Maharaja Duleep Singh in The Black Prince in 2017. Sartaaj was born in the village of Bajrawar in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. He attended school at the government elementary school in his village. While in the third standard, he began performing in local Bal Sabhas. Sartaaj obtained an honours degree in music from Government College, Hoshiarpur. He concentrated on his musical career while completing his MPhil in Sufi music singing and later a PhD in Sufi singing (gayan) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He also taught music at Panjab University for six years. Sartaaj also completed a certificate course and Diploma in Persian language. He started writing poetry and adopted his Takhallus(Pen name), Sartaaj, while at college. Sartaaj started performing majlis (singing in front of small gatherings) in Punjab in 1999. He appeared on Zee TV's Antakshari, a popular Indian musical show hosted by Annu Kapoor, performing in the folk category and won appreciation. He was a runner-up in the 24th All-India Light Vocal Festival and a topper in the Punjab Heritage Foundation Competitions. In 2011, Sartaaj won "Best International Act" at the Brit Asia TV Music Awards (BAMA). On 2 May 2014, Sartaaj performed in the Royal Albert Hall. He won "Best Songwriter" again at BAMA 2017 and "Music Video of the Year" at BAMA 2018 for "Udaarian". He debuted in the American film industry with the lead role in movie The Black Prince, a historic biopic of Maharaja Duleep Singh which was released on 21 July 2017. Although he has taught at the university and is an accomplished bhangra performer, composer and singer, Sartaaj has said that he considers shayari (poetry) as his first love. , Satinder Sartaaj 2022-12-07T12:48:42Z Satinder Pal Singh, popularly known as Satinder Sartaaj, is an Indian singer, songwriter, actor and poet of Punjabi language films and songs. He gained fame with his song "Udaarian". Since then he has performed across the world. He made his film debut as Maharaja Duleep Singh in The Black Prince in 2017. Satinder Pal Singh was born in the village of Bajrawar in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. He attended school at the government elementary school in his village. While in the third standard, he began performing in local Bal Sabhas. Sartaaj obtained an honors degree in music from Government College, Hoshiarpur. He concentrated on his musical career while completing his MPhil in Sufi music singing and later a PhD in Sufi singing (Gayan) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He also taught music at Panjab University for six years. Sartaaj also completed a certificate course and Diploma in the Persian language. He started writing poetry and adopted his Takhallus(Pen name), Sartaaj, while at college. Sartaaj pursued a professional music career in his 20s. Before this, he has stated he was a farmer and had no interest in pursuing a career as a performer. His big performance break was in 2008 when he got booked for a gig in Toronto, Ontario. The show's organizers had heard him singing on YouTube and wanted him to perform for the Punjabi-Canadian audience. In 2011, Sartaaj won "Best International Act" at the Brit Asia TV Music Awards (BAMA). On 2 May 2014, Sartaaj performed in the Royal Albert Hall. He won "Best Songwriter" again at BAMA 2017 and "Music Video of the Year" at BAMA 2018 for "Udaarian". He debuted in the American film industry with the lead role in the movie The Black Prince, a historic biopic of Maharaja Duleep Singh which was released on 21 July 2017. Although he has taught at the university and is an accomplished bhangra performer, composer and singer, Sartaaj has said that he considers shayari (poetry) as his first love. | 1 |
Sheldon_Zimmerman | Sheldon_Zimmerman 2009-03-18T18:24:13Z Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman (born 1942) is a rabbinic leader in Reform Judaism (North America). He is a past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In 2000, Zimmerman was suspended from the CCAR following an inquiry regarding inappropriate sexual conduct in "personal relationships. " He subsequently resigned as the 7th president of HUC-JIR which he had led from 1996-2000. Previously, Zimmerman had previously been the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas. . Rabbi Zimmerman was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended the University of Toronto. He was ordained from HUC's New York Campus in 1970 and is the 11th generation of rabbis in his family. His son, Rabbi Brian Zimmerman, currently the regional director for the Union for Reform Judaism's Southwest region, is the 12th. After leaving HUC, Zimmerman worked as executive vice president of the popular Birthright Israel program. In 2003, United Jewish Communities (UJC) hired Zimmerman as vice president of Jewish Renaissance and Renewal. He is currently the rabbi of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. This biographical article about a rabbi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Sheldon_Zimmerman 2010-11-04T08:36:42Z Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman (born 1942) is a rabbinic leader in Reform Judaism (North America). He is a past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In 2000, Zimmerman was suspended from the CCAR following an inquiry regarding inappropriate sexual conduct in "personal relationships. " He subsequently resigned as the 7th president of HUC-JIR which he had led from 1996-2000. Previously, Zimmerman had previously been the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas. . Rabbi Zimmerman was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended the University of Toronto. He was ordained from HUC's New York Campus in 1970 and is the 11th generation of rabbis in his family. His son, Rabbi Brian Zimmerman, currently the regional director for the Union for Reform Judaism's Southwest region, is the 12th. His other son Coach David Zimmerman is currently the head coach of the North Dallas Vandals in the American Basketball Association. After leaving HUC, Zimmerman worked as executive vice president of the popular Birthright Israel program. In 2003, United Jewish Communities (UJC) hired Zimmerman as vice president of Jewish Renaissance and Renewal. He is currently the rabbi of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. Template:Persondata This biographical article about a rabbi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Hortus_Musicus | Hortus_Musicus 2010-03-30T06:31:08Z Hortus Musicus is an Estonian ensemble that was established in 1972 by Andres Mustonen, a violin student of the Tallinn State Conservatory. Hortus Musicus specialises in performing early music, including 8th–15th century European forms such as; Gregorian Chant, Organum, Medieval Liturgic Hymns and Motets, the Franco-Flemish School, and Renaissance Music (including French chansons, villanelles and Italian madrigals). The group also presents early, non-European styles including Indian Ragas, Israeli temple songs, Arabian mughams and Jewish music. The group's repertoire has also included pieces by 20th century composers (often created specially for Hortus Musicus, e. g. by Arvo Pärt). Hortus Musicus has given concerts in the US, Japan, Israel, as well as having performed at several major early music festivals. They have recorded approximately 35 programmes, a portion of which is available from companies such as Erdenklang, Musica Svecia, Forte and Finlandia Records. The group's latest recording is "Ave. . . " (2005): 'music from the late Middle Ages in memoriam Helle Mustonen (1950–2005)'. 1. Melodiya C 10-06499/06500 Grigorian chorale – Early polyphony Performers: Hortus Musicus – Andres Mustonen, dir. Recorded: 1974, Tallinn. 2. Melodiya C 10-07935/07936 Francesco Landino – Ballate, madrigali, caccia Performers: Hortus Musicus – Andres Mustonen, dir. Recorded: 1975, Tallinn. 3. Melodiya C 10-15083/15084 & C 10–15085/15086 France and Italy – Secular music of the 12th–14th Centuries Performers: Hortus Musicus – Andres Mustonen, dir. Recorded: 1978, Tallinn. , Hortus_Musicus 2011-03-01T17:03:21Z Hortus Musicus is an Estonian ensemble that was established in 1972 by Andres Mustonen, a violin student of the Tallinn State Conservatory. Hortus Musicus specialises in performing early music, including 8th–15th century European forms such as; Gregorian Chant, Organum, Medieval Liturgic Hymns and Motets, the Franco-Flemish School, and Renaissance Music (including French chansons, villanelles and Italian madrigals). The group also presents early, non-European styles including Indian Ragas, Israeli temple songs, Arabian mughams and Jewish music. The group's repertoire has also included pieces by 20th century composers (often created specially for Hortus Musicus, e. g. by Arvo Pärt). Hortus Musicus has given concerts in the US, Japan, Israel, as well as having performed at several major early music festivals. They have recorded approximately 35 programmes, a portion of which is available from companies such as Erdenklang, Musica Svecia, Forte and Finlandia Records. The group's latest recording is "Ave. . . " (2005): 'music from the late Middle Ages in memoriam Helle Mustonen (1950–2005)'. | 0 |
Amit Trivedi | Amit Trivedi 2008-12-14T13:20:46Z Amit Trivedi is an Indian Music Composer who lives in Mumbai. , Amit Trivedi 2009-12-25T09:16:00Z Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer based in Mumbai. The singer, lyricist, musician shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene for his critically acclaimed work in Aamir (2008) and the more popular Dev. D (2009). In his younger days, a electronic musical instrument fascinated Amit and he was slowly drawn towards music, mainly influenced by western music. At the age of 19-20, he started composing music. During college days he became part of a band called Om, which was primarily a group of music lovers, and the band would perform at local gigs, small shows and live performances. They struck gold when Times Music took notice of them, at one of the shows, and offered to launch their album. The album however did not fare well, due to lack of proper promotions. . Eventually Amit went on to compose for theater (Hindi, English and Gujarati plays), background music for TV serials, live performances, dandiya shows, orchestras etc. He also had a brief stint with ad jingles, providing music for Mc Donalds, Airtel. He also composed for non-film albums. As a part of a two year contract with Sony BMG, Amit composed some tracks for Abhijeet Sawant’s Junoon and one track in Prashant Tamang debut album. Film music eventually came his way, when friend and playback singer Shilpa Rao suggested Amit's name to film director, Anurag Kashyap. Anurag was in search of a new composer with a distinct vision for his film. After meeting up with Amit, the director offered him the chance to compose for Dev. D. Dev. D was intended to be Amit's debut but the film ran into production delays and was shelved for some time. Anurag Kashyap, who was the creative producer for his assistant, Raj Kumar Gupta's directorial venture Aamir recommended Amit for the movie. Amit was roped in and started working on the film soundtrack. Raj Kumar and Amit worked on making the soundtrack fuse with the film narrative. The unconventional soundtrack received critical recognition By the end of 2008, Dev. D was finally seeing the light of the day. The soundtrack, released in December, consisted of 18 tracks of multiple genres. Amit coined the soundtrack as "baap of different genres". Amit wrote the score for the 2009 Hindi Film, Wake Up Sid and one of his compositions 'Iktaara' was also included in the soundtrack. Between scoring for films, Amit also wrote the title track for the reality show "BIG SWITCH" aired on UTV Bindaas | 1 |
Olympique de Marseille | Olympique de Marseille 2004-02-28T00:42:52Z The best team in the French league, Marseille has 10 championships, 10 cups and the best european cup: the Champions Cup won in 1993 to the club of AC Milan. Olympique de Marseille have an history like no other, making headlines for the good and the bad things. The team plays in the windy and open stadium of the Velodrome (60,000 seats). , Olympique de Marseille 2005-12-28T17:14:21Z Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, Marseille has won 9 French championships and 10 French Cups. The club also won the Champions League in 1993, defeating A.C. Milan in the final, only to be stripped of the domestic title that they had won in the same season following a match fixing scandal involving then president Bernard Tapie. In 1994, they suffered forced relegation to the second division due to financial irregularities. By 1996, backed by Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the club had worked their way back to the top flight. The team regularly fills their imposing home of the Stade Vélodrome, which seats 60,000. Marseille's vast support continues to show unwavering and impressive loyalty to the club, despite having several average seasons since their return to the top flight. The fans continue to hope that Marseille will regain its former glory. Marseille is one of the largest and most successful clubs in France. It is the best-supported club in the country, and the only French team to win the Champions League. Yet the club has not won a major trophy in over a decade. The closest Marseille have got to another trophy was when they reached the UEFA Cup Final in 2004, impressively beating Inter Milan, Liverpool and Newcastle United along the way, largely thanks to the efforts of Didier Drogba. But they were beaten in the final by newly-crowned Spanish champions Valencia and once again fans were forced to continue waiting for the next cup to come along. Marseille also lost Drogba to Chelsea, selling him for £24.5 million. Recently, Marseille succeeded in winning the 2005 Intertoto Cup, beating the likes of SS Lazio and Deportivo La Coruna in doing so, and earning another shot at the UEFA Cup. In their recent seasons back in Ligue 1, Marseille have been beaten regulary by rival teams such as Lyon, Monaco and Paris Saint Germain, as chances for a title appear to be growing ever slimmer. With a nightmare start to the 2005/06 Ligue 1 season, it looks like Marseille's title challenge has gone once again for another year. French division 1 winners 1936/1937, 1947/1948, 1970/1971, 1971/1972, 1988/1989, 1989/1990, 1990/1991, 1991/1992 and 1992/1993 French division 2 winners 1994/1995 French division 3 winners 1928/1929 French Cup winners 1923/1924, 1925/1926, 1926/1927, 1934/1935, 1937/1938, 1942/1943, 1968/1969, 1971/1972, 1975/1976 and 1988/1989 Champions League winners 1992/1993 UEFA Intertoto Cup winners 2005 As of November 28, 2005 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Cup 2005/06 | 1 |
Oh_My_Goodness | Oh_My_Goodness 2012-04-18T21:40:56Z "Oh My Goodness" is a song by the British singer-songwriter Olly Murs, taken from his second studio album In Case You Didn't Know. It was released as the album's third single on 1 April 2012 and was written by Adam Argyle, Martin Brammer and Olly Murs, and became Murs' sixth UK top 20 hit upon it's release, reaching a peak of number 13. The single will serve as Olly's second release from the album in Germany and other European countries in summer 2012. Murs wrote the song with Argyle and Brammer after being inspired by seeing an attractive girl whilst on a lunch break from recording sessions for the In Case You Didn't Know album in summer 2011, and the song tells the story of a man who falls in love with a girl at first sight, and that his lack of rationale does not matter to him as he is "dreaming of a life that anybody else would die for". The music video for "Oh My Goodness" was teased with a short 30 second teaser clip on VEVO a week before it's premiere, and was first released onto YouTube and VEVO on 24 February 2012 at a total length of three minutes and eleven seconds. The video was shot in the new Westfield Stratford City shopping complex in North London in January 2012, and was directed by Marcus Lundin (who also directed the video for Murs' previous single, Dance With Me Tonight). In the video whilst going up an escalator with friends, Olly sees a young girl on the escalator going in the opposite direction. Instantly attracted to her, he, unknown to her, gives chase after her through the shopping centre including use of a segway before finally catching up with her at the video's end. Murs gave his first live performances of the song on his arena tour of the UK and Ireland in February 2012. The first televised performance of the song was on The Graham Norton Show on 9 March 2012. Olly has also performed the song at The Sport Relief Mile Show, This Morning, Friday Download, The Crush, The One and Only Des O'Connor and his special celebrity edition of Deal or No Deal. , Oh_My_Goodness 2013-02-26T23:51:13Z "Oh My Goodness" is a song by English singer-songwriter Olly Murs, from his second studio album In Case You Didn't Know (2011). Written by Murs, Adam Argyle and Martin Brammer, it was released as the album's third and final single on 1 April 2012 and became Murs's sixth UK top-20 hit, reaching a peak of number 13. The song was released in Germany on August 10, 2012 (with the addition of a CD release absent in the UK), and has become his second top 40 hit there. Murs wrote the song with Argyle and Brammer after being inspired by seeing an attractive girl whilst on a lunch break from recording sessions for the In Case You Didn't Know album in summer 2011, and the song tells the story of a man who falls in love with a girl at first sight, and that his lack of rationale does not matter to him as he is "dreaming of a life that anybody else would die for". In an interview with Channel 4 music show Freshly Squeezed, Murs added: 'It's kind of about love at first sight, really. That moment when you see a really attractive girl, and the video reflects that with the storyline. ' A short instrumental of the song's chorus acts as the theme tune to his ITV2 documentary series Olly: Life on Murs. The music video for "Oh My Goodness" was teased with a short 30 second clip on VEVO a week before its premiere, and was first released onto YouTube and VEVO on 24 February 2012 at a total length of three minutes and eleven seconds. The video was shot in the new Westfield Stratford City shopping complex in south London in January 2012, and was directed by Marcus Lundin (who also directed the video for Murs' previous single, "Dance With Me Tonight"). In the video whilst going up an escalator with friends, Murs sees an attractive girl on the escalator going in the opposite direction. Instantly attracted to her, Murs, unknown to her, gives chase after her through the shopping centre - tearing through shop displays, knocking over waiters and using a segway before finally catching up with her at the video's end. The single was met with mostly positive reviews from critics upon its release. Lewis Corner, writing for Digital Spy, awarded it four out of five, and praised the song as an "ear-grabbing tune" with "a dashing brass section and toe-tapping guitar riff so colourful and suave that even a Disney Prince Charming would struggle to compete with". Melisa Greenfield, writing for Stereoboard. com, also noted the positive, upbeat vibe of the song, saying: "This song is incredible and will put a smile on even the grumpiest faces – even if it’s just because they’re smiling at the dancing of those around them because, let’s face it, this song does make you want to dance. " Murs gave his first live performances of the song on his arena tour of the UK and Ireland in February 2012. The first televised performance of the song was on The Graham Norton Show on 9 March 2012, where he was also interviewed along with guests Damian Lewis and Gérard Depardieu. Murs has also performed the song at The Sport Relief Mile Show, This Morning, Friday Download, The Crush, The One and Only Des O'Connor and his special celebrity edition of Deal or No Deal. In Germany, the song has been performed on the soap opera Gzsz and The Dome. | 0 |
Rachel Boston | Rachel Boston 2005-01-24T08:28:23Z Rachel Boston (born May 9, 1982 in Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee) won the title of Miss Teen Tennessee in 1999, and competed in the Miss Teen USA Pageant, advancing into the top 10. She currently stars in the NBC series American Dreams, portraying the character Beth Mason. The series, set in the 1960s, centers around the Pryor family in suburban Philadelphia. Beth is the girlfriend of the oldest Pryor son, who is currently serving as a Marine in the Vietnam War. , Rachel Boston 2006-12-05T18:26:57Z Rachel Boston (born May 9, 1982 in Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee) won the title of Miss Tennessee Teen USA in 1999, and competed in the Miss Teen USA Pageant, advancing into the top 10. Rachel recently starred in the NBC series American Dreams, which aired from fall 2002 until spring 2005. She portrayed the character Beth Pryor (nee Mason), the wife of the oldest son of the Pryor family, of whom the series was centered around. She has also made guest appearances in other series programs and has starred in several made-for-TV movies. Boston was once a companion of Brandon Routh, the new Superman, but they are no longer together and Routh is currently engaged to actress and costar Courtney Ford. Boston has attended various social events with singer/songwriter and actor Tyler Hilton, and the two are reportedly involved in a serious relationship. However, no plans of marriage are known publicly at this time. Rachel recently guest starred on NCIS as Siri Albert in episode 5 of season 4, Dead and Unburied. | 1 |
Sam Togwell | Sam Togwell 2018-02-11T09:40:09Z Samuel James Togwell (born 14 October 1984) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for National League club Eastleigh. He began his career with Crystal Palace in 2002, where he was loaned out to Oxford United, Northampton Town, and Port Vale. In July 2006 he transferred to Barnsley, before he joined Scunthorpe United in August 2008. He helped the "Iron" to win promotion out of the League One play-offs in 2009. He signed with Chesterfield in July 2012, and became a key player in the 2012–13 season. He lost his first team place the following season and was loaned out to Wycombe Wanderers. He helped Chesterfield to win the League Two title in 2013–14. He signed with Barnet in August 2014, and helped the club to the Conference title in the 2014–15 season. He was sold on to Eastleigh in December 2016. Togwell started out in the Crystal Palace youth set-up at the age of ten, before making his senior debut as a seventeen-year-old substitute on 22 December 2002 at Millmoor. Palace beat Rotherham United 3–1, returning to London with three First Division points. He did not get another game in the 2002–03 or 2003–04 seasons, mainly due to a broken leg. After rejecting a loan move to Norwegian club Viking FK, Togwell joined League Two club Oxford United on loan in October 2004. He made five appearances before returning to Selhurst Park the next month. In March 2005 he went back into the basement division to join Northampton Town on loan. He made eight appearances, before his loan deal was extended to cover the play-offs. Southend United defeated the "Cobblers" in the semi-finals, before beating Lincoln City in the final. Togwell, by now captain of the reserve team, played in the opening three rounds of the League Cup in 2005–06, including a 2–1 defeat of European Champions Liverpool in which he marked Steven Gerrard. In November 2005, he joined League One club Port Vale on a six-week loan deal. He impressed at Vale Park, especially on 6 January when he scored both goals of a FA Cup Third Round defeat of Doncaster Rovers. Having already had the loan extended once, Martin Foyle managed to extend the deal until the end of the season after Togwell played some excellent football in January. In March, Vale made Palace an offer, to sign the young midfielder permanently in the summer. The next month, with Togwell and Vale agreed on personal terms, chairman Bill Bratt admitted that the two clubs were a long way from agreeing a deal, with Palace demanding a large sum in transfer fees. The cash-strapped club were forced to abandon hope of signing Togwell, though handed him the club's "Young Player of The Year" award in recognition of his performances in his 30 games that season. His tenure at Palace did not last much longer, however, as he left for Barnsley in July 2006 for an undisclosed fee. Togwell made his League debut for Barnsley on 5 August 2006, in a 2–1 defeat at Cardiff City. He made 46 appearances in 2006–07, including both Championship clashes with former club Palace, both of which finished 2–0 for the home team. Battling with Bobby Hassell and new signing Anderson Silva de França for a first team place, he found life tough at Oakwell the next season. In all he played 27 games, three of which came in the club's impressive FA Cup run, including a substitute appearance in the memorable victory over Premier League team Chelsea. He joined Scunthorpe United on a free transfer in August 2008, signing a two-year deal. The young midfield battler was optimistic of the club's future, predicting promotion. His prophecy was fulfilled at Wembley, as the "Iron" defeated Millwall 3–2 in the play-off final. He remained a key member of Scunthorpe's first team in the Championship; making 47 appearances in 2009–10, he managed to bag a goal against his former employers at Selhurst Park in the process. Signing a new two-year deal in June 2010, Togwell recovered from a knee injury to make 40 appearances in the 2010–11 campaign. He was given the club's Player of the Year award, the Ernie Storey Memorial Trophy, however he could not prevent the "Iron" from finishing in last place and thereby suffer relegation back into League One. He made 44 appearances in 2011–12, as Alan Knill led the Glanford Park outfit to an 18th-place finish in League One. However he was one of ten players released by the club in May 2012. In July 2012, Togwell joined League Two club Chesterfield on a two-year contract. He made 50 appearances in the 2012–13 campaign. On 14 March 2014, Togwell joined fellow League Two club Wycombe Wanderers on a one-month loan deal. He made his debut for the "Chairboys" the next day in a 2–0 defeat to York City, and gave away a penalty before being sent off for two bookable offences. He returned from suspension to play three games for Wycombe before being recalled by Chesterfield on 9 April. He played a total of ten games for Chesterfield as the "Spireites" won promotion as divisional champions in 2013–14, and was released by manager Paul Cook in the summer. Togwell joined Barnet of the Conference Premier in August 2014. He missed just four league games of the 2014–15 season as Martin Allen's "Bees" won promotion back into the Football League as champions of the Conference. He played 40 games in the 2015–16 season and signed a one-year contract extension in May. He underwent a hernia operation in October 2016, which kept him out of action for six weeks. In total he played 99 times for the Bees, scoring one goal. On 15 December 2016, Togwell joined National League club Eastleigh for a fee of £20,000. He signed an 18-month contract; the move reunited him with former Barnet manager Martin Allen. He was appointed as club captain one month later following the departure of Joe Partington. Individual Scunthorpe United Chesterfield Barnet, Sam Togwell 2019-09-28T22:55:20Z Samuel James Togwell (born 14 October 1984) is an English footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for National League South side Slough Town. He began his career with Crystal Palace in 2002, where he was loaned out to Oxford United, Northampton Town, and Port Vale. In July 2006 he transferred to Barnsley, before he joined Scunthorpe United in August 2008. He helped the "Iron" to win promotion out of the League One play-offs in 2009. He signed with Chesterfield in July 2012, and became a key player in the 2012–13 season. He lost his first team place the following season and was loaned out to Wycombe Wanderers. He helped Chesterfield to win the League Two title in 2013–14. He signed with Barnet in August 2014, and helped the club to the Conference title in the 2014–15 season. He was sold on to Eastleigh in December 2016, before joining Slough Town in June 2018. Togwell started out in the Crystal Palace youth set-up at the age of ten, before making his senior debut as a seventeen-year-old substitute on 22 December 2002 at Millmoor. Palace beat Rotherham United 3–1, returning to London with three First Division points. He did not get another game in the 2002–03 or 2003–04 seasons, mainly due to a broken leg. After rejecting a loan move to Norwegian club Viking FK, Togwell joined League Two club Oxford United on loan in October 2004. He made five appearances before returning to Selhurst Park the next month. In March 2005 he went back into the basement division to join Northampton Town on loan. He made eight appearances, before his loan deal was extended to cover the play-offs. Southend United defeated the "Cobblers" in the semi-finals, before beating Lincoln City in the final. Togwell, by now captain of the reserve team, played in the opening three rounds of the League Cup in 2005–06, including a 2–1 defeat of European Champions Liverpool in which he marked Steven Gerrard. In November 2005, he joined League One club Port Vale on a six-week loan deal. He impressed at Vale Park, especially on 6 January when he scored both goals of a FA Cup Third Round defeat of Doncaster Rovers. Having already had the loan extended once, Martin Foyle managed to extend the deal until the end of the season after Togwell played some excellent football in January. In March, Vale made Palace an offer, to sign the young midfielder permanently in the summer. The next month, with Togwell and Vale agreed on personal terms, chairman Bill Bratt admitted that the two clubs were a long way from agreeing a deal, with Palace demanding a large sum in transfer fees. The cash-strapped club were forced to abandon hope of signing Togwell, though handed him the club's "Young Player of The Year" award in recognition of his performances in his 30 games that season. His tenure at Palace did not last much longer, however, as he left for Barnsley in July 2006 for an undisclosed fee. Togwell made his League debut for Barnsley on 5 August 2006, in a 2–1 defeat at Cardiff City. He made 46 appearances in 2006–07, including both Championship clashes with former club Palace, both of which finished 2–0 for the home team. Battling with Bobby Hassell and new signing Anderson Silva de França for a first team place, he found life tough at Oakwell the next season. In all he played 27 games, three of which came in the club's impressive FA Cup run, including a substitute appearance in the memorable victory over Premier League team Chelsea. He joined Scunthorpe United on a free transfer in August 2008, signing a two-year deal. The young midfield battler was optimistic of the club's future, predicting promotion. His prophecy was fulfilled at Wembley, as the "Iron" defeated Millwall 3–2 in the play-off final. He remained a key member of Scunthorpe's first team in the Championship; making 47 appearances in 2009–10, he managed to bag a goal against his former employers at Selhurst Park in the process. Signing a new two-year deal in June 2010, Togwell recovered from a knee injury to make 40 appearances in the 2010–11 campaign. He was given the club's Player of the Year award, the Ernie Storey Memorial Trophy, however he could not prevent the "Iron" from finishing in last place and thereby suffer relegation back into League One. He made 44 appearances in 2011–12, as Alan Knill led the Glanford Park outfit to an 18th-place finish in League One. However he was one of ten players released by the club in May 2012. In July 2012, Togwell joined League Two club Chesterfield on a two-year contract. He made 50 appearances in the 2012–13 campaign. On 14 March 2014, Togwell joined fellow League Two club Wycombe Wanderers on a one-month loan deal. He made his debut for the "Chairboys" the next day in a 2–0 defeat to York City, and gave away a penalty before being sent off for two bookable offences. He returned from suspension to play three games for Wycombe before being recalled by Chesterfield on 9 April. He played a total of ten games for Chesterfield as the "Spireites" won promotion as divisional champions in 2013–14, and was released by manager Paul Cook in the summer. Togwell joined Barnet of the Conference Premier in August 2014. He missed just four league games of the 2014–15 season as Martin Allen's "Bees" won promotion back into the English Football League as champions of the Conference. He played 40 games in the 2015–16 season and signed a one-year contract extension in May. He underwent a hernia operation in October 2016, which kept him out of action for six weeks. In total he played 99 times for the Bees, scoring one goal. On 15 December 2016, Togwell joined National League club Eastleigh for a fee of £20,000. He signed an 18-month contract; the move reunited him with former Barnet manager Martin Allen. He was appointed as club captain one month later following the departure of Joe Partington. However he endured a difficult 2017–18 campaign, which started badly as he was ruled out for the first half of the season after picking up a thigh injury in August. By the time he recovered to full fitness manager Richard Hill had been replaced by Andy Hessenthaler, who opted to release Togwell at the end of the campaign. Togwell joined newly-promoted National League South club Slough Town in June 2018, where he joined up with his brother Lee. As well as playing together, the brothers also ran a personal training business together. He scored three goals in 44 matches in the 2018–19 season, helping the "Rebels" to reach the Second Round of the FA Cup, where they were beaten by Gillingham. Individual Scunthorpe United Chesterfield Barnet | 1 |
Francis_Maceroni | Francis_Maceroni 2009-04-21T14:33:56Z Colonel Francis Maceroni (sometimes known as "Count Maceroni"), born Francis Macirone (1788–1846), was a soldier, balloonist (as recorded by Sophie Blanchard), author, and inventor. Maceroni was the original version of his family name, the variant spelling of Macirone having been adopted by his grandfather to distance himself from an unsavoury relation. Francis opted to resume the original spelling, but is sometimes listed with the variant spelling. Born the son of Peter Augustus Macirone, an Italian merchant and former school teacher living in England, Maceroni became a Colonel of Cavalry and served as aide de camp to Joachim Murat, the King of Naples during the Napoleonic Wars (later writing his biography) and fought with the Spanish insurgents in 1822-23 during the civil war. In 1825 while living in Manchester, he became interested in the work of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and attached himself to Gurney's Regent's Park workshop on the recommendation of Sir Anthony Carlisle, ostensibly to work on his own inventions. He stayed six months and became involved enough in Gurney's work - he witnessed one of the early carriage contracts - that he persuaded several friends to invest in the enterprise. After a time in Constantinople, helping the Turks fight the Russians, he returned to London in 1831 and joined forces with Gurney's former employee, carpenter John Squire. In 1833 the two had constructed their own steam carriage. It was a straightforward vehicle that carried up to fourteen passengers, developed 30 horsepower (22 kW) at 14 mph (23 km/h) and ascended hills with ease. The carriage ran for hire for some weeks between Paddington and Edgware with no serious mechanical problems and in 1834 after a new toll relief bill was passed by the House of Commons, Maceroni built a new and larger carriage. But the bill failed in the House of Lords and Maceroni fell into financial difficulties. To meet the terms of the Belgian and French patents he had negotiated earlier, he shipped his two remaining carriages to Brussels and Paris in the care of the Italian speculator Colonel d'Asda. D'Asda drove the carriages around to great publicity for several months then sold them and disappeared with the money. In 1835 Maceroni published a book on road steam power and tried to raise new capital, but a railway investment panic in 1837 doomed his chances and in 1841 the disclosure of serious mismanagement ended with the seizure of all his assets. Maceroni lived in England for much of his life, and published his memoirs in 1838. This biographical article related to the military of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Francis_Maceroni 2011-07-17T09:10:05Z Colonel Francis Maceroni (sometimes known as "Count Maceroni"), born Francis Macirone (1788–1846), was a soldier, balloonist (as recorded by Sophie Blanchard), author and inventor. "Maceroni" was the original version of his family name, the variant spelling of Macirone having been adopted by his grandfather to distance himself from an unsavoury relation. Francis opted to resume the original spelling, but is sometimes listed with the variant spelling. Born the son of Peter Augustus Macirone, an Italian merchant and former school teacher living in England, Maceroni became a Colonel of Cavalry and served as aide de camp to Joachim Murat, the King of Naples during the Napoleonic Wars (later writing his biography) and fought with the Spanish insurgents in 1822-23 during the civil war. In 1825 while living in Manchester, he became interested in the work of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and attached himself to Gurney's Regent's Park workshop on the recommendation of Sir Anthony Carlisle, ostensibly to work on his own inventions. He stayed six months and became involved enough in Gurney's work - he witnessed one of the early carriage contracts - that he persuaded several friends to invest in the enterprise. After a time in Constantinople helping the Turks fight the Russians, he returned to London in 1831 and joined forces with Gurney's former employee, carpenter John Squire. In 1833, the two had constructed their own steam carriage. It was a straightforward vehicle that carried up to fourteen passengers, developed 30 horsepower (22 kW) at 14 mph (23 km/h) and ascended hills with ease. The carriage ran for hire for some weeks between Paddington and Edgware with no serious mechanical problems and in 1834, after a new toll relief bill was passed by the House of Commons, Maceroni built a new and larger carriage. But the bill failed in the House of Lords and Maceroni fell into financial difficulties. To meet the terms of the Belgian and French patents he had negotiated earlier, he shipped his two remaining carriages to Brussels and Paris in the care of the Italian speculator Colonel d'Asda. D'Asda drove the carriages around to great publicity for several months then sold them and disappeared with the money. In 1835, Maceroni published a book on road steam power and tried to raise new capital, but a railway investment panic in 1837 doomed his chances and in 1841 the disclosure of serious mismanagement ended with the seizure of all his assets. Maceroni lived in England for much of his life, and published his memoirs in 1838. Template:Persondata This biographical article related to the military of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Black_Dog_Publishing | Black_Dog_Publishing 2007-10-31T11:02:11Z Black Dog Publishing is a London-based publisher specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on subjects including architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photography. Founded in 1993, it has steadily built a reputation world-wide for releasing informative publications with a meticulous design ethic, maintaining its original intentions to "take a daring, innovative approach to our titles, to maintain high production values and authoritative content and to produce books that challenge, provoke and entertain. " Black Dog was recently selected by Time Out magazine as one of London's most important small book publishers alongside Persephone Books, Bitter Lemon Press and Pushkin Press. Its releases have also received frequent coverage from all the major UK broadsheets along with several publications in the United States. Recent projects by Black Dog include the popular Labels Unlimited and Edge Futures series, along with definitive biographies of such figures as Charlemagne Palestine, Alvar Aalto and Colin St John Wilson. Notable contributors include Rob Young, Lydia Lunch, Patrick Brill, Beth Ditto and Peter Wollen. , Black_Dog_Publishing 2007-11-12T10:40:11Z Black Dog Publishing (London UK) is a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photography. Founded in 1993, it has steadily begun to build a presence in the UK and the United States, as well as in the European export markets. On the company website, Black Dog describes itself as aspiring to "take a daring, innovative approach to our titles, to maintain high production values and authoritative content and to produce books that challenge, provoke and entertain. " Black Dog was featured in a Time Out magazine article on London's small independent book publishers along with Persephone Books, Bitter Lemon Press and Pushkin Press. Its releases have on the whole received positive reviews in the major UK and US broadsheets and magazines. Recent projects by Black Dog include the Labels Unlimited and Edge Futures series, the official London Eye book, and a book about the Riot Grrrl movement titled Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! . Black Dog has also released biographies of such figures as Charlemagne Palestine, Alvar Aalto, Colin St John Wilson, Tod Browning and Jean-Luc Godard. Notable authors of Black Dog titles include Rob Young, Lydia Lunch, Patrick Brill, Beth Ditto and Peter Wollen. In 2007 Black Dog released Making Stuff for Kids, an instructional craft book for children, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper. | 0 |
Tom Basden | Tom Basden 2014-01-24T07:06:44Z Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four-man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key. Basden was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon in South West London where he was in the same year as fellow actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes, followed by Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He was vice president of the Footlights and his contemporaries included Stefan Golaszewski, Sarah Solemani, Tim Key and Dan Stevens. Basden's one man show at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tom Basden Won't Say Anything won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. Basden replaced Tim Minchin as the resident musician for the second series of Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better where he appears along with Tim Key and Mark Watson. He was a guest panellist on the BBC Two programme "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" on Wednesday, 4 November 2009. Basden was one of the writers of successful sitcom Fresh Meat, which earned him a nomination for the 2012 BAFTA Craft Awards Break-Through Talent Award. In 2011 he wrote There Is A War starring himself and Phoebe Fox for the National Theatre's Double Feature, and in the next year he appeared as musical side-kick to Key in his Radio 4 programme Tim Key's Late Night Poetry. In the spring of 2013, Basden co-wrote and appeared in the ancient Rome based ITV sitcom Plebs with Tom Rosenthal, Joel Fry, and Ryan Sampson. Basden features in the new six-part BBC Two comedy thriller, The Wrong Mans, as Noel. The show was written by, and stars, Mathew Baynton and James Corden. The premiere was on 24 September 2013. Basden co-wrote the third episode. In 2010 his play The Party was performed, about a group of rather childish university students holding a meeting to found their own political party. The Guardian gave it a positive review saying calling it "an idiosyncratic and highly enjoyable piece performed beautifully by a crack cast of upcoming comics"; they praised the quality of the jokes, while noting that the satire was light and subtle. It was adapted into a Radio 4 sitcom, broadcast for three series from 2010 to 2012 and written by and starring Basden. It also stars Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. He was longlisted for the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards Most Promising Playwright for his stage adaption of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, called Joseph K. It also received positive reviews from The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. , Tom Basden 2015-10-13T21:47:45Z Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four-man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key. Basden was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon in South West London where he was in the same year as fellow actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes, followed by Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He was vice president of the Footlights and his contemporaries included Stefan Golaszewski, Sarah Solemani, Tim Key (who pretended to be studying for Ph. D at Cambridge to be part of a Footlights production) and Dan Stevens. Basden's one man show at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tom Basden Won't Say Anything won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. Basden replaced Tim Minchin as the resident musician for the second series of Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better where he appears along with Tim Key and Mark Watson. He was a guest panellist on the BBC Two programme "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" on Wednesday, 4 November 2009. Basden was one of the writers of successful sitcom Fresh Meat, which earned him a nomination for the 2012 BAFTA Craft Awards Break-Through Talent Award. In 2011 he wrote There Is A War starring himself and Phoebe Fox for the National Theatre's Double Feature, and in the next year he appeared as musical side-kick to Key in his Radio 4 programme Tim Key's Late Night Poetry. In the spring of 2013, Basden co-wrote and appeared in the ancient Rome based ITV sitcom Plebs with Tom Rosenthal, Joel Fry, and Ryan Sampson. Basden featured in the six-part BBC Two comedy thriller, The Wrong Mans, as Noel. The show was written by, and starred, Mathew Baynton and James Corden. The premiere was on 24 September 2013. It consisted of six thirty-minute episodes, and Basden co-wrote the third episode. Basden wrote the script for the sequel to The Wrong Mans, with the same title, which was first broadcast on BBC Two on 22 and 23 December 2014. It consisted of two hour-long episodes, and Basden acted in it as well, reprising the role of Noel. In 2010 his play Party was performed, about a group of rather childish university students holding a meeting to found their own political party. The Guardian gave it a positive review saying calling it "an idiosyncratic and highly enjoyable piece performed beautifully by a crack cast of upcoming comics"; they praised the quality of the jokes, while noting that the satire was light and subtle. It was adapted into a Radio 4 sitcom, broadcast for three series from 2010 to 2012 and written by and starring Basden. It also stars Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. He was longlisted for the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards Most Promising Playwright for his stage adaption of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, called Joseph K. It also received positive reviews from The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. | 1 |
Turner Classic Movies | Turner Classic Movies 2011-01-01T16:17:43Z 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 and MGM, United Artists, RKO and Warner Bros. film libraries. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia in Midtown. The channel, created by Ted Turner as part of his Turner Broadcasting System, began broadcasting on April 14, 1994. 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 competed against 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). Unlike AMC, 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. 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 March until the following February 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, Warner Bros. and United Artists releases, TCM also shows films under license from Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Productions, Columbia Pictures and Janus Films. Most pre-1950 Paramount releases are owned by EMKA, Ltd. /NBC Universal 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. 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 8pm 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. Sunday nights at midnight ET is "Silent Sunday Nights", which 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. 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 a "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. 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, Germany, 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 2012-12-24T04:48:22Z 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 film library, which comprises the pre-May 1986 MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. films. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, in Midtown. 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, Columbia Pictures and Toho Company Ltd., 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 (nowadays) the 1990s and the 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. Osborne is occasionally joined by guest programmers 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. Recently, movies shown during the daytime on weekends feature host Ben Mankiewicz, Herman J. Mankiewicz's grandson and great-nephew of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The Essentials is a weekly program on Saturdays, 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 Drew Barrymore. 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. A star's birthday is also an occasion for a one-day or one-evening festival showing several of that artist's best, earliest, or least-known pictures. "Silent Sunday Nights", airing Sunday nights, 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 December 1998, TCM debuted "TCM Remembers", which is a tribute to recently deceased notable film personalities (actors, producers, composers, directors, writers, cinematographers, etc.) airing occasionally during promo 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 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 last year. The soundtracks for these clipreels are introspective melodies by indie artists such as Badly Drawn Boy (2007) or Steve Earle (2009). Very often, when a well-known actor, producer, or director dies, the network will devote an entire day's schedule to showing movies associated with the individual, airing within days following the person's death. 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. 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" (2008), "Native American Images on Film" (2010), "Black Images on Film" in 2006 "Latino Images on Film" (2009) and "Arab Images on Film" (2011). The channel aired the film series Screened Out exploring gay images on film in 2007 and "Religion on Film" in 2005. From July to December 2011, Osborne was on medical leave; guest hosts presented each night's films. TCM airs annual tributes to filmmakers and actors who have died in the past year, as well as individual tributes following the death of a major film star or director. The clipreels are produced by Sabotage Film Group, which specializes in music videos and promotional material. 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, 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 |
William_H._F._Payne | William_H._F._Payne 2008-10-19T18:44:50Z William Henry Fitzhugh Payne (January 27, 1830 – March 29, 1904) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. William Payne was born in Fauquier County, Virginia to Arthur Alexander Morson Payne and Mary Conway Mason Fitzhugh. He attended the Virginia Military Institute in 1846-47, but left school after only one year. He was declared an honorary graduate by the Board of Visitors in 1873. Payne studied law at the University of Virginia and established a law practice in Warrenton, Virginia in 1851. The following year, he married his cousin, Mary Elizabeth Winston Payne; the couple would have ten children. He served as the Commonwealth's Attorney for Fauquier County for several years. Payne enrolled in early 1861 as a private and participated in the occupation of Harpers Ferry in April. Later in the year, he became a captain in the famed Black Horse Cavalry, serving as under J. E. B. Stuart. He was promoted to major of the 4th Virginia Cavalry and commanded the regiment at the Battle of Williamsport during the Peninsula Campaign. He was severely wounded and captured by Union forces. After being exchanged, he returned to duty as the lieutenant colonel of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry and fought in the Chancellorsville Campaign. During the subsequent Gettysburg Campaign, he was captured at the Battle of Hanover in 1863 after being dehorsed and falling into an open vat of tanning liquid. After being imprisoned at Johnson's Island, Ohio, he was promoted to brigadier general in November 1864 and led a brigade in Early's Valley Campaigns of 1864, where he fought in the battles of Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Five Forks. During the final operations in early 1865 around Richmond, he commanded a cavalry brigade under Thomas T. Munford. After the war, Payne returned to his Virginia law practice. He was the general counsel for the Southern Railway Company. Payne served in the legislature of Virginia in the session of 1879–80. He died in Washington, D. C. . Template:Persondata, William_H._F._Payne 2009-11-09T02:29:08Z William Henry Fitzhugh Payne (January 27, 1830 – March 29, 1904) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. William Payne was born in Fauquier County, Virginia to Arthur Alexander Morson Payne and Mary Conway Mason Fitzhugh. He attended the Virginia Military Institute in 1846-47, but left school after only one year. He was declared an honorary graduate by the Board of Visitors in 1873. Payne studied law at the University of Virginia and established a law practice in Warrenton, Virginia in 1851. The following year, he married his cousin, Mary Elizabeth Winston Payne; the couple would have ten children. He served as the Commonwealth's Attorney for Fauquier County for several years. Payne enrolled in early 1861 as a private and participated in the occupation of Harpers Ferry in April. Later in the year, he became a captain in the famed Black Horse Cavalry, serving as under J. E. B. Stuart. He was promoted to major of the 4th Virginia Cavalry and commanded the regiment at the Battle of Williamsport during the Peninsula Campaign. He was severely wounded and captured by Union forces. After being exchanged, he returned to duty as the lieutenant colonel of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry and fought in the Chancellorsville Campaign. During the subsequent Gettysburg Campaign, he was captured at the Battle of Hanover in 1863 after being dehorsed and falling into an open vat of tanning liquid. After being imprisoned at Johnson's Island, Ohio, he was promoted to brigadier general in November 1864 and led a brigade in Early's Valley Campaigns of 1864, where he fought in the battles of Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Five Forks. During the final operations in early 1865 around Richmond, he commanded a cavalry brigade under Thomas T. Munford. After the war, Payne returned to his Virginia law practice. He was the general counsel for the Southern Railway Company. Payne served in the legislature of Virginia in the session of 1879–80. He died in Washington, D. C. . Template:Persondata | 0 |
Medstar_Television | Medstar_Television 2008-10-26T00:39:10Z Medstar Television Inc. was incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania in 1981 by Paul Dowling and William Ferretti to produce medical news and health information. From the start, Medstar financed, produced and distributed all of its own productions. It began with a syndicated series, "Health Matters" and later expanded to produce two medical news products, "MedstarSource" and "MedstarAdvances" syndicated to commercial television stations in the United States. In 1990, Medstar began to produce programming for cable television including The Discovery Channel, HBO and TLC. In 1995, the company created the "Medical Detectives" series on forensic science, which premiered on TLC in April of 1995. It was the first reality based forensic series on television and used a 'murder mystery' approach to documentary storytelling. In 2000, the Medical Detectives series moved to the CourtTV network (now TruTV) where it was re-titled "Forensic Files" and quickly became the networks highest rated television series. Internationally, the series is licensed in over 142 countries where it remains enormously popular. Peter Thomas narrates the series which is still in production, with more than 300 episodes (and counting. ) In 2002, Forensic Files made history as the first prime time television series originally produced for cable to air on a commercial network, NBC, as a summer replacement series. Paul Dowling Paul Dowling is the co-founder of Medstar Television and graduated from The Juilliard School in New York City with both a Bachelors and Masters Degree. Dowling created both the "Medical Detectives" television series on TLC and "Forensic Files" on CourtTV, later renamed TruTV. He currently acts as the series Executive Producer and Writer. Dowling also co-wrote the book "The Official Forensic Files Casebook" with Vince Sherry, first published in September, 2004. Vince Sherry Producer/Writer Kelly Ann Martin Senior Producer Christine Stewart Associate Producer Erin Wilt Phil Claroni Lindsey Kerecz Helene Roberts Assistant Producers Ed Hydock Production Coordinator Michael Novak Post-Production Coordinator Matthew Hensel Senior Editor Michael Duffield Pete Hensel Amber Schmidt April Maddona Editors Jonathan Bailey Art Director Vince Ellis Director of Photography Michael Jordan Reenactment Director Jennelle Jones Recreation Producer Derek Kulhamer Mark McClure Production Assistants Offical site, Medstar_Television 2011-09-15T19:45:56Z Medstar Television Inc. is a television production company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, specialising in medical-related television programming. Medstar was incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania in 1981 by Paul Dowling and William Ferretti to produce medical news and health information. From the start, Medstar financed, produced and distributed all of its own productions. One of its first was Health Matters, a program on health and lifestyle issues, produced in cooperation with hospitals throughout the United States, which sponsor the program in their local areas with local and national content, along the same lines as PM Magazine. Health Matters was syndicated to various commercial and PBS stations during the 1980s. Medstar later expanded to produce two medical news products, "MedstarSource" and "MedstarAdvances" syndicated to commercial television stations in the United States. In 1990, Medstar began to produce programming for cable television including the Discovery Channel, HBO and TLC. In 1995, the company created the Medical Detectives series on forensic science, which premiered on TLC in April of 1995. It was the first reality based forensic series on television and used a 'murder mystery' approach to documentary storytelling. In 2000, the Medical Detectives series moved to the CourtTV network (now TruTV) where it was re-titled Forensic Files and quickly became the networks highest rated television series. Internationally, the series was sold to stations and networks in over 142 countries where it remains enormously popular. Peter Thomas narrates the series which is still in production, with more than 300 episodes (and counting. ) In 2002, Forensic Files would appear on NBC as the first prime time television series originally produced for cable to air on a commercial network, as a summer replacement series. | 0 |
WOLF-FM | WOLF-FM 2016-07-10T21:08:26Z WOLF-FM is a radio station serving the community of Baldwinsville, New York in the Syracuse, New York metropolitan area. The station is owned by Family Life Network, and is currently operating as a simulcast of WOSW, running a country music format branded as 92. 1 The Wolf. In 1967, the station began operations as a full-time country outlet as WSEN-FM. It was the sister station to WSEN-AM 1050, one of the first country stations in the northeastern United States. Century Radio sold the stations in 1974. On September 7, 1975, WSEN-FM began operating on a 24-hour basis continuing with a country music format hosted by Carl Knight from 1-6 a. m. The new 24 hour full time programming lineup included: Bob Paris 6-10 a. m. ; Daniel J. Dunn 10 a. m. - 2 p. m. ; "Uncle" Rob 2-6 p. m. ; Les Howard 6-10 p. m. ; Al Jenner 10 p. m. - 1 a. m. In 1986, the station format flipped to oldies. Both AM and FM were owned by Buckley Broadcasting during much of the 2000s, until being sold in 2008 to Leatherstocking Media Group. In 2011, as the oldies format drifted into classic hits, WSEN (at the time playing a 1960s/1970s mix of songs) split its simulcast: the FM side switched to a modern-leaning classic hits format centered on the 1970s and 1980s, while the AM side went for a "real oldies" approach featuring 1950s and 1960s music. In late 2015, the station was sold to the Family Life Network, a regional religious broadcaster, along with WMCR-FM and rights to WFBL. WSEN-FM's intellectual property (including all on-air programming and staff contracts) was sold to Galaxy Communications, who merged it with that of WZUN (which Galaxy reacquired in February 2016). Family Life Network then promptly traded the 92. 1 license to Craig Fox in exchange for the former WOLF-FM (105. 1) in DeRuyter and WWLF-FM (96. 7) in Oswego. WOLF's country music format was installed on 92. 1 on March 29 at 5:00 p. m. The WSEN-FM call letters were swapped with Fox's WNDR-FM on April 6, 2016. The station adopted the WOLF-FM call sign on April 14, 2016. On June 15, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied the trade and fined Foxfur and Wolf Radio $20,000 for violating the multiple ownership rule (because the companies' owner Craig Fox illegaly operated eight licenses, where ownership limits in the market are seven). In late June 2016, FoxFur filed a second request for the transfer of 105. 1 and 96. 7 to Family Life. However, because of the FCC's ruling, FoxFur ceased operation of WOLF-FM. The station's owner, Family Life, is temporarily operating the station as a simulcast of Fox's WOSW, which is itself broadcasting the original country music format that Fox installed on 92. 1., WOLF-FM 2017-09-09T02:33:01Z WOLF-FM is a radio station serving the community of Baldwinsville, New York in the Syracuse, New York metropolitan area. The station is owned by Craig Fox, through licensee FoxFur Communications, LLC, and is currently operating as a simulcast of WOSW, running a country music format branded as 92. 1 The Wolf. In 1967, the station began operations as a full-time country outlet as WSEN-FM. It was the sister station to WSEN 1050, one of the first country stations in the northeastern United States. Century Radio sold the stations in 1974. On September 7, 1975, WSEN-FM began operating on a 24-hour basis continuing with a country music format hosted by Carl Knight from 1-6 a. m. The new 24 hour full-time programming lineup included: Bob Paris 6-10 a. m. ; Daniel J. Dunn 10 a. m. - 2 p. m. ; "Uncle" Rob 2-6 p. m. ; Les Howard 6-10 p. m. ; Al Jenner 10 p. m. - 1 a. m. In 1986, the station format flipped to oldies. Both AM and FM were owned by Buckley Broadcasting during much of the 2000s, until being sold in 2008 to Leatherstocking Media Group. In 2011, as the oldies format drifted into classic hits, WSEN (at the time playing a 1960s/1970s mix of songs) split its simulcast: the FM side switched to a modern-leaning classic hits format centered on the 1970s and 1980s, while the AM side went for a "real oldies" approach featuring 1950s and 1960s music. In late 2015, the station was sold to the Family Life Network, a regional religious broadcaster, along with WMCR-FM and rights to WFBL. WSEN-FM's intellectual property (including all on-air programming and staff contracts) was sold to Galaxy Communications, who merged it with that of WZUN (which Galaxy reacquired in February 2016). Family Life Network then promptly traded the 92. 1 license to Craig Fox in exchange for the former WOLF-FM (105. 1) in DeRuyter and WWLF-FM (96. 7) in Oswego. WOLF's country music format was installed on 92. 1 on March 29 at 5:00 p. m. The WSEN-FM call letters were swapped with Fox's WNDR-FM on April 6, 2016. The station adopted the WOLF-FM call sign on April 14, 2016. On June 15, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied the trade and fined FoxFur and Wolf Radio $20,000 for violating the multiple ownership rule (because the companies' owner Craig Fox illegally operated eight licenses, where ownership limits in the market are seven). In late June 2016, FoxFur filed a second request for the transfer of 105. 1 and 96. 7 to Family Life. However, because of the FCC's ruling, FoxFur ceased operation of WOLF-FM. The station's owner, Family Life, is temporarily operating the station as a simulcast of Fox's WOSW, which is itself broadcasting the original country music format that Fox installed on 92. 1. As a result, WOLF-FM is the only station in FLN's portfolio running secular programming. The transaction was approved in September 2016; the consummation of the transfer back to FoxFur is slated to occur simultaneously with FoxFur's pending purchase of WFBL in 2017 to ensure Foxfur remains under the ownership cap. The transaction was consummated on August 21, 2017, with the transfer of translator W252AC to Family Life and translator W207BH to FoxFur affiliate Wolf Radio, Inc. being rolled into it. | 0 |
AS Monaco FC | AS Monaco FC 2005-01-05T17:08:51Z Ok how come i get to edit this page and this website isnt mine anyway Insert non-formatted text here I n s e r t f o r m u l a h e r e {\displaystyle Insertformulahere} Media:Example.ogg == Headline text = Monaco ganfa tu ze saed ta rame tu ca sa ter me, AS Monaco FC 2006-12-20T21:39:27Z The Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club is a Monegasque football club, founded in 1919. They became a professional club after 1948. Although the club is in Monaco, it has always competed in the French football structure. For this reason, it has always been regarded with a certain suspicion by a segment of the French population. It is one of the most successful clubs in French football, with seven league titles and five French Cup titles. It has also had some successful campaigns in Europe, including a run to the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2004, but it has not won a European competition. AS Monaco is sometimes derided for its relatively low number of spectators (10,394 average for the 2003/2004 season). However, taking into account the city's population of 30,000 and that it competes with Nice's team (350,000 inhabitants) OGC Nice 20 km nearby (with an average attendance of 11,500 in the same season), Monaco as a city has one of the highest spectator/inhabitant ratios in France. AS Monaco's home ground is Stade Louis II, an all-seater with a capacity of 18,500 in the Fontvieille section of Monaco. The stadium, as well as the Fontvieille district, was built entirely on land reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea. This small but glamorous looking stadium is often used to host the European Supercup at the start of the season, featuring the winner of the Champions League and the winner of the UEFA Cup. Monaco were shock finalists in the UEFA Champions League in 2004, impressively beating the likes of Real Madrid and Chelsea along the way there, but they were defeated by FC Porto in the final, losing the match 3-0. This remains Monaco's greatest achievement so far in Europe, but in 2005 Monaco were beaten in the 3rd qualifying round stage by Real Betis. They have since continued recent good form and secured a place in the 1/16th of the UEFA Cup vs. Basel after having won the Group Stage tournament (group including Hamburg, CSKA Sofia, Slavia Prague and Viking Stavanger), after a victorious home/away fixture over Dutch side Willem II. As of March 20, 2006 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. start end | 1 |
Mix Diskerud | Mix Diskerud 2014-01-20T20:49:59Z Mikkel "Mix" Morgenstar Pålssønn Diskerud (born October 2, 1990) is a Norwegian-American soccer player currently playing for Rosenborg BK. Internationally, he played for both Norwegian and American national youth teams, but he represents the United States at senior level. Diskerud started his career in Frigg, and was discovered by Stabæk during a district tournament in Oslo. He joined their junior team in 2005, at the same time attending the sport school Norwegian College of Elite Sport. Starting in the 2006 season, he played regularly for the club's B team in the Norwegian Second Division over the next seasons. In 2008 he also helped the club's junior team win the Norwegian Junior Cup (U-19). He made his debut for the first team in a 2008 Norwegian Football Cup match against Vestfossen IF. He was then named in the starting eleven in the 2009 La Manga Cup, scoring after two minutes in his first match. He also played as a substitute in the Super Final, the Norwegian Super Cup, one week before the league opener. He was benched in the opening match, but in the second match against SK Brann, he was allowed to make his debut in a regular first-team match. He came in as a substitute some ten minutes before full-time and scored the equalizer in the 84th minute; the game ended 1–1. On January 31, 2012 Diskerud moved to Belgian Pro League club K.A.A. Gent on loan until the end of the 2011–12 season. On August 9, 2012 Diskerud moved to Tippeligaen club Rosenborg until the end of the 2012. Rosenborg BK have reported that they plan to offer Diskerud to a long-term contract extension. On November 24, 2013, Diskerud scored Rosenborg's equalizing goal in the final of the Norwegian Football Cup, but it proved to be only a consolation as the club fell 4–2 to Molde. Diskerud's mother is from Arizona, originally making him eligible to represent either the United States or Norway. In April 2008 he played a tournament for the United States under-20's team, recording three assists during a game against Northern Ireland. A month later, he played for the Norwegian under-18's team against the United States. In February 2009, when asked about his future plans for international play, he replied that it does not really matter which country he represents. He used the phrase "first-come, first-served", meaning that he will respond to the first international call-up from either country. In March 2009 he played for the Norwegian under-19's team. He later stated that he would likely accept any future call ups from US Soccer but had not heard from them since the youth tournament in 2008. Only weeks later, after several strong performances for his Norwegian club, Stabæk, he was contacted by US Soccer about attending an under-20's camp in May. He had to turn down the invitation due to his role in Stabæk and that the camp schedule conflicts with the Norwegian season. However, Diskerud traveled with the U.S. under-20 team to Egypt in June 2009 for one of two friendlies, and he scored his first goal against Egypt. His appearance in the Egyptian friendly signaled his final choice for international play for the United States, saying "I am a Norwegian-American. I would love to play for both countries, but I can't." His mother coined his nickname "Mix". He had a lot of energy while he was learning to walk and ran around the house like a mixmaster. , Mix Diskerud 2015-12-30T22:18:12Z Mikkel Morgenstar Pålssønn "Mix" Diskerud (born October 2, 1990) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for New York City FC in Major League Soccer and the United States national team. His mother coined his nickname "Mix" when he was learning to walk, as he had lots of energy and ran around the house like a mixmaster. Born in Oslo, Norway, to an American mother and Norwegian father, Diskerud started his career in Frigg, and was discovered by Stabæk during a district tournament in Oslo. He joined their junior team in 2005, at the same time attending the sport school Norwegian College of Elite Sport. Starting in the 2006 season, he played regularly for the club's B team in the Norwegian Second Division over the next seasons. In 2008 he also helped the club's junior team win the Norwegian Junior Cup (U-19). He made his debut for the first team in a 2008 Norwegian Football Cup match against Vestfossen IF. He was then named in the starting eleven in the 2009 La Manga Cup, scoring after two minutes in his first match. He also played as a substitute in the Super Final, the Norwegian Super Cup, one week before the league opener. He was benched in the opening match, but in the second match against SK Brann, he was allowed to make his debut in a regular first-team match. He came in as a substitute some ten minutes before full-time and scored the equalizer in the 84th minute; the game ended 1–1. Diskerud was loaned to Belgian Pro League club K.A.A. Gent for the latter part of the 2011–12 season. In August 2012, Diskerud moved to Tippeligaen club Rosenborg until the end of the 2012. After an aborted move to the Portland Timbers in late 2012 Diskerud signed an extension with Rosenborg. Diskerud scored Rosenborg's equalizing goal in the final of the Norwegian Football Cup, but it proved to be only a consolation as the club lost 4–2 to Molde. In January 2015, Diskerud signed with New York City FC. He scored New York City's first ever MLS goal in an inaugural match draw with Orlando City. Diskerud's mother is from Arizona, originally making him eligible to represent either the United States or Norway. While Diskerud was playing for Norway, United States U-20 coach Thomas Rongen approached him as he was preparing to take a corner, and asked if he had an American passport, to which Diskerud answered, "yes." In April 2008 he played a tournament for the United States under-20's team, recording three assists during a game against Northern Ireland. A month later, he played for the Norwegian under-18's team against the United States. In February 2009, when asked about his future plans for international play, he replied that it does not really matter which country he represents. He used the phrase "first-come, first-served", meaning that he will respond to the first international call-up from either country. In March 2009 he played for the Norwegian under-19's team. He later stated that he would likely accept any future call ups from US Soccer but had not heard from them since the youth tournament in 2008. Only weeks later, after several strong performances for his Norwegian club, Stabæk, he was contacted by US Soccer about attending an under-20's camp in May 2009. He had to turn down the invitation due to his role in Stabæk and that the camp schedule conflicts with the Norwegian season. However, Diskerud traveled with the U.S. under-20 team to Egypt in June 2009 for one of two friendlies, and he scored his first goal against Egypt. His appearance in the Egyptian friendly signaled his final choice for international play for the United States, saying "I am a Norwegian-American. I would love to play for both countries, but I can't." Diskerud debuted for the senior team in 2010. He was a member of the squad that won the 2013 Gold Cup. He later was a member of the squad for the 2014 World Cup, although he failed to make an appearance at the tournament. | 1 |
Rainn Wilson | Rainn Wilson 2015-01-02T19:30:45Z Rainn Dietrich Wilson /reɪn ˈdiːtrɪk ˈwɪlsən/ (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor who is well known for his Emmy-nominated role as the egomaniac Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. He has also directed three episodes of The Office: the Season 6 "The Cover-Up", the Season 7 "Classy Christmas", and the Season 8 "Get the Girl". He also voiced the alien villain, Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009). Wilson was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Shay Cooper, a yoga teacher and actress, and Robert G. Wilson, a novel writer, artist, and business consultant who wrote the science fiction novel Tentacles of Dawn. Wilson has English and Norwegian ancestry. He attended Central Middle School and Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington, where he played the clarinet and bassoon in the band. He transferred to and graduated from New Trier High School after his family moved to Winnetka, Illinois, to serve at the Bahá'í National Center. Wilson has a theatre background from Tufts University and the University of Washington, and he has taught acting classes. Wilson holds an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of The Acting Company. While acting in theatrical productions in New York City, he drove a moving van to make ends meet. In addition to his starring role on The Office, Wilson appeared as the eccentric Arthur Martin—the intern at Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home—on HBO's Six Feet Under. He has also appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI, and Entourage, in the last portraying a sleazy entertainment journalist based on Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News. Wilson guest-starred in an episode of Monk titled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame" and as a virologist in "Vector, "an episode of NUMB3RS. He appeared in the "Coyote Piper" episode of Charmed as an alchemist named Kierkan. Wilson has made a guest appearance in two episodes of the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim-bloc series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. Wilson has also appeared on Reno 911. On February 24, 2007, Wilson hosted Saturday Night Live, becoming the second cast member from The Office to host (after Steve Carell). During the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, Wilson appeared in ads for the 2007 United States women's national soccer team as public relations manager "Jim Mike." In August 2010 Wilson appeared in the music video for Ferraby Lionheart's "Harry and Bess." Wilson was also in the music video for Andy Grammer's "Keep Your Head Up" as the "creepy elevator guy." and made the final cut for the role of Gob in Arrested Development, but was beaten out by Will Arnett for it. His film credits include Almost Famous, America's Sweethearts, BAADASSSSS! , Galaxy Quest, House of 1000 Corpses, Sahara, The Last Mimzy, Juno (in which he played convenience store clerk Rollo), The Rocker, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Wilson starred in the Fox Atomic comedy The Rocker, released on August 20, 2008. His 2009 films include Bonzai Shadowhands, which he co-wrote and co-produced; Renaissance Men, which he co-wrote and co-produced; the DreamWorks Animation film Monsters vs. Aliens, as the voice of the villainous alien overlord Gallaxhar, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, in which he played a university professor. In 2011, he played the lead role as the unhinged protagonist in Super. Wilson wrote in-character as Dwight Schrute on his NBC blog, "Schrute-Space". In June 2008, Wilson confirmed that he no longer writes the blog. In 2014, Wilson was cast as the lead role in the upcoming Fox crime-drama Backstrom, based on Leif G. W. Persson's Swedish book series of the same name. He plays Everett Backstrom, an offensive, self-destructive detective who is part of a team of eccentric criminologists. Wilson founded the website and YouTube channel SoulPancake. As of April 24, 2014, the channel has over 1,190,000 subscribers, and over 139,000,000 video views. Soul Pancake has been featured on Oprah Winfrey's Satellite Radio Show and Super Soul Sunday. Wilson is married to writer Holiday Reinhorn. They met in an acting class in college and married on the Kalama River in Washington. The couple have a son, Walter Mckenzie, born in 2004, and they currently reside in Agoura Hills, California. They have a home outside of Sisters, Oregon. They have three pit bulls, Oona, Barry, and Pilot. He and his family are members of the Baha'i Faith. A short film inspired by his character in The Office was selected and shown at the 2009 Dawn Breakers International Film Festival in Zurich. On Bill Maher's Real Time, Wilson described himself as a diverse independent, voting for Republican, Green Party, and Democratic candidates. Wilson's charitable works include fundraising for the educational organization The Mona Foundation. Wilson and his father, both art collectors, buy and sell fine art and represent contemporary artists on their website. , Rainn Wilson 2016-12-30T03:03:38Z Rainn Dietrich Wilson (/reɪn ˈdiːtrɪk ˈwɪlsən/; born January 20, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as egomaniac Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. Other television roles include Lieutenant Backstrom in the FOX drama Backstrom. In film, Wilson has had numerous parts in such movies as Super, Juno, The Rocker, Sahara, Almost Famous as well as voicing an alien villain in 2009's Monsters vs. Aliens. He published an autobiography, The Bassoon King, in November 2015. He co-founded the digital media company SoulPancake in 2008. Wilson was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Shay Cooper, a yoga teacher and actress, and Robert G. Wilson, a novelist, artist, and business consultant who wrote the science fiction novel Tentacles of Dawn. Wilson has Norwegian ancestry. He attended Kellogg Middle School and Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington, where he played the clarinet and bassoon in the band. He transferred to and graduated from New Trier High School after his family moved to Wilmette, Illinois, to serve at the Bahá'í National Center. Wilson has a theatre background from Tufts University and the University of Washington, and he has taught acting classes. Wilson holds an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of The Acting Company. While acting in theatrical productions in New York City, he drove a moving van to make ends meet. Wilson worked extensively in the theater for his first ten years after graduating from N.Y.U. He was an actor at the Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout and The Guthrie Theater, among others. He was nominated for three Helen Hayes Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his work at the Arena Stage. Wilson played Arthur Martin, the intern at Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home in HBO's Six Feet Under and Dwight Schrute in The Office, on which he directed three episodes: the Season 6 "The Cover-Up", the Season 7 "Classy Christmas", and the Season 8 "Get the Girl", and guest-starred in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Entourage, Monk, NUMB3RS, Charmed, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, Reno 911 and Roadies. On February 24, 2007, Wilson hosted Saturday Night Live, becoming the second cast member from The Office to host (after Steve Carell). During the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, Wilson appeared in ads for the 2007 United States women's national soccer team as public relations manager "Jim Mike." In August 2010, Wilson appeared in the music video for Ferraby Lionheart's "Harry and Bess" and Andy Grammer's "Keep Your Head Up" as the "creepy elevator guy", and made the final cut for the role of Gob in Arrested Development, but was replaced by Will Arnett. He was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor three different times for his role as Dwight Schrute in 2007, 2008, and 2009. He won two SAG awards for best comedy ensemble for a television show for The Office and one for best drama ensemble for Six Feet Under. He also starred in films, including Almost Famous, America's Sweethearts, BAADASSSSS! , Galaxy Quest, House of 1000 Corpses, Sahara, The Last Mimzy, Juno (as the convenience store clerk Rollo), The Rocker and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Wilson starred in the Fox Atomic comedy The Rocker, released on August 20, 2008. In 2009 he lent his voice to DreamWorks Animation film Monsters vs. Aliens, as the villainous alien overlord Gallaxhar, and was featured inTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, in which he played a university professor. In 2011, he played the lead role as the unhinged protagonist in Super and the black sheep brother in Peep World. More recently he played in the independent horror comedy, Cooties and the thriller The Boy for Elijah Wood’s production company, SpectreVision. He recently finished shooting Shimmer Lake, a Netflix original movie, Permanent, an independent comedy and Meg for Warner Brothers. Rainn is voicing the character of Gargamel in the 2017 animated reboot of The Smurfs: The Lost Village for Sony Pictures Animation. In the Fox crime-drama Backstrom, Wilson played Evert Backstrom, an offensive, self-destructive detective who is part of a team of eccentric criminologists. The series is based on Leif G. W. Persson's Swedish book series of the same name. Wilson also served as the show's producer. It was cancelled by Fox after 13 episodes. Wilson co-wrote the New York Times Bestseller SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions and wrote a humorous memoir about his personal life, career and faith called The Bassoon King that was published in November 2015. Wilson founded the website and YouTube channel SoulPancake. As of January 24, 2016, the channel has over 1.6 million subscribers, and over 225 million video views. SoulPancake has been featured on Oprah Winfrey's Satellite Radio Show and Super Soul Sunday. The tagline of the brand is: "We make stuff that matters." They were named one of Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video for 2015. More recently, SoulPancake was ranked #114 on the 2015 Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America List It was recently purchased by Participant Media. Wilson is married to writer Holiday Reinhorn. They met in an acting class in college and married on the Kalama River in Washington. The couple have a son, Walter Mckenzie, born in 2004, and reside in Agoura Hills, California. They have a home outside of Sisters, Oregon. They have two pit bulls, Oona and Pilot, two vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, Snorty and Amy, as well as a zonkey named Derek. He and his family are members of the Baha'i Faith. He hosts a podcast for Baha'i Blog called the Baha'i Blogcast, where he interviews notable people about the intersection of their faith and their work. On Bill Maher's Real Time, Wilson described himself as a diverse independent, voting for Republican, Green Party, and Democratic candidates. Wilson's charitable works include fundraising for the Mona educational organization. In 2013, along with his wife and Dr Kathryn Adams, he co-founded Lidè Haiti, an educational initiative that uses the arts and literacy to empower adolescent girls in rural Haiti. They currently work in 13 locations with over 500 girls, providing scholarships to many of them. | 1 |
Haʻano | Haʻano 2010-07-24T10:17:44Z Haʻano is an island in the Haʻapai islands of Tonga. To the south are the islands of Foa and Lifuka. The island is 6. 58 km² in area. It is losing population, which sank from 588 in 1996 to 477 in 2006. The four villages are all located on the west coast. From north to south, they are: Ha'ano is the main village and district center, with a population of 135. Fakakai is the largest village, with a population of 215. The district of Ha'ano includes beside the namesake island also the island Mo'unga'one (1. 17 km², pop. 136, 20 km to the west), and a few uninhabited islands. In 2004 a German television station sponsoed two German families to live for three months on the island 'like natives'. The result of this experiment was filmed. More about this documentary "Traumfischer" on the webpage http://www. nelligennet. com/horst. html , Haʻano 2012-01-28T08:40:18Z Haʻano is an island in the Haʻapai islands of Tonga. To the south are the islands of Foa and Lifuka. The island is 6. 58 km² in area. It is losing population, which sank from 588 in 1996 to 477 in 2006. The four villages are all located on the west coast. From north to south, they are: Ha'ano is the main village and district center, with a population of 135. Fakakakai is the largest village, with a population of 215. The district of Ha'ano includes beside the namesake island also the island Mo'unga'one (1. 17 km², pop. 136, 20 km to the west), and a few uninhabited islands. In 2004 a German television station sponsoed two German families to live for three months on the island 'like natives'. The result of this experiment was filmed. More about this documentary "Traumfischer" on the webpage http://www. nelligennet. com/horst. html 19°40′26″S 174°16′41″W / 19. 674°S 174. 278°W / -19. 674; -174. 278 (Ha'ano) | 0 |
Conservation_Effects_Assessment_Project | Conservation_Effects_Assessment_Project 2010-06-07T05:58:28Z The Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) "began in 2003 as a multi-agency effort to quantify the environmental benefits of conservation practices used by private landowners participating in selected United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs" including the Conservation Reserve Program and the Wetlands Reserve Program. The USDA agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), leads this project. , Conservation_Effects_Assessment_Project 2011-08-11T22:57:32Z The Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) was established in 2002 to quantify the environmental impact of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) conservation program. The project focuses on how watersheds are affected. CEAP monitored fourteen benchmark watershed sites. The CEAP's vision is to enhance "natural resources and healthier ecosystems through improved conservation effectiveness and better management of agricultural landscapes". The goal is "to improve efficacy of conservations practices and programs by quantifying conservation effects and providing the science and education base needed to enrich conservation planning, implementation, management decisions,and policy. " Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service. It is a river basin scale model used to quantify the impact of land management practices in large watersheds. This tool is located in Grassland, Soil and Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas. Sustaining the Earth's Watershed-Agricultural Research Data Systems (STEWARDS) was created by a group called the Watershed Assessment Studies a team within the CEAP. STEWARDS is a system that consists of a database to allow users to search and analyze various watershed conditions. The anticipated benefits include data preservation, faster data access, and improved ability to collaborate research between watersheds. Lead USDA agencies Additional partners affect | 0 |
Death_anniversary | Death_anniversary 2008-03-19T02:00:00Z A death anniversary (also called death day or deathday) is a custom observed in several Asian cultures including China, India, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in other nations with significant overseas Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese populations. Like a birthday, it is celebrated each year, but instead of on the date of birth of the individual being celebrated, it is celebrated on the day on which a family member or other significant individual died. There are also similar memorial services that are held at different intervals, such as every week. Although primarily a manifestation of ancestor worship, the tradition has also been associated with Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. In China, a death anniversary is called jìchén (忌辰) or jìrì (忌日). This type of ceremony dates back thousands of years in China (at least to the Shang Dynasty) and historically involved making sacrifices to the spirits of one's ancestors. In India, a death anniversary is known as shraadh. In Japan, a death anniversary is called meinichi (kanji: 命日), kishin (kanji: 忌辰), or kijitsu or kinichi (kanji: 忌日). Monthly observances of a death are known as tsuki meinichi (kanji: 月命日), while annual anniversaries are known as shōtsuki meinichi (kanji: 祥月命日). In Korea, ancestor worship ceremonies are referred to by the generic term jerye (hangul: 제례; hanja: 祭禮). Notable examples of jerye include Munmyo jerye and Jongmyo jerye, which are performed periodically each year for venerated Confucian scholars and kings of ancient times, respectively. The ceremony held on the anniversary of a family member's death is called gije (hangul: 기제; hanja: 忌祭), and is celebrated by families as a private ceremony. For such occasions, the women of the family traditionally prepare an elaborate set of dishes, including tteok, jeon, jeok, and so forth. In Vietnam, a death anniversary is called giỗ, ngày giỗ (literally "giỗ day"), đám giỗ (literally "giỗ ceremony"), or bữa giỗ (literally "giỗ meal"). It is a festive occasion, at which members of an extended family gather together. Female family members traditionally spend the entire day cooking an elaborate banquet in honor of the deceased individual, which will then be enjoyed by all the family members. In addition, sticks of incense are burned in honor and commemoration of the deceased person. It is not unusual for a family to celebrate several giỗ per year, so the ceremony serves as a time for families to reunite, much like the Vietnamese new year, Tết. The rituals are the responsibility of whoever inherits the ancestral estates, typically the deceased's most senior patrilineal descendant. Although a giỗ is usually a private ceremony attended only by family members (and occasionally also close friends), some are commemorated by large segments of the population. The commemoration of the in Hung Kings (Giỗ tổ Hùng Vương), the legendary founders of the first Vietnamese kingdom in Vietnam's remote past, and of the Trung Sisters are widely participated. In March 2007 Giỗ tổ Hùng Vương became a public holiday in Vietnam. As in all traditional commemorations, the Chinese calendar is used. In Vietnamese culture, certain special, traditional dishes (particularly desserts) are only prepared for death anniversary banquets. In addition, favorite foods of the deceased person being honored are also prepared. Chicken, a particularly prized meat in Vietnam, is often cooked as well. In Central Vietnam, small stuffed glutinous rice flour balls wrapped in leaves called bánh ít are such a dish. Because the preparation of so many complex dishes is complex and time-consuming, some families purchase or hire caterers to prepare certain dishes. , Death_anniversary 2009-09-20T04:37:33Z A death anniversary (also called death day or deathday) is a custom observed in several Asian cultures including China, Pakistan, India, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in other nations with significant overseas Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese populations. Like a birthday, it is celebrated each year, but instead of on the date of birth of the individual being celebrated, it is celebrated on the day on which a family member or other significant individual died. There are also similar memorial services that are held at different intervals, such as every week. Although primarily a manifestation of ancestor worship, the tradition has also been associated with Confucianism and Buddhism (in East Asian cultural civilizations) or Hinduism (South Asia but mainly in India). Death anniversaries are also commemorated in Judaism, where it is called by various names. In China, a death anniversary is called jìchén (忌辰) or jìrì (忌日). This type of ceremony dates back thousands of years in China (at least to the Shang Dynasty) and historically involved making sacrifices to the spirits of one's ancestors. In India, a death anniversary is known as shraadh. The first death anniversary is called a barsy. Shraadh means to give with devotion or to offer one's respect. Shraadh is a ritual for expressing one's respectful feelings for the ancestors. According to Indian texts a soul has to wander about in the various worlds after death and has to suffer a lot due to past karmas. Shraadh is a means of alleviating this suffering. Shraddhyaa Kriyate Yaa Saa: Shraadh is the ritual accomplished to satiate one's ancestors. Shraadh is a private ceremony performed by the family members of the departed soul. Though not mandated spiritually, it is typically performed by the eldest son and other siblings join in offering prayers together. In Japan, a death anniversary is called meinichi (kanji: 命日), kishin (kanji: 忌辰), or kijitsu or kinichi (kanji: 忌日). Monthly observances of a death are known as tsuki meinichi (kanji: 月命日), while annual anniversaries are known as shōtsuki meinichi (kanji: 祥月命日). In Korea, ancestor worship ceremonies are referred to by the generic term jerye (hangul: 제례; hanja: 祭禮). Notable examples of jerye include Munmyo jerye and Jongmyo jerye, which are performed periodically each year for venerated Confucian scholars and kings of ancient times, respectively. The ceremony held on the anniversary of a family member's death is called gije (hangul: 기제; hanja: 忌祭), and is celebrated by families as a private ceremony. For such occasions, the women of the family traditionally prepare an elaborate set of dishes, including tteok, jeon, jeok, and so forth. In Vietnam, a death anniversary is called giỗ, ngày giỗ (literally "giỗ day"), đám giỗ (literally "giỗ ceremony"), or bữa giỗ (literally "giỗ meal"). It is a festive occasion, at which members of an extended family gather together. Female family members traditionally spend the entire day cooking an elaborate banquet in honor of the deceased individual, which will then be enjoyed by all the family members. In addition, sticks of incense are burned in honor and commemoration of the deceased person. It is not unusual for a family to celebrate several giỗ per year, so the ceremony serves as a time for families to reunite, much like the Vietnamese new year, Tết. The rituals are the responsibility of whoever inherits the ancestral estates, typically the deceased's most senior patrilineal descendant. Although a giỗ is usually a private ceremony attended only by family members (and occasionally also close friends), some are commemorated by large segments of the population. The commemoration of the in Hung Kings (Giỗ tổ Hùng Vương), the legendary founders of the first Vietnamese kingdom in Vietnam's remote past, and of the Trung Sisters are widely participated. In March 2007 Giỗ tổ Hùng Vương became a public holiday in Vietnam. As in all traditional commemorations, the Chinese calendar is used. In Vietnamese culture, certain special, traditional dishes (particularly desserts) are only prepared for death anniversary banquets. In addition, favorite foods of the deceased person being honored are also prepared. Chicken, a particularly prized meat in Vietnam, is often cooked as well. In Central Vietnam, small stuffed glutinous rice flour balls wrapped in leaves called bánh ít are such a dish. Because the preparation of so many complex dishes is complex and time-consuming, some families purchase or hire caterers to prepare certain dishes. | 0 |
Rick Fox | Rick Fox 2004-05-14T17:37:19Z Rick Fox (born July 24, 1969 in Toronto, Canada) is a professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. , Rick Fox 2005-12-26T21:45:20Z Ulrich "Rick" Fox (born July 24, 1969 in Toronto, Canada), is a former professional basketball player and minor actor. Fox's family moved to their native Bahamas when Fox was two. He attended Queens College in Nassau and was a member of the high school's basketball team, "The QC Comets." He then also played high school basketball in Warsaw, Indiana before starring collegiately at the University of North Carolina where his highlights included upsetting number one Oklahoma in the second round of the 1990 NCAA Tournament with a short bank shot at the buzzer, and leading the Tar Heels to the 1991 NCAA Final Four. Fox played for thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. He retired prior to the 2004-05 season after being traded back to the Celtics, along with Gary Payton. The Lakers won three NBA championships during Fox's tenure with them. Fox was formerly married to actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams. His acting credits include playing Jackson Vehue on the HBO prison drama Oz. Fox played internationally for Canada once, at the 1994 FIBA Basketball World Championship held in Toronto. His team was eliminated on the final possession of a game against Greece and two points down, Fox, on an "iso", failed to get off a shot. Bahamian American | 1 |
Clarendon_Entertainment | Clarendon_Entertainment 2008-04-26T08:04:40Z Clarendon Entertainment is a New York City-based film production and distribution company that specializes in filmed entertainment with characters and subject matter of interest to African-American audiences. Founded in 1998 by media entrepreneur Rodney Parnther and award-winning director, Roderick Giles, the Company’s mission is to expand the range of quality film content available to fans of black cinema while maintaining long-term African-American ownership of the copyrights to its properties. The company is best known for financing and producing well-crafted high quality 35mm short films under the Urban S. L. A. M. (Short Live Action Movies) brand. Urban S. L. A. M. is a platform that introduces audiences to the work of a new generation of urban filmmakers. These films are generally well-crafted pieces that feature both established and emerging African American performers. The films have been official selections at prominent film festivals throughout the U. S. and have aired on cable networks owned by HBO, Showtime and BET. One of the shorts, The Tested, won the top prize at the 2006 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, qualifying it for an Academy Award nomination. Clarendon distributes the Urban S. L. A. M. series on DVD as well as other titles under a multi-year agreement with Ryko Distribution, a unit of Warner Music Group. The DVD is presented as a collection of 5-8 high quality short films with compelling segments in between films. The company also offers its short-form content on Urban SLAM Broadband, an online video-on-demand channel that is syndicated through a network of affiliated websites, the Urban SLAM Film Festival, a DIY (do-it-yourself) film festival aimed at student groups on college campuses and community non-profits and BlackMoviesOnline. tv, a soon to be launched premium video web portal where indie filmmakers can expose their work to black cinema enthusiasts. In April 2007, the company released The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains: Journey into the Rain Forest, the critically-acclaimed first episode of a 3D animated series aimed at children 5-8 years old. The series follows the exploits of 6-year old Teddy, an African-American boy with a love for learning, his cousin Tempest Wits and dog D’Artagnan as they travel around the earth and back in time on exciting missions. In March 2008, the company released the award-winning documentary Who Killed Martin Luther King? , directed by Emmy award-winning John Edginton,on DVD for the first time. , Clarendon_Entertainment 2009-08-01T16:09:45Z Clarendon Entertainment is a New York City-based film production and distribution company that specializes in films and documentaries with subject matter of interest to African-American audiences. Founded in 1998 by media entrepreneur Rodney Parnther and award-winning director, Roderick Giles, the Company’s mission is to expand the range of quality film content available to fans of black cinema while maintaining long-term African-American ownership of the copyrights to its properties. The company is best known for financing and producing well-crafted high quality 35mm short films under the Urban S. L. A. M. (Short Live Action Movies) brand. Urban S. L. A. M. is a platform that introduces audiences to the work of a new generation of urban filmmakers. These films are generally well-crafted pieces that feature both established and emerging African American performers. The films have been official selections at prominent film festivals throughout the U. S. and have aired on cable networks owned by HBO, Showtime and BET. One of the shorts, The Tested, won the top prize at the 2006 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, qualifying it for an Academy Award nomination. Clarendon distributes the Urban S. L. A. M. series on DVD as well as other titles under a multi-year agreement with Alternative Distribution Alliance, a unit of Warner Music Group. The DVD is presented as a collection of 5-8 high quality short films with compelling segments in between films. The company also offers its short-form content (i) as part of Urban SLAM ClubPremiereTM, an online movie club that premieres new titles each month by delivering them to members via e-mail and (ii) on BlackMoviesOnline. tv, a soon to be launched premium video web portal where indie filmmakers can expose their work to black cinema enthusiasts. Recently, the Company began offering colleges and universities across the U. S. live programs built around selected documentaries for Black History Month. It first program, From Martin to Tupac: Political Assassinations completed a successful tour in February 2009, including screenings at USC, Fordham University, Carnegie Mellon, Wellesley and Ferris State. In April 2007, the company released The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains: Journey into the Rain Forest, the critically-acclaimed first episode of a 3D animated series aimed at children 5-8 years old. The series follows the exploits of 6-year old Teddy, an African-American boy with a love for learning, his cousin Tempest Wits and dog D’Artagnan as they travel around the earth and back in time on exciting missions. In March 2008, the company released the award-winning documentary Who Killed Martin Luther King? , directed by Emmy award-winning John Edginton,on DVD for the first time. In the summer of 2008 Shoebox Pictures went into production on the feature length version of The Tested with Russell Costanzo once more at the helm and Melissa B. Miller producing. The feature length version expands on the controversial themes of redemption, justice, and the cycle of violence and stars Aunjanue Ellis, Armando Riesco, Michael Morris Jr. and Frank Vincent. Beginning in the fall of 2009, the company will begin offering colleges and universities exclusive access to its subscription-based educational web destination www. BlackCinemaOnline. tv. This new site's theme is Fade-Up: A Celebration of African American Cinema - Past, Present and Future and includes a multi-media historical archive; interviews with film scholars, critics and historians; movie trailers for upcoming theatrical releases; and a rotating presentation of the company's short film titles. | 0 |
James Urbaniak | James Urbaniak 2005-10-16T02:33:09Z Founder of the Arden Theater Group, this actor is known best for his potrayal of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb in the motion picture American Splendor based on Harvey Pekar's Independent Autobiographical Comic. In the R. Crumb Handbook, Robert Crumb claimed that he felt his potrayal was caricaturistic, while Harvey Pekar has claimed on the DVD of the film that he felt the potrayal was excellent. His other notable role is the voice of Dr. Thaddeus Venture on the Adult Swim program The Venture Brothers created by Jackson Publick. - James Urbaniak IMDB bio -Adult Swim Website, James Urbaniak 2006-12-14T20:53:35Z James Urbaniak (born September 17, 1963 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American actor. He currently lives in New York City with his wife Julie and their fraternal twins Severn Jerzy and Esme Maeve 2. He has been acclaimed for his acting in the film Henry Fool and the play Thom Pain (based on nothing), for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award 1. He currently provides the voice for Dr. Thaddeus Venture on The Venture Bros.. | 1 |
Óscar Cardozo | Óscar Cardozo 2017-01-02T18:04:49Z name Óscar René Cardozo Marín (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 20 May 1983) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Greek club Olympiacos and the Paraguay national team. Known for his powerful left-foot shot and free-kick skills, he first gained attention whilst playing for Newell's Old Boys, which led to a move to Benfica in 2007. He scored nearly 200 official goals for the Portuguese club and won eight major titles, including the 2010 national championship, where he also was the top scorer, and the domestic treble in the 2013–14 season. He then spent two years with Trabzonspor in Turkey before joining Olympiacos. Nicknamed "Takuára" (Big cane in Guarani), Cardozo gained more than 45 caps for Paraguay, representing the nation at the 2007 Copa América and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In 2006 and 2009, he was named Paraguayan Footballer of the Year. Cardozo is the son of Rosa María, who claimed that "Óscar has been a very good son and has managed to help us and take us away from poverty". His father is Genaro and his parents have five children. Cardozo's family had pigs, horses, they planted tobacco and fixed electrical posts on the road in an attempt to make a living. His family lived in a poor area and had no car. Cardozo's father gave him permission to try his luck in football because the sale of pigs and tobacco was not making enough money to survive on. Cardozo's mother stated that their family no funds to buy football boots or get a ball for their son, that he would play in the fields with a ball which his friends brought over and that he had to go to training on a horse. It was not until his switch from Newell's Old Boys to Benfica in Portugal that let him lift his family out of poverty. His mother claimed, "He started saving money to buy a house for the entire family — but never told me what he was doing. One day he just arrived and told me he was going to show me our new house. I was speechless. I cuddled him and I burst into tears. Oscar bought a normal four-bedroom house — but the difference is that this house has a football pitch. He has a big heart. He has given us everything we needed." Cardozo commenced his professional career with modest Club Atlético 3 de Febrero of Ciudad del Este, participating in the División Intermedia championship in 2003 and forming a partner ship with striker Roberto Gamarra. In Round 1 of the 2003 season, Cardozo scored in a 1–1 home draw against Cerro Corá. In the following fixture, he scored in a 2–0 home victory against Sportivo Iteño on 11 May. Two weeks later, he netted in a 3–0 home victory against River Plate Asunción on 25 May. Cardozo would not score again until Round 11, where the player scored the only goal in a 1–0 away victory for 3 de Febrero against Cerro Porteño de Presidente Franco on 13 July. The following week, Cardozo would again score against Cerro Corá in a 1–1 away draw on 27 July. On 10 August, Cardozo scored his first double in a 2–0 home victory against Nacional Asunción. On 7 May, Cardozo would score the only goal for 3 de Febrero as they were defeated 3–1 away against River Plate Asunción on 16 August. In the following fixture, Cardozo would again score, this time in a 1–1 home draw against Presidente Hayes on 23 August. On 30 August, Cardozo scored in a 5–1 away thrashing against Colegiales, which totaled to five consecutive goals in four matches. Cardozo's last league goal would come in Round 21, when the player netted in a 2–1 away victory against Deportivo Recoleta on 27 September. 3 de Febrero had finished in 2nd place of the División Intermedia table and were drawn into promotion play-off fixtures. On 12 October, Cardozo scored in 3 de Febrero's 4–2 victory against River Plate Asunción and one week later would score against Cerro Corá in his side's 2–0 victory on 19 October. Cardozo again scored in the following play-off fixture, a 3–2 victory against General Caballero Zeballos Cué on 25 October. Having won three qualifying promotion play-off fixtures successfully, 3 de Febrero ultimately faced Club Tacuary in a promotion-relegation play-off, which saw the latter win 4–2 on aggregate. Cardozo scored his first goal of the 2004 División Intermedia season in a 1–0 away victory against Cerro Corá in Round 6 on 2 May, with 3 de Febrero continuing an undefeated run. One week later, Cardozo scored a double against Sportivo San Lorenzo in a 2–0 home victory on 7 May. In the following round, 3 de Febrero suffered their first defeat of the season after 8 eight rounds in a 1–0 away defeat against General Caballero, however, consistent results continued as Cardozo scored in a 1–1 draw in the Superclásico of Alto Paraná against Cerro Porteño PF one week later on 23 May. Cardozo scored his 5th league goal of the season in a 2–1 home victory against Cerro Corá in Round 15 on 9 July. 3 de Febrero had been on a 9-game undefeated streak, which ultimately lasted until Round 18, the last match of the season against Cerro Porteño PF which they narrowly lost 4–3 on 31 July. The match saw Cardozo score his 6th league goal of the season and his final goal as a 3 de Febrero player. Cardozo then joined Nacional Asunción during the 2004 season. Before signing with Nacional Asunción, Cardozo had played in 12 out of 3 de Febrero's 18 league matches, scoring 6 goals, which ultimately saw the club finish in first position of the División Intermedia, with 34 points and having lost just two league matches, and gain promotion to the 2005 Paraguayan Primera División season. Cardozo went on to participate in the second half of the 2004 season for Club Nacional Asunción, participating in the Torneo Clasura. In 2004, he moved to the top level with Asunción's Club Nacional, where he quickly established himself as the team's top scorer, scoring 17 overall goals in his last season. Cardozo arrived at Argentina and Newell's Old Boys in the second half of the 2006–07 season for a transfer fee of $1.2 million, joining compatriots Diego Gavilán, Santiago Salcedo and Justo Villar. He netted 11 goals in only 16 games in the Apertura, but his team could only finish 18th in the tournament, and 13th overall. As a result of his performances, he was voted the 2006 Paraguayan Footballer of the Year. On 21 June 2007, Cardozo officially signed for Portuguese club Benfica, after being bought for an approximate €9.1 million for 80% of his playing rights– this made him the second most expensive signing in the club's history, only surpassed by Simão for whom the club paid €13 million in 2001. Cardozo finished his first season with 22 official goals, but the Eagles came out empty in silverware. On 22 February 2008, he scored a last-minute goal against 1. FC Nürnberg for the campaign's UEFA Cup (2–2 away draw, 3–2 aggregate win), thereby keeping his promise of surpassing the 20-goal mark. In 2008–09 Cardozo scored 17 goals, all in the league, including the equalizer against Porto on 30 August 2008. He finished second in the Bola de Prata race, losing only to Liédson of Sporting CP. In April 2008, Benfica bought out the remaining 20% of his rights for a further €2.5 million, thus investing €11.6 million total in his economic rights. Cardozo had a very positive 2009–10 pre-season, netting eight times in ten matches. On 31 August 2009, in the third league game, he scored a hat-trick in an 8–1 home demolition of Vitória de Setúbal. On 22 October, in the Europa League group stage match against Everton, Tacuara netted twice in two minutes in an eventual 5–0 thrashing at the Estádio da Luz, and added a further three in the league against Nacional (6–1, at home), and with Académica de Coimbra (4–0, home). In the Europa League quarter-finals against Liverpool, Cardozo scored two penalties for a 2–1 home win. He also found the net in the second leg at Anfield with a free kick, but in a 1–4 loss and subsequent elimination; as Benfica won the national championship, adding the year's domestic League Cup, he finished with a career-high 38 goals in 47 matches (26 in the domestic league, leading Porto's Radamel Falcao by only one), partnering well with Argentine Javier Saviola. On 10 February 2010, Benfica sold 20% of his economic rights to Benfica Stars Fund for €4 million, valuing him at €20 million. At the end of the 2011–12 campaign Cardozo was crowned the Primeira Liga's top scorer for the second time, with 20 goals – joint with Braga's Lima – as Benfica finished in second position. On 10 December 2012, he scored three in a 3–1 derby win at Sporting (even though one of the goals was initially attributed to Marcos Rojo as an own goal), repeating the feat the following week at home against Marítimo (4–1), which resulted in him surpassing the 100-goal mark in domestic league play. On 2 January 2013, Cardozo took his season tally to 21 goals in 19 official games after netting three in a 6–0 home routing of Desportivo das Aves for the campaign's Taça de Portugal. On 2 May, he scored his fifth and sixth in eight contests in the season's Europa League, being crucial to a 3–1 home win against Fenerbahçe in the semi-finals second leg with the subsequent 3–2 aggregate qualification to the final in Amsterdam. In the decisive match, he netted from the penalty spot in the 68th minute for the 1–1 equalizer against Chelsea, who eventually won it 2–1. Cardozo was replaced after 70 minutes in the domestic cup final on 26 May 2013, with Benfica leading 1–0 but eventually losing 1–2 to Vitória de Guimarães. At the end of the game, he angrily confronted manager Jorge Jesus, inclusively pushing him; he later apologised for his actions, being fined for half of his monthly salary. Cardozo started the new season after his teammates due to the controversy, but soon returned to his scoring ways. His goals against Guimarães, Estoril and Nacional were vital in keeping Benfica in the race for the title. On 9 November 2013, he put three past Sporting in a 4–3 home win for the domestic cup's fourth round, increasing to 13 the goals he scored against Sporting, surpassing Manuel Fernandes. In November 2013, a injury ruled him out for two-and-a-half months. When he returned, he found himself relegated to the bench, with the team now fully adapted to play with Lima and Rodrigo. On 14 May 2014, Cardozo missed a penalty shootout against Sevilla in an eventual Europa League final loss on penalties. He still finished the campaign with 11 goals all competitions comprised, including seven in the domestic league which was won for the 33rd time. In early August 2014, Trabzonspor announced it was in negotiations with Benfica and Cardozo. On 4 August 2014, Cardozo left Benfica and thanked the club, stating, "You always be in my heart." Cardozo played for the Eagles since 2007 and, together with Maxi Pereira and Luisão, was one of the team captains. He is Benfica's ninth all-time goalscorer, second in European competitions, and the highest-scoring foreigner at the club, with 172 goals. On 4 August 2014, Cardozo moved Turkish Süper Lig side Trabzonspor for a €5 million fee, (Benfica received €4 million, the fund €1 million) with a further €1.65 million contingent on performance-related bonuses. He signed a contract with €2.5 million per season plus bonuses. On 21 August, he scored his first goal for the club, in a 2–0 home win against Russian side Rostov for the campaign's UEFA Europa League. Cardozo made his league debut in a 1–1 away draw against İstanbul Başakşehir on 22 September. He came onto the field in the 52nd minute for Fatih Atik, and scored a 93rd-minute penalty to equalise. On 1 December, Cardozo scored his first hat-trick in a 4–1 home victory against Gençlerbirliği. He scored in the 8th, 40th and 65th minutes of the match before being substituted off of the field for Fatih Atik in the 70th minute. Cardozo brought his goal scoring tally to eight goals in nine league appearances. During a group stage match of the 2014–15 Turkish Cup, Cardozo scored a double in Trabzonspor's 9–0 home victory against Manisaspor on 25 December. Cardozo rounded off the season scoring 17 league goals in 29 appearances as Trabzonspor finished in fifth place and qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. He finished in third place of the Süper Lig top goalscorers list, behind Demba Ba (18 goals) and Fernandão (22 goals). After the 2014–15 season, it was announced that Cardozo would not play in the 2015 Copa América for Paraguay due to a back injury, whereupon it was then revealed by his agent that he had been playing through the pain for his club side. On 31 August 2016, Cardozo joined Greek champions Olympiacos. On 12 December 2016, he scored his first goal in Super League, after seven matches goalless, opening the score in a 2–0 away win over PAS Giannina. On 7 October 2006, Cardozo made his international debut for Paraguay in an exhibition game with Australia, and he scored his first goal on 5 June of the following year in another friendly, against Mexico. He was selected for the squad that appeared in that year's Copa América: the tournament in Venezuela ended in the quarter-finals and the player netted once, in a 3–1 group stage win against the United States. Cardozo scored two goals in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification stages, as Paraguay qualified for the finals in South Africa. On 29 June 2010, he netted the winning penalty in the shootout against Japan (5–3 victory), as La Albirroja qualified for the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time ever. In the following game, however, with the score at 0–0, he missed a 59th-minute penalty against Spain in a 0–1 defeat against the eventual champions. Cardozo was overlooked by coach Gerardo Martino for the 2011 Copa América squad, despite scoring 23 official goals for Benfica in 2010–11. Having already been included by Ramón Díaz in the Albirroja preliminary squad, Cardozo would again miss out on the Copa América for 2015 due to a back injury. footer In spite of the same surname, a similar nickname and physical resemblance, he is not related to Ramón Cardozo (known as "Tacuarita"), who is also a footballer and a forward. He obtained Portuguese citizenship in November 2014., Óscar Cardozo 2018-12-14T19:22:57Z name Óscar René Cardozo Marín (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 20 May 1983) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Club Libertad and the Paraguay national team. Known for his powerful left-foot shot and free-kick skills, he first gained attention whilst playing for Newell's Old Boys, which led to a move to Benfica in 2007. He scored nearly 200 official goals for the Portuguese club and won eight major titles, including the 2010 national championship, where he also was the top scorer, and the domestic treble in the 2013–14 season. He then spent two years with Trabzonspor in Turkey before joining Olympiacos. Nicknamed "Tacuara" (from "Takuára" - Big cane in Guarani), Cardozo gained more than 45 caps for Paraguay, representing the nation at the 2007 Copa América and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In 2006 and 2009, he was named Paraguayan Footballer of the Year. Cardozo is the son of Rosa María, who claimed that "Óscar has been a very good son and has managed to help us and take us away from poverty". His father is Genaro and his parents have five children. Cardozo's family had pigs, horses, they planted tobacco and fixed electrical posts on the road in an attempt to make a living. His family lived in a poor area and had no car. Cardozo's father gave him permission to try his luck in football because the sale of pigs and tobacco was not making enough money to survive on. Cardozo's mother stated that their family no funds to buy football boots or get a ball for their son, that he would play in the fields with a ball which his friends brought over and that he had to go to training on a horse. It was not until his switch from Newell's Old Boys to Benfica in Portugal that let him lift his family out of poverty. His mother claimed, "He started saving money to buy a house for the entire family — but never told me what he was doing. One day he just arrived and told me he was going to show me our new house. I was speechless. I cuddled him and I burst into tears. Oscar bought a normal four-bedroom house — but the difference is that this house has a football pitch. He has a big heart. He has given us everything we needed." Cardozo commenced his professional career with modest Club Atlético 3 de Febrero of Ciudad del Este, participating in the División Intermedia championship in 2003 and forming a partner ship with striker Roberto Gamarra. In Round 1 of the 2003 season, Cardozo scored in a 1–1 home draw against Cerro Corá. In the following fixture, he scored in a 2–0 home victory against Sportivo Iteño on 11 May. Two weeks later, he netted in a 3–0 home victory against River Plate Asunción on 25 May. Cardozo would not score again until Round 11, where the player scored the only goal in a 1–0 away victory for 3 de Febrero against Cerro Porteño de Presidente Franco on 13 July. The following week, Cardozo would again score against Cerro Corá in a 1–1 away draw on 27 July. On 10 August, Cardozo scored his first double in a 2–0 home victory against Nacional Asunción. On 7 May, Cardozo would score the only goal for 3 de Febrero as they were defeated 3–1 away against River Plate Asunción on 16 August. In the following fixture, Cardozo would again score, this time in a 1–1 home draw against Presidente Hayes on 23 August. On 30 August, Cardozo scored in a 5–1 away thrashing against Colegiales, which totaled to five consecutive goals in four matches. Cardozo's last league goal would come in Round 21, when the player netted in a 2–1 away victory against Deportivo Recoleta on 27 September. 3 de Febrero had finished in 2nd place of the División Intermedia table and were drawn into promotion play-off fixtures. On 12 October, Cardozo scored in 3 de Febrero's 4–2 victory against River Plate Asunción and one week later would score against Cerro Corá in his side's 2–0 victory on 19 October. Cardozo again scored in the following play-off fixture, a 3–2 victory against General Caballero Zeballos Cué on 25 October. Having won three qualifying promotion play-off fixtures successfully, 3 de Febrero ultimately faced Club Tacuary in a promotion-relegation play-off, which saw the latter win 4–2 on aggregate. Cardozo scored his first goal of the 2004 División Intermedia season in a 1–0 away victory against Cerro Corá in Round 6 on 2 May, with 3 de Febrero continuing an undefeated run. One week later, Cardozo scored a double against Sportivo San Lorenzo in a 2–0 home victory on 7 May. In the following round, 3 de Febrero suffered their first defeat of the season after 8 eight rounds in a 1–0 away defeat against General Caballero, however, consistent results continued as Cardozo scored in a 1–1 draw in the Superclásico of Alto Paraná against Cerro Porteño PF one week later on 23 May. Cardozo scored his 5th league goal of the season in a 2–1 home victory against Cerro Corá in Round 15 on 9 July. 3 de Febrero had been on a 9-game undefeated streak, which ultimately lasted until Round 18, the last match of the season against Cerro Porteño PF which they narrowly lost 4–3 on 31 July. The match saw Cardozo score his 6th league goal of the season and his final goal as a 3 de Febrero player. Cardozo then joined Nacional Asunción during the 2004 season. Before signing with Nacional Asunción, Cardozo had played in 12 out of 3 de Febrero's 18 league matches, scoring 6 goals, which ultimately saw the club finish in first position of the División Intermedia, with 34 points and having lost just two league matches, and gain promotion to the 2005 Paraguayan Primera División season. Cardozo went on to participate in the second half of the 2004 season for Club Nacional Asunción, participating in the Torneo Clasura. In 2004, he moved to the top level with Asunción's Club Nacional, where he quickly established himself as the team's top scorer, scoring 17 overall goals in his last season. Cardozo arrived at Argentina and Newell's Old Boys in the second half of the 2006–07 season for a transfer fee of $1.2 million, joining compatriots Diego Gavilán, Santiago Salcedo and Justo Villar. He netted 11 goals in only 16 games in the Apertura, but his team could only finish 18th in the tournament, and 13th overall. As a result of his performances, he was voted the 2006 Paraguayan Footballer of the Year. On 21 June 2007, Cardozo officially signed for Portuguese club Benfica, after being bought for an approximate €9.1 million for 80% of his playing rights– this made him the second most expensive signing in the club's history, only surpassed by Simão for whom the club paid €13 million in 2001. Cardozo finished his first season with 22 official goals, but Benfica came out empty in silverware. On 22 February 2008, he scored a last-minute goal against 1. FC Nürnberg for the campaign's UEFA Cup (2–2 away draw, 3–2 aggregate win), thereby keeping his promise of surpassing the 20-goal mark. In 2008–09 Cardozo scored 17 goals, all in the league, including the equalizer against Porto on 30 August 2008. He finished second in the Bola de Prata race, losing only to Liédson of Sporting CP. In April 2008, Benfica bought out the remaining 20% of his rights for a further €2.5 million, thus investing €11.6 million total in his economic rights. Cardozo had a very positive 2009–10 pre-season, netting eight times in ten matches. On 31 August 2009, in the third league game, he scored a hat-trick in an 8–1 home demolition of Vitória de Setúbal. On 22 October, in the Europa League group stage match against Everton, Tacuara netted twice in two minutes in an eventual 5–0 thrashing at the Estádio da Luz, and added a further three in the league against Nacional (6–1, at home), and with Académica de Coimbra (4–0, home). In the Europa League quarter-finals against Liverpool, Cardozo scored two penalties for a 2–1 home win. He also found the net in the second leg at Anfield with a free kick, but in a 1–4 loss and subsequent elimination; as Benfica won the national championship, adding the year's domestic League Cup, he finished with a career-high 38 goals in 47 matches (26 in the domestic league, leading Porto's Radamel Falcao by only one), partnering well with Argentine Javier Saviola. On 10 February 2010, Benfica sold 20% of his economic rights to Benfica Stars Fund for €4 million, valuing him at €20 million. At the end of the 2011–12 campaign Cardozo was crowned the Primeira Liga's top scorer for the second time, with 20 goals – joint with Braga's Lima – as Benfica finished in second position. On 10 December 2012, he scored three in a 3–1 derby win at Sporting (even though one of the goals was initially attributed to Marcos Rojo as an own goal), repeating the feat the following week at home against Marítimo (4–1), which resulted in him surpassing the 100-goal mark in domestic league play. On 2 January 2013, Cardozo took his season tally to 21 goals in 19 official games after netting three in a 6–0 home routing of Desportivo das Aves for the campaign's Taça de Portugal. On 2 May, he scored his fifth and sixth in eight contests in the season's Europa League, being crucial to a 3–1 home win against Fenerbahçe in the semi-finals second leg with the subsequent 3–2 aggregate qualification to the final in Amsterdam. In the decisive match, he netted from the penalty spot in the 68th minute for the 1–1 equalizer against Chelsea, who eventually won it 2–1. Cardozo was replaced after 70 minutes in the domestic cup final on 26 May 2013, with Benfica leading 1–0 but eventually losing 1–2 to Vitória de Guimarães. At the end of the game, he angrily confronted manager Jorge Jesus, inclusively pushing him; he later apologised for his actions, being fined for half of his monthly salary. Cardozo started the new season after his teammates due to the controversy, but soon returned to his scoring ways. His goals against Guimarães, Estoril, and Nacional were vital in keeping Benfica in the race for the title. On 9 November 2013, he put three past Sporting in a 4–3 home win for the domestic cup's fourth round, increasing to 13 the goals he scored against Sporting, surpassing Manuel Fernandes in the list of top goalscorers of the Derby de Lisboa. In November 2013, an injury ruled him out for two-and-a-half months. When he returned, he found himself relegated to the bench, with the team now fully adapted to play with Lima and Rodrigo. On 14 May 2014, Cardozo missed a penalty shootout against Sevilla in an eventual Europa League final loss on penalties. He still finished the campaign with 11 goals all competitions comprised, including seven in the domestic league which was won for the 33rd time. In early August 2014, Trabzonspor announced it was in negotiations with Benfica and Cardozo. On 4 August 2014, Cardozo left Benfica and thanked the club, stating, "You always be in my heart." Cardozo played for Benfica since 2007 and, together with Maxi Pereira and Luisão, was one of the team captains. He is Benfica's ninth all-time goalscorer, second in European competitions, and the highest-scoring foreigner at the club, with 172 goals. On 4 August 2014, Cardozo moved Turkish Süper Lig side Trabzonspor for a €5 million fee, (Benfica received €4 million, the fund €1 million) with a further €1.65 million contingent on performance-related bonuses. He signed a contract with €2.5 million per season plus bonuses. On 21 August, he scored his first goal for the club, in a 2–0 home win against Russian side Rostov for the campaign's UEFA Europa League. Cardozo made his league debut in a 1–1 away draw against İstanbul Başakşehir on 22 September. He came onto the field in the 52nd minute for Fatih Atik, and scored a 93rd-minute penalty to equalise. On 1 December, Cardozo scored his first hat-trick in a 4–1 home victory against Gençlerbirliği. He scored in the 8th, 40th and 65th minutes of the match before being substituted off of the field for Fatih Atik in the 70th minute. Cardozo brought his goal scoring tally to eight goals in nine league appearances. During a group stage match of the 2014–15 Turkish Cup, Cardozo scored a double in Trabzonspor's 9–0 home victory against Manisaspor on 25 December. Cardozo rounded off the season scoring 17 league goals in 29 appearances as Trabzonspor finished in fifth place and qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. He finished in third place of the Süper Lig top goalscorers list, behind Demba Ba (18 goals) and Fernandão (22 goals). After the 2014–15 season, it was announced that Cardozo would not play in the 2015 Copa América for Paraguay due to a back injury, whereupon it was then revealed by his agent that he had been playing through the pain for his club side. On 31 August 2016, Cardozo joined Greek champions Olympiacos. He scored his first goal in the European Super League on 12 December that year, opening the score in a 2–0 away win over PAS Giannina and thus ending his seven matches goalless run. On 28 June 2017, Cardozo signed with Libertad in Paraguay. In his first match for the team, Cardozo scored a double in a 5–1 away win over Huracán in the 2017 Copa Sudamericana on 12 July. On 7 October 2006, Cardozo made his international debut for Paraguay in an exhibition game with Australia, and he scored his first goal on 5 June of the following year in another friendly, against Mexico. He was selected for the squad that appeared in that year's Copa América: the tournament in Venezuela ended in the quarter-finals and the player netted once, in a 3–1 group stage win against the United States. Cardozo scored two goals in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification stages, as Paraguay qualified for the finals in South Africa. On 29 June 2010, he netted the winning penalty in the shootout against Japan (5–3 victory), as La Albirroja qualified for the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time ever. In the following game, however, with the score at 0–0, he missed a 59th-minute penalty against Spain in a 0–1 defeat against the eventual champions. Cardozo was overlooked by coach Gerardo Martino for the 2011 Copa América squad, despite scoring 23 official goals for Benfica in 2010–11. Having already been included by Ramón Díaz in the Albirroja preliminary squad, Cardozo would again miss out on the Copa América for 2015 due to a back injury. In spite of the same surname, a similar nickname and physical resemblance, he is not related to Ramón Cardozo (known as "Tacuarita"), who is also a footballer and a forward. He obtained Portuguese citizenship in November 2014. | 1 |
Brass_Crosby | Brass_Crosby 2011-04-21T14:33:16Z Brass Crosby (8 May 1725 – 1793) was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. Brass Crosby was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1725. He qualified in law and came to London to practise his chosen profession. In 1758 he was elected to the City Council and elected 'lay' Sheriff in 1764. In 1765 Crosby was elected an Alderman and in 1768 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Honiton. In 1770 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. Crosby was a supporter of radical politician John Wilkes. In February 1772 he married Mrs Mary Tattersall. As Lord Mayor (and therefore chief magistrate for the City) one of his first acts was to refuse to enforce Admiralty warrants to press gang Londoners into the Royal Navy and he ordered constables to be positioned "at all avenues" of the City to prevent the seizure of men. Crosby would have run for presidency in 1751, if the United States had exsisted at the time. Crosby engaged in a famous battle with the House of Commons over publishing Parliamentary debates. In 1771 he had brought before him a printer who dared publish reports of Parliamentary proceedings. He released the man, but was subsequently ordered to appear before the House to explain his actions. Crosby was committed to the Tower of London, but when brought to trial several judges refused to hear the case and after protests from the public Crosby was released. No further attempts had ever been made to prevent the publication of Parliamentary debates, facilitating the emergence of Hansard, until May 2009 when Carter Ruck (a controversial law firm) attempted to stop The Guardian newspaper from reporting a question asked in the House by Paul Farrelly MP, or to report that it had received such an injunction. The outrage caused by this brought Brass Crosby's name to the public attention again. Crosby's actions are reputed to be the inspiration for the phrase "Bold as Brass". In July 1771, the newly constructed obelisk at St George's Circus in Southwark was given an additional inscription. Below the text: ERECTED IN/ XIth Year/ OF THE REIGN/ OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD/ MDCCLXXI was added THE RIGHT HONOURABLE/BRASS CROSBY ESQUIRE/ LORD MAYOR. For many years, this somewhat squashed inscription was the only public commemoration of Crosby. Crosby died in 1793 at Chelsfield which was then a separate Kent village outside London. The London Borough of Bromley has now erected a Blue Plaque to Crosby outside his former home, Court Lodge, in Church Road, Chelsfield. Template:Persondata, Brass_Crosby 2012-11-13T10:02:52Z Brass Crosby (8 May 1725–1793) was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. Brass Crosby was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1725. He qualified in law and came to London to practise his chosen profession. In 1758 he was elected to the City Council and elected 'lay' Sheriff in 1764. In 1765 Crosby was elected an Alderman and in 1768 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Honiton. In 1770 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. Crosby was a supporter of radical politician John Wilkes. In February 1772 he married Mrs Mary Tattersall. As Lord Mayor (and therefore chief magistrate for the City) one of his first acts was to refuse to enforce Admiralty warrants to press gang Londoners into the Royal Navy and he ordered constables to be positioned "at all avenues" of the City to prevent the seizure of men. Crosby engaged in a famous battle with the House of Commons over publishing Parliamentary debates. In 1771 he had brought before him a printer who dared publish reports of Parliamentary proceedings. He released the man, but was subsequently ordered to appear before the House to explain his actions. Crosby was committed to the Tower of London, but when brought to trial several judges refused to hear the case and after protests from the public Crosby was released. No further attempts had ever been made to prevent the publication of Parliamentary debates, facilitating the emergence of Hansard, until May 2009 when Carter Ruck (a controversial law firm) attempted to stop The Guardian newspaper from reporting a question asked in the House by Paul Farrelly MP, or to report that it had received such an injunction. The outrage caused by this brought Brass Crosby's name to the public attention again. Crosby's actions are (mistakenly) reputed to be the inspiration for the phrase "Bold as Brass". In July 1771, the newly constructed obelisk at St George's Circus in Southwark was given an additional inscription. Below the text: ERECTED IN/ XIth Year/ OF THE REIGN/ OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD/ MDCCLXXI was added THE RIGHT HONOURABLE/BRASS CROSBY ESQUIRE/ LORD MAYOR. For many years, this somewhat squashed inscription was the only public commemoration of Crosby. Crosby died in 1793 at Chelsfield which was then a separate Kent village outside London. The London Borough of Bromley has now erected a Blue Plaque to Crosby outside his former home, Court Lodge, in Church Road, Chelsfield. Template:Persondata | 0 |
Rachael Stirling | Rachael Stirling 2010-01-27T01:13:09Z Rachael Atalanta Stirling (born 30 May 1977) is an English stage, film and television actress best known for her performance as Nancy Astley in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet. She is the daughter of actress Dame Diana Rigg and Archie Stirling. Stirling was born to Diana Rigg and Archibald Stirling on 30 May 1977; her parents later divorced. As the daughter of Archie Stirling, she has a long line of ancestry from the Scottish parish of Lecropt, near her namesake city of Stirling. She attended Wycombe Abbey School and Edinburgh University, where she gained a BA in the History of Art. Stirling can also speak Russian and is a highly skilled equestrienne in horse-riding and jumping. Stirling made her first major appearance on stage in 1996 as Desdemona in the National Youth Theatre revival of Othello at the Arts Theatre opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role. A year later, again at the Arts Theatre with the NYT, she played Olive in the female version of The Odd Couple; while in 1998, portraying Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa for NYT at the Arts, she gave what The Stage reviewer described as "a performance of exceptional promise and authority". Her first screen appearance was in the 1998 British comedy film Still Crazy (starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail). Other film projects include Maybe Baby, Complicity (with her Tipping the Velvet co-star Keeley Hawes), Another Life (with Vanity Fair actress Natasha Little), The Triumph of Love (starring Mira Sorvino), and Redemption Road. Her first TV break was in 2000 when she played the young Rebeccah in the American made-for-television movie In the Beginning, which charted God's creation of the universe and mankind, opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Art Malik. She continues to be active in the theatre, covering a diversity of roles in plays such as Dusty Hughes' Helpless (Donmar Warehouse, 2000); A Woman of No Importance (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2003); Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead Theatre, 2004); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic and Barbican, 2005); and she followed in her mother's footsteps, bringing an alluring erotic charge to her performance as Miranda Lionheart in the National Theatre stage version of Theatre of Blood (2005). In 2006, for the Peter Hall Company at the Bath Theatre Royal, she played Helena in Peter Gill's revival of Look Back in Anger; while in 2007 at Wilton's Music Hall in London, she starred as Yelena in David Mamet's version of Uncle Vanya, and as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew. Stirling is also an occasional interviewer on the Radio Four chat-show Loose Ends. She last starred onstage in the play, The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre. , Rachael Stirling 2011-12-31T02:45:06Z Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 30 May 1977) is an English stage, film and television actress. She is a two-time Olivier nominee for her stage work, but is best known for her performance as Nancy Astley in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet. Stirling is the daughter of the actress Diana Rigg and theatre producer Archibald Stirling. Her parents subsequently married in 1982 and divorced in 1990. Through her father, she has a long line of ancestry from the Scottish parish of Lecropt, near her namesake city of Stirling. Stirling attended Wycombe Abbey School. She earned a BA in art history from Edinburgh University. Stirling can speak Russian and is a highly skilled equestrian in horse-riding and jumping. She has been in a relationship with fellow actor Oliver Chris since 2007. Stirling made her first major appearance on stage in 1996 as Desdemona in the National Youth Theatre revival of Othello at the Arts Theatre opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role. A year later, again at the Arts Theatre with the NYT, she played Olive in the female version of The Odd Couple; while in 1998, portraying Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa for NYT at the Arts, she gave what The Stage reviewer described as "a performance of exceptional promise and authority". She continues to be active in the theatre, covering a diversity of roles in plays such as Dusty Hughes' Helpless (Donmar Warehouse, 2000); A Woman of No Importance (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2003); Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead Theatre, 2004); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic and Barbican, 2005); and she followed in her mother's footsteps, bringing an alluring erotic charge to her performance as Miranda Lionheart in the National Theatre stage version of Theatre of Blood (2005). In 2006, for the Peter Hall Company at the Bath Theatre Royal, she played Helena in Peter Gill's revival of Look Back in Anger; while in 2007 at Wilton's Music Hall in London, she starred as Yelena in David Mamet's version of Uncle Vanya, and as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew. Stirling starred onstage in The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009 directed by Jeremy Herrin. Her role, as Rebecca, earned her a nomination for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. In 2010 she appeared as Helena in Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, at The Rose Theatre, Kingston. She starred as Lady Chiltern in a 2010 production of An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre, for which she received her second nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2012 she is to appear at the Donmar Warehouse in The Recruiting Officer. Stirling's first screen appearance was in the 1998 British comedy film Still Crazy (starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail). Other film projects include Maybe Baby, Complicity (with her Tipping the Velvet co-star Keeley Hawes), Another Life (with Vanity Fair actress Natasha Little), The Triumph of Love (starring Mira Sorvino), and Redemption Road. Stirling's first break in television was in the 2000 NBC miniseries In the Beginning, which was adapted from Genesis. Stirling played the young Rebeccah, with her mother, Diana Rigg, as the older Rebeccah. In 2011, she starred in the BBC Four adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, as Ursula Brangwen. Stirling is an occasional interviewer on the Radio Four chat-show Loose Ends. She also wrote a restaurant column for Diplomat magazine. She took part in Occupy London's reading of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' on the steps of St Paul's cathedral, London, in December 2011. | 1 |
Witte_Automotive | Witte_Automotive 2009-08-01T15:44:30Z Witte Automotive develops and produces locking-, handle- and hinge systems for car doors, hatches and seats. Headquartered in Germany, Witte Automotive – also known as Witte-Velbert GmbH & Co. KG - is the European part of the Vast Alliance, the global automotive supplier alliance for vehicle access products. The privately held company was founded in 1899 by Ewald Witte. After WWII, Witte Automotive began manufacturing door brackets for the motorcar industry. In addition to the headquarters Witte Automotive with Sales, R & D and Assembly in Velbert, Germany, Witte Automotive in Nejdek, Czech Republic, is also a main part of Witte Automotive. Founded in 1992, this facility developed into a strong partner for assembling as well as for development know-how. The picture of Witte Automotive is completed by three companies, which contribute their expertise to the Witte-products: Krosta Metalltechnik (metal technology), Velbert, is the partner for stamped products and zinc die-casting, Riku Kunststoff (plastic injection molding), Bitburg, is the competence center for plastic components and Prinz Witte, Stromberg, develops and produces hinges. A license agreement with Great More, Taiwan, in 1993 was the beginning of the international activities. The VAST (Vehicle Access Systems Technology) Alliance, founded in 1999 with Strattec Security Corporation, Milwaukee, and extended in 2006 with Adac Automotive, Grand Rapids, is the foundation for the further global presence of Witte Automotive, which has developed with common joint ventures in Brazil, China, Japan and Korea. , Witte_Automotive 2010-11-13T06:59:03Z Witte Automotive develops and produces locking-, handle- and hinge systems for car doors, hatches and seats. Headquartered in Germany, Witte Automotive – also known as Witte-Velbert GmbH & Co. KG - is the European part of the Vast Alliance, the global automotive supplier alliance for vehicle access products. The privately held company was founded in 1899 by Ewald Witte. After WWII, Witte Automotive began manufacturing door brackets for the motorcar industry. In addition to the headquarters Witte Automotive with Sales, R & D and Assembly in Velbert, Germany, Witte Automotive in Nejdek, Czech Republic, is also a main part of Witte Automotive. Founded in 1992, this facility developed into a strong partner for assembling as well as for development know-how. The picture of Witte Automotive is completed by three companies, which contribute their expertise to the Witte-products: Krosta Metalltechnik (metal technology), Velbert, is the partner for stamped products and zinc die-casting, Riku Kunststoff (plastic injection molding), Bitburg, is the competence center for plastic components and Prinz Witte, Stromberg, develops and produces hinges. A license agreement with Great More, Taiwan, in 1993 was the beginning of the international activities. The VAST (Vehicle Access Systems Technology) Alliance, founded in 1999 with Strattec Security Corporation, Milwaukee, and extended in 2006 with Adac Automotive, Grand Rapids, is the foundation for the further global presence of Witte Automotive, which has developed with common joint ventures in Brazil, China, Japan and Korea. | 0 |
Ralf Little | Ralf Little 2010-01-04T22:55:25Z Ralf Alistair J.B. Little (born 8 February 1980) is an English actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly on television. He is perhaps best known for playing Antony Royle, the son in the series The Royle Family, Jonny Keogh in the first six series of sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Danny in Massive. Little was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and grew up in Bury. Some of his early television roles included minor roles in various programmes such as Elidor, Children's Ward , Sloggers, Bostock's Cup, Always and Everyone, and a production of Aladdin. Ralf's "big break" came when he was offered to play Antony Royle in the BBC sitcom, The Royle Family. He took three months out of his 'A' Level studies to record the series, after which he returned to school and scraped the grades he needed to get into his chosen course at university. Shortly after starting his medical degree at university, the first series of The Royle Family began to air and offers to audition started coming Little's way, as many as five per week. This prompted him to abandon his studies and focus on his acting career. The original run of the series was from Autumn 1998 to December 2000, and it returned for Christmas specials in 2006 & 2009. After the original run of The Royle Family, he was cast in another sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (or Two Pints), as Jonny Keogh. The first series ran from February 2001, and has been running for eight series so far. During an interview for This Morning in September 2007 Little said that he would not be returning for the next series due to an overwhelming schedule, and his character was therefore killed off screen in the first episode of the seventh series. Little was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in Notes on Falling Leaves at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2004, Little played the title character in Billy Liar at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. His film credits include 24 Hour Party People (playing Joy Division and New Order bass player Peter Hook) and Al's Lads. Little also starred as Stephen, alongside Anne-Marie Duff, in Oscar-nominee Roger Goldby's film The Waiting Room, released throughout the UK in June 2008. In television, he also appeared in Paradise Heights alongside Neil Morrisey and Charles Dale. In October 2007, he appeared in the one man show, Stacy, written by Jack Thorne at the Trafalgar Studios in London and on TV in Robin Hood as a sinister scientist Joseph, in the episode The Angel of Death. In August 2007 he released his first online novel (co-written with Stephen Morris), The Golden Generation, a coming of age tale about a recently single man who is taken under the wings of two city traders who show him the trappings of big money in the big city but that it comes at a price. Money taken from the sale of the novel went to the charity Shelter. Little was a member of the cast of KateModern, a web series which is a spin-off of the more well-known lonelygirl15. The series started in July 2007 and posted its final video in June 2008. In early 2008 Little appeared in adverts for McVitie's digestive biscuits, did the voiceover for SMA baby formula adverts, as well as in 2009 the Asda Rollback adverts. He also provided the narration for series two and three of Monkey Life. In September 2008 he starred in Massive, a BBC comedy about an indie record label, and in the same year narrated the second series of Last Man Standing. In July 2008 he appeared in 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, a new play at the Bush Theatre which was revised as 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover at Christmas later in the year. In April 2009, he began filming the role of Clint in the ITV comedy drama Married Single Other. He will also work on the film Powder. Since 2008, Ralf Little has voiced over in the ASDA commercials. Ralf Little voiced over a Royal Navy advert that started showing early January 2010 featuring Joe Hawkins' journey through the Royal Navy. Little, a supporter of Manchester United, is a keen footballer and has played for a number of semi-professional clubs when other commitments allow. In March 2003 he played for Maidstone United against AFC Wimbledon, having previously been training with Staines Town. He joined Isthmian League side Edgware Town in October 2004, making his debut in the FA Vase game against Waltham Abbey. He played for Chertsey Town during the 2007-08 season and on 8 July 2008 signed for North West Counties League side Stone Dominoes. He has also on a few occasions played celebrity football matches for charity and played with members of Hollywood United while in the district for acting career purposes. He also plays for the Arsenal Ex-Pro and Celebrity XI. , Ralf Little 2011-12-15T16:08:32Z Ralf Alistair J. B. Little (born 8 February 1980) is an English actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly in television comedy. He is best known for playing Antony Royle in The Royle Family and Jonny Keogh in the first six series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Little was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester. He attended Bolton School (Boys' Division). Some of his early television roles included minor roles in various programmes such as Elidor, Children's Ward, Sloggers, Bostock's Cup, Always and Everyone, and a production of Aladdin. Ralf's big break came when he was offered to play Antony Royle in the BBC sitcom, The Royle Family. He took three months out of his 'A' Level studies to record the series, after which he returned to school and got the grades he needed to get into his chosen course at university. Shortly after starting his medical studies degree at university, the first series of The Royle Family began to air and offers to audition started coming Little's way, as many as five per week. This prompted him to abandon his studies and focus on his acting career. The original run of the series was from Autumn 1998 to December 2000, and after a one-off special in 2006 returned for a series of Christmas specials from 2008, with Little returning to the role of Antony in 2006 and from 2009. After the original run of The Royle Family, he was cast in another sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (or Two Pints), as Jonny Keogh. The first series ran from February 2001, and has been running for nine series so far. During an interview for This Morning in September 2007 Little said that he would not be returning for the next series due to an overwhelming schedule, and his character was therefore killed off screen in the first episode of the seventh series although mentioned throughout the rest of the series. Little was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in Notes on Falling Leaves at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2000 Little played Wishee Washee in the ITV Panto Aladdin. In 2004, Little played the title character in Billy Liar at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. Little appeared in Juliet McKoen's ghost story/murder mystery film Frozen (2005) set in Fleetwood, Lancashire. His other film credits include 24 Hour Party People (playing Joy Division and New Order bass player Peter Hook) and Al's Lads. Little also starred as Stephen, alongside Anne-Marie Duff, in Oscar-nominee Roger Goldby's film The Waiting Room, released throughout the UK in June 2008. In television, he also appeared in Paradise Heights alongside Neil Morrisey and Charles Dale. In October 2007, he appeared in the one man show, Stacy, written by Jack Thorne at the Trafalgar Studios in London and on TV in Robin Hood as a sinister scientist Joseph, in the episode "The Angel of Death". In August 2007 he released his first online novel (co-written with Stephen Morris), The Golden Generation, a coming of age tale about a recently single man who is taken under the wings of two city traders who show him the trappings of big money in the big city but that it comes at a price. Money taken from the sale of the novel went to the charity Shelter. Little was a member of the cast of KateModern, a web series which is a spin-off of the more well-known lonelygirl15. The series started in July 2007 and posted its final video in June 2008. In early 2008 Little appeared in adverts for McVitie's digestive biscuits, did the voiceover for SMA baby formula adverts, as well as in 2009 the Asda Rollback adverts. He also provided the narration for series two, three and four of Monkey Life. In September 2008 he starred in Massive, a BBC comedy about an indie record label, and in the same year narrated the second series of Last Man Standing. In July 2008 he appeared in 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, a new play at the Bush Theatre which was revised as 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover at Christmas later in the year. In 2009 he had role of Clint in the ITV comedy drama series Married Single Other along side Miranda Raison. He also worked on the film Powder. In the autumn of 2010, he starred in "The Aliens", a British premier of a new play by Annie Baker, again at the Bush Theatre alongside Mackenzie Crook and Olly Alexander. In 2011, he appears as Richard Dickens in the new comedy series The Cafe shown on Sky 1, which he co-wrote with Michelle Terry and was directed by Craig Cash. Little, a supporter of Manchester United, is a keen footballer and has played for a number of semi-professional clubs when other commitments allow. In March 2003 he played for Maidstone United against AFC Wimbledon, having previously been training with Staines Town. He joined Isthmian League side Edgware Town in October 2004, making his debut in the FA Vase game against Waltham Abbey. He played for Chertsey Town during the 2007-08 season and on 8 July 2008 signed for North West Counties League side Stone Dominoes. He has also on a few occasions played celebrity football matches for charity and played with members of Hollywood United while in the district for acting career purposes. He also plays for the Arsenal Ex-Pro and Celebrity XI. He also participated in the 2010 Soccer Aid game for England on the left wing. On August the 28th he played in the John Kennedy tribute match for Manchester united against Celtic which resulted in a 5-2 win for Celtic. | 1 |
Andre Marriner | Andre Marriner 2006-04-20T23:45:24Z Andre Marriner is one of many referees in the FA Premier League. He is based in Birmingham. , Andre Marriner 2007-12-28T23:39:49Z Andre Marriner is an English Football referee who officiates in the FA Premier League. He was born on 1 January 1971, and is based in Sheldon, Birmingham. He first began refereeing in 1992, and progressed via the Birmingham Amateur Football League and the Southern League to become a Football League assistant referee in the year 2000. His appointment to the Football League List of referees took place in 2003, and he was given his first Premiership match on 13 November 2004 - the 4-0 home win by Charlton Athletic over Norwich City. Marriner was added to the Select Group of referees in 2005. In the same year, he refereed the FA Youth Cup Final between Southampton and Ipswich Town, when Ipswich triumphed by 3 goals to 2. | 1 |
The Trussell Trust | The Trussell Trust 2018-04-03T17:56:08Z The Trussell Trust is a NGO and charity, based in Salisbury, UK, that co-ordinates the only nationwide network of food banks in the country. The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997, by Paddy and Carol Henderson while working with street children in Bulgaria at Sofia Central Railway Station. Named for Carol's mother Betty Trussell from whom they had received a legacy, the couple's work spread to the United Kingdom after the couple were contacted by a British mother who was struggling to feed her children. After researching the issue of short-term hunger in the area, Henderson founded the first of the trust's food banks in the garage and shed of his Salisbury home. The trust runs a network of food banks across the United Kingdom. In 2004 they ran only two food banks. With new banks opening every week, it was estimated in a May 2013 report published by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty that over 500,000 people had used the trust's food banks. The number of people using food banks in the first half of the 2014-15 financial year was 38% higher than the same period the previous year. Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include redundancy, sickness, delays over receiving benefits, domestic violence, family breakdown, debt, additional fuel costs in winter. Some clients of foodbanks are in work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay. In 2015, the trust released figures showing that there were over one million users of food banks during the 2014-2015 financial year. The banks run on a 'front line' model rather than a 'warehouse' model. That is, food is taken in and distributed directly to those who need it. People are referred to the food banks by doctors, social services, CAB and police who assess need to ensure that it is genuine. Visitors are given vouchers for three days' worth of food, with each visitor eligible for no more than three vouchers. Visitors are also signposted to agencies that can help with longer-term difficulties. The charity continues to work in Bulgaria, where it operates programmes that work with street children in the country, and Romani people who are among the poorest in the region. , The Trussell Trust 2019-12-14T17:02:26Z The Trussell Trust is a NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the UK. It supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres to provide emergency food and compassionate, practical support to people in crisis, while campaigning for long-term change to the structural issues that lock people into poverty. Its main office is in Salisbury, UK. The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997 by Paddy and Carol Henderson using a legacy left by Carol's mother, Betty Trussell. Initially, the charity worked in Bulgaria to improve conditions for children sleeping at Sofia Central Railway Station. In 2000, they began to work in the UK too, opening the first food bank in their hometown of Salisbury after they were contacted by a British mother who was struggling to feed her children. Today, the Trussell Trust supports over 1,200 food bank centres across the UK, providing emergency food and support to people locked in poverty. Food bank centres in the Trussell Trust network account for roughly two-thirds of all emergency food bank provision in the UK. In 2018-19, food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network distributed 1.6 million food bank parcels to people in crisis – a 19% increase on the previous year. Over half a million of these parcels went to children. In the last five years, food bank use in the Trussell Trust network has increased by 73%. The top three reasons for people needing to use a food bank in the Trussell Trust network last year were ‘income not covering essential costs’, ‘benefit delays’, and ‘benefit changes’. The services provided by food banks may vary from area to area as they react to the needs of their community to provide help and support to local people in crisis. Generally non-perishable food is donated by the public at a range of places, such as schools, churches and business, as well as supermarket collection points. It is then sorted into emergency food parcels by more than 28,000 volunteers. People are referred to the food banks by professionals such as doctors, social services, Citizens Advice, police, and receive a food bank voucher. This means that they can receive a food bank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food from their local food bank. Food banks also provide compassionate, dignified support and work hard to signpost people to agencies that can support with long-term issues to prevent people from needing to use the food bank again. The Trussell Trust runs two out of three UK food banks and gave out 823,145 food parcels from April to September 2019, of which 301,653 went to children. This was 23% more than during the same period in 2018. Insufficient benefit income caused 36%, delays in benefit payments caused 18% and changes to benefit caused 16%. Welfare changes like Universal Credit and the Bedroom tax caused increased food bank use. The Trussell Trust urged politicians from all parties to protect people from hunger. The Trust advocates ending the five-week wait for universal credit payments, ensuring benefit payments cover the basic costs of living, and emergency support for people in crisis. Emma Revie of the Trussell Trust said, “What’s really concerning us is the steepness of the increase – 23% compared with the same period last year is such a step up. We’re really worried about what the coming winter is going to look like. “Our benefits system is supposed to protect us all from being swept into poverty, but currently thousands of women, men and children are not receiving sufficient protection from destitution.” The Trussell Trust also carries out extensive research into food bank use in the UK, using this to campaign for change so that no one needs a food bank in the future. Working with the food banks in their network to gather evidence, the Trussell Trust regularly releases data on food bank use and is currently working on a three-year research project called State of Hunger. When complete, this will be the most extensive piece of research ever carried out on food bank use and hunger in the UK. The first year report was released in November 2019. The Trussell Trust supports a number of charity coalitions including End Hunger UK, All Kids Count, Lift the Ban, and Stop the #DebtThreats. Their own campaign, #5WeeksTooLong, calls for an end to the current five-week wait for a first Universal Credit payment when people apply for the benefit. The campaign is backed by a range of organisations including The Children’s Society, Child Poverty Action Group, Church Action on Poverty, Crisis, the Disability Benefits Consortium, Gingerbread, and Homeless Link. | 1 |
Oliver_Mason | Oliver_Mason 2009-11-10T03:59:32Z Oliver Mason is a British actor. He began by doing exams with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama aged six. He trained at the National Youth Theatre, Middlesex University, the University of South Florida, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and graduated in 2001. Oliver was the main presenter in the Drama workshop at learning on location butlins skegness 2008 which featured the shakespeare play A Comedy of Errors. This article about a British actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Oliver_Mason 2010-09-25T07:43:46Z Oliver Mason is a British actor. He began by doing exams with The Guildhall School of Music and Drama aged six. He trained at The National Youth Theatre, Middlesex University, The University of South Florida, and The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and graduated in 2001. Oliver also works in education delivering various drama workshops across The UK. BBC Press Release] Template:Persondata This article about a British actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Rochford_District_Council_elections | Rochford_District_Council_elections 2012-02-17T11:13:33Z One third of Rochford Council in Essex, England is elected each year, followed by one year where there is an election to Essex County Council. Rochford Council election, 1998 Rochford Council election, 1999 Rochford Council election, 2000 Rochford Council election, 2002 (whole council elected after boundary changes) Rochford Council election, 2003 Rochford Council election, 2004 Rochford Council election, 2006 Rochford Council election, 2007 Rochford Council election, 2008 Rochford Council election, 2010 Rochford Council election, 2011, Rochford_District_Council_elections 2014-06-07T18:39:30Z One third of Rochford District Council in Essex, England is elected each year, followed by one year where there is an election to Essex County Council. | 0 |
KF Tomori | KF Tomori 2016-03-10T16:20:54Z Futboll Klub Tomori Berat is an Albanian football club based in the city of Berat. The club's home ground is the Tomori Stadium and they currently participate in the Albanian Second Division. The sport of football was introduced to the city of Berat in the early 1910s by students who had completed their studies abroad. They brought back footballs and the rules of the game from their travels which they then passed onto the locals. As early as 1913 amateur neighbourhood teams were formed, such as Çunat e Lumit, Vakëfi, Kalaja and Opinga. In 1923 an artists and sports club was founded in Berat, under the name Tomori, named after the nearby Mount Tomorr. It was established in the neighbourhood facilities of a local school called Mangalem, and the first team was formed with 18 teenage players. With the Albanian Football Association's foundation in 1930, the club participated in its first official tournament in the same year, which was the second tier of the newly established Albanian football system. Tomori won the 1930 Albanian First Division and gained promotion to the Albanian Superliga. Prior to their debut season in the top flight the club changed its name from Tomori to Muzaka in 1931, and during the 1931 season they finished in 7th and last place with a record of 1 draw and 5 losses, which led to their relegation. They returned to the Albanian First Division in 1932 where they would remain for 4 seasons. In 1935 the Albanian Football Association did not organise any competitions so the club was not active for the year. In 1936 football resumed in Albania and the club changed its name back to Tomori and finished second in the Albanian First Division, achieving promotion to the Albanian Superliga for the second time. In the 1937 season the club again finished last in the top flight, level on points with Ismail Qemali Vlorë, who they lost 2–1 to in a relegation play off held in Kavajë at the end of the season to determine Tomori's immediate relegation once again. 1936–1949: KS Tomori 1950: Berati 1951–1957: Puna 1957–deri tani: KS Tomori Members of the Presidency: (1923–1926) Chairman: Zyhdi Doko Secretary: Shyqyri Lakra Other members: Lilo Xhimitiku Andon Myzeqari Vangjel Haxhistasa Alqiviadhi Shyti In 1964 Tomori was runner-up in the Albanian Cup, losing in the final to KS Partizani. Tomori won the Albanian First Division championship four times: in 1930, 1950, 1970, and 1977. In 1991–1992 F.K Tomori participated in the Balkans Cup but lost on aggregate to FC Oţelul Galaţi (2:4), who went on to be runners-up of the competition. Their first participation in European football was in the UEFA Cup 2000-01, losing 2–5 on aggregate to Cypriot team APOEL F.C.. In 2000 F.K Tomori were runners-up in the championship, losing on penalty kicks against FK Tirana with the game having finished 1–1 after extra time had been played. Tomori Stadium was built in 1985 and holds 14,500 spectators. This is the third highest capacity stadium in Albania after Qemal Stafa Stadium and Loro Boriçi Stadium. The stadium finally completed its renovation in early 2012, where 13,000 tickets went on sale for the first game held there. Interest was high because the last Albanian Superliga game to be held there was in 2002. Tomori has some of the most fervent fans in Albania. Also, Tomori have tifo-groups like Mistrecat and Ultras Tomori. Albanian First Division: Albanian Superliga: Albanian Cup: Balkans Cup: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. , KF Tomori 2017-11-27T04:03:16Z Futboll Klub Tomori Berat is an Albanian football club based in the city of Berat. The club's home ground is the Tomori Stadium and they currently participate in the Albanian First Division. The sport of football was introduced to the city of Berat in the early 1910s by students who had completed their studies abroad. They brought back footballs and the rules of the game from their travels which they then passed onto the locals. As early as 1913 amateur neighbourhood teams were formed, such as Çunat e Lumit, Vakëfi, Kalaja and Opinga. In 1923 an artists and sports club was founded in Berat, under the name Tomori, named after the nearby Mount Tomorr. It was established in the neighbourhood facilities of a local school called Mangalem, and the first team was formed with 18 teenage players. With the Albanian Football Association's foundation in 1930, the club participated in its first official tournament in the same year, which was the second tier of the newly established Albanian football system. Tomori won the 1930 Albanian First Division and gained promotion to the Albanian Superliga. Prior to their debut season in the top flight the club changed its name from Tomori to Muzaka in 1931, and during the 1931 season they finished in 7th and last place with a record of 1 draw and 5 losses, which led to their relegation. They returned to the Albanian First Division in 1932 where they would remain for 4 seasons. In 1935 the Albanian Football Association did not organise any competitions so the club was not active for the year. In 1936 football resumed in Albania and the club changed its name back to Tomori and finished second in the Albanian First Division, achieving promotion to the Albanian Superliga for the second time. In the 1937 season the club again finished last in the top flight, level on points with Ismail Qemali Vlorë, who they lost 2–1 to in a relegation play off held in Kavajë at the end of the season to determine Tomori's immediate relegation once again. 1936–1949: KS Tomori 1950: Berati 1951–1957: Puna 1957–deri tani: KS Tomori Members of the Presidency: (1923–1926) Chairman: Zyhdi Doko Secretary: Shyqyri Lakra Other members: Lilo Xhimitiku Andon Myzeqari Vangjel Haxhistasa Alqiviadhi Shyti In 1964 Tomori was runner-up in the Albanian Cup, losing in the final to KS Partizani. Tomori won the Albanian First Division championship four times: in 1930, 1950, 1970, and 1977. In 1991–1992 F.K Tomori participated in the Balkans Cup but lost on aggregate to FC Oţelul Galaţi (2:4), who went on to be runners-up of the competition. Their first participation in European football was in the UEFA Cup 2000-01, losing 2–5 on aggregate to Cypriot team APOEL F.C.. In 2000 F.K Tomori were runners-up in the championship, losing on penalty kicks against FK Tirana with the game having finished 1–1 after extra time had been played. Tomori Stadium was built in 1985 and holds 14,500 spectators. This is the third highest capacity stadium in Albania after Qemal Stafa Stadium and Loro Boriçi Stadium. The stadium finally completed its renovation in early 2012, where 13,000 tickets went on sale for the first game held there. Interest was high because the last Albanian Superliga game to be held there was in 2002. Tomori has some of the most fervent fans in Albania. Also, Tomori have tifo-groups like Mistrecat, Berat Hooligans and Ultras Tomori. Albanian First Division: Albanian Superliga: Albanian Cup: Balkans Cup: Albanian Second Division: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Theodhor Arbëri Arben Arbëri Përparim Kovaçi Klodian Arbëri Polizoi Arbëri Kliton Bozgo James Adeniyi Ilirjan Çaushaj (2012– ) Ola1 | 1 |
Patti_Reid | Patti_Reid 2013-09-20T20:54:20Z Patti Reid is an English folk singer from Carlisle. She released an eponymous album on Fellside Records in 1987 and has appeared on several compilation albums featuring English folk singers . She released another album, "Pink Sand" in 2002. She has sung at many British folk festivals and acted on stage on occasion, including a production of Death and the Maiden. Template:Persondata, Patti_Reid 2015-12-30T10:29:16Z Patti Reid is an English folk singer from . She released an eponymous album on Fellside Records in 1987 and has appeared on several compilation albums featuring English folk singers. She released another album, "Pink Sand" in 2002. She has sung at many British folk festivals and acted on stage on occasion, including a production of Death and the Maiden. Template:Persondata | 0 |
CIZZ-FM | CIZZ-FM 2009-01-27T17:16:22Z CIZZ is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting a rock music format at 98. 9 FM in Red Deer, Alberta. The station uses the brand name Zed 99. The station is owned by Newcap Radio, which operates over 60 other radio and TV stations across Canada, including CIZZ's sister station, KG Country. The station plays an active rock format. This article about a radio station in Alberta is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , CIZZ-FM 2010-08-07T07:34:02Z CIZZ-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting a rock music format at 98. 9 FM in Red Deer, Alberta. The station uses the brand name Zed 99. The station is owned by Newcap Radio, which operates over 60 other radio and TV stations across Canada, including CIZZ's sister station, KG Country. The station plays an active rock format. This article about a radio station in Alberta is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
LOHAS_Park | LOHAS_Park 2009-05-25T03:45:54Z LOHAS Park (日出康城) is a planned mass residential development of the MTR Corporation, situated in Tseung Kwan O Area 86, Hong Kong. Upon its completion, it will be the largest residential development in the territory. Formerly named "Dream City", it was renamed LOHAS PARK. LOHAS is an acronym for "lifestyle of health and sustainability. " The MTR had designated as an 'environmental protection city' when planning for it began in 2002. After the SARS epidemic in early 2003, the element of 'health' was incorporated. Following controversy over "wall effect" buildings in 2007, the developers promised there will be sufficient space to allow wind to blow through the estate. According to an MTR spokesman, there is a landfill close to the development, and it is hoped that the problem of smell could be mitigated by town planning. The 3,550,000 square feet (330,000 m2) estate will comprise fifty residential towers, offering 21,500 apartments to accommodate 58,000 residents in the site area. These will sit above the MTR LOHAS Park Station. The project is divided into 9 to 13 phases, which are to be completed between 2009 and 2015. The first phase, named "The Capitol", situated on the east side of the project, will have 1,380,000 sq ft (128,000 m2) of floor area. The HK$5 billion first phase of the project is developed by Cheung Kong Holdings. The HK$15 billion second phase was also won by Cheung Kong. , LOHAS_Park 2010-07-04T14:54:58Z LOHAS Park (日出康城) is a planned mass residential development of the MTR Corporation, situated in Tseung Kwan O Area 86, New Territories, Hong Kong. Upon its completion, it will be the largest residential development in the territory. Formerly named "Dream City", it was renamed LOHAS Park. LOHAS is an acronym for "lifestyle of health and sustainability". The Chinese name means literally "sunrise Cannes". The MTR had designated as an 'environmental protection city' when planning for it began in 2002. After the SARS epidemic in early 2003, the element of 'health' was incorporated. Following controversy over "wall effect" buildings in 2007, the developers promised there will be sufficient space to allow wind to blow through the estate. According to an MTR spokesman, there is a landfill close to the development, and it is hoped that the problem of smell could be mitigated by town planning. The 3,550,000 square feet (330,000 m2) estate will comprise fifty residential towers, offering 21,500 apartments to accommodate 58,000 residents in the site area. These will sit above the MTR LOHAS Park Station. The gross floor area (GFA) for domestic purposes is up to 1. 6 million square metres, and retail GFA will occupy up to 50,000 m2 The project is divided into 9 to 13 phases, which are to be completed between 2009 and 2015. The first phase, named "The Capitol", situated on the east side of the project, will have 1,380,000 sq ft (128,000 m2) of floor area. The HK$5 billion first phase of the project is developed by Cheung Kong Holdings. The HK$15 billion second phase was also won by Cheung Kong. The Capitol (Chinese: 首都) belongs to the Phase I of the development. Built at the east of the reclaimed land near the Tseung Kwan O landfill, it was jointly developed by Cheung Kong Holdings and MTR Corporation in 2008. It comprises 5 high-rise buildings, occupying 1. 38 million square feet of floor area and offering a total of 2,096 units. Le Prestige (Chinese: 領都) belongs to the Phase IIA of the development, launched in late 2009. It was jointly developed by Cheung Kong Holdings and MTR Corporation and Nan Fung Development. The first phase of Le Prestige, which comprises four blocks, offers a total of 1,688 homes. Apartments on the estate, which is landlocked and will eventually be impeded by later developments, is advertised as having sea views. Green Sense criticised the deception of marketing sea views which were only 'temporary'. There is also a Phase IIB which is called Le Prime (Chinese: 領峯). | 0 |
The_Reunion_Show | The_Reunion_Show 2010-12-08T12:08:17Z The Reunion Show was an American band from Long Island, New York. They released one album on Victory Records before three members of the group moved on to form Action Action. The group formed from members of Step Lively, Waiting Process, and Edna's Goldfish in 2000, and soon after began touring the United States. They released an EP in 2002 and signed to Victory Records a few months later. Their debut full-length, Kill Your Television, arrived late that year. In the summer of 2003 guitarist Sherman and bassist Diaz left the group and were replaced by two former members of Count the Stars, Adam Manning and Clarke Foley. However, the lineup did not last long; the group broke up and three members went on to form the Victory Records band Action Action. Derrick Sherman now plays guitar and keyboard in Long Island band, Brand New. , The_Reunion_Show 2011-07-18T17:52:16Z The Reunion Show was an pop-punk American band from Long Island, New York. They released one album on Victory Records before three members of the group moved on to form Action Action. The group formed from members of Step Lively, Waiting Process, and Edna's Goldfish in 2000, and soon after began touring the United States. They released an EP in 2002 and signed to Victory Records a few months later. Their debut full-length, Kill Your Television, arrived late that year. The band toured with Taking Back Sunday before they were signed with Victory Records In the summer of 2003 guitarist Sherman and bassist Diaz left the group and were replaced by two former members of Count the Stars, Adam Manning and Clarke Foley. However, the lineup did not last long; the group broke up and three members went on to form the Victory Records band Action Action. Derrick Sherman now plays guitar and keyboard in Long Island band, Brand New. | 0 |
Pascale Hutton | Pascale Hutton 2010-01-24T23:49:45Z Pascale Hutton was born in Creston, British Columbia. Hutton attended the conservatory program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She had acted in local theatre productions in Edmonton and had done voiceover work for radio prior to landing the role of Beth-Ann in Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed. Hutton lives in Vancouver with her husband, actor Danny Dorosh. Pascale landed the key supporting role playing Farrah Fawcett's daughter in Jackie Collins: Hollywood Wives the New Generation. In A Simple Curve, "Pascale Hutton just hits the right note as the single mother who likes Caleb.", Pascale Hutton 2011-12-05T20:51:07Z Pascale Hutton (born June 14, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She was born in Creston, British Columbia. Hutton attended the conservatory acting program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. 6, Episode Zod, Episode Fallout She played Julianna (a call girl turned spy) in season 2 of Intelligence (2007). For her performance in the episode "The Heat Is On", she won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series" (2008) | 1 |
Akai_S1000 | Akai_S1000 2008-07-05T02:19:05Z The Akai S1000 is a 16-bit professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988. The S1000 was among the first professional-quality 16-bit stereo samplers. Its abilities to splice, crossfade, trim, and loop music in 16-bit CD-quality sound made it popular among producers of this era. The S1000 also had the ability to "time-stretch", a feature that allowed the music's tempo to be increased without its pitch being raised. The advent of the S1000 paved the way for Drum and Bass, otherwise known as Jungle music. The ease with which it could be used and the high sound quality that it produced created an evolution from the rougher Hardcore genre that preceded Jungle. The S1100 is an expanded and enhanced version of the S1000. This article relating to musical instruments is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Akai_S1000 2010-01-01T06:42:45Z The Akai S1000 is a 16-bit professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988. The S1000 was among the first professional-quality 16-bit stereo samplers. Its abilities to splice, crossfade, trim, and loop music in 16-bit CD-quality sound made it popular among producers of this era. The S1000 also had the ability to "time-stretch", a feature that allowed the music's tempo to be adjusted without its pitch being raised. The advent of the S1000 paved the way for Drum and Bass, otherwise known as Jungle music. The ease with which it could be used and the high sound quality that it produced created an evolution from the rougher Hardcore genre that preceded Jungle. The S1100 is an expanded and enhanced version of the S1000. This article relating to electronic musical instruments is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Mouth-house | Mouth-house 2007-10-29T04:14:41Z Mouth-house is an English translation of the German Mundhaus, a term used by Martin Luther for a Protestant Christian church, emphasizing that God's word and God's salvation is an acoustical affair. In American Puritan and Congregational churches the church buildings were termed mouth-houses to signify their purpose as places of public meeting and expression, augmenting their use as a aplace of worship. Old South Meeting House in Boston, termed a mouth-house, was the site of public debate about the American Revolution, the planning of the Boston Tea Party, and public debate on the issue of slavery and abolition. , Mouth-house 2007-10-29T16:36:08Z Mouth-house is an English translation of the German Mundhaus, a term used by Martin Luther for a Protestant Christian church, emphasizing that God's word and God's salvation is an acoustical affair. In American Puritan and Congregational churches their church buildings are termed mouth-houses to signify their purpose as places of public meeting and expression, augmenting their use as a places of worship. Old South Meeting House in Boston, termed a mouth-house, was the site of public debate about the American Revolution, the planning of the Boston Tea Party, as well as debate on the issues of slavery, Abolitionism, the Vietnam War, and Iraq War. In contemporary time Old South Church has acted as a mouth-house in a series of public lectures and seminars that have included leaders of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. | 0 |
Gaius_Fabius_Hadrianus | Gaius_Fabius_Hadrianus 2009-02-25T18:16:16Z Gaius Fabius Hadrianus was praetor in 84 BC and propraetor 83–82 in the Roman province of Africa. He is known primarily for the sensational circumstances of his death: during an uprising at the beginning of Sulla's second civil war, the governor’s residence was set on fire and Hadrianus was burned alive. Next to nothing is known of the early career of Hadrianus. He has been identified with the C. Fabius Hadrianus who was a moneyer (monetalis) in 102 BC; several examples of his coins are known. Following his praetorship in 84, Hadrianus forced out Metellus Pius, his predecessor as governor of Africa and a partisan of Sulla. An alternative view is that Metellus did not hold a legitimate governship, but was attempting to seize power in Africa in 84 when Hadrianus held a duly appointed office. Since Hadrianus began his term during the last consulship of Cornelius Cinna, he is usually considered in league with the populares. His governship would have redirected tribute from Africa to the cause of Cinna and the Marians. Metellus fled to Numidia and the protection of Hiempsal II. Hadrianus allied with Hiarbas, a rival for the kingship, and succeeded in temporarily ousting Hiempsal, who hid out with Metellus and his men in Mauretania under the protection of Bocchus I. The actions of Hadrianus incurred the enmity of the pro-Sullan upper classes in Africa. During an uprising in Utica (in modern-day Tunisia), he was killed when the official residence burned. The sources uniformly emphasize that he was burned alive. Hadrianus's tenure was remembered for greed and harshness. A. N. Sherwin-White called him "beastly. " A chronological examination of the sources indicates that Cicero’s characterization of Hadrianus likely colored the view of historians who came later. In the course of his prosecution of Verres, Cicero makes a threatening comparison to Hadrianus and the manner of his death, saying that the defendant was even worse: So you see, this man is by far guiltier and more worthless, even though he has been somewhat luckier than Hadrianus. Yes, that Hadrianus: because Roman citizens could not tolerate his greed, he was burned alive in his own house at Utica. What happened to him was considered so well-deserved that everybody was happy about it and no official inquiry was conducted. Cicero uses the word domus, “house,” which directs attention away from Hadrianus’s status as a promagistrate; Livy calls it properly the praetorium, the official residence of the governor. The 1st-century AD historian Valerius Maximus echoes Cicero’s account closely: “After Hadrianus antagonized the Roman citizens settled at Utica with his sleazy governance and consequently was burned alive by them, no inquest was held at Rome to investigate the matter, nor did anyone bother to file a complaint. ” Although Hadrianus is sometimes said to have been “fluctuating between the parties of Cinna and Sulla,” it is unclear what facts indicate support of Sulla. As both Cicero and Valerius Maximus note, the Sullan regime established that same year took no action in the matter, even though the legitimate governor of a major province had been killed. Both sources state that the violence in Utica was instigated not by Africans rebelling against Rome, but by Roman citizens (cives). At first glance, Orosius seems to contradict both Cicero and Valerius, claiming that Hadrianus was burned alive with his entire household because he had fomented rebellion among the slaves of Africa, whose masters apparently reacted with firewood and homicidal arson. The populares were often accused by the aristocratic party, factually or not, of resorting to slaves to apply violence, and the killing might best be viewed in the context of the Sullan proscriptions of 82. Even if Hadrianus was not among those proscribed, his death as a Cinnan holdover was timely. He was succeeded as governor of Africa by the most famous of Sulla’s henchmen and supporters, Pompeius Magnus; at the age of only 24, Pompey had not held the offices prerequisite to a governorship, but having declared the primacy of sword over law, he defeated the Marians, a contingent of whom were still occupying Africa, along with their Numidian allies. Pompey remained in Africa till 79, when he claimed his controversial first triumph for his victories there. , Gaius_Fabius_Hadrianus 2010-04-20T00:42:59Z Gaius Fabius Hadrianus was praetor in 84 BC and propraetor 83–82 in the Roman province of Africa. He is known primarily for the sensational circumstances of his death: during an uprising at the beginning of Sulla's second civil war, the governor’s residence was set on fire and Hadrianus was burned alive. Next to nothing is known of the early career of Hadrianus. He has been identified with the C. Fabius Hadrianus who was a moneyer (monetalis) in 102 BC; several examples of his coins are known. Following his praetorship in 84, Hadrianus forced out Metellus Pius, his predecessor as governor of Africa and a partisan of Sulla. An alternative view is that Metellus did not hold a legitimate governship, but was attempting to seize power in Africa in 84 when Hadrianus held a duly appointed office. Since Hadrianus began his term during the last consulship of Cornelius Cinna, he is usually considered in league with the populares. His governorship would have redirected tribute from Africa to the cause of Cinna and the Marians. Metellus fled to Numidia and the protection of Hiempsal II. Hadrianus allied with Hiarbas, a rival for the Numidian kingship, and succeeded in temporarily ousting Hiempsal, who hid out with Metellus and his men in Mauretania under the protection of Bocchus I. The actions of Hadrianus incurred the enmity of the pro-Sullan upper classes in Africa. During an uprising in Utica (in modern-day Tunisia), he was killed when the official residence was set on fire. The sources uniformly emphasize that he was burned alive. Hadrianus's tenure was remembered for greed and harshness. A. N. Sherwin-White called him "beastly. " A chronological examination of the sources indicates that Cicero’s characterization of Hadrianus likely colored the view of historians who came later. In the course of his prosecution of Verres, Cicero makes a threatening comparison to Hadrianus and the manner of his death, saying that the defendant was even worse: So you see, this man is by far guiltier and more worthless, even though he has been somewhat luckier than Hadrianus. Yes, that Hadrianus: because Roman citizens could not tolerate his greed, he was burned alive in his own house at Utica. What happened to him was considered so well-deserved that everybody was happy about it and no official inquiry was conducted. Cicero uses the word domus, “house,” which directs attention away from Hadrianus’s status as a promagistrate; Livy calls it properly the praetorium, the official residence of the governor. The 1st-century AD historian Valerius Maximus echoes Cicero’s account closely: “After Hadrianus antagonized the Roman citizens settled at Utica with his sleazy governance and consequently was burned alive by them, no inquest was held at Rome to investigate the matter, nor did anyone bother to file a complaint. ” Although Hadrianus is sometimes said to have been “fluctuating between the parties of Cinna and Sulla,” it is unclear what facts indicate support of Sulla. As both Cicero and Valerius Maximus note, the Sullan regime established that same year took no action in the matter, even though the legitimate governor of a major province had been killed. Both sources state that the violence in Utica was instigated not by Africans rebelling against Rome, but by Roman citizens (cives). At first glance, Orosius seems to contradict both Cicero and Valerius, claiming that Hadrianus was burned alive with his entire household because he had fomented rebellion among the slaves of Africa, whose masters apparently reacted with firewood and homicidal arson. The populares were often accused by the conservative elite, factually or not, of resorting to slaves to apply violence, and the killing might best be viewed in the context of the Sullan proscriptions of 82. Even if Hadrianus was not among those proscribed, his death as a Cinnan holdover was timely. He was succeeded as governor of Africa by the most famous of Sulla’s henchmen and supporters, Pompeius Magnus; at the age of only 24, Pompey had not held the offices prerequisite to a governorship, but having declared the primacy of sword over law, he defeated the Marians, a contingent of whom were still occupying Africa, along with their Numidian allies. Pompey remained in Africa till 79, when he claimed his controversial first triumph for his victories there. | 0 |
American Association of Woodturners | American Association of Woodturners 2018-05-19T14:05:13Z The American Association of Woodturners (AAW) is the principal organization in the United States supporting the art and craft of woodturning. It is sometimes stylized as American Association of Wood Turners (AAWT). Established in 1986 and headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the organization encompasses more than 15,000 members in the United States and many foreign nations. As of 2013, the AAW was affiliated with nearly 350 local chapters worldwide. In addition to sponsoring an annual national symposium, the AAW provides support to local clubs for outreach and education. The 25th anniversary of the AAW was celebrated in 2011 at the annual symposium held in Saint Paul. Phil McDonald is executive director of the organization. The AAW states: "Our purpose is to foster a wider understanding and appreciation of lathe-turning as a traditional and contemporary craft and a form of art among the general public and amateur, part-time, and professional woodturners. This will be accomplished by providing education, information, organization, technical assistance, and publications related to woodturning." Woodturning, which has experienced exceptional growth and interest since AAW's founding, is a pursuit that goes back 4,000 years in human history – using craft’s most organic material, wood, as its primary medium. Woodturners create utilitarian, artistic, and sculptural wooden objects on mechanical lathes. The craft differs from most other forms of woodworking in that the wood stock rotates rapidly while sharpened cutting skews, gouges, and other tools are maneuvered by hand to shape the material. Membership in AAW brings a variety of benefits, including a bimonthly magazine, insurance coverage, scholarships, national symposiums, educational opportunities for newcomers and youth, and a website where turners can display and market their woodturnings. The AAW was founded at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and remains closely affiliated with that institution, as well as with the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The AAW, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is administered by a nine-member Board of Directors, all volunteers who serve three-year terms. Three board members are elected by the full membership each year and begin their terms in January. The Board employs an executive director and an editor, and appoints a Board of Advisors along with various committee members serving specific purposes, such as organizing the national symposium and overseeing AAW financial grants to clubs and individuals. The AAW magazine, American Woodturner, is published in print and online editions six times a year. Subscriptions to the journal are included with AAW membership, and individual copies are available on newsstands. Members may view all issues online. The publication contains articles aimed at both novice woodturners as well as intermediate craftspersons and professionals. The AAW is affiliated with more than 350 local chapters, or clubs, and three "virtual" chapters. Local chapters are primarily in the United States but encompass groups in many other nations, including Canada, England, New Zealand, Taiwan, Australia and Japan. Virtual chapters are not geographically based but are organized around specific woodturning techniques. The three virtual chapters include the Ornamental Turners International, Segmented Woodturners, and Pen Turners www.principallypens.com. Ornamental woodturners specialize in the use of an ornamental lathe such as the Rose engine lathe. Segmented woodturning involves joining individual pieces of wood together prior to turning to create intricate patterns and dramatic visual effects. Pen turners specialize in making pens and other writing instruments out of both wood and synthetic materials. Annual symposiums have been sponsored and organized by the AAW each year since 1987, alternating in cities around the United States. The first symposium was held in Lexington, Kentucky in 1987. The symposium will be in Kansas City in 2017 and Portland in 2018. The gathering typically includes live presentations, an auction of selected woodturnings, an instant gallery that showcases current woodturning craft, a rotation of how-to and hands-on demonstrations, the world's largest trade show of commercial woodturning vendors, and a youth training center. The AAW operates the AAW Gallery of Wood Art www.galleryofwoodart.org in Saint Paul's historic Landmark Center. The gallery features changing exhibits of art of all kinds made from wood, and there also is a gift shop. Admission is free to the gallery, which is open daily except Monday and Saturday. The AAW works in partnership with Collectors of Wood Art to promote the development and appreciation of studio wood art among collectors, artists, educators, art critics, galleries, museums, and the general public. , American Association of Woodturners 2019-09-28T02:27:22Z The American Association of Woodturners (AAW) is the principal organization in the United States supporting the art and craft of woodturning. It is sometimes stylized as American Association of Wood Turners (AAW). Established in 1986 and headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the organization encompasses more than 15,000 members in the United States and many foreign nations. As of 2013, the AAW was affiliated with nearly 350 local chapters worldwide. In addition to sponsoring an annual national symposium, the AAW provides support to local clubs for outreach and education. The 25th anniversary of the AAW was celebrated in 2011 at the annual symposium held in Saint Paul. Phil McDonald is executive director of the organization. The AAW states: "Our purpose is to foster a wider understanding and appreciation of lathe-turning as a traditional and contemporary craft and a form of art among the general public and amateur, part-time, and professional woodturners. This will be accomplished by providing education, information, organization, technical assistance, and publications related to woodturning." Woodturning, which has experienced exceptional growth and interest since AAW's founding, is a pursuit that goes back 4,000 years in human history – using craft’s most organic material, wood, as its primary medium. Woodturners create utilitarian, artistic, and sculptural wooden objects on mechanical lathes. The craft differs from most other forms of woodworking in that the wood stock rotates rapidly while sharpened cutting skews, gouges, and other tools are maneuvered by hand to shape the material. Membership in AAW brings a variety of benefits, including a bimonthly magazine, insurance coverage, scholarships, national symposiums, educational opportunities for newcomers and youth, and a website where turners can display and market their woodturnings. The AAW was founded at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and remains closely affiliated with that institution, as well as with the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The AAW, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is administered by a nine-member Board of Directors, all volunteers who serve three-year terms. Three board members are elected by the full membership each year and begin their terms in January. The Board employs an executive director and an editor, and appoints a Board of Advisors along with various committee members serving specific purposes, such as organizing the national symposium and overseeing AAW financial grants to clubs and individuals. The AAW magazine, American Woodturner, is published in print and online editions six times a year. Subscriptions to the journal are included with AAW membership, and individual copies are available on newsstands. Members may view all issues online. The publication contains articles aimed at both novice woodturners as well as intermediate craftspersons and professionals. The AAW is affiliated with more than 350 local chapters, or clubs, and three "virtual" chapters. Local chapters are primarily in the United States but encompass groups in many other nations, including Canada, England, New Zealand, Taiwan, Australia and Japan. Virtual chapters are not geographically based but are organized around specific woodturning techniques. The three virtual chapters include the Ornamental Turners International, Segmented Woodturners, and Pen Turners www.principallypens.com. Ornamental woodturners specialize in the use of an ornamental lathe such as the Rose engine lathe. Segmented woodturning involves joining individual pieces of wood together prior to turning to create intricate patterns and dramatic visual effects. Pen turners specialize in making pens and other writing instruments out of both wood and synthetic materials. Annual symposiums have been sponsored and organized by the AAW each year since 1987, alternating in cities around the United States. The first symposium was held in Lexington, Kentucky in 1987. The symposium will be in Kansas City in 2017 and Portland in 2018. The gathering typically includes live presentations, an auction of selected woodturnings, an instant gallery that showcases current woodturning craft, a rotation of how-to and hands-on demonstrations, the world's largest trade show of commercial woodturning vendors, and a youth training center. The AAW operates the AAW Gallery of Wood Art www.galleryofwoodart.org in Saint Paul's historic Landmark Center. The gallery features changing exhibits of art of all kinds made from wood, and there also is a gift shop. Admission is free to the gallery, which is open daily except Monday and Saturday. The AAW works in partnership with Collectors of Wood Art to promote the development and appreciation of studio wood art among collectors, artists, educators, art critics, galleries, museums, and the general public. | 1 |
FBLN1 | FBLN1 2009-07-20T12:49:33Z Template:PBB FBLN1 is the gene encoding fibulin-1, an extracellular matrix and plasma protein. Fibulin-1 is a secreted glycoprotein that is found in association with extracellular matrix structures including fibronectin-containing fibers, elastin-containing fibers and basement membranes. Fibulin-1 binds to a number of extracellular matrix constituents including fibronectin, nidogen-1, and the proteoglycan, versican. Fibulin-1 is also a blood protein capable of binding to fibrinogen. Fibulin-1 has modular domain structure and includes a series of nine epidermal growth factor-like modules followed by a fibulin-type module, a module found in all members of the fibulin gene family. The human fibulin-1 gene, FBLN1, encodes four splice variants designated fibulin-1A, B, C and D, which differ in their carboxy terminal regions. In mouse, chicken and the nematode, C. elegans, only two fibulin-1 variants are produced, fibulin-1C and fibulin-1D. FBLN1 has been shown to interact with Entactin, NOV (gene) and Amyloid precursor protein. Template:PBB Further reading This article on a gene on human chromosome 22 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Template:PBB Controls, FBLN1 2011-03-26T11:41:24Z Template:PBB FBLN1 is the gene encoding fibulin-1, an extracellular matrix and plasma protein. Fibulin-1 is a secreted glycoprotein that is found in association with extracellular matrix structures including fibronectin-containing fibers, elastin-containing fibers and basement membranes. Fibulin-1 binds to a number of extracellular matrix constituents including fibronectin,Attention: This template ({{cite pmid}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 1400300, please use {{cite journal}} with |pmid=1400300 instead. nidogen-1, and the proteoglycan, versican. Fibulin-1 is also a blood protein capable of binding to fibrinogen. Fibulin-1 has modular domain structure and includes a series of nine epidermal growth factor-like modules followed by a fibulin-type module, a module found in all members of the fibulin gene family. The human fibulin-1 gene, FBLN1, encodes four splice variants designated fibulin-1A, B, C and D, which differ in their carboxy terminal regions. In mouse, chicken and the nematode, C. elegans, only two fibulin-1 variants are produced, fibulin-1C and fibulin-1D. FBLN1 has been shown to interact with entactin, NOV/CCN3, amyloid precursor protein, fibrinogen, and fibronectin. Template:PBB Further reading This article on a gene on human chromosome 22 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Template:PBB Controls | 0 |
Glen_Cummings_(musician) | Glen_Cummings_(musician) 2009-10-12T23:30:48Z Glen Cummings is an American thrash metal guitarist. 1980-1989 he played for Ludichrist. 1989-1993 he played for Scatterbrain. In 1993 Cummings moved to Nashville, TN and recorded with a band named Stone Deep. He also played guitar on two international Mucky Pup tours, but was never a member of the group. In 1995 Cummings focused his energies on publishing and graphic design. Cummings is currently owner/operator of MTWTF, a multi-disciplinary design studio on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and a lecturer in graphic design at Yale University School of Art. , Glen_Cummings_(musician) 2010-01-26T12:47:56Z Glen Cummings is an American thrash metal guitarist. . 1980-1989 he played with Ludichrist. 1989-1993 he played with Scatterbrain. In 1993 Cummings moved to Nashville, TN and recorded with a band named Stone Deep. He also played guitar on two international Mucky Pup tours, but was never a member of the group. | 0 |
Eddie Marsan | Eddie Marsan 2021-01-07T23:21:35Z Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born 9 June 1968) is a British actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008. He has appeared in films such as Gangster No. 1 (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), V for Vendetta (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Sixty Six (2006), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), War Horse (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Best of Men (2012), and The World's End (2013). He also appeared as Terry in Showtime's series Ray Donovan (2013–2020), and as Mr Norrell in the BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015). Edward Maurice Charles Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 in the Stepney district of London, to a working-class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother was a school dinnerlady and teacher's assistant. He was brought up in Bethnal Green and attended Raine's Foundation School. He left school at 16 and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer, before beginning his career in theatre. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 1991, and went on to study under Sam Kogan and the Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, of which Marsan is now a patron. Marsan's first television appearance was in 1992, as a "yob", in the London Weekend Television series The Piglet Files. One of his more significant early television appearances was in the popular mid-1990s BBC sitcom Game On as a bungling bank robber. Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Grass, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, Southcliffe, and more. He also voiced the Manticore in the Merlin episode "Love in the Time of Dragons". In 2012, he played Ludwig Guttmann in the television film The Best of Men. He portrays Terry Donovan, brother to the lead character in Showtime's drama series Ray Donovan. In May 2015, Marsan appeared as the practical magician Gilbert Norrell in the BBC period drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Marsan has appeared in numerous and varied film roles, as the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith and as Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. His other films include Sixty Six, Gangs of New York, 21 Grams, The Illusionist, V for Vendetta, Gangster No. 1, Miami Vice, Mission: Impossible III, I Want Candy, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky, Filth, Tyrannosaur, and Heartless. Marsan married make-up artist Janine Schneider in 2002. They have four children. Marsan won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Happy-Go-Lucky. Marsan also won the latter for his performance in Vera Drake. For his performance in Happy-Go-Lucky, Marsan also earned other nominations, such as the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the Women Film Journalists Awards for Best Supporting Actor. In 2014, Marsan earned the Best British Actor award at the 2014 Edinburgh International film festival and the Best Actor award at the VOICES film festival in Vologda, Russia, for his performance in Still Life. , Eddie Marsan 2022-12-27T13:12:36Z Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born 9 June 1968) is an English actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). He has featured in films such as Gangster No. 1 (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), V for Vendetta (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Sixty Six (2006), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), War Horse (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Best of Men (2012), The World's End (2013), Still Life (2013), and The Exception (2016). His major TV credits include his role as Terry in Showtime's Ray Donovan (2013–2020) and as Mr Norrell in the BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015). Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 in the Stepney district of London, to a working-class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother was a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant. He was brought up in Bethnal Green and attended Raine's Foundation School. He left school at 16 and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer, before beginning his career in theatre. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 1991, and went on to study under Sam Kogan and the Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, of which Marsan is now a patron. Marsan's first television appearance was in 1992, as a "yob", in the London Weekend Television series The Piglet Files. One of his more significant early television appearances was in the popular mid-1990s BBC sitcom Game On as an escaped convict who was an old flame of Mandy's. Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Grass, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, Southcliffe, and more. He also voiced the Manticore in the Merlin episode "Love in the Time of Dragons". In 2012, he played Ludwig Guttmann in the television film The Best of Men. He portrays Terry Donovan, brother to the lead character in Showtime's drama series Ray Donovan. In May 2015, Marsan appeared as the practical magician Gilbert Norrell in the BBC period drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Marsan has appeared in numerous and varied film roles, as the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith and as Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. His other films include Sixty Six, Gangs of New York, 21 Grams, The Illusionist, V for Vendetta, Gangster No. 1, Miami Vice, Mission: Impossible III, I Want Candy, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky, Filth, Tyrannosaur and Heartless. In 2021 Marsan appeared as anti-Fascist activist Soly Malinovsky in the television adaptation of the novel Ridley Road. In 2022 Marsan played the real-life role of John Darwin, in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. Marsan married make-up artist Janine Schneider in 2002. They have four children. Marsan is a humanist and was appointed a patron of Humanists UK in 2015. Marsan won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Happy-Go-Lucky. Marsan also won the latter for his performance in Vera Drake. For his performance in Happy-Go-Lucky, Marsan also earned other nominations, such as the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the Women Film Journalists Awards for Best Supporting Actor. In 2014, Marsan earned the Best British Actor award at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Best Actor award at the VOICES film festival in Vologda, Russia, for his performance in Still Life. | 1 |
Pacific_Asia_Travel_Association | Pacific_Asia_Travel_Association 2011-06-30T08:26:54Z The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a membership association working to promote the responsible development of travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The association began in 1951 when Lorrin P. Thurston, president of two major daily newspapers in Honolulu, and William J Mullahey of Pan American Airways set about organising the first Pacific area travel conference with the aim of promoting tourism to the largely undiscovered region of Asia Pacific. The purpose of the meeting, Thurston noted, was to “discuss cooperation among Pacific countries that would result in a greater exchange of visitors to their mutual advantage, and to develop methods of presenting the Pacific area to the world’s travellers and the travel trade by reducing restrictions on Pacific travel, filling in accommodation gaps, and presenting the Pacific story in advertising and publicity”. In March 1951, invitations were sent out for the conference, which was to be held in the first week of June, from the office of Hawaii's territorial governor, Ingram Stainback. Unfortunately many of the replies came in too late and the conference was postponed. It was then in October 1951 that Thurston, who was in Paris attending a European travel conference, issued his now-famous cable to Mullahey: "Proceed to send invitations to governments and carriers to attend Pacific Area Travel conference for purpose of establishing permanent Pacific Travel Association and determine most convenient date for majority during first three months 1952. " The inaugural conference eventually took place from January 10–15, 1952 at the Maluhia Auditorium of Fort DeRussy in Waikiki, Hawaii. There were 91 delegates in attendance at the conference, including representatives of government and business. Aside from Thurston and Mullahey, those taking a key role at this event were: Robert Allen, chairman of registration and housing; Melvin A. Conant, chairman of conference organisation; Harry Dove, chairman of counselor liaison; John Pugh, co-chairman of entertainment; John Jay Murphy, co-chairman of program and protocol; William O. Cogswell, Sam N. Mercer and Steward E. Fern of the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, and Milton O. Holst of Holst & Cummings, Lrd. On Tuesday, January 15, 1952, Lorrin Thurston announced that 25 active and 12 allied members had signed the constitution and bylaws of what was now known as the Pacific Interim Travel Association (PITA). PITA was legally incorporated in the state of Hawaii two months later. The new association’s constitution declared its purpose was “To encourage and assist in the development of the travel industries throughout the Pacific area”. While marketing activities were its primary goal, the delegates of the first conference also envisioned the association as one that could work with both government and private business in developing travel. One of PITA’s main accomplishments in its first year was to publicise itself to the international travel community. The association’s first executive director Sam Mercer noted that the first conference “focused the attention of the entire travel world on an awakening of tourism in the Pacific” . News articles and press releases were sent to, and subsequently published in, numerous publications – including both specialist travel press and general audience newspapers. A particularly effective vehicle for PITA’s self-promotion was its quarterly newspaper, PITA News Bulletin, which by the end of its first year was being sent to over 500 addresses throughout the world. In its first year, PITA also worked with governments to ease entry and exit requirements for foreigners, seeing success in Japan, the US and the Philippines. By the second conference in March 1953 (held in Hawaii like the first) PITA had increased its membership from 33 active and allied members to 49. It was also at this conference that it was decided to change the association’s name to the ‘Pacific Area Travel Association’ – or PATA. In 1953 PATA’s headquarters were moved from Hawaii to San Francisco, with Sam Mercer serving as the first executive director. Considered as the sate of “money and influence”, San Francisco was home to an influential group of individuals who served on the PATA board and committees during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the first decade, PATA membership grew steadily, attracting a wide range of members including governments, carriers, hotel members, travel agents, cruise lines and the media. Other members eventually included tour operators, educational institutions, vehicle operators, restaurants and catering services, advertising agencies, public relations firms, publications, banks and architectural and research firms. By the end of the 1950s, PATA had 325 members, while there had also been a steady rise in the annual conference attendance. In 1955, a Research and Survey Committee was established and PATA delegates gave their approval to spend US$8,000 on the organisation’s first advertising programme. In 1957 the first issue of Pacific Travel News (PTN) was published, providing PATA with a news vehicle to promote itself and its destinations. In 1958, PATA's Board of Directors requested that the US International Cooperation Administration provide US $150,000 for a comprehensive study of the Pacific countries. The results of the survey, which became known as the 'Checchi Report', were presented at the 1962 Annual Conference. It presented to PATA members and NTOs the status of tourism in the Pacific region, both area-wide and individually by country. It contained information regarding the anticipated impact of tourist expenditure, the effects of tourism on jobs and wages, methods of financing tourism development and projections for US visitor arrivals to the Pacific region. The report quickly became a blueprint for many NTO and travel planners, as it methodically presented the economic benefits – both direct and indirect – derived from tourism. . 1961 saw the establishment of the first PATA Chapters in New Zealand and Hong Kong. The development of the chapter system was an effort to involve professionals in the travel and tourism industry who could not participate in PATA’s activities or attend annual conference and workshops, and to expand PATA’s presence in previously untapped markets. . The 1960s also witnessed PATA's first move towards promoting education and training, helping to set up the School of TIM (Tourism Industry Management) at the University of Hawaii – the first such institution to be established in the region. At the 23rd Annual Conference, held in Jakarta in 1974, it was decided that there should be a change of emphasis in PATA's function to enable more support for the developmental aspects of tourism within in the Pacific area, particularly in industry, education and training. Members stipulated that a new, permanent body be formed, with the name 'Development Authority'. This advisory body would be composed of experts from diverse backgrounds and specialisations, whose purpose would be to carry out the association's intentions towards heritage conservation, education and training, and environmental enhancement. At its second meeting in August 1974, the newly-formed Development Authority accepted its first assignment. It followed a request from Lieutenant General Chalermchai Charuvastr, Director General of the Tourist Organisation of Thailand (TOT), to PATA executive director Marvin Plake to help increase tourism in Thailand. The TOT Director General proposed Chiang Mai as an ideal location for the development of tourism and so PATA sent a travel trade mission - or 'task force' as they later became known - to the northern city. The task force completed its mission in February 1975. Its report "Chiang Mai: A Program or Expanding the Airport" contained a two-stage list of recommendations and addressed the areas of sight-seeing attractions, marketing, air service, air cargo, airport development, community relations and statistical record-keeping. The years following the task force saw visitor arrivals to Chiang Mai increase, however there was still a relatively poor showing in foreign arrivals. PATA dispatched a second task force team to the city in 1977 where, amongst other issues, they considered the economics of international air service there. Their report "Chiang Mai, The Introduction of International Air Service", contained both short and long-term recommendations which were submitted to TOT. The Thai government later implemented a development plan for Chiang Mai largely based on PATA's blueprint. The 1970s also saw the first ever PATA Travel Mart in Manila (1978). The highly successful and popular event was the brainchild of then-PATA Staff Vice President Gerald Picolla, who saw the potential of such marts to generate huge volumes of business for participating member organisations at a fraction of the cost of doing business on the road. In 1984 the PATA Board of Directors approved the creation of the PATA Foundation, creating a new role for the association as a benefactor of culture and heritage policy by administering project funding. Under the leadership of its first chair, George Howling, the foundation began securing funds for education, research and heritage conservation. The foundation sought assistance from PATA Chapters in carrying out is work, including the production of professional papers on handicraft preservation, area-wide inventories of heritage assets, and conservation programs for endangered wildlife. At first larger projects were targeted, but the focus then turned to small projects as it enabled the foundation to distribute its assistance more efficiently and effectively. For example, in 1988, the foundation funded the inventory and architectural record-keeping of historic buildings for a historic district preservation project in Pokhara, Nepal. 1986 saw PATA change its name from Pacific Area Travel Association to Pacific Asia Travel Association to reflect the ever-increasing importance of Asia in commerce and world affairs. The first World Chapters Congress in 1989 attracted 250 delegates from 58 chapters with ‘Teamwork Toward Success’ as the theme. With tourism to PATA member countries booming, concerns began to grow about environmental, cultural and heritage preservation. At the 1991 Annual Conference in Bali, PATA's 40th, there was a call from over 1,500 delegates from more than 50 countries to promote ecologically responsible travel and tourism under the conference theme 'Enrich the Environment'. This occasion marked the beginning of PATA's role as an 'authoritative' voice for sustainable tourism in the Pacific Asia region and in January 1992, the PATA Board of Directors approved the PATA 'Code for Environmentally Responsible Tourism' and it was officially adopted at the Annual Conference in Hong Kong later that same year. Further environmental efforts came in 1994, when PATA's Green Leaf program was launched, with the aim of encouraging members to incorporate CERT (Code for Environmentally Responsible Tourism) into their operations. It became a centerpiece of PATA’s initiatives in the area of sustainable tourism, but was later integrated into the WTTC-run Green Globe programme in 2000. New events in the 1990s included the first PATA Adventure Travel & Ecotourism Conference and Mart in Pokara, Nepal, as well as the PATA/WTO Human Resources for Tourism Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Following the Gulf War, PATA created the Accelerated Marketing Program (AMP), designed to support member destinations affected by conflict. After intense discussions and negotiations, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) joined PATA as a government member in 1992. The end of the decade - 1998 - saw PATA relocated its head office from San Francisco to Bangkok to be in the heart of its membership region. In 2003 PATA launches Project Phoenix, a global consumer communications campaign to re-invigorate travel and tourism in Pacific Asia. It came in response to the battering the travel industry and economies in the region had taken due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bali bombs and SARS. This year also saw PATA adopt the ‘Allied Partner’ concept, inviting local, regional and national tourist bodies outside PATA’s geographic region to gain access to Asia Pacific’s outbound markets. 2004 saw PATA change its Mission Statement to include tourism ‘to, from and within’ Asia Pacific, thereby recognizing the importance of the region as a growing outbound market. Following the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, PATA launches a relief fund. In 2005 the PATA Board of Directors approve an amendment to the association’s Mission Statement to reflect concerns for responsible tourism. With the support of CNTA, the PATA Beijing Office is set up in 2007 – the first travel related international organisation officially registered in China. In 2008 PATA provides crisis communication training to Chengdu’s tourism industry just one month after the Sichuan earthquake, while the PATA Foundation grants a post-crisis Fund for Sichuan. In 2010 PATA launched the Travel Intelligence Graphic Architecture (TIGA) initiative to enable better decision making by tourism professionals. On 17 September 2010, it was announced that current CEO Greg Duffell would leave PATA by February 2011 after just 18 months in the role 2011 will see PATA celebrate its 60th anniversary with a series of activities and events focused around the theme 'Building Tourism. Past. Present. Progressive'. , Pacific_Asia_Travel_Association 2013-03-17T18:28:00Z The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a membership association working to promote the responsible development of travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The association began in 1951 when Lorrin P. Thurston, president of two major daily newspapers in Honolulu, and William J Mullahey of Pan American Airways set about organising the first Pacific area travel conference with the aim of promoting tourism to the largely undiscovered region of Asia Pacific. The purpose of the meeting, Thurston noted, was to “discuss cooperation among Pacific countries that would result in a greater exchange of visitors to their mutual advantage, and to develop methods of presenting the Pacific area to the world’s travellers and the travel trade by reducing restrictions on Pacific travel, filling in accommodation gaps, and presenting the Pacific story in advertising and publicity”. In March 1951, invitations were sent out for the conference, which was to be held in the first week of June, from the office of Hawaii's territorial governor, Ingram Stainback. Unfortunately many of the replies came in too late and the conference was postponed. It was then in October 1951 that Thurston, who was in Paris attending a European travel conference, issued his now-famous cable to Mullahey: "Proceed to send invitations to governments and carriers to attend Pacific Area Travel conference for purpose of establishing permanent Pacific Travel Association and determine most convenient date for majority during first three months 1952. " The inaugural conference eventually took place from January 10–15, 1952 at the Maluhia Auditorium of Fort DeRussy in Waikiki, Hawaii. There were 91 delegates in attendance at the conference, including representatives of government and business. Aside from Thurston and Mullahey, those taking a key role at this event were: Robert Allen, chairman of registration and housing; Melvin A. Conant, chairman of conference organisation; Harry Dove, chairman of counselor liaison; John Pugh, co-chairman of entertainment; John Jay Murphy, co-chairman of program and protocol; William O. Cogswell, Sam N. Mercer and Steward E. Fern of the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, and Milton O. Holst of Holst & Cummings, Lrd. On Tuesday, January 15, 1952, Lorrin Thurston announced that 25 active and 12 allied members had signed the constitution and bylaws of what was now known as the Pacific Interim Travel Association (PITA). PITA was legally incorporated in the state of Hawaii two months later. The new association’s constitution declared its purpose was “To encourage and assist in the development of the travel industries throughout the Pacific area”. While marketing activities were its primary goal, the delegates of the first conference also envisioned the association as one that could work with both government and private business in developing travel. One of PATA’s main accomplishments in its first year was to publicise itself to the international travel community. The association’s first executive director Sam Mercer noted that the first conference “focused the attention of the entire travel world on an awakening of tourism in the Pacific”. News articles and press releases were sent to, and subsequently published in, numerous publications – including both specialist travel press and general audience newspapers. A particularly effective vehicle for PITA’s self-promotion was its quarterly newspaper, PITA News Bulletin, which by the end of its first year was being sent to over 500 addresses throughout the world. In its first year, PITA also worked with governments to ease entry and exit requirements for foreigners, seeing success in Japan, the US and the Philippines. By the second conference in March 1953 (held in Hawaii like the first) PITA had increased its membership from 33 active and allied members to 49. It was also at this conference that it was decided to change the association’s name to the ‘Pacific Area Travel Association’ – or PATA. In 1953 PATA’s headquarters were moved from Hawaii to San Francisco, with Sam Mercer serving as the first executive director. Considered as the sate of “money and influence”, San Francisco was home to an influential group of individuals who served on the PATA board and committees during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the first decade, PATA membership grew steadily, attracting a wide range of members including governments, carriers, hotel members, travel agents, cruise lines and the media. Other members eventually included tour operators, educational institutions, vehicle operators, restaurants and catering services, advertising agencies, public relations firms, publications, banks and architectural and research firms. By the end of the 1950s, PATA had 325 members, while there had also been a steady rise in the annual conference attendance. In 1955, a Research and Survey Committee was established and PATA delegates gave their approval to spend US$8,000 on the organisation’s first advertising programme. In 1957 the first issue of Pacific Travel News (PTN) was published, providing PATA with a news vehicle to promote itself and its destinations. In 1958, PATA's Board of Directors requested that the US International Cooperation Administration provide US $150,000 for a comprehensive study of the Pacific countries. The results of the survey, which became known as the 'Checchi Report', were presented at the 1962 Annual Conference. It presented to PATA members and NTOs the status of tourism in the Pacific region, both area-wide and individually by country. It contained information regarding the anticipated impact of tourist expenditure, the effects of tourism on jobs and wages, methods of financing tourism development and projections for US visitor arrivals to the Pacific region. The report quickly became a blueprint for many NTO and travel planners, as it methodically presented the economic benefits – both direct and indirect – derived from tourism. 1961 saw the establishment of the first PATA Chapters in New Zealand and Hong Kong. The development of the chapter system was an effort to involve professionals in the travel and tourism industry who could not participate in PATA’s activities or attend annual conference and workshops, and to expand PATA’s presence in previously untapped markets. The 1960s also witnessed PATA's first move towards promoting education and training, helping to set up the School of TIM (Tourism Industry Management) at the University of Hawaii – the first such institution to be established in the region. At the 23rd Annual Conference, held in Jakarta in 1974, it was decided that there should be a change of emphasis in PATA's function to enable more support for the developmental aspects of tourism within the Pacific area, particularly in industry, education and training. Members stipulated that a new, permanent body be formed, with the name 'Development Authority'. This advisory body would be composed of experts from diverse backgrounds and specialisations, whose purpose would be to carry out the association's intentions towards heritage conservation, education and training, and environmental enhancement. At its second meeting in August 1974, the newly-formed Development Authority accepted its first assignment. It followed a request from Lieutenant General Chalermchai Charuvastr, Director General of the Tourist Organisation of Thailand (TOT), to PATA executive director Marvin Plake to help increase tourism in Thailand. The TOT Director General proposed Chiang Mai as an ideal location for the development of tourism and so PATA sent a travel trade mission - or 'task force' as they later became known - to the northern city. The task force completed its mission in February 1975. Its report "Chiang Mai: A Program or Expanding the Airport" contained a two-stage list of recommendations and addressed the areas of sight-seeing attractions, marketing, air service, air cargo, airport development, community relations and statistical record-keeping. The years following the task force saw visitor arrivals to Chiang Mai increase, however there was still a relatively poor showing in foreign arrivals. PATA dispatched a second task force team to the city in 1977 where, amongst other issues, they considered the economics of international air service there. Their report "Chiang Mai, The Introduction of International Air Service", contained both short and long-term recommendations which were submitted to TOT. The Thai government later implemented a development plan for Chiang Mai largely based on PATA's blueprint. The 1970s also saw the first ever PATA Travel Mart in Manila (1978). The highly successful and popular event was the brainchild of then-PATA Staff Vice President Gerald Picolla, who saw the potential of such marts to generate huge volumes of business for participating member organisations at a fraction of the cost of doing business on the road. In 1984 the PATA Board of Directors approved the creation of the PATA Foundation, creating a new role for the association as a benefactor of culture and heritage policy by administering project funding. Under the leadership of its first chair, George Howling, the foundation began securing funds for education, research and heritage conservation. The foundation sought assistance from PATA Chapters in carrying out is work, including the production of professional papers on handicraft preservation, area-wide inventories of heritage assets, and conservation programs for endangered wildlife. At first larger projects were targeted, but the focus then turned to small projects as it enabled the foundation to distribute its assistance more efficiently and effectively. For example, in 1988, the foundation funded the inventory and architectural record-keeping of historic buildings for a historic district preservation project in Pokhara, Nepal. 1986 saw PATA change its name from Pacific Area Travel Association to Pacific Asia Travel Association to reflect the ever-increasing importance of Asia in commerce and world affairs. The first World Chapters Congress in 1989 attracted 250 delegates from 58 chapters with ‘Teamwork Toward Success’ as the theme. With tourism to PATA member countries booming, concerns began to grow about environmental, cultural and heritage preservation. At the 1991 Annual Conference in Bali, PATA's 40th, there was a call from over 1,500 delegates from more than 50 countries to promote ecologically responsible travel and tourism under the conference theme 'Enrich the Environment'. This occasion marked the beginning of PATA's role as an 'authoritative' voice for sustainable tourism in the Pacific Asia region and in January 1992, the PATA Board of Directors approved the PATA 'Code for Environmentally Responsible Tourism' and it was officially adopted at the Annual Conference in Hong Kong later that same year. Further environmental efforts came in 1994, when PATA's Green Leaf program was launched, with the aim of encouraging members to incorporate CERT (Code for Environmentally Responsible Tourism) into their operations. It became a centerpiece of PATA’s initiatives in the area of sustainable tourism, but was later integrated into the WTTC-run Green Globe programme in 2000. New events in the 1990s included the first PATA Adventure Travel & Ecotourism Conference and Mart in Pokara, Nepal, as well as the PATA/WTO Human Resources for Tourism Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Following the Gulf War, PATA created the Accelerated Marketing Program (AMP), designed to support member destinations affected by conflict. After intense discussions and negotiations, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) joined PATA as a government member in 1992. The end of the decade - 1998 - saw PATA relocated its head office from San Francisco to Bangkok to be in the heart of its membership region. In 2003 PATA launches Project Phoenix, a global consumer communications campaign to re-invigorate travel and tourism in Pacific Asia. It came in response to the battering the travel industry and economies in the region had taken due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bali bombs and SARS. This year also saw PATA adopt the ‘Allied Partner’ concept, inviting local, regional and national tourist bodies outside PATA’s geographic region to gain access to Asia Pacific’s outbound markets. 2004 saw PATA change its Mission Statement to include tourism ‘to, from and within’ Asia Pacific, thereby recognizing the importance of the region as a growing outbound market. Following the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, PATA launches a relief fund. In 2005 the PATA Board of Directors approve an amendment to the association’s Mission Statement to reflect concerns for responsible tourism. With the support of CNTA, the PATA Beijing Office is set up in 2007 – the first travel related international organisation officially registered in China. In 2008 PATA provides crisis communication training to Chengdu’s tourism industry just one month after the Sichuan earthquake, while the PATA Foundation grants a post-crisis Fund for Sichuan. In 2010 PATA launched the Travel Intelligence Graphic Architecture (TIGA) initiative to enable better decision making by tourism professionals. On 17 September 2010, it was announced that current CEO Greg Duffell would leave PATA by February 2011 after just 18 months in the role In July 2012, PATA re-established its Hong Kong Chapter. 2011 will see PATA celebrate its 60th anniversary with a series of activities and events focused around the theme 'Building Tourism. Past. Present. Progressive'. On September 6–9, PATA Travel Mart 2011 will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. | 0 |
National_Key_Points_Act,_1980 | National_Key_Points_Act,_1980 2010-09-19T00:21:23Z The National Keypoints Act or Act. No 102 of 1980, provided for the declaration of installations of strategic importance in South Africa. , National_Key_Points_Act,_1980 2011-08-31T11:08:11Z The National Keypoints Act or Act. No 102 of 1980, provided for the declaration of installations of strategic importance in South Africa. | 0 |
Advanced_Distributed_Learning | Advanced_Distributed_Learning 2008-09-11T01:21:53Z ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) The ADL Initiative was established in 1997 to standardize and modernize training and education management and delivery. The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) oversees the ADL Initiative. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aiding that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, at the right time and in the right place. The ADL Initiative developed SCORM and the ADL Registry. ADL uses structured and collaborative methods to convene multi-national groups from industry, academia, and government who develop the learning standards, tools, and content. For additional information regarding the ADL Initiative, SCORM, and the ADL Registry, refer to the following web sites: ADL Initiative and SCORM: ADL Registry: The Sharable Content Object Reference Model, integrates a set of related technical standards, specifications, and guidelines designed to meet SCORM’s high-level requirements—accessible, reusable, interoperable, and durable content and systems. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM. SCORM was developed as a result of extensive collaboration across the public and private sectors. President Clinton issued an Executive Order identifying ADL as the model other Federal Agencies should follow in developing and distributing online learning in the Federal Government. DOD subsequently issued a Directive requiring the military to adopt SCORM. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have also assumed major roles in promoting use of ADL and the SCORM standard. DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1322. 26 Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning. DoDI 1322. 26 imposes the following requirements related to SCORM content developed by and for the US Department of Defense: SCORM is now the de facto standard for e-learning content around the world. It has been adopted not only in the US government, but also in K-12 education, higher education, and corporate training around the world. Hundreds of learning management system vendors have produced SCORM-compliant systems on which SCORM content can be deployed. The ADL Registry was developed by the ADL Initiative and is the central search point for the discovery of DoD training, education, performance, and decision-aiding content that can be redeployed, rearranged, repurposed, and rewritten. In much the same way that a card from the card catalog contains descriptive information about books in a library, the ADL Registry contains all of the registered entries that contain metadata about the content in a repository. The ADL Registry provides centrally searchable information, in the form of metadata records (not actual content). The metadata describes many different kinds of objects to enable their discovery and reuse regardless of their location or origin. Like SCORM, DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1322. 26 Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning. DoDI 1322. 26 requires that all acquired or developed SCORM content packages shall include metadata, be registered in the ADL-R, and be maintained in DoD Components’ repositories that are searchable and accessible. Like other DoD research and development efforts (the Internet and GPS for example), ADL currently plans to transition stewardship of SCORM to the International Federation for Learning-Education-Teaching Systems Interoperability (LETSI). The ADL Initiative will continue to maintain SCORM 2004 for the US Department of Defense and will continue to engage in research and development efforts for other advanced learning technologies and standards. In addition to the ADL Registry, another current focus area is the integration of learning standards with S1000D, a technical specification for the life cycle management of technical data. S1000D is being adopted, along with SCORM, throughout the DoD. , Advanced_Distributed_Learning 2010-02-27T03:46:06Z Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the product of the ADL Initiative, established in 1997 to standardize and modernize training and education management and delivery. The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) oversees the ADL Initiative. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aiding that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, at the right time and in the right place. The ADL Initiative developed SCORM and the ADL Registry. ADL uses structured and collaborative methods to convene multi-national groups from industry, academia, and government who develop the learning standards, tools, and content. For additional information regarding the ADL Initiative, SCORM, and the ADL Registry, refer to the following web sites: The Sharable Content Object Reference Model, integrates a set of related technical standards, specifications, and guidelines designed to meet SCORM’s high-level requirements—accessible, reusable, interoperable, and durable content and systems. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM. SCORM was developed as a result of extensive collaboration across the public and private sectors. President Clinton issued an Executive Order identifying ADL as the model other Federal Agencies should follow in developing and distributing online learning in the Federal Government. DOD subsequently issued a Directive requiring the military to adopt SCORM. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have also assumed major roles in promoting use of ADL and the SCORM standard. DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1322. 26 Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning. DoDI 1322. 26 imposes the following requirements related to SCORM content developed by and for the US Department of Defense: SCORM is now the de facto standard for e-learning content around the world. It has been adopted not only in the US government, but also in K-12 education, higher education, and corporate training around the world. Hundreds of learning management system vendors have produced SCORM-compliant systems on which SCORM content can be deployed. The ADL Registry was developed by the ADL Initiative and is the central search point for the discovery of DoD training, education, performance, and decision-aiding content that can be redeployed, rearranged, repurposed, and rewritten. In much the same way that a card from the card catalog contains descriptive information about books in a library, the ADL Registry contains all of the registered entries that contain metadata about the content in a repository. The ADL Registry provides centrally searchable information, in the form of metadata records (not actual content). The metadata describes many different kinds of objects to enable their discovery and reuse regardless of their location or origin. Like SCORM, DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1322. 26 Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning. DoDI 1322. 26 requires that all acquired or developed SCORM content packages shall include metadata, be registered in the ADL-R, and be maintained in DoD Components’ repositories that are searchable and accessible. Like other DoD research and development efforts (the Internet and GPS for example), ADL currently plans to transition stewardship of SCORM to another organization. The ADL Initiative will continue to maintain SCORM 2004 for the US Department of Defense and will continue to engage in research and development efforts for other advanced learning technologies and standards. In addition to the ADL Registry, another current focus area is the integration of learning standards with S1000D, a technical specification for the life cycle management of technical data. S1000D is being adopted, along with SCORM, throughout the DoD. ( ADL Registry ) | 0 |
Gladstone's_Land | Gladstone's_Land 2010-04-10T16:31:17Z Gladstone's Land is a surviving 17th century high-tenement house situated in the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has been restored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland, and is operated as a popular tourist attraction. The "Land" (sited at 477b Lawnmarket) was originally built in 1550, but was bought and redeveloped in 1617 by a prosperous Edinburgh merchant and burgess Thomas Gledstanes. The work was completed in 1620. Its prominent siting (on the Royal Mile between Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyrood) and the extent of its accommodation mark out the affluence of its mercantile owner. However, not only did Gledstanes reside there, he let out parts of the building to an assortment of tenants of different social classes (another merchant, a minister, a knight, and a guild officer). Thus the restored building allows an insight into varieties of Edinburgh life of the period. The cramped conditions of the Old Town, and the physical size of the lot, meant that the house could only be extended in depth or in height. As a result, the house is six storeys tall. In 1934, the building was condemned and scheduled for demolition, until it was rescued by the National Trust for Scotland. The Trust fully restored the first two floors of the building, uncovering original renaissance painted ceilings in the process. Today the restored premises offer a glimpse of 17th century life, with open fires, lack of running water, and period decoration and furniture. At ground level, there is an arcade frontage and reconstructed shop booth, complete with replicas of 17th century wares. This would originally have provided shelter for the merchant's customers. Outside the entrance to the building is a hanging sign with the date 1617 and a gilt-copper hawk with outstretched wings. Although not original, the significance of this is that the name "Gledstone" is derived from the Scots word "gled" meaning a hawk. By the mid-18th century, Edinburgh's Old Town was no longer a fashionable address. Increased population and cramped conditions encouraged the flight of the affluent to the developing New Town. Today, visitors to the city can contrast Gladstone's Land to the Trust's restored example of a New Town residence, The Georgian House, at No. 7 Charlotte Square. The second floor of Gladstone's Land now hosts the National Trust's Gladstone Gallery, which is accessed via a turnpike staircase at the front of the building. The space is rented out to artists through the year, and serves as a venue for events during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 55°56′58″N 3°11′34″W / 55. 94944°N 3. 19278°W / 55. 94944; -3. 19278, Gladstone's_Land 2011-07-24T00:26:56Z Gladstone's Land is a surviving 17th century high-tenement house situated in the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has been restored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland, and is operated as a popular tourist attraction. The "Land" (sited at 477b Lawnmarket) was originally built in 1550, but was bought and redeveloped in 1617 by a prosperous Edinburgh merchant and burgess Thomas Gledstanes. The work was completed in 1620. Its prominent siting (on the Royal Mile between Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyrood) and the extent of its accommodation mark out the affluence of its mercantile owner. However, not only did Gledstanes reside there, he let out parts of the building to an assortment of tenants of different social classes (another merchant, a minister, a knight, and a guild officer). Thus the restored building allows an insight into varieties of Edinburgh life of the period. The cramped conditions of the Old Town, and the physical size of the lot, meant that the house could only be extended in depth or in height. As a result, the house is six storeys tall. In 1934, the building was condemned and scheduled for demolition, until it was rescued by the National Trust for Scotland. The Trust fully restored the first two floors of the building, uncovering original renaissance painted ceilings in the process. Today the restored premises offer a glimpse of 17th century life, with open fires, lack of running water, and period decoration and furniture. At ground level, there is an arcade frontage and reconstructed shop booth, complete with replicas of 17th century wares. This would originally have provided shelter for the merchant's customers. Outside the entrance to the building is a hanging sign with the date 1617 and a gilt-copper hawk with outstretched wings. Although not original, the significance of this is that the name "Gledstone" is derived from the Scots word "gled" meaning a hawk. By the mid-18th century, Edinburgh's Old Town was no longer a fashionable address. Increased population and cramped conditions encouraged the flight of the affluent to the developing New Town. Today, visitors to the city can contrast Gladstone's Land to the Trust's restored example of a New Town residence, The Georgian House, at No. 7 Charlotte Square. The second floor of Gladstone's Land now hosts the National Trust's Gladstone Gallery, which is accessed via a turnpike staircase at the front of the building. The space is rented out to artists through the year, and serves as a venue for events during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 55°56′58″N 3°11′34″W / 55. 94944°N 3. 19278°W / 55. 94944; -3. 19278 | 0 |
Ben Crompton | Ben Crompton 2019-04-04T19:39:45Z Ben Crompton (born 1974) is an English actor, best known for his role as "Dolorous" Eddison Tollett in the HBO high-fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–present). Crompton appeared in the 2002 film All or Nothing, the TV series Clocking Off, and the TV movie Housewife, 49. He played Ewan in 102 Dalmatians. He appeared as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom Ideal, and as Keith in the BBC Three series Pramface from 2012 until 2014. In 2011 he appeared as William Nutt in the television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher for ITV. In 2012, he appeared in the film Blood. He appeared in both series of the BBC TV sketch show Man Stroke Woman. He has had a recurring role as Eddison Tollett since Season 2 of the television fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. In 2014 he appeared as a ship's officer in the second episode of series 8 of the Doctor Who television series, "Into the Dalek", and as Mr. Bagwell in the ITV drama The Great Fire. In 2016 he appeared in the music video "Old Skool" by English electronic group Metronomy. , Ben Crompton 2020-11-29T23:21:06Z Benjamin Lorton Crompton (born 1974) is an English actor and standup comedian, best known for his performance on the BBC sketch show Man Stroke Woman and as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom Ideal. From 2012 to 2019, Crompton portrayed Eddison Tollett on the HBO high-fantasy series Game of Thrones. Crompton appeared in the 2002 film All or Nothing, the TV series Clocking Off, and the TV movie Housewife, 49. He played Ewan in 102 Dalmatians. He appeared as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom Ideal with Johnny Vegas, and as Keith in the BBC Three series Pramface from 2012 until 2014. In 2011, he appeared as William Nutt in the television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher for ITV. In 2012, he appeared in the film Blood. He appeared in both series of the BBC TV sketch show Man Stroke Woman. He has had a recurring role as Eddison Tollett since Season 2 of the television fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. In 2014, he appeared as a ship's officer in the second episode of series 8 of the Doctor Who television series, "Into the Dalek", and as Mr. Bagwell in the ITV drama The Great Fire. In 2016, he appeared in the music video "Old Skool" by English electronic group Metronomy. In 2008, Crompton married Liv Lorent, with whom he has two children. | 1 |
Myles Weston | Myles Weston 2016-03-07T02:02:20Z Myles Arthur Eugene Wesley Weston (born 12 March 1988) is an English-born Antiguan international footballer who plays for Southend United as a left winger. Weston was born in Lewisham, London. He joined the academy at Premier League side Arsenal at age 11, before moving to the academy at fellow Premier League side Charlton Athletic at age 12. Weston signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2006. After playing four games on loan for Notts County in April 2007, he was released by Charlton Athletic at the end of the 2006–07 season without ever playing for the Addicks' senior team. County signed Weston on 4 July 2007 on a two-year contract. He was a prominent member of the Notts County team that season, with his electric pace and skill winning over the fans. Weston scored his first goal for Notts County in a League Cup match against Doncaster Rovers. Brentford then signed Weston after he turned down a new three-year deal at Notts County. "I think he's a foolish boy. That's his choice, but he's made a mistake," Magpies chairman John Armstrong-Holmes told BBC Radio Nottingham. The transfer was completed on 2 July 2009. He scored two goals on his Brentford debut against Carlisle United. On 17 August 2012 Weston signed for Gillingham on a two-year contract. He scored on his debut two days later against Bradford City. He was released by the club at the end of the 2013–14 season, and subsequently joined Southend United. Weston is a former England under-16 and under-17 international where he was a team mate of Theo Walcott. In August 2011, it was announced that Weston was called up to the Antigua national team for World Cup 2014 qualifiers, but declined the invitation to concentrate on his club (then Brentford) career. Weston was called up a second time in 2012, but again declined due to having just signed for Gillingham. In November 2014 he was again called up for the team for the 2014 Caribbean Cup. He made his debut on 12 November in the opening group match against Haiti scoring the team's first goal in a 2–2 draw, and provided the assist for the team's equalising goal. Score and result list Antigua and Barbuda's goal tally first. , Myles Weston 2017-12-13T02:43:08Z Myles Arthur Eugene Wesley Weston (born 12 March 1988) is an English-born Antiguan international footballer who plays as a left winger for Ebbsfleet United. Weston was born in Lewisham, London. He joined the academy at Premier League side Arsenal at age 11, before moving to the academy at fellow Premier League side Charlton Athletic at age 12. Weston signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2006. With his first team opportunities limited at Charlton Athletic, Weston was loaned out to Notts County on a one–initial month loan in March 2007. After appearing twice as an unused substitute bench, Weston made his Notts County debut on 7 April 2007, in a 2–0 win over Boston United. Following this, Weston had his loan spell at Notts County extended until 5 May 2007. After playing four games on loan for in April 2007, he was released by Charlton Athletic at the end of the 2006–07 season without ever playing for the Addicks' senior team. Following his release from Charlton Athletic, Weston re–joined Notts County on 4 July 2007 on a two-year contract. He was a prominent member of the Notts County team that season, with his electric pace and skill winning over the fans. After missing out one match in the opening game of the season, Weston made his Notts County, where he came on as a second half substitute, in a 1–1 draw against Brentford. But the match against Brentford resulted him injuring his hamstring and sidelined for four weeks. It wasn’t until on 13 October 2007 when he made his first team return, coming on as a second half substitute, in a 3–1 win over Bury. After being sidelined later in the season on three occasions, including a groin injury, he made his return from injury later on and soon set up one of the two goals despite losing 4–2 against Rochdale on 8 April 2008. In his first season at Notts County, he was able to make twenty–six appearances in all competitions. The 2008–09 season proved to be an improvement season for Weston, as his first team opportunities began to increase and became a first team regular. Weston scored his first goal for Notts County in a League Cup match against Doncaster Rovers. After the match, his performance was praised by Manager Ian McParland, as well as, his work rate. Weston then scored his first league goal for the club on 4 October 2008, in a 2–1 win over Port Vale. Although sidelined in November, Weston continued to regained his first team place for the rest of the season. He went on two more goals later in the 2008–09 season against Port Vale and Bournemouth. He also known for setting up goals, including setting up a brace, in a 3–1 win over Bradford City on 28 February 2009. At the end of the 2008–09 season, having made forty–eight appearances and scoring four times in all competitions, Weston was awarded Player of the Year at the club’s award ceremony. After an impressive 2008–09 season, the club were keen on keeping Weston over a new contract and was offered a new contract as a result. As of January 2009, Weston has yet to signed a new contract with Notts County, leading concerns over his departure in January, but did not happened. But, in March 2009, it was revealed that he did not signed a contract yet and Weston, himself, said he would wait over a new contract until the end of the season. Despite claims regarding to a new contract, Manager McParland, however, stated Weston has yet to signed a new contract by May. Brentford then signed Weston after he turned down a new three-year deal at Notts County. "I think he's a foolish boy. That's his choice, but he's made a mistake," Magpies chairman John Armstrong-Holmes told BBC Radio Nottingham. The transfer was completed on 2 July 2009. The tribunal resulted in favour of Notts County, who was awarded £25,000 and increase further every appearance. Weston later reflected on his departure from Notts County to Brentford, quoting: ‘’"I don’t think they liked it when I left but the main reason was because Brentford were in League 1 and I felt like I wanted to step up to the challenge of playing there. It wasn’t about the money or even that it was in London. The reason was because Brentford were in League 1 and Notts County were in League 2."’’ Weston scored two goals on his Brentford debut against Carlisle United in the opening game of the season, which saw Brentford win 3–1. Since then, Weston established himself in the first team at Brentford and even put as a forward position around October. It wasn’t until on 24 October 2009 when he scored again, in a 2–0 win over Stockport County and scored a brace in a FA Cup replay against Gateshead on 17 November 2009 with a 5–2 win. But during a 1–1 draw against Walsall on 21 November 2009, he suffered a hamstring injury, resulted him substituted and sidelined for weeks. After returning to the first team from injury in mid–December, Weston scored two more braces, which were against Carlisle United and Gillingham. He scored the follow up, in a 1–1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers on 13 February 2010. His performance resulted him in signing a contract extension, keeping him until 2012 and finishing his first season, scoring ten goals in forty–four appearances in all competitions. However, at the start of the 2010–11 season, Weston suffered a groin injury in 2–0 loss against Carlisle United in the opening game of the season despite playing 90 minutes. After missing out one game, he returned to the first team on 14 August 2010, in a 2–1 loss against Walsall. Following this, Weston became a first team regular for the side and played in the left–wing position for the most of the season. Weston scored his first goal of the season on 9 October 2010, in a 3–1 loss against Oldham Athletic. However, in a 4–2 win over Exeter City on 30 October 2010, Weston was in a row with Robbie Simpson over a penalty kick and took a penalty spot, which resulted he missed the spot kick. This caused Manager Andy Scott to inform that Weston should not take penalties again. He then signed a contract extension on 26 November 2010, keeping him until 2013. Although he was absent from the first team on two occasions by the end of 2011, Weston continued to regain his first team for the rest of the season despite being a move away from the club in January. It wasn’t until on 5 February 2011 when Weston later scored a brace, in a 2–0 win over Plymouth Argyle. Weston finished the 2010–11 season, making fifty–one appearances and scoring three times in all competitions. In the 2011–12 season, Weston continued to be in the first team regular at Brentford from the start of the season, started out on the substitute bench. Despite this, he went on to assists three times in four league matches against Walsall, Colchester United and Preston North End. He scored his first goal of the season on 24 September 2011, in a 2–0 win over Oldham Athletic. However, his 2011–12 season was plagued by injuries and only made thirty–one appearances and scored once in all competitions. Ahead of the 2012–13 season, Weston expected to remain in the first team despite facing competitions from new signings. He made one appearance for the side in the 2012–13 season, which came against Walsall in the first round of League Cup. He later reflected on his departure from Brentford, stating that he would less likely to get first team football should he stayed. On 17 August 2012 Weston signed for Gillingham on a two-year contract. Weston scored on his debut two days later against Bradford City. After the match, Weston said there’s more to come of scoring goals later in the season. He scored again a week after scoring on his debut, in a 1–1 draw against Dagenham & Redbridge. For his performance, Weston was nominated for the npower Player of the Month Awards for August, but lost out to Jake Wright. Since making his debut, Weston quickly established himself in the first team in the attacking position until he suffered a back injury that kept him out for two matches. After returning to the first team, he then scored two goals in two matches between 13 October 2012 and 20 October 2012 against Aldershot Town and Burton Albion. He also scored two more goals by the end of 2012 against Accrington Staney and Fleetwood Town. Despite being sidelined once more, due to injury, later in the season, Weston went on to two more goals later in the season against Northampton Town and Burton Albion. In his first season at Gillingham, Weston helped the club promoted to League One and went on to score eight times in forty appearances in all competitions. In the 2013–14 season, Weston missed out the start of the season, due to suffering an injury in the club’s pre–season tour. But he managed to recover from the injury and made it in time, featuring in the opening game of the season against Colchester United. He continued to be in a first team regular with good form despite struggling score goals since the start of the 2013–14 season. This last until he suffered injuries in late–December After returning to the first team soon after, Weston scored his first goal for the club on 11 March 2014, in a 4–2 win over Coventry City. He later scored his second goal on 5 April 2014, in a 4–2 loss against Rotherham United. Although he helped the club stay in League One for another season, Weston went on to make forty–three appearance and scoring two times in all competitions. He was released by the club at the end of the 2013–14 season, After being released by Gillingham, Weston subsequently joined Southend United, signing a two–year contract on 14 June 2014. Upon joining Southend United, Weston said he couldn’t turn down a move to the club, saying he want to play under Manager Phil Brown. He was given a number eleven shirt ahead of a new season. After making his debut for Southend United against Accrington Stanley in the opening game of the season, Weston scored his first goal for the club in the followed up, with a 2–0 win over Stevenage. It wasn’t until on 20 September 2014 when he scored again, in a 3–2 win over York City. Since making his debut, Weston became a first team regular for Southend United; however, Weston’s goal scoring form since September have slumped throughout the season, although he faced no pressure about it. Despite being out of the first team on three occasions, his form continued to suffer for the rest of the season. Nevertheless, Weston helped Southend United promoted to League Two after beating Wycombe Wanderers in the penalty–shootout, in which he successfully converted. He went on to make forty appearances and scoring two times in all competitions in his first season at Southend United. In the 2015–16 season, Weston started off away from the club after being called up by the national team squad in September. After this, it wasn’t until on 6 October 2015 when he scored his first goal of the season, in a 3–0 win over Crawley Town in the first round of League Cup. After the match, Manager Brown revealed that he’s keen on using him in the first team, having rejected his pleas to be loaned out this season. A week later, on 17 October 2015, he set up two goals, in a 2–1 win over Barnsley. However, Weston suffered a setback when he was injured on two occasions; both with Achilles injury. It wasn’t until March 2016 when he returned to the first team after four months on the sidelined. Although he returned to the first team soon after, his return was short–lived, however, when he suffered a calf problems and never played again after this. Weston went on finish the 2015–16 season, making twenty appearances and scoring once in all competitions. After two seasons with the Shrimpers, Weston was released following his contract to an end at the end of the 2015–16 season. After being released by Southend United, Weston signed for Wycombe Wanderers on 30 June 2016, signing a two–year contract. Upon joining the club, he was given a nineteen shirt. Weston made his Wycombe Wanderers debut, starting the game before being substituted in the 13th minutes with an injury, in a 1–0 loss against Crawley Town. As a result, Weston was sidelined for two months. After returning to training, Weston returned to the first team against Barnet on 22 October 2016 but was sent–off for a second bookable offence, in a 2–0 lost. After being absent from a first team for a month, Weston scored his first Wycombe Wanderers goal on 26 December 2016, just coming on as second half substitute, in a 3–3 draw against Plymouth Argyle. He scored two more goals for the side against Plymouth Argyle and Leyton Orient. Despite being sidelined on three occasions later in the 2016–17 season, Weston finished his first season for Wycombe Wanderers, making twenty–six appearances and scoring three times in all competitions. On 28 June 2017, Weston joined Ebbsfleet United on a free transfer, having expressed a need to be closer to his home and his family. Weston is a former England under-16 and under-17 international where he was a teammate of Theo Walcott. In August 2011, Weston was called up to the Antigua national team for World Cup 2014 qualifiers, but declined the invitation to concentrate on his club (then Brentford) career. Weston was called up a second time in 2012, but again declined due to having just signed for Gillingham. In November 2014 he was again called up for the team for the 2014 Caribbean Cup. He made his debut on 12 November in the opening group match against Haiti scoring the team's first goal in a 2–2 draw, and provided the assist for the team's equalising goal. Score and result list Antigua and Barbuda's goal tally first. Weston credited God in every match he played. | 1 |
6underground | 6underground 2008-03-21T17:31:08Z 6UNDERGROUND, a music venue in the Philippines established in 2004, was the brainchild of 6 young urban professionals from various fields of music, photography, and acting. Having had the privilege of visiting various rock venues around the world, they gathered their individual resources and put up a hub despite not having any previous bar operation experiences among them. They accomplished this by employing a place where a prior rock bar once flourished in the 1990's called Kalye. 6UG, as it is fondly called, gives an avenue for new bands to cultivate their original Filipino music as well as for established acts to nurture their fan base at the bar level where artists and followers blend seamlessly together. The 6 founders were musician Iggy Rufino Bilbao, photographer Rommel Diaz, surfer Randy Arcilla, businessman Ronnie Cruz, actor Ryan Agoncillo, and musician Bel Sayson. Among them, Bel Sayson is mostly attributed in spearheading its programs. 6underground catered to Filipino rock in many ways, from music to other related alternative lifestyles. From the unassuming exterior, many first-timers were lost on how they can locate the place. The small signage wasn't visible from the outside street and the venue itself was actually located "underground". Upon finding the facade, the entrance was a mere passageway leading to the main gig area. The floor was blood-colored while the walls were matte black. Haunted-like chandeliers hang scarcely on the ceiling; old style narra tables and chairs replaced the modern look of most watering holes in the city; and Jason Moss suicide paintings were suspended on hand-written walls. Partly inspired by the movie "Blade", 6underground looked, felt, and smelled like teen spirit, catering to college students, young urban professionals, and alternative music enthusiasts. 6UG was where Rivermaya, the Philippines' most awarded rock band, made their live television special, "Live @ 6Underground", one of the uncommon times that the old quartet with Rico Blanco enjoyed their set in a relatively "small" venue compared to their other bigger shows. Ironically, it was also one of the very limited rock bars where Bamboo (band), a rival of Rivermaya, performed; a far cry from their usual heavily sponsored shows in and out of the Philippines. Not to be outdone, when foreign acts Love Me Butch and Interlace came to Manila, their very first stops were at 6underground. Conclusively, the critically-acclaimed film of The Dawn (band), "Tulad Ng Dati" as well as their video "Ang Iyong Paalam", were shot at the bar. During her time, 6UG was also the rock party place of choice for Pulp magazine, NU 107, 99. 5 RT, Monster Radio RX 93. 1 radio stations, MTV Philippines, a bunch of get-togethers from schools Ateneo De Manila, DLSU, Assumption College (Philippines), University of the Philippines, and many other groups. Even the first Philippine Idol TV series celebration was held there, among others. Not only music but 6UG played host to several fights, whether sanctioned or those unplanned. Local mixed martial arts club, URCC, did one of the very first organized fights there. Taken out of the movie "Fight Club", the bout had no ring, just people acting as rings with mats all over the place and complete with sexy round girls. It also witnessed other surprising and unpublished fist fights involving famous and infamous band members, groupies, goons, starlets, among other personalities. Quite naturally, 6underground was also the site for many photo shoots involving models, singers, actresses and the likes. It was also one of the very few music venues in the Philippines that released, not only one but two, compilation albums. The Gathering album was released in 2006 produced by 6Underground Records and Ballyhoo. It was an independently produced collection of bands that regularly played at the bar. They were The Amandas, Fuseboxx, Kiko Machine, Pinas, Lahi, Southern Grass, Sugarhiccup, Shoulder State, Dream Kitchen, Prank Sinatra, and many more. The second album entitled Live & Raw was released in 2007. It is a collection of live and unedited performances captured at 6UG. The artists included therein are considered as some of the who's who of Pinoy rock: legend Pepe Smith, The Dawn (band), Rivermaya, Kjwan, Kapatid (band), Skychurch, project_mayhem among others. This was produced by 6Underground Records and distributed nationwide by Warner Music Philippines. Nearly 600 artists graced the underground stage. Among them were 6 Cycle Mind, 18th Issue, Badburn, Callalily, Chicosci, Cynthia Alexander, Champagne, Daydream Cycle, Death by Stereo, Dicta License, Erektus, Faspitch, Francis M, Greyhoundz, Hale, Imago (band), Itchyworms, Join d Club, Juana, Julianne, Jun Lopito, Kala, Kapatid (band), Kiko Machine, Kjwan, Lokomotiv, Mayonnaise, Menaya, Narda, Paramita, Parokya Ni Edgar, Pedicab, Pepe Smith, Pupil (band), Queso, Radioactive Sago Project, Razorback (band), Rocksteddy, Sandwich, Session Road, Sinosikat? , Slapshock, Sponge Cola, Stonefree, Sugarhiccup, Tropical Depression, Tuesday Vargas, Typecast (band), Up Dharma Down, Urbandub, Wickermoss, and many others. 6underground was featured in various Philippine print media like Pulp, Burn, Fudge, Mabuhay, FHM, Uno, Anthem, Loud, Circuit, Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin. Its events were covered various times by both MTV Philippines and the Myx channels. Their official website is at . It is the first Philippine portal that offers legal music downloads of Filipino independent artists through a prepaid card by Thumb Interactiv. The website also features news on underground events not only limited to the bar but to other news worthy music events as well. , 6underground 2009-08-20T09:38:40Z No issues specified. Please specify issues, or remove this template. 6UNDERGROUND is a music venue in the Philippines established in 2004 that was founded by Filipinos from fields of music, photography, and acting. They employed a venue where a prior rock bar once flourished in the 1990s called Kalye. Also known as 6UG, it gives a chance for new bands to perform their original Filipino music as well as for established acts to nurture their fan base at the bar level. In 2006, Glass Tower, the building where the old 6Underground was housed, was purchased by a corporation whose plans were to used the property as a new thrift bank. The bar transferred to a new place in Ortigas Center and renamed the venue 6Underground Live & Raw. Many first-time customers found it difficult to locate the place. The small signage wasn't visible from the outside street and the venue itself was actually located at the basement, i. e. "underground", of the old Glass Tower building along Palanca Street in Legaspi Village. Upon finding the facade, the entrance was a mere passageway leading to the main gig area. Chandeliers hang scarcely on the ceiling; old style narra tables and chairs replaced the look of most watering holes; and Jason Moss suicide paintings were suspended on hand-written walls. Partly inspired by the movie "Blade", 6underground's look catered to college students, young urban professionals, and alternative music enthusiasts. 6UG in Ortigas Center is along Pearl Drive, Pasig City, near the University of Asia and the Pacific. Inasmuch as it is no longer physically located "underground", the bar took on a new look with the more spacious stage placed right in the middle of the venue, having the crowd encircling the performing artists, ala the "unplugged" television setting. Likewise, the old narra tables and chairs were replaced by Japanese-style tablets and pillows, giving a cozier bar atmosphere. 6UG was where Rivermaya made their live television special, "Live @ 6Underground", aired over Studio 23; one of the uncommon times that the old quartet with Rico Blanco performed their set in a relatively small venue. Ironically, it was also one of the very limited bars where Bamboo (band), a rival of Rivermaya, performed. When foreign acts Love Me Butch and Interlace came to Manila, their very first stops were also at 6underground. Conclusively, the film of The Dawn (band), "Tulad Ng Dati" as well as their video "Ang Iyong Paalam", were shot at the bar. During its Makati tenure, 6UG was also the venue of events by Pulp magazine, NU 107, 99. 5 RT, Monster Radio RX 93. 1 radio stations, MTV Philippines, a bunch of get-togethers from schools Ateneo De Manila, DLSU, Assumption College (Philippines), University of the Philippines, and many other groups. Even the first Philippine Idol TV series celebration was held there, among others. 6UG also played host to several sanctioned fights. Local mixed martial arts club, URCC, did one of the very first organized fights there. The bout had no ring, just people acting as rings with mats all over the place and complete with round girls. It also witnessed other surprising and unpublished fist fights involving famous and infamous band members, groupies, goons, starlets, among other personalities. Quite naturally, 6underground was also the site for many photo shoots involving models, singers, actresses and the likes. It is the only music venue in the Philippines that released two compilation albums. The Gathering album was released in 2006 produced by 6UG co-owner Bel Sayson under 6Underground Records and Ballyhoo. It was an independently produced collection of bands that regularly played at the bar. They were The Amandas, Kiko Machine, Pinas, Lahi, Southern Grass, Sugarhiccup, Shoulder State, Dream Kitchen, Prank Sinatra, to name a few. The second album entitled Live & Raw was released in 2007. It is a collection of live and unedited performances captured at 6UG. The artists included therein are widely considered as some of the more well-known personalities in Pinoy rock: legend Pepe Smith, The Dawn (band), Rivermaya, Kjwan, Kapatid (band), Skychurch, among others. This was likewise produced by Bel Sayson under 6Underground Records and distributed nationwide by Warner Music Philippines. More than 600 artists have performed at 6UG. Among them were 6 Cycle Mind, 18th Issue, Badburn, Callalily, Chicosci, Cynthia Alexander, Champagne, Daydream Cycle, Death by Stereo, Dicta License, Erektus, Faspitch, Francis M, Greyhoundz, Hale, Imago (band), Itchyworms, Join d Club, Juana, Julianne, Jun Lopito, Kala, Kapatid (band), Kiko Machine, Kjwan, Lokomotiv, Mayonnaise, Menaya, Narda, Paramita, Parokya Ni Edgar, Pedicab, Pepe Smith, Pupil (band), Queso, Radioactive Sago Project, Razorback (band), Rocksteddy, Sandwich, Session Road, Sinosikat? , Slapshock, Sponge Cola, Stonefree, Sugarhiccup, Tropical Depression, Tuesday Vargas, Typecast (band), Up Dharma Down,project mayhem, Urbandub, Vinyard, Wickermoss, and many others. 6underground was featured in various Philippine print media like Pulp, Burn, Fudge, Mabuhay, FHM, Uno, Anthem, Loud, Circuit, Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin. Many of its past events were covered by both MTV Philippines and the Myx channels. In 2008, 6UG launched the "Live & Raw" television show on Studio 23 every Sundays at 10:45PM. It is a collection of live performances as recorded at 6Underground. This is the first time that a Philippine rock venue has gone national TV. Simultaneously, 6UG also partnered with the Home of NU Rock, NU 107, for a similar-format FM radio show every Tuesdays at 10:00PM with hosts Pulp's Joey Dizon and Bel Sayson. To complete the media, they also feature other band performances and live video streaming through their website, underground. ph , making 6Underground an independent multimedia community. Their official website is at www. underground. ph . It is a portal that offers legal music downloads of Filipino independent artists through a prepaid card by Thumb Interactiv. The website also features news on underground events not only limited to the bar but to other news worthy music events as well. | 0 |
Jorgie Porter | Jorgie Porter 2013-01-08T15:04:52Z Jorgina Alexandra "Jorgie" Porter, (born 25 December 1987, in Trafford, Greater Manchester) is an English actress, notable for her role as Theresa McQueen in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. Porter grew up with her mother and grandmother and has only met her father once. She is quoted as saying: "I don't speak to my dad. I haven't missed him. I don't feel like I need a father figure really. On Father's Day some of the girls who are talking about it suddenly remember and apologise. I just say "Guys it's okay. I don't care". I don't know any better so it's cool." A former ballet dancer, Porter was told by the ballet school she attended that she was overweight for a dancer. In November 2008 it was announced that Porter had joined the cast of Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, playing the role of Theresa McQueen. Porter said that she was "thrilled" to join the cast and be a part of one of soap opera's "most notorious families". In 2010, Porter appeared alongside eight other soap opera actesses in a music video and cover of Cyndi Lauper single Girls Just Want To Have Fun. The song was released in aid of charity, Cancer Research UK's campaign "Race for Life". She appeared with dark hair instead of her usual blonde tone. Porter appears on the November 2010 issue of Sugar magazine. In FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011 Porter was ranked 50th. In August 2011, Porter took part in the ITV show Born To Shine. Porter learned to street dance on the show, but failed to make the final. Porter is currently an ambassador for Teenage Cancer Trust and their annual sun safety campaign, 'Shunburn'. Porter had several images taken, showing the effects of sun burn. In 2012, Porter was confirmed to be in a sexual relationship with the very well endowed James Jelly.web|last=Eames|first=Tom|title='Dancing on Ice' lineup - Heidi Range, Corey Feldman, more in pictures|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a358021/dancing-on-ice-lineup-heidi-range-corey-feldman-more-in-pictures.html%7Cwork=Digital Spy|publisher=(Hearst Magazines UK)|accessdate=8 January 2012|date=3 January 2012}} Porter was paired with dancing with American pairs skater Matt Evers. Porter made it to the final and finished in second place behind Matthew Wolfenden. Porter later told the Press Association that she wanted to stay with Hollyoaks. on Ice Series 7, Jorgie Porter 2014-12-31T11:47:06Z Jorgina Alexandra Porter (born 25 December 1987) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Theresa McQueen in Hollyoaks. She has played this role since 2008. Porter grew up with her mother and grandmother, and has only met her father once. A former ballet dancer, Porter was told by the ballet school she attended that she was overweight for a dancer, she later attended The Hammond in Chester. In November 2008 it was announced that Porter had joined the cast of Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, playing the role of Theresa McQueen. Porter said that she was "thrilled" to join the cast and be a part of one of soap opera's "most notorious families". In October 2013 she said she is leaving Hollyoaks at the end of her contract but the door has been left open so she can return. She announced her return in April 2014, just 3 months later. In August 2014 she returned onscreen as a heavily pregnant Theresa. In 2010, Porter appeared alongside eight other soap opera actresses in a music video and cover of Cyndi Lauper single Girls Just Want To Have Fun. The song was released in aid of charity, Cancer Research UK's campaign "Race for Life". Porter appears on the November 2010 issue of Sugar magazine. In FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011 Porter was ranked 50th. In August 2011, Porter took part in the ITV show Born to Shine. Porter learned to street dance on the show, but failed to make the final. In 2012, Porter was confirmed to be a contestant on the seventh series of Dancing on Ice. Porter was paired with dancing with American pairs skater Matt Evers. Porter made it to the final and finished in second place behind Matthew Wolfenden. Porter later told the Press Association that she wanted to stay with Hollyoaks. Due to popular demand, she returned to Dancing On Ice in 2014 in an 'All Stars' edition for their final series but was voted out in the first week. Jorgie Porter is currently the presenter for Nintendo Girls Club made by Nintendo of United Kingdom Porter is an ambassador for Teenage Cancer Trust and their annual sun safety campaign, 'Shunburn'. Porter had several images taken, showing the effects of sun burn. on Ice celebrities | 1 |
Jung Woong-in | Jung Woong-in 2012-08-12T03:24:35Z name Jeong Woong-in (born 10 January 1971) is a South Korean actor. , Jung Woong-in 2013-12-31T23:20:16Z name Jung Woong-in (born January 20, 1971) is a South Korean actor. | 1 |
Craig Bryson | Craig Bryson 2022-03-09T19:36:27Z Craig James Bryson (born 6 November 1986) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club St Johnstone. He plays in central midfield as a box-to-box midfielder. Bryson began his career at Scottish First Division club Clyde, for whom he made his professional debut in 2004. He moved to the Scottish Premiership with Kilmarnock in 2007 before being bought by Derby County in 2011. At Derby, Bryson twice won the club's Player of the Year Award – in 2012 and 2014, was named to the PFA Championship Team of the Year in 2014 and became the first Derby player to score a hat-trick against fierce rivals Nottingham Forest in 116 years, when he did so in a 5–0 win in March 2014. Bryson was loaned to Cardiff City during the 2017–18 season, and left Derby in 2019 to sign for Aberdeen. Born in Rutherglen, Bryson began his career with non-league side Westwood Rovers. He signed a professional contract with Scottish First Division club Clyde at the beginning of the 2003–04 season. He turned down the opportunity to sign for Scottish Premiership club Motherwell because he wanted to play regular first team football and he didn't feel that he would get that at Motherwell. He didn't make a first team appearance that season, but was loaned out to junior outfit East Kilbride Thistle for the latter part of the season. He made a big impression in his time at East Kilbride, scoring two goals in eight league appearances and winning the club's Young Player of the Year award. Bryson made his first team debut for Clyde in the 2004–05 season in a Scottish First Division match against Raith Rovers on 14 August 2004, and scored a goal after 4 minutes, in a match Clyde won 3–2. He was rewarded with a new two-year contract in November 2004 and his good form at club level saw him called up to the Scotland under-19 team for a friendly against Germany. In February 2004, Bryson scored in a 2–1 victory over Ross County in a Scottish Cup replay, which set up a quarter-final tie against Celtic, the team he supported as a boy. Bryson started against Celtic, and thought he had scored after hitting the back of the net from a long range strike, but this goal was controversially ruled out after the referee had blown his whistle to award a free kick to Clyde. Celtic went on to win 5–0. Bryson continued his good form over the season, winning him Clyde's Young Player of the Year Award for 2004–05. During the 2005–06 season, Bryson scored goals against both halves of the Old Firm. In September 2005, he scored Clyde's equalising goal against Rangers in a Scottish League Cup tie at Ibrox Stadium, in a 5–2 extra time defeat. In January 2006, Bryson scored the opener in the famous 2–1 Scottish Cup win over holders Celtic, the game in which Roy Keane made his Celtic debut. Bryson nodded the ball into an open net to make it 1–0 after a cross from Eddie Malone evaded the Celtic defence. The win and his performance brought him to prominence and he was subsequently linked with moves to Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur and was called up to the Scotland under-21 side. In the 2006–07 season, in October 2006, Bryson scored in a 3–1 victory over Greenock Morton in a Scottish Challenge Cup semi-final, which sent Clyde to their first major final in 48 years. Bryson started the final the following month against Ross County, which Clyde lost on penalties. Bryson, along with club-mate Neil McGregor, was selected in the SPFA First Division Team of the Year. Bryson's contract expired at the end of the season, and in January 2007, Billy Davies, then-manager of his future club Derby County, took him on a week's trial. However, Davies decided not to sign him permanently. In February, Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock made an approach for Bryson and in May, Kilmarnock manager Jim Jefferies confirmed that talks were ongoing. Bryson had rejected Clyde's offer of a new contract and thus left Clyde at the end of the 2006–07 season, having made 114 appearances in all competitions, scoring 12 goals. Bryson signed for Kilmarnock in July 2007 on a free transfer ahead of the 2007–08 season. As he was under the age of 24, Kilmarnock had to pay Clyde compensation, which was agreed upon between the two clubs in September. Bryson started 16 league games and came on as a substitute in 3 more, making his league debut for the club as a 71st-minute substitute against St Mirren on 22 September 2007. He almost scored in the 88th minute, but his powerful shot was well held by St Mirren keeper Chris Smith and the match finished 0–0. He scored his first goals for the club in a 3–1 victory against Aberdeen on 24 February 2008: the first a volley at the far post from 7 yards out in the 14th minute and the second a close-range finish from an "almost identical position" in the 75th minute. Sandwiched between his goals, he provided an assist for centre half Frazer Wright, who, up for a corner at the end of the first half, headed Bryson's cross in. For his efforts, Bryson was named man of the match and won the plaudits of his manager Jim Jefferies, who said: "Craig's whole game was terrific and if he keeps playing like that we've got a real player on our hands. It was a top performance by him and for me he was the best player on the pitch by a mile." He scored twice more and was again named man of the match in a 4–1 win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 22 March. His first goal, a "terrific" 25-yard shot in the 50th minute, was followed by a 56th-minute effort that he drilled into the net via a deflection off a defender. During the 2008–09 season, Bryson established himself as an important first team player, making thirty-three league appearances, thirty-one of them starts. His first goal of the season came in a Scottish League Cup second round match against Brechin City on 27 August 2008. Described variously as "stunning", "unstoppable", "sublime" and "a thunderbolt", he scored the second in a 2–0 win when he received a cross from Garry Hay and flicked the ball into the top corner. His next two goals were late winners in successive matches: on 4 October in a 2–1 win at Hearts he made a well-timed run into the box in the 82nd minute to collect a return pass from Donovan Simmonds and finish well into the bottom corner; and then on 18 October he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win at home to Motherwell, slipping the ball into the net at the far post in the 89th minute after a deflected shot-cum-cross from Jamie Hamill. Manager Jim Jefferies praised Bryson after the win over Hearts, saying his late run into the box and finish was comparable to a move by Colin Cameron. He was also named man of the match after the win over Motherwell. He was rewarded for his fine form in December 2008 with an extension to his contract that ran until the summer of 2013. During the 2009–10 season, Bryson was appointed captain by manager Jimmy Calderwood. Calderwood had originally given Manuel Pascali the armband after he took over in January 2010, but changed his mind shortly after and gave it to Bryson, wanting Pascali to concentrate on his football. Bryson ended the season with 4 league goals: a 90th minute consolation in a 2–1 defeat at home to Hearts on 28 November 2009; Kilmarnock's 4th and the 7th in the match in a 4–4 draw with Dundee United on 30 January 2010 – a "stunning volley" that manager Jimmy Calderwood said was "fit to win any game"; the only goal in a 1–0 win over Falkirk on 10 February; and a deflected cross that came off a Celtic defender in a 3–1 defeat at Celtic Park on 27 March. Kilmarnock finished the season in 11th place, 2 points above Falkirk, who were relegated after a 0–0 draw at Kilmarnock on the final day of the season. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Bryson was linked with a move to Hearts, who were managed by Jim Jefferies, who had signed Bryson when he was manager of Kilmarnock. Bryson said: "we'll wait and see if anything materialises over the summer. Jim Jefferies signed me from Clyde and gave me my chance in the SPL and I'm grateful to him for that. I enjoyed working under him at Kilmarnock and wouldn't mind working under him again. Every player has ambitions to play at the highest level and I'm no different so we'll just wait and see if an offer comes in but I'm happy at Killie just now." Hearts were prepared to offer £300,000 but Kilmarnock valued Bryson at closer to £500,000 and talks between the two clubs collapsed. Hearts turned their attention to their former midfielder Paul Hartley, whose contract with English Championship club Bristol City was about to expire. However, they dropped their interest in Hartley after he refused to distance himself from criticism of Hearts' majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov during his first stint with the club. Hearts thus turned their attention back to Bryson and gave Kilmarnock a final "take-it-or-leave-it" offer, which included a "significant sell-on clause" but not an increased transfer fee. The offer was rejected. Hearts returned with two more bids on transfer deadline day, which were also rejected. Bryson said that he was "relieved the window has now closed... It's nice that other clubs want you, it shows you must be doing well, but it's not to be just now and I'll carry on doing well for Kilmarnock." Kimarnock expected Hearts to make another attempt to sign Bryson in the January transfer window, but Bryson suffered an ankle injury that ended any potential move for him. At the end of the 2010–11 season, it was reported that Brighton & Hove Albion, Derby County, Hull City and Leicester City were interested in signing Bryson, with Derby the favourites to sign him and Bryson himself only interested in moving to Derby. After Kilmarnock rejected two bids for Bryson from Derby, on 4 June 2011, it was confirmed that the two clubs had agreed a fee. Bryson signed for Derby on a three-year contract on 9 June, which went through on 1 July following the re-opening of the transfer window. The fee was speculated to be £350,000, rising to £450,000 after add-on clauses. Derby manager Nigel Clough called Bryson a "tremendous signing" and "a leader on and off the field" with "energy and ability in abundance". Bryson expressed his happiness at moving to Derby, saying that: The move has come at the right time for me. I have been playing in the SPL for four years and it does get repetitive facing the same sides four times a season. It can get monotonous. With only one team going down and one coming up there is no freshness and everything is catered for the Old Firm. But in the Championship you are playing teams just twice a season and they are all massive clubs. Celtic and Rangers draw average crowds of 50–60,000 and Killie get gates of between 4–5,000. It is hard to fight against the Old Firm as they have more money and attract the best players. The winner of the league is only ever going to come from either of the Old Firm – and I just don't see that changing in the foreseeable future. That's why I am delighted to sign for Derby as it is a fresh challenge. Bryson made a strong start to his Derby career, despite a pre-season disrupted by injury, scoring the winner with his first Derby goal in a 1–0 victory at Blackpool and helping the side to four straight victories from opening day – the club's best season start for 106 years. He scored his first goal at Pride Park in a 3–0 victory over Millwall. Derby enjoyed a fine first quarter to the season and found themselves fourth in the table, with manager Nigel Clough singling out Bryson as the top performer of the season so far. His third goal of the season came in his man of the match performance in Derby's 3–1 win over Portsmouth, which also saw him named in the Championship team of the week. He scored against Bristol City in a 2–1 home win for Derby on 10 December 2011, tapping in from close range and scored in the 1–1 reverse fixture at Ashton Gate Stadium on 31 March 2012, with a side-foot finish. Bryson scored his sixth goal of the season in a 2–0 win at Leeds United a 25-yard curling shot which beat Leeds 'keeper Andy Lonergan. These goals cemented Bryson's place as Derby's third top scorer during the season, behind strikers Steve Davies and Theo Robinson. Bryson was a regular in the Derby team during the season, where he missed only 3 of the 49 games Derby played. Bryson's form was rewarded by winning the fans Player of the Season award. Bryson also won the Club & Supporter's Club player of the year awards. Bryson was a regular in the Derby side at the start of the 2012–13 season, however the season was disrupted by a knee injury which ruled him out of several games. Bryson return three weeks earlier than expected as he started and scored in a 2–0 win at Bristol City however Nigel Clough stated he was not fully fit and was doubt for the next game. Bryson was able to start the next three games, but missed the game at home to Middlesbrough on 1 January 2013 after picking scar tissue on his hamstring. Bryson returned to the team in mid-January and despite picking up a re-occurrence of his injury in early March, Bryson soon regained his place in the side and his performance alongside midfield partner Jeff Hendrick in Derby's 3–0 win over Bristol City on 29 March earned them both praise from first team coach Andy Garner. Bryson was named the 84th best player in the 2012–13 Football League Championship by the Actim Index and it was confirmed in May 2013 that the club were in talks to extend his contract at Pride Park, with Bryson signing a new three-year contract later that month. Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Bryson was expected to compete with Paul Coutts, Jeff Hendrick and Will Hughes for a central midfield role. Manager Nigel Clough stated his intention to rotate the squad, saying that it was "lovely to have that healthy competition" for places. In the event of the season, Bryson was an ever-present in the starting line-up in the league until the 32nd fixture. His first goal of the season came in a 3–0 win at Yeovil Town on 24 August, which was quickly followed up by his first career hat-trick in a 5–1 win at Millwall on 14 September, which was also the first league hat-trick by a Derby player since Paul Simpson in April 1996. After a 1–0 defeat at Nottingham Forest, with the club having won only once in the last six matches, having failed to win at home, and lying in 14th place, manager Nigel Clough was sacked. Bryson was saddened by the move, saying it came as a "shock", adding that Clough "has been excellent for me, he brought me down from Scotland and gave me my chance in England. So obviously I was sad to see him go. But it happens in football and you just have to get on with it." Clough was replaced by Steve McClaren and Bryson said that he was looking forward to working with the new manager. The next game was at home against Ipswich Town, with academy manager Darren Wassall in charge and McClaren watching from the stands. Bryson captained the side for the first time in the match and Derby ended the first half 4–1 down, but after a half-time team talk from McClaren, who also made two substitutions, Derby came back to draw 4–4, with Bryson scoring twice, including the last, an 88th-minute equaliser. After a two-month barren spell, Bryson scored five goals in six games: one each in a 3–1 win at Wigan, in a 5–1 win against Blackpool, in a 2–0 win at Charlton, in a 3–1 win against Doncaster and in a 1–1 draw at Huddersfield. This coincided with an unbeaten run that saw The Rams win 8 and draw 1 out of 9 matches, moving from 11th in the table to 2nd. He did however miss the 1–0 home win over AFC Bournemouth on 22 February, the first and only league match he missed all season. His goal against Huddersfield coming on Boxing Day, Bryson didn't score again until 28 January 2014, getting the 2nd in a 3–2 win at home to Yeovil Town. He next scored on 22 March, netting a hat-trick against Derby's local rivals Nottingham Forest in a 5–0 win, becoming the first Derby player to score a hat-trick against Forest since Steve Bloomer in 1898 and earning a recall to the Scotland squad. His final goal of the season came in a 3–1 win at Blackpool on 8 April. Overall, he scored 16 goals as Derby finished 3rd and qualified for the play-offs. He started the semi-final first leg, a 2–1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion, but was substituted in the 89th minute with a back injury, and missed the second leg, a 4–1 win that sent Derby through to the final. He recovered in time for the play-off final against Queens Park Rangers, but was named to the bench as the form of Will Hughes and Jeff Hendrick meant they kept their places. He came on for Hughes in the 68th minute and almost scored but for a good save from QPR keeper Robert Green. Derby went on to lose the game 1–0. Bryson's performances throughout the campaign earned him the Derby County Player of the Year award and a place in the PFA Championship Team of the Season, alongside fellow Derby midfielder Will Hughes. "Both the Club and I have shown our commitment to each other... there was a bid from another Club... in the Premier League, but I would love to try and get into the Premier League with Derby County... I see my future at Derby County and I am just happy to get everything sorted to extend my stay. The deal secures my future; I know where I am going to be playing for the next five years." Bryson on signing a new contractIn June 2014, Derby rejected an offer from Burnley for Bryson. Bryson was however given permission to speak to Burnley, later saying that "it doesn't matter what team it is, when someone puts an offer in for you I think you owe them the respect to sit down and speak to them... but just because I did that didn't mean I was going to sign for them." Soon afterwards, he agreed a new five-year contract with Derby, saying that his bond with the fans was part of the reason that he chose to stay: "I've got a good bond with the fans as well and that was a big part in my decision to stay here. The fans have been excellent ever since I walked through the door. When you come to a new club it can take time to win over the fans, but they have been fantastic with me... they helped me make the biggest decision of my career, if not my life. I took a while to think about it and I knew it would be a massive decision. I went through stages where one minute I thought I was leaving and then the next minute I think I'm staying. But in the end it turned out to be an easy decision for me because Derby are such a great club to be part of." Bryson played 38 league matches in the 2014–15 season, but it was an inconsistent one for him: only 25 of them were starts and he only scored five goals: the second in a 5–1 win against Fulham on 23 August 2014, an 84th-minute equaliser in a 2–2 draw against Cardiff City on 20 September, an 81st-minute winner in a 2–1 victory at Watford, the consolation in a 3–1 League Cup defeat to Chelsea on 16 December and a 3rd-minute opener in a 4–0 win at home to Blackpool on 14 April 2015. After starting 14 of the first 15 league matches, he picked up an injury in a 2–1 defeat to Brentford on 1 November and was out for three weeks. He came off the bench in the game against Watford to score a "stunning" winner but found himself on the bench for the next game, a 2–0 defeat to Leeds, before starting five of the next six matches: a 3–0 win against Brighton and Hove Albion, a 2–0 defeat to Middlesbrough, the 3–1 defeat to Chelsea, a 2–2 draw against Norwich City on 20 December and a 2–0 win against Leeds on 30 December. He missed the 4–0 win against Birmingham City on Boxing Day with a calf problem, having come off in the 74th minute against Norwich. He played 90 minutes of the following match, a 1–0 FA Cup win against Southport on 3 January 2015, but then found himself on the sidelines for the rest of the season, behind Will Hughes, Jeff Hendrick and Omar Mascarell in the pecking order for the three central midfield places. Of his next 11 League appearances, 9 of them came from the bench and the two that he did start ended in 2–1 defeats for The Rams: against Nottingham Forest on 17 January and against Reading on 14 February. Bryson finally returned to the starting XI on 17 March in a 1–0 defeat to Middlesbrough and started five of the next six matches, missing only the 2–0 win against Wigan on 6 April with a calf problem. However, his fifth start from those six matches would prove to be his last of the season. He was taken off in the 9th minute of the 4–4 draw against Huddersfield Town on 18 April with a thigh injury and missed the final two matches of the season. Having been top of the table in late February, a run of two wins from the last thirteen matches saw Derby finish eighth, a single point off the playoffs, and manager Steve McClaren sacked. Bryson's start to the season was hampered by an injury which he picked up in the opening game of the season away to Bolton Wanderers on 8 August. He was taken off in the 21st minute suffering from what was later revealed to be a stretched ligament on the inside of his knee and was ruled out for 2 to 4 weeks. However, he was ruled out for longer than first thought; six weeks later, new Derby manager Paul Clement reported that Bryson was still feeling some discomfort in his knee, which meant he was "finding some things difficult to do relating to shooting and long passing". A week later, on 1 October, Clement revealed that Bryson had had injections in his knee to speed up the healing process and would thus miss training for a fortnight to allow his knee to settle. Clement said that "I think we all underestimated the severity of the injury he picked up on the opening day just because of his character. He wanted to push and push to get back as soon as possible but you have to allow the healing process to take place." Bryson returned to training on 16 October, played 90 minutes in an under-21 match against Newcastle United on 26 October and finally made his return to first team action on 31 October, coming on as a 79th-minute substitute for new signing Jacob Butterfield in a 3–0 win against Rotherham. On the final day of the summer transfer window of 2017, Bryson joined fellow Championship side Cardiff City on a season-long loan deal. He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–1 win against Sunderland on 23 September 2017. He was offered a new contract by Derby County at the end of the 2018–19 season, but instead agreed a pre-contract with Aberdeen. Bryson's Aberdeen career was hampered by injury, playing only 6 games at the start of the 2019–20 season due to an ankle injury. In August 2020 he was one of eight Aberdeen players who received a suspended three-match ban from the Scottish FA after they breached coronavirus-related restrictions by visiting a bar earlier in the month. On 9 September 2020, Bryson departed Aberdeen via mutual consent. A week after leaving Aberdeen, Bryson signed with St Johnstone on a contract to the end of the 2020–21 season. Bryson was capped by Scotland at under-19 and under-21 level while with Clyde. He was called up for a Scotland B match in 2009 but was later withdrawn at the request of his club manager Jim Jefferies. On 16 November 2010, Bryson made his full international debut as a second-half substitute against the Faroe Islands at Pittodrie. Bryson's form for Derby saw him recalled to the squad for a friendly against the United States in May 2012, but he did not play. In 2013, Bryson was recalled to the senior squad for World Cup qualifiers against Belgium and Macedonia in September and Croatia in October, but did not get any match time. He started a friendly against Norway in Molde on 20 November to gain his second cap for his country. He was also called up for a post-season friendly against Nigeria, but while Derby teammates Chris Martin and Craig Forsyth made their debuts, Bryson did not come off the substitutes bench. Bryson plays in central midfield and describes himself as a "box-to-box central midfielder, who will always give 100% for the team." Bryson scored 16 league goals for Derby in the 2013–14 season, which was more than he had scored in any of his previous three seasons combined. He put this improvement down to manager Steve McClaren: "he's changed the formation slightly and I have more freedom to get in the box and support Chris . We are a good partnership." Scotland manager Gordon Strachan hailed the understanding between the two when he called them up for a friendly with Nigeria in May 2014: "When you look at the link-up between and Bryson, I think it's 40-odd goals they've scored between them. It's a smashing partnership." Martin himself said of his partnership with Bryson in May 2014: "I think people must hate playing against him, because I certainly would. I wouldn't want to mark him. People can't stay with him, he's got that much energy. From my point of view, he helps my game, because he takes people away and runs in behind. It makes it easier for me to play, because he's always there next to me." Clyde St Johnstone Individual, Craig Bryson 2023-09-14T20:26:26Z Craig James Bryson (born 6 November 1986) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Now Bryson is now a fitness and conditioning coach with East Kilbride. Bryson began his career at Scottish First Division club Clyde, for whom he made his professional debut in 2004. He moved to Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock in 2007 before being bought by Derby County in 2011. At Derby, Bryson twice won the club's Player of the Year Award – in 2012 and 2014, and was also named to the PFA Championship Team of the Year in 2014. He became the first Derby player to score a hat-trick against their fierce rivals Nottingham Forest in 116 years, when he did so in a 5–0 win in March 2014. Bryson was loaned to Cardiff City during the 2017–18 season, and left Derby in 2019 to sign for Aberdeen. After stints with St Johnstone and Stenhousemuir, he retired from playing in September 2022. He also played in three full international matches for Scotland between 2010 and 2016. Born in Rutherglen, Bryson began his career with non-league side Westwood Rovers. He signed a professional contract with Scottish First Division club Clyde at the beginning of the 2003–04 season. He turned down the opportunity to sign for Scottish Premiership club Motherwell because he wanted to play regular first team football and he didn't feel that he would get that at Motherwell. He didn't make a first team appearance that season, but was loaned out to junior outfit East Kilbride Thistle for the latter part of the season. He made a big impression in his time at East Kilbride, scoring two goals in eight league appearances and winning the club's Young Player of the Year award. Bryson made his first team debut for Clyde in the 2004–05 season in a Scottish First Division match against Raith Rovers on 14 August 2004, and scored a goal after 4 minutes, in a match Clyde won 3–2. He was rewarded with a new two-year contract in November 2004 and his good form at club level saw him called up to the Scotland under-19 team for a friendly against Germany. In February 2004, Bryson scored in a 2–1 victory over Ross County in a Scottish Cup replay, which set up a quarter-final tie against Celtic, the team he supported as a boy. Bryson started against Celtic, and thought he had scored after hitting the back of the net from a long range strike, but this goal was controversially ruled out after the referee had blown his whistle to award a free kick to Clyde. Celtic went on to win 5–0. Bryson continued his good form over the season, winning him Clyde's Young Player of the Year Award for 2004–05. During the 2005–06 season, Bryson scored goals against both halves of the Old Firm. In September 2005, he scored Clyde's equalising goal against Rangers in a Scottish League Cup tie at Ibrox Stadium, in a 5–2 extra time defeat. In January 2006, Bryson scored the opener in the famous 2–1 Scottish Cup win over holders Celtic, the game in which Roy Keane made his Celtic debut. Bryson nodded the ball into an open net to make it 1–0 after a cross from Eddie Malone evaded the Celtic defence. The win and his performance brought him to prominence and he was subsequently linked with moves to Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur and was called up to the Scotland under-21 side. In the 2006–07 season, in October 2006, Bryson scored in a 3–1 victory over Greenock Morton in a Scottish Challenge Cup semi-final, which sent Clyde to their first major final in 48 years. Bryson started the final the following month against Ross County, which Clyde lost on penalties. Bryson, along with club-mate Neil McGregor, was selected in the SPFA First Division Team of the Year. Bryson's contract expired at the end of the season, and in January 2007, Billy Davies, then-manager of his future club Derby County, took him on a week's trial. However, Davies decided not to sign him permanently. In February, Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock made an approach for Bryson and in May, Kilmarnock manager Jim Jefferies confirmed that talks were ongoing. Bryson had rejected Clyde's offer of a new contract and thus left Clyde at the end of the 2006–07 season, having made 114 appearances in all competitions, scoring 12 goals. Bryson signed for Kilmarnock in July 2007 on a free transfer ahead of the 2007–08 season. As he was under the age of 24, Kilmarnock had to pay Clyde compensation, which was agreed upon between the two clubs in September. Bryson started 16 league games and came on as a substitute in 3 more, making his league debut for the club as a 71st-minute substitute against St Mirren on 22 September 2007. He almost scored in the 88th minute, but his powerful shot was well held by St Mirren keeper Chris Smith and the match finished 0–0. He scored his first goals for the club in a 3–1 victory against Aberdeen on 24 February 2008: the first a volley at the far post from 7 yards out in the 14th minute and the second a close-range finish from an "almost identical position" in the 75th minute. Sandwiched between his goals, he provided an assist for centre half Frazer Wright, who, up for a corner at the end of the first half, headed Bryson's cross in. For his efforts, Bryson was named man of the match and won the plaudits of his manager Jim Jefferies, who said: "Craig's whole game was terrific and if he keeps playing like that we've got a real player on our hands. It was a top performance by him and for me he was the best player on the pitch by a mile." He scored twice more and was again named man of the match in a 4–1 win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 22 March. His first goal, a "terrific" 25-yard shot in the 50th minute, was followed by a 56th-minute effort that he drilled into the net via a deflection off a defender. During the 2008–09 season, Bryson established himself as an important first team player, making thirty-three league appearances, thirty-one of them starts. His first goal of the season came in a Scottish League Cup second round match against Brechin City on 27 August 2008. Described variously as "stunning", "unstoppable", "sublime" and "a thunderbolt", he scored the second in a 2–0 win when he received a cross from Garry Hay and flicked the ball into the top corner. His next two goals were late winners in successive matches: on 4 October in a 2–1 win at Hearts he made a well-timed run into the box in the 82nd minute to collect a return pass from Donovan Simmonds and finish well into the bottom corner; and then on 18 October he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win at home to Motherwell, slipping the ball into the net at the far post in the 89th minute after a deflected shot-cum-cross from Jamie Hamill. Manager Jim Jefferies praised Bryson after the win over Hearts, saying his late run into the box and finish was comparable to a move by Colin Cameron. He was also named man of the match after the win over Motherwell. He was rewarded for his fine form in December 2008 with an extension to his contract that ran until the summer of 2013. During the 2009–10 season, Bryson was appointed captain by manager Jimmy Calderwood. Calderwood had originally given Manuel Pascali the armband after he took over in January 2010, but changed his mind shortly after and gave it to Bryson, wanting Pascali to concentrate on his football. Bryson ended the season with 4 league goals: a 90th minute consolation in a 2–1 defeat at home to Hearts on 28 November 2009; Kilmarnock's 4th and the 7th in the match in a 4–4 draw with Dundee United on 30 January 2010 – a "stunning volley" that manager Jimmy Calderwood said was "fit to win any game"; the only goal in a 1–0 win over Falkirk on 10 February; and a deflected cross that came off a Celtic defender in a 3–1 defeat at Celtic Park on 27 March. Kilmarnock finished the season in 11th place, 2 points above Falkirk, who were relegated after a 0–0 draw at Kilmarnock on the final day of the season. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Bryson was linked with a move to Hearts, who were managed by Jim Jefferies, who had signed Bryson when he was manager of Kilmarnock. Bryson said: "we'll wait and see if anything materialises over the summer. Jim Jefferies signed me from Clyde and gave me my chance in the SPL and I'm grateful to him for that. I enjoyed working under him at Kilmarnock and wouldn't mind working under him again. Every player has ambitions to play at the highest level and I'm no different so we'll just wait and see if an offer comes in but I'm happy at Killie just now." Hearts were prepared to offer £300,000 but Kilmarnock valued Bryson at closer to £500,000 and talks between the two clubs collapsed. Hearts turned their attention to their former midfielder Paul Hartley, whose contract with English Championship club Bristol City was about to expire. However, they dropped their interest in Hartley after he refused to distance himself from criticism of Hearts' majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov during his first stint with the club. Hearts thus turned their attention back to Bryson and gave Kilmarnock a final "take-it-or-leave-it" offer, which included a "significant sell-on clause" but not an increased transfer fee. The offer was rejected. Hearts returned with two more bids on transfer deadline day, which were also rejected. Bryson said that he was "relieved the window has now closed... It's nice that other clubs want you, it shows you must be doing well, but it's not to be just now and I'll carry on doing well for Kilmarnock." Kimarnock expected Hearts to make another attempt to sign Bryson in the January transfer window, but Bryson suffered an ankle injury that ended any potential move for him. At the end of the 2010–11 season, it was reported that Brighton & Hove Albion, Derby County, Hull City and Leicester City were interested in signing Bryson, with Derby the favourites to sign him and Bryson himself only interested in moving to Derby. After Kilmarnock rejected two bids for Bryson from Derby, on 4 June 2011, it was confirmed that the two clubs had agreed a fee. Bryson signed for Derby on a three-year contract on 9 June, which went through on 1 July following the re-opening of the transfer window. The fee was speculated to be £350,000, rising to £450,000 after add-on clauses. Derby manager Nigel Clough called Bryson a "tremendous signing" and "a leader on and off the field" with "energy and ability in abundance". Bryson expressed his happiness at moving to Derby, saying that: The move has come at the right time for me. I have been playing in the SPL for four years and it does get repetitive facing the same sides four times a season. It can get monotonous. With only one team going down and one coming up there is no freshness and everything is catered for the Old Firm. But in the Championship you are playing teams just twice a season and they are all massive clubs. Celtic and Rangers draw average crowds of 50–60,000 and Killie get gates of between 4–5,000. It is hard to fight against the Old Firm as they have more money and attract the best players. The winner of the league is only ever going to come from either of the Old Firm – and I just don't see that changing in the foreseeable future. That's why I am delighted to sign for Derby as it is a fresh challenge. Bryson made a strong start to his Derby career, despite a pre-season disrupted by injury, scoring the winner with his first Derby goal in a 1–0 victory at Blackpool and helping the side to four straight victories from opening day – the club's best season start for 106 years. He scored his first goal at Pride Park in a 3–0 victory over Millwall. Derby enjoyed a fine first quarter to the season and found themselves fourth in the table, with manager Nigel Clough singling out Bryson as the top performer of the season so far. His third goal of the season came in his man of the match performance in Derby's 3–1 win over Portsmouth, which also saw him named in the Championship team of the week. He scored against Bristol City in a 2–1 home win for Derby on 10 December 2011, tapping in from close range and scored in the 1–1 reverse fixture at Ashton Gate Stadium on 31 March 2012, with a side-foot finish. Bryson scored his sixth goal of the season in a 2–0 win at Leeds United a 25-yard curling shot which beat Leeds 'keeper Andy Lonergan. These goals cemented Bryson's place as Derby's third top scorer during the season, behind strikers Steve Davies and Theo Robinson. Bryson was a regular in the Derby team during the season, where he missed only 3 of the 49 games Derby played. Bryson's form was rewarded by winning the fans Player of the Season award. Bryson also won the Club & Supporter's Club player of the year awards. Bryson was a regular in the Derby side at the start of the 2012–13 season, however the season was disrupted by a knee injury which ruled him out of several games. Bryson return three weeks earlier than expected as he started and scored in a 2–0 win at Bristol City however Nigel Clough stated he was not fully fit and was doubt for the next game. Bryson was able to start the next three games, but missed the game at home to Middlesbrough on 1 January 2013 after picking scar tissue on his hamstring. Bryson returned to the team in mid-January and despite picking up a re-occurrence of his injury in early March, Bryson soon regained his place in the side and his performance alongside midfield partner Jeff Hendrick in Derby's 3–0 win over Bristol City on 29 March earned them both praise from first team coach Andy Garner. Bryson was named the 84th best player in the 2012–13 Football League Championship by the Actim Index and it was confirmed in May 2013 that the club were in talks to extend his contract at Pride Park, with Bryson signing a new three-year contract later that month. Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Bryson was expected to compete with Paul Coutts, Jeff Hendrick and Will Hughes for a central midfield role. Manager Nigel Clough stated his intention to rotate the squad, saying that it was "lovely to have that healthy competition" for places. In the event of the season, Bryson was an ever-present in the starting line-up in the league until the 32nd fixture. His first goal of the season came in a 3–0 win at Yeovil Town on 24 August, which was quickly followed up by his first career hat-trick in a 5–1 win at Millwall on 14 September, which was also the first league hat-trick by a Derby player since Paul Simpson in April 1996. After a 1–0 defeat at Nottingham Forest, with the club having won only once in the last six matches, having failed to win at home, and lying in 14th place, manager Nigel Clough was sacked. Bryson was saddened by the move, saying it came as a "shock", adding that Clough "has been excellent for me, he brought me down from Scotland and gave me my chance in England. So obviously I was sad to see him go. But it happens in football and you just have to get on with it." Clough was replaced by Steve McClaren and Bryson said that he was looking forward to working with the new manager. The next game was at home against Ipswich Town, with academy manager Darren Wassall in charge and McClaren watching from the stands. Bryson captained the side for the first time in the match and Derby ended the first half 4–1 down, but after a half-time team talk from McClaren, who also made two substitutions, Derby came back to draw 4–4, with Bryson scoring twice, including the last, an 88th-minute equaliser. After a two-month barren spell, Bryson scored five goals in six games: one each in a 3–1 win at Wigan, in a 5–1 win against Blackpool, in a 2–0 win at Charlton, in a 3–1 win against Doncaster and in a 1–1 draw at Huddersfield. This coincided with an unbeaten run that saw The Rams win 8 and draw 1 out of 9 matches, moving from 11th in the table to 2nd. He did however miss the 1–0 home win over AFC Bournemouth on 22 February, the first and only league match he missed all season. His goal against Huddersfield coming on Boxing Day, Bryson didn't score again until 28 January 2014, getting the 2nd in a 3–2 win at home to Yeovil Town. He next scored on 22 March, netting a hat-trick against Derby's local rivals Nottingham Forest in a 5–0 win, becoming the first Derby player to score a hat-trick against Forest since Steve Bloomer in 1898 and earning a recall to the Scotland squad. His final goal of the season came in a 3–1 win at Blackpool on 8 April. Overall, he scored 16 goals as Derby finished 3rd and qualified for the play-offs. He started the semi-final first leg, a 2–1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion, but was substituted in the 89th minute with a back injury, and missed the second leg, a 4–1 win that sent Derby through to the final. He recovered in time for the play-off final against Queens Park Rangers, but was named to the bench as the form of Will Hughes and Jeff Hendrick meant they kept their places. He came on for Hughes in the 68th minute and almost scored but for a good save from QPR keeper Robert Green. Derby went on to lose the game 1–0. Bryson's performances throughout the campaign earned him the Derby County Player of the Year award and a place in the PFA Championship Team of the Season, alongside fellow Derby midfielder Will Hughes. "Both the Club and I have shown our commitment to each other... there was a bid from another Club... in the Premier League, but I would love to try and get into the Premier League with Derby County... I see my future at Derby County and I am just happy to get everything sorted to extend my stay. The deal secures my future; I know where I am going to be playing for the next five years." Bryson on signing a new contractIn June 2014, Derby rejected an offer from Burnley for Bryson. Bryson was however given permission to speak to Burnley, later saying that "it doesn't matter what team it is, when someone puts an offer in for you I think you owe them the respect to sit down and speak to them... but just because I did that didn't mean I was going to sign for them." Soon afterwards, he agreed a new five-year contract with Derby, saying that his bond with the fans was part of the reason that he chose to stay: "I've got a good bond with the fans as well and that was a big part in my decision to stay here. The fans have been excellent ever since I walked through the door. When you come to a new club it can take time to win over the fans, but they have been fantastic with me... they helped me make the biggest decision of my career, if not my life. I took a while to think about it and I knew it would be a massive decision. I went through stages where one minute I thought I was leaving and then the next minute I think I'm staying. But in the end it turned out to be an easy decision for me because Derby are such a great club to be part of." Bryson played 38 league matches in the 2014–15 season, but it was an inconsistent one for him: only 25 of them were starts and he only scored five goals: the second in a 5–1 win against Fulham on 23 August 2014, an 84th-minute equaliser in a 2–2 draw against Cardiff City on 20 September, an 81st-minute winner in a 2–1 victory at Watford, the consolation in a 3–1 League Cup defeat to Chelsea on 16 December and a 3rd-minute opener in a 4–0 win at home to Blackpool on 14 April 2015. After starting 14 of the first 15 league matches, he picked up an injury in a 2–1 defeat to Brentford on 1 November and was out for three weeks. He came off the bench in the game against Watford to score a "stunning" winner but found himself on the bench for the next game, a 2–0 defeat to Leeds, before starting five of the next six matches: a 3–0 win against Brighton and Hove Albion, a 2–0 defeat to Middlesbrough, the 3–1 defeat to Chelsea, a 2–2 draw against Norwich City on 20 December and a 2–0 win against Leeds on 30 December. He missed the 4–0 win against Birmingham City on Boxing Day with a calf problem, having come off in the 74th minute against Norwich. He played 90 minutes of the following match, a 1–0 FA Cup win against Southport on 3 January 2015, but then found himself on the sidelines for the rest of the season, behind Will Hughes, Jeff Hendrick and Omar Mascarell in the pecking order for the three central midfield places. Of his next 11 League appearances, 9 of them came from the bench and the two that he did start ended in 2–1 defeats for The Rams: against Nottingham Forest on 17 January and against Reading on 14 February. Bryson finally returned to the starting XI on 17 March in a 1–0 defeat to Middlesbrough and started five of the next six matches, missing only the 2–0 win against Wigan on 6 April with a calf problem. However, his fifth start from those six matches would prove to be his last of the season. He was taken off in the 9th minute of the 4–4 draw against Huddersfield Town on 18 April with a thigh injury and missed the final two matches of the season. Having been top of the table in late February, a run of two wins from the last thirteen matches saw Derby finish eighth, a single point off the playoffs, and manager Steve McClaren sacked. Bryson's start to the season was hampered by an injury which he picked up in the opening game of the season away to Bolton Wanderers on 8 August. He was taken off in the 21st minute suffering from what was later revealed to be a stretched ligament on the inside of his knee and was ruled out for 2 to 4 weeks. However, he was ruled out for longer than first thought; six weeks later, new Derby manager Paul Clement reported that Bryson was still feeling some discomfort in his knee, which meant he was "finding some things difficult to do relating to shooting and long passing". A week later, on 1 October, Clement revealed that Bryson had had injections in his knee to speed up the healing process and would thus miss training for a fortnight to allow his knee to settle. Clement said that "I think we all underestimated the severity of the injury he picked up on the opening day just because of his character. He wanted to push and push to get back as soon as possible but you have to allow the healing process to take place." Bryson returned to training on 16 October, played 90 minutes in an under-21 match against Newcastle United on 26 October and finally made his return to first team action on 31 October, coming on as a 79th-minute substitute for new signing Jacob Butterfield in a 3–0 win against Rotherham. On the final day of the summer transfer window of 2017, Bryson joined fellow Championship side Cardiff City on a season-long loan deal. He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–1 win against Sunderland on 23 September 2017. He was offered a new contract by Derby County at the end of the 2018–19 season, but instead agreed a pre-contract with Aberdeen. Bryson's Aberdeen career was hampered by injury, playing only 6 games at the start of the 2019–20 season due to an ankle injury. In August 2020 he was one of eight Aberdeen players who received a suspended three-match ban from the Scottish FA after they breached coronavirus-related restrictions by visiting a bar earlier in the month. On 9 September 2020, Bryson departed Aberdeen via mutual consent. A week after leaving Aberdeen, Bryson signed with St Johnstone on a contract to the end of the 2020–21 season. Bryson would enjoy success with St Johnstone, lifting both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup in the 2020–21 season. In December 2021 however, Bryson would suffer an ankle injury against Celtic which would require surgery and end his season. In June 2022 following the end of his contract with St Johnstone, Bryson decided to go part-time and sign a one-year deal with Scottish League Two side Stenhousemuir. Bryson retired from playing football in September 2022. Bryson was capped by Scotland at under-19 and under-21 level while with Clyde. He was called up for a Scotland B match in 2009 but was later withdrawn at the request of his club manager Jim Jefferies. On 16 November 2010, Bryson made his full international debut as a second-half substitute against the Faroe Islands at Pittodrie. Bryson's form for Derby saw him recalled to the squad for a friendly against the United States in May 2012, but he did not play. In 2013, Bryson was recalled to the senior squad for World Cup qualifiers against Belgium and Macedonia in September and Croatia in October, but did not get any match time. He started a friendly against Norway in Molde on 20 November to gain his second cap for his country. He was also called up for a post-season friendly against Nigeria, but while Derby teammates Chris Martin and Craig Forsyth made their debuts, Bryson did not come off the substitutes bench. Bryson plays in central midfield and describes himself as a "box-to-box central midfielder, who will always give 100% for the team." Bryson scored 16 league goals for Derby in the 2013–14 season, which was more than he had scored in any of his previous three seasons combined. He put this improvement down to manager Steve McClaren: "he's changed the formation slightly and I have more freedom to get in the box and support Chris . We are a good partnership." Scotland manager Gordon Strachan hailed the understanding between the two when he called them up for a friendly with Nigeria in May 2014: "When you look at the link-up between and Bryson, I think it's 40-odd goals they've scored between them. It's a smashing partnership." Martin himself said of his partnership with Bryson in May 2014: "I think people must hate playing against him, because I certainly would. I wouldn't want to mark him. People can't stay with him, he's got that much energy. From my point of view, he helps my game, because he takes people away and runs in behind. It makes it easier for me to play, because he's always there next to me." Clyde St Johnstone Individual | 1 |
Aleksandar Šćekić | Aleksandar Šćekić 2022-01-08T19:16:26Z Aleksandar Šćekić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Шћекић; born 12 December 1991) is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serbian club Partizan and the Montenegro national team. Šćekić made his senior debut at his hometown club Berane in the 2009–10 Montenegrin First League, as the team suffered relegation to the Second League. He was subsequently loaned to Lovćen, continuing to play in the top flight, before returning to Berane in the second half of the 2010–11 Montenegrin Second League and helping them earn promotion back to the First League via playoffs. However, they were immediately relegated back to the second tier. He was then loaned out to Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje, spending there the first half of the 2012–13 Montenegrin First League, before rejoining Berane until the end of the 2012–13 Montenegrin Second League. In the summer of 2013, Šćekić joined fellow Second League club Bokelj and instantly helped them win the championship and promotion to the First League. He played regularly in the top flight over the next two seasons, earning himself a call-up to the national team. In June 2016, Šćekić moved abroad and signed with Turkish club Gençlerbirliği on a three-year deal. He scored two times in 24 games during the 2017–18 Süper Lig, once in a 2–1 home win over Beşiktaş and once in a 5–1 away loss against Galatasaray. On 21 August 2018, Šćekić signed a three-year contract with Serbian club Partizan, being handed the number 19 shirt. He made his debut for the team two days later, coming on as a substitute for compatriot Nebojša Kosović in a 1–1 home draw with Beşiktaş. On 5 May 2019, Šćekić scored his first goal for Partizan, giving his team a 2–1 win over Napredak Kruševac. He made 28 appearances across all competitions in his first season with the Crno-beli, helping them win the Serbian Cup. On 25 July 2019, Šćekić netted his first goal of the season to give Partizan a 1–0 win over Welsh club Connah's Quay Nomads in the first leg of the Europa League second qualifying round. He made a career-high 38 appearances during the 2019–20 campaign, scoring three goals. In January 2021, Šćekić extended his contract with Partizan until 2023. He made 40 appearances and scored five goals in the 2020–21 season, both career highs, but the club ended without a trophy for the second year in a row. Šćekić was capped for Montenegro at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels. He made his full international debut for Montenegro under Ljubiša Tumbaković, playing the first 85 minutes of a 2–1 friendly loss against Greece on 24 March 2016., Aleksandar Šćekić 2023-12-20T22:54:24Z Aleksandar Šćekić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Шћекић; born 12 December 1991) is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serbian club Partizan and the Montenegro national team. Šćekić made his senior debut at his hometown club Berane in the 2009–10 Montenegrin First League, as the team suffered relegation to the Second League. He was subsequently loaned to Lovćen, continuing to play in the top flight, before returning to Berane in the second half of the 2010–11 Montenegrin Second League and helping them earn promotion back to the First League via playoffs. However, they were immediately relegated back to the second tier. He was then loaned out to Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje, spending there the first half of the 2012–13 Montenegrin First League, before rejoining Berane until the end of the 2012–13 Montenegrin Second League. In the summer of 2013, Šćekić joined fellow Second League club Bokelj and instantly helped them win the championship and promotion to the First League. He played regularly in the top flight over the next two seasons, earning himself a call-up to the national team. In June 2016, Šćekić moved abroad and signed with Turkish club Gençlerbirliği on a three-year deal. He scored two times in 24 games during the 2017–18 Süper Lig, once in a 2–1 home win over Beşiktaş and once in a 5–1 away loss against Galatasaray. On 21 August 2018, Šćekić signed a three-year contract with Serbian club Partizan, being handed the number 19 shirt. He made his debut for the team two days later, coming on as a substitute for compatriot Nebojša Kosović in a 1–1 home draw with Beşiktaş. On 5 May 2019, Šćekić scored his first goal for Partizan, giving his team a 2–1 win over Napredak Kruševac. He made 28 appearances across all competitions in his first season with the Crno-beli, helping them win the Serbian Cup. On 25 July 2019, Šćekić netted his first goal of the season to give Partizan a 1–0 win over Welsh club Connah's Quay Nomads in the first leg of the Europa League second qualifying round. He made a career-high 38 appearances during the 2019–20 campaign, scoring three goals. In January 2021, Šćekić extended his contract with Partizan until 2023. He made 40 appearances and scored five goals in the 2020–21 season, both career highs, but the club ended without a trophy for the second year in a row. On 23 January 2022, Šćekić moved to Poland and signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Ekstraklasa side Zagłębie Lubin. On 1 June 2022, his contract was terminated by mutual consent, with Šćekić wishing to be closer to his family in Montenegro cited as one of the reasons. Šćekić was capped for Montenegro at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels. He made his full international debut for Montenegro under Ljubiša Tumbaković, playing the first 85 minutes of a 2–1 friendly loss against Greece on 24 March 2016. | 1 |
Franconia_(wine_region) | Franconia_(wine_region) 2009-09-20T23:16:32Z Franconia (Franken) is a region for quality wine in Germany situated in the north west of Bavaria in the district of Franconia, and is the only wine region in the federal state of Bavaria. In 2006, vines were grown on 6,123 hectares (15,153 acres) of land. The greatest part of the wine region is situated in the county of Lower Franconia around its capital Würzburg along the Main River. There are a few areas in Middle Franconia mainly in the Steigerwald and a very small part in the area of Upper Franconia around Bamberg. The bends of Main have been used to define the region's three districts, two of which take their names from their respective geometric shape. The Mainviereck ("Main square") is the westernmost district of Franconia, on the lower parts of and is on of the warmest spots in Bavaria. The special soil is mainly red sand stone which is especially suitable for growing red wine. Franconian red wine plantings started to expand in the 1970s. The Pinot Noirs and the rare but high quality grape Frühburgunder are grown in superb quality. The "Bürgstadter Centgrafenberg" and the "Schlossberg" in Klingenberg am Main are said to be the best vineyards. Some of the wines grown there won national and international wine trophies. The wine guide Gault Millau WeinGuide elected Paul Fürst (winery Rudolf Fürst, Bürgstadt) as wine maker of the year in its German edition in 2003. The most important villages are Bürgstadt, Großheubach and Klingenberg am Main. The main red wine area of Franconia is connected through the Franconian red wine foot path since 1990. The Maindreieck ("Main triangle") is the middle portion of Franconia. On the sometimes very steep hills alongside the Main river the soil mainly consists of Muschelkalk. Manly Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grapes are being grown. But as in many wine regions in Germany a wide variety of grapes is cultivated. Riesling, Bacchus, Pinot Noir, Domina and Dornfelder are the most important grapes. Some wine journalists are saying, that Franconia is the only place in the world, where the Silvaner can be greater than the king of German wines, the Riesling. The best-known vineyard site is the Würzburger Stein a hill directly behind Würzburg. The wines from there are known under the synonym of Steinwein. Along the Maindreieck nearly in every town wine is made. The first evidence of the Silvaner is found in the archive of Castell on a document from April 10, 1659. The most important villages are Würzburg, Randersacker, Sommerhausen, Frickenhausen am Main, Sulzfeld am Main, Sommerach, Escherndorf, Nordheim and Volkach. The soil of the Steigerwald contains mainly of gypsum. The wines of this region often have a very mineralic touch. The most important villages are Iphofen, Rödelsee and Castell There is evidence that wine has been production in Franconia for over 1000 years. In an old document from the year 777 there is a note of a winery being gifted from Charlemagne to the monastery of Fulda. This is the town of Hammelburg. In medieval times the area under cultivation grew strongly up to 40000 ha. In the 20th century it decreased to just over 2000 ha. Today about 6100 ha of land is used for growing wine. The area stretches from Bamberg to Aschaffenburg. The climate is called continental with Mediterranean influence. Quite often there are strong winters and temperatures under 0 degrees Celsius in the spring. Therefore wine is grown mainly in especially protected places usually along the hills of the River Main and the Steigerwald. Because of the special soil and the mild climate along the main river, wines with a very high mineralization can be harvested. The amount of minerals in the wine is a factor in the quality testing every Franconian wine has to overcome. This is unique in Germany. The majority of the wines are made from one grape variety at a time. Cuvées are rare. It is said that the wines of the typical Silvaner are the best wines from this grape in the world. Most Franconian wines are dry. Although in German law dry wines are allowed 9 grams of residual sugar, many German wineries are still using the term Fränkisch trocken (Franconian dry) for wines with 5 grams of residual sugar or less. About 12,000 to 14,000 wines from Franconia pass the official testing. 40% are Franconian dry. As in most German wine regions, the exact vineyard site (Lage) where the wine comes from is nearly as important as the winery. Apart from the Steinwein, very few people outside of Franconia -and nearly no one outside of Germany- is familiar with the names of those, mainly because the German Lagen are tiny compared to some of the well-known appellations of France, Italy, and Spain. Today many wineries try to introduce their own brands without the vineyard designation, and with cuvées with a brand name rather than a single grape varietal. Franconian wines vary in how long they can be kept. The basic wines, which are called Qualitätswein or Kabinett are made to be drunk 1-3 years after production. If they are kept too long, the wines lose their typical fruitiness and freshness. The best wines are mainly the dry Spätlesen which are full-bodied and can mature for up to six, sometimes ten years. The rare sweet wines often with noble rot and Eiswein can sometimes mature for 50 years or more. Oak matured red wines should be drunk 3-10 years after production if kept in a good wine cellar. Originally the Silvaner was the most important grape. In the 20th century the Müller-Thurgau, a simple grape, has been planted in large areas. Although the amount of Müller Thurgau has been decreasing for the last ten years, it is still the most produced grape in Franconia. Red wine is grown on only a little over 19% of the area. The five most grown grape varieties in Franconia (according to official figures from the Bavarian government as of December 31, 2006): The rounded and flattened Bocksbeutel is the typical and well known bottle originally used only for the best Franconian wines. Since 1989 the use of the Bocksbeutel is protected by European Union regulations, but some other regions beside Franconia are also allowed to use this bottle shape. The growing of wine influenced the lifestyle of the people living in the area. Unlike many other German wine regions, a large amount of Franconian wine is drunk in the area where it is produced. Nearly every town has its own Weinfest, a festival that lasts a weekend or sometimes just one day where wine is drunk instead of beer (like on the Oktoberfest in Munich). The so-called Heckenwirtschaften are very popular, where wineries sell their own wine, usually at low prices. , Franconia_(wine_region) 2010-02-01T23:42:35Z Franconia (Franken) is a region for quality wine in Germany situated in the north west of Bavaria in the district of Franconia, and is the only wine region in the federal state of Bavaria. In 2008, vines were grown on 6,063 hectares (14,980 acres) of land in the region. The greatest part of the wine region is situated in the county of Lower Franconia around its capital Würzburg along the Main River. There are a few areas in Middle Franconia mainly in the Steigerwald and a very small part in the area of Upper Franconia around Bamberg. The bends of Main have been used to define the region's three districts, two of which take their names from their respective geometric shape. The Mainviereck ("Main square") is the westernmost district of Franconia, on the lower parts of and is on of the warmest spots in Bavaria. The special soil is mainly red sand stone which is especially suitable for growing red wine. Franconian red wine plantings started to expand in the 1970s. The Pinot Noirs and the rare but high quality grape Frühburgunder are grown in superb quality. The "Bürgstadter Centgrafenberg" and the "Schlossberg" in Klingenberg am Main are said to be the best vineyards. Some of the wines grown there won national and international wine trophies. The wine guide Gault Millau WeinGuide elected Paul Fürst (winery Rudolf Fürst, Bürgstadt) as wine maker of the year in its German edition in 2003. The most important villages are Bürgstadt, Großheubach and Klingenberg am Main. The main red wine area of Franconia is connected through the Franconian red wine foot path since 1990. The Maindreieck ("Main triangle") is the middle portion of Franconia. On the sometimes very steep hills alongside the Main river the soil mainly consists of Muschelkalk. Manly Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grapes are being grown. But as in many wine regions in Germany a wide variety of grapes is cultivated. Riesling, Bacchus, Pinot Noir, Domina and Dornfelder are the most important grapes. Some wine journalists are saying, that Franconia is the only place in the world, where the Silvaner can be greater than the king of German wines, the Riesling. The best-known vineyard site is the Würzburger Stein a hill directly behind Würzburg. The wines from there are known under the synonym of Steinwein. Along the Maindreieck nearly in every town wine is made. The first evidence of the Silvaner is found in the archive of Castell on a document from April 10, 1659. The most important villages are Würzburg, Randersacker, Sommerhausen, Frickenhausen am Main, Sulzfeld am Main, Sommerach, Escherndorf, Nordheim and Volkach. The soil of the Steigerwald contains mainly of gypsum. The wines of this region often have a very mineralic touch. The most important villages are Iphofen, Rödelsee and Castell There is evidence that wine has been production in Franconia for over 1000 years. In an old document from the year 777 there is a note of a winery being gifted from Charlemagne to the monastery of Fulda. This is the town of Hammelburg. In medieval times the area under cultivation grew strongly up to 40000 ha. In the 20th century it decreased to just over 2000 ha. Today about 6100 ha of land is used for growing wine. The area stretches from Bamberg to Aschaffenburg. The climate is called continental with Mediterranean influence. Quite often there are strong winters and temperatures under 0 degrees Celsius in the spring. Therefore wine is grown mainly in especially protected places usually along the hills of the River Main and the Steigerwald. Because of the special soil and the mild climate along the Main river, wines with a very high mineralization can be harvested. The amount of minerals in the wine is a factor in the quality testing every Franconian wine has to overcome. This is unique in Germany. The majority of the wines are made from one grape variety at a time. Cuvées are rare. It is said that the wines of the typical Silvaner are the best wines from this grape in the world. Most Franconian wines are dry. Although in German law dry wines are allowed 9 grams of residual sugar, many German wineries are still using the term Fränkisch trocken (Franconian dry) for wines with 5 grams of residual sugar or less. About 12,000 to 14,000 wines from Franconia pass the official testing. 40% are Franconian dry. As in most German wine regions, the exact vineyard site (Lage) where the wine comes from is nearly as important as the winery. Apart from the Steinwein, very few people outside of Franconia -and nearly no one outside of Germany- is familiar with the names of those, mainly because the German Lagen are tiny compared to some of the well-known appellations of France, Italy, and Spain. Today many wineries try to introduce their own brands without the vineyard designation, and with cuvées with a brand name rather than a single grape varietal. Franconian wines vary in how long they can be kept. The basic wines, which are called Qualitätswein or Kabinett are made to be drunk 1–3 years after production. If they are kept too long, the wines lose their typical fruitiness and freshness. The best wines are mainly the dry Spätlesen which are full-bodied and can mature for up to six, sometimes ten years. The rare sweet wines often with noble rot and Eiswein can sometimes mature for 50 years or more. Oak matured red wines should be drunk 3–10 years after production if kept in a good wine cellar. Originally the Silvaner was the most important grape. In the 20th century the Müller-Thurgau, a simple grape, has been planted in large areas. Although the amount of Müller Thurgau has been decreasing for the last ten years, it is still the most produced grape in Franconia. Red grape varties cover 20% of the region's vineyard area. The most cultivated grape varieties, by area in 2008, were: The rounded and flattened Bocksbeutel is the typical and well known bottle originally used only for the best Franconian wines. Since 1989 the use of the Bocksbeutel is protected by European Union regulations, but some other regions beside Franconia are also allowed to use this bottle shape. The growing of wine influenced the lifestyle of the people living in the area. Unlike many other German wine regions, a large amount of Franconian wine is drunk in the area where it is produced. Nearly every town has its own Weinfest, a festival that lasts a weekend or sometimes just one day where wine is drunk instead of beer (like on the Oktoberfest in Munich). The so-called Heckenwirtschaften are very popular, where wineries sell their own wine, usually at low prices. | 0 |
A. J. LoCascio | A. J. LoCascio 2015-09-19T19:36:21Z A.J. Locascio (born July 11, 1987) is an American actor, film director and film producer, best known for his voice acting role in Back to the Future: The Game as Marty McFly. Locascio grew up in New Jersey before moving to New York where he attended the School of Visual Arts. In an interview for the release of Back to the Future: The Game, Locascio said that when he was a kid that people used to say that he sounded like Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Since Michael J. Fox was unavailable to voice Marty (although he voiced Willie McFly and Marty Future in Episode 5), Locascio auditioned for the part and got it. Locascio has performed as a voice actor on other projects, along with directing, producing and working in the costume & wardrobe department. He has also worked on a nostalgia-heavy talk show pilot called "Yesterday Tonight", where he is a co-host. Locascio currently stars in a Minecraft webshow called Seedlings as the main character Mark. , A. J. LoCascio 2016-12-21T12:48:50Z A.J. Locascio (born July 11, 1987) is an American actor, voice actor, film director and film producer, best known for his voice acting role in Back to the Future: The Game as Marty McFly. Locascio grew up in New Jersey before moving to New York City where he attended the School of Visual Arts. In an interview for the release of Back to the Future: The Game, Locascio said that when he was a kid that people used to say that he sounded like Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Since Michael J. Fox was unavailable to voice Marty (although he voiced Willie McFly and Marty Future in Episode 5), Locascio auditioned for the part and got it. Locascio has performed as a voice actor on other projects, along with directing, producing and working in the costume & wardrobe department. He has also worked on a nostalgia-heavy talk show pilot called "Yesterday Tonight", where he is a co-host. Locascio currently stars in a Minecraft webshow called Seedlings as the main character Mark. Locascio voiced Emmet in the Legoland 4D short subject The Lego Movie 4D: A New Adventure. This was because Chris Pratt (the original voice actor for the character) was unavailable at that time. | 1 |
Moon Ga-young | Moon Ga-young 2016-02-15T13:38:06Z name Mun Ga-young (born July 10, 1996) is a South Korean actress. Moon was born in Karlsruhe, Germany to South Korean parents; her family moved back to Korea when she was 10 years old. She began her acting career in 2006 as a child actress, appearing in both film and television. In 2014, the teenage Moon played her first leading role as the titular character in Mimi, a four-episode mystery/romance drama that aired on cable channel Mnet. In April 2015, Moon portrayed the female protagonist and love interest for members of EXO in the hit web drama, "EXO Next Door" which aired on Naver TV Cast. , Moon Ga-young 2017-12-09T22:32:04Z name Moon Ga-young (born (1996-07-10)July 10, 1996) is a South Korean actress. She is known for her roles in Heartstrings (2011), EXO Next Door (2015), The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 (2015), Mirror of the Witch (2016) and Jealousy Incarnate (2016). Moon was born in Karlsruhe, Germany to South Korean parents; her family moved back to Korea when she was 10 years old. Ga-young began her acting career in 2006 as a child actress, appearing in both film and television. In 2014, the teenage Moon played her first leading role as the title character in Mimi, a four-episode mystery/romance drama that aired on cable channel Mnet. In April 2015, Moon portrayed the female protagonist and love interest for members of EXO in the hit web drama, EXO Next Door which aired on Naver TV Cast. She also has supporting roles in hit dramas Jealousy Incarnate and Live Up to Your Name. In 2017, she starred in the drama special Waltzing Alone. | 1 |
Batu Lancang (state constituency) | Batu Lancang (state constituency) 2018-04-21T07:47:30Z Batu Lancang is a state constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Penang State Legislative Assembly since 2004. It covers two of George Town's suburbs - Batu Lanchang and parts of Jelutong. The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Penang State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system. Since 2013, the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang is Law Heng Kiang from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which is part of the state's ruling coalition, Pakatan Harapan. The Batu Lancang constituency contains the polling districts of Batu Lanchang, Chemor Lane, Desa Green, Jalan Penaga, Jelutong Road, Lilitan Hargreaves, Lorong Parit Buntar, Panchor Road, Solok Batu Lanchang and Tingkat Jelutong. This state seat encompasses all of the Batu Lanchang suburb and a small western portion of Jelutong up to Jelutong Road to the east. To the west, the Batu Lancang seat is separated from the neighbouring Seri Delima constituency by Green Lane, with the affluent neighbourhood of Green Lane west of the road falling under Seri Delima. The Batu Lancang constituency also stretches north up to Free School Road and Jalan Perak. During the 1995 State Elections, Chong Eng from the DAP was elected as the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang, becoming the first woman to be elected into the Penang State Legislative Assembly. Between 1995 and 1999, she was also the sole opposition assemblyman in the State Legislative Assembly, which was dominated at the time by the Barisan Nasional (BN) federal ruling coalition. The electoral results for the Batu Lancang state constituency in 2008, 2013 and 2018 are as follows. "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 2016-05-21. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help), Batu Lancang (state constituency) 2019-09-27T07:41:04Z Batu Lancang is a state constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Penang State Legislative Assembly since 2004. It covers two of George Town's suburbs - Batu Lanchang and parts of Jelutong. The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Penang State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system. Since 2018, the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang is Ong Ah Teong from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which is part of the state's ruling coalition, Pakatan Harapan (PH). The Batu Lancang constituency contains the polling districts of Batu Lanchang, Chemor Lane, Desa Green, Jalan Penaga, Jelutong Road, Lilitan Hargreaves, Lorong Parit Buntar, Panchor Road, Solok Batu Lanchang and Tingkat Jelutong. This state seat encompasses all of the Batu Lanchang suburb and a small western portion of Jelutong up to Jelutong Road to the east. To the west, the Batu Lancang seat is separated from the neighbouring Seri Delima constituency by Green Lane, with the affluent neighbourhood of Green Lane west of the road falling under Seri Delima. The Batu Lancang constituency also stretches north up to Free School Road and Jalan Perak. Ethnic breakdown of Batu Lancang's electorate as of 2018 During the 1995 State Election, Chong Eng from the DAP was elected as the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang, becoming the first woman to be elected into the Penang State Legislative Assembly. Between 1995 and 1999, she was also the sole opposition assemblyman in the State Legislative Assembly, which was dominated at the time by the Barisan Nasional (BN) federal ruling coalition. The electoral results for the Batu Lancang state constituency in 2008, 2013 and 2018 are as follows. "His Majesty's Government Gazette - Notice of Contested Election, State Legislative Assembly for the State of Penang " (PDF). Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-01. "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-21. | 1 |
Wisbech_Canal | Wisbech_Canal 2010-11-10T14:07:33Z The Wisbech Canal was a broad canal near Wisbech in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England. It ran from the River Nene at Wisbech to the Well Creek at Outwell in Norfolk, which gave access to the River Ouse. It was abandoned in 1926 and filled in during the 1970s. The canal was planned as a means to improve the status of Wisbech as a trading centre. Following correspondence between the Hon and Revd Charles Lindsay, who later became chairman of the company, and Lord Hardwicke, on the potential benefits of the scheme, an engineer called John Watte was asked to prepare a survey and estimated costs. These were to be presented at a public meeting on 30 October 1792, but the meeting was swamped by speculators and traders from places as far away as Derby, Leicester, Uppingham, Huntingdon and Bedford. Some difficulty was experienced in maintaining control, but the local people succeeded in doing so, although the initial committee consisted of equal numbers of "strangers and people at home". A petition was presented to parliament on behalf of the burgesses of Wisbech in early 1794, and the canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament (34 George III. Cap. 92) which was granted on 9 May 1794. This Act formed The Wisbech Canal Company, which had powers to raise £14,000, with an option to raise an additional £6,000 if required. This was to be used to construct the canal which ran from a junction with the River Nene at Wisbech, to a junction with the Well Creek and the Old River Nene at Outwell. The Well Creek connects to the Great Ouse. In addition, the company had powers to maintain and improve the river from Outwell Church to Salter's Lode Sluice on the Old River Nene. All traffic passing between the canal and the Nene River was required to pay a toll, which was to be used to maintain the Well Creek. Because of the low level of the Fens landscape, the canal was constructed on embankments for most of its 5. 25 mile (8. 4 km) length, and was opened in 1797. Flood locks were constructed at both ends of the canal. It did not have its own water supply, but was refilled with water at each high tide. In 1883, the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway opened, running from Wisbech to Outwell and following a route along the course of the canal. It was extended to Upwell in 1884. Initially, there was some benefit to the canal, as coal was transported by the railway to Outwell, and loaded into boats by chutes. However, the railways steadily took the trade, and in 1914, the tolls collected only amounted to £56. All traffic ceased in 1922, and the canal was formally abandoned on 14 June 1926, when a warrant for its closure was obtained from the Minister of Transport. The canal remained in a derelict state until the early 1970s, when the Wisbech end was filled in to allow the A1101 Churchill Road link to be built without destroying the historic town centre. Much of the rest of the canal was used as a landfill site, and consequently any development within 270 yd (250m) of the former line of the canal requires special consent from Cambridgeshire County Council's Waste Management Services department. , Wisbech_Canal 2011-07-15T13:51:09Z The Wisbech Canal was a broad canal near Wisbech in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England. It ran from the River Nene at Wisbech to the Well Creek at Outwell in Norfolk, which gave access to the River Ouse. It was abandoned in 1926 and filled in during the 1970s. The canal was planned as a means to improve the status of Wisbech as a trading centre. Following correspondence between the Hon and Revd Charles Lindsay, who later became chairman of the company, and Lord Hardwicke, on the potential benefits of the scheme, an engineer called John Watte was asked to prepare a survey and estimated costs. These were to be presented at a public meeting on 30 October 1792, but the meeting was swamped by speculators and traders from places as far away as Derby, Leicester, Uppingham, Huntingdon and Bedford. Some difficulty was experienced in maintaining control, but the local people succeeded in doing so, although the initial committee consisted of equal numbers of "strangers and people at home". A petition was presented to parliament on behalf of the burgesses of Wisbech in early 1794, and the canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament (34 George III. Cap. 92) which was granted on 9 May 1794. This Act formed The Wisbech Canal Company, which had powers to raise £14,000, with an option to raise an additional £6,000 if required. This was to be used to construct the canal which ran from a junction with the River Nene at Wisbech, to a junction with the Well Creek and the Old River Nene at Outwell. The Well Creek connects to the Great Ouse. In addition, the company had powers to maintain and improve the river from Outwell Church to Salter's Lode Sluice on the Old River Nene. All traffic passing between the canal and the Nene River was required to pay a toll, which was to be used to maintain the Well Creek. Because of the low level of the Fens landscape, the canal was constructed on embankments for most of its 5. 25 mile (8. 4 km) length, and was opened in 1797. Flood locks were constructed at both ends of the canal. The one at Outwell was 97 feet (30 m) long, but the one at Wisbech was only 50 feet (15 m), and so longer boats wishing to enter or leave the canal at the Wisbech end had to wait for the levels in the river and the canal to equalise, at which point both sets of gates could be opened. The canal did not have its own water supply, but was refilled when the water level in the Nene at Wisbech was high enough. This was normally only at spring tides, and so the water level often ran low in the period before the next spring tide was due. In 1883, the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway opened, running from Wisbech to Outwell and following a route along the course of the canal. It was extended to Upwell in 1884. Initially, there was some benefit to the canal, as coal was transported by the railway to Outwell, and loaded into boats by chutes. However, the railways steadily took the trade, and in 1914, the tolls collected only amounted to £56. All traffic ceased in 1922, and the canal was formally abandoned on 14 June 1926, when a warrant for its closure was obtained from the Minister of Transport. The canal remained in a derelict state until the early 1970s, when the Wisbech end was filled in to allow the A1101 Churchill Road link to be built without destroying the historic town centre. Much of the rest of the canal was used as a landfill site, and consequently any development within 270 yd (250m) of the former line of the canal requires special consent from Cambridgeshire County Council's Waste Management Services department. Download coordinates as: | 0 |
Navigation_authority | Navigation_authority 2008-08-30T13:59:38Z A navigation authority is a company or statutory body which is concerned with the management of a navigable canal or river. Whilst the rights of individual authorities vary, a navigation authority will typically have a right to: Again, responsibilities vary, but will usually include: Whilst a navigation authority may own the land over which the waterway runs, and usually does in the case of artificial waterways, this is not invariably the case, and particularly in the case of river navigations, the land beneath the river may belong to riparian landowners. , Navigation_authority 2009-01-09T23:55:25Z A navigation authority is a company or statutory body which is concerned with the management of a navigable canal or river. Whilst the rights of individual authorities vary, a navigation authority will typically have a right to: Again, responsibilities vary, but will usually include: Whilst a navigation authority may own the land over which the waterway runs, and usually does in the case of artificial waterways, this is not invariably the case, and particularly in the case of river navigations, the land beneath the river may belong to riparian landowners. | 0 |
HMNZS_Moa_(P3553) | HMNZS_Moa_(P3553) 2008-06-23T14:18:25Z HMNZS Moa (P3553) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in 1983 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve and decommissioned in 2007. Moa was the second ship of this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and was named after the Moa bird from New Zealand. After she was decommissioned in January 2007, she was sold on in March to a Picton builder who renamed the vessel Flightless. On Friday 20 June 2008 the vessel, moored at anchor on the eastern side of Waikawa Bay, Picton, was struck by a commercial fishing boat, with the loss of two lives aboard the fishing boat. (Paul Mulrooney, 'Two die in boat crash,' headline article, p. 1, Dominion Post, Saturday-Sunday, June 21-22, 2008) This article about a specific naval ship or boat is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , HMNZS_Moa_(P3553) 2010-04-23T11:37:50Z HMNZS Moa (P3553) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in 1983 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve and decommissioned in 2007. Moa was the second ship of this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and was named after the Moa bird from New Zealand. After she was decommissioned in January 2007, she was sold on in March to a Picton builder who renamed the vessel Flightless. On Friday 20 June 2008 the vessel, moored at anchor on the eastern side of Waikawa Bay, Picton, was struck by a commercial fishing boat, with the loss of two lives aboard the fishing boat. (Paul Mulrooney, 'Two die in boat crash,' headline article, p. 1, Dominion Post, Saturday-Sunday, 21 June-22, 2008) This article about a specific naval ship or boat is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Johnny Messner (actor) | Johnny Messner (actor) 2015-01-09T09:57:18Z Johnny Messner (born April 11, 1970) is an American actor, known for his work in films such as Tears of the Sun, The Whole Ten Yards and Hostage, and in TV series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Cold Case. He is married to actress Kathryn Morris, whom he met while shooting Cold Case. Messner was born on April 11, 1970 in Syracuse, New York. He lived in Europe for 13 years while his father served in the United States Air Force, mainly in Germany and England. During this time, he developed love for sports while playing on teams at military bases. He has one brother and one sister. According to one of his tweets, he was adopted. Messner has also starred in three movies with Bruce Willis, with whom he is very close friends. The first movie they made together was Tears of the Sun (2003), second was The Whole Ten Yards (2004) and third being Hostage (2005). In an interview for the movie Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, a tattoo of actress Monica Bellucci in the crook of his elbow, whom he met while making Tears of the Sun, and who was present when the tattoo was made. Messner has dated Selma Blair. Currently, he has been in a lrelationship with Kathryn Morris, whom he met while shooting Cold Case. Morris gave birth to twin boys Jameson West Messner and Rocco McQueen Messner on August 21, 2013., Johnny Messner (actor) 2016-06-23T17:52:42Z Johnny Messner (born April 11, 1970) is an American actor. Messner was born on April 11, 1970 in Syracuse, New York. He lived in Europe for 13 years while his father served in the United States Air Force, mainly in Germany and England. During this time, he developed a love for sports while playing on teams at military bases. He has one brother and one sister. As an actor Messner is probably best known for his work in the films Tears of the Sun, The Whole Ten Yards and Hostage, and in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Cold Case. Messner is married to Kathryn Morris, whom he met while shooting Cold Case. Morris gave birth to twin boys Jameson West Messner and Rocco McQueen Messner on August 21, 2013. | 1 |
Linwood,_Massachusetts | Linwood,_Massachusetts 2008-04-02T08:58:15Z Northbridge and Uxbridge, Massachusetts ( Linwood, Massachusetts ) Linwood is a post office address, National Historic District, and village in the towns of Northbridge and Uxbridge in Worcester County, in the central part of the U. S. state of Massachusetts. The zip code is 01525. Linwood is a village or subunit of both Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and Northbridge Massachusetts. The village of Linwood straddles the border of both towns or townships. The village also borders, North Uxbridge. These towns are subunits of Worcester County, Massachusetts. The village of Linwood was predominantly settled by French Canadians, who historically worked in the local textile industry. The Whitin Cotton Mills at Linwood were the principal Industry and are a good example of the Industrial architecture of the 19th century. Linwood today is the "Linwood Historic District" within the Towns of Uxbridge and Northbridge. The "Butler Block" in Linwood is listed on the National Historic Register, under Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The Linwood Cotton Mills are also listed on the National Historic Register. Linwood Historic District is listed under Category: Registered Historic Places in Massachusetts, at Northbridge. The Linwood Historic District includes Late Victorian Structures, the Linwood Cotton Mills, and extends down Linwood Avenue to Pine and Maple. The Blackstone Valley, and Linwood, is now part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, the oldest industrialized region in the United States. The Blackstone Valley is New England's Historic National Park area. Built in 1866, the Linwood Mill was the crowning glory of James Fletcher Whitin and Charles Pinckney Whitin, sons of Colonel Paul and Betsy (Fletcher) Whitin. source:page 9, Blackstonevalleytribune, 12/21/07 For many years Paul Neuman and Joanna Woodward, who lived in Connecticut, loved to visit an old Victorian Inn near this historic mill. , Linwood,_Massachusetts 2010-01-23T18:57:44Z Linwood is the name of a post office and village in the towns of Northbridge and Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The zip code is 01525. Linwood is a village of both Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and Northbridge Massachusetts. The village of Linwood straddles the border of both towns. The village also borders, North Uxbridge. The village of Linwood was predominantly settled by French Canadians, who historically worked in the local textile industry. The Whitin Cotton Mills at Linwood were the principal Industry and are a good example of the Industrial architecture of the 19th century. The Butler_Block in Linwood is listed on the National Historic Register, under Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The Linwood Cotton Mills are also listed on the National Historic Register. The Linwood Historic District includes Late Victorian Structures, the Linwood Cotton Mills, and extends down Linwood Avenue to Pine and Maple. The Blackstone Valley and Linwood are now part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, the oldest industrialized region in the United States. The Blackstone Valley is New England's Historic National Park area. Built in 1866, the Linwood Mill was the crowning glory of James Fletcher Whitin and Charles Pinckney Whitin, sons of Colonel Paul and Betsy (Fletcher) Whitin. source:page 9, Blackstonevalleytribune, 12/21/07 For many years Paul Neuman and Joanna Woodward, who lived in Connecticut, loved to visit an old Victorian Inn near this historic mill. 42°05′50″N 71°38′41″W / 42. 09722°N 71. 64472°W / 42. 09722; -71. 64472 | 0 |
Erin Karpluk | Erin Karpluk 2011-01-22T23:19:05Z Erin Karpluk (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian television actress. She is best known for her leading roles in Godiva's and Being Erica. She has also appeared on The CW's Life Unexpected. Born in Jasper, Alberta of Ukrainian descent, to a high school principal mother and a father who worked for the railway, she studied theatre at the University of Victoria receiving a bachelor's degree of fine arts in theatre in 2000. She began her acting career in Vancouver and between 2000 and 2005 she appeared in more than a dozen television series and TV movies before landing the role of Kate in Godiva's. Her work during this period included "Voice of Sylan" in the final episode of Dark Angel and the TV movie Family Sins. She was in Legend of Earthsea (2004) and she played a serial killer in Ripper 2: Letter from Within (also 2004). She was also in a short-lived US television series called Glory Days (2002). Karpluk earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godiva's and a 2006 Gemini nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. In 2009, she won the Gemini award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role in Being Erica. Since Godiva's, Karpluk has continued to work in television and short films. In 2007 she appeared in Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, and The L Word. She had a leading role in a 2008 television movie, Smokejumpers, directed by John Terlesky. Karpluk currently stars in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series Being Erica. She was offered the lead role of Erica Strange when she was working in Los Angeles on The L Word. She also had a recurring role as Alice the radio station manager on The CW's Life Unexpected. Her only appearance in the second season was in the series finale because of a scheduling conflict resulting from Being Erica being picked up for a third season. , Erin Karpluk 2012-12-31T18:25:07Z Erin Karpluk (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Strange on Being Erica and Kate in Godiva's. Erin Karpluk was born in Jasper, Alberta to a high school principal mother and a railway engineer father. Her family is of Ukrainian descent. She majored in theatre at the University of Victoria and received a Bachelor's degree of Fine Arts in 2000. She began her acting career in Vancouver and between 2000 and 2005, she appeared in more than a dozen television movies and series before landing the role of Kate in Godiva's. Her work during this period included "Voice of Sylan" in the final episode of Dark Angel and the TV movie Family Sins. She was also in a short-lived US television series called Glory Days in 2002. In 2004, she appeared in Legend of Earthsea and played a serial killer in Ripper 2: Letter from Within. Karpluk earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godiva's and a 2006 Gemini nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Since Godiva's, Karpluk has continued to work in television and short films. In 2007 she appeared in Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, and The L Word. She had a leading role in a 2008 television movie, Smokejumpers, directed by John Terlesky. Karpluk starred in the CBC Television series Being Erica. She was offered the lead role of Erica Strange when she was working in Los Angeles on The L Word. In 2009, she won the Gemini award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role in Being Erica. She also had a recurring role as Alice the radio station manager during the first season of The CW's Life Unexpected. Her only appearance in the second season was in the series finale because of a scheduling conflict resulting from Being Erica being picked up for a third year. She enjoys perogies, cabbage rolls, and fishing near Jasper with her brother. | 1 |
Leabhar_na_nGenealach | Leabhar_na_nGenealach 2008-03-25T14:03:14Z Leabhar na nGenealach is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas's church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. He continued to add material till at least 1666 (he was murdered in 1671). It was published in a five volume edition in Dublin in 2004 as The Great Book of Irish Genealogies. Described by Eoin MacNeill "by far the largest and fullest body of Irish genealogical lore", it contains roughly twice as much material as found in the Book of Ballymote and the Book of Lecan. It preserves notes on families from all parts of Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, the pre-Gaelic, Viking and Old English peoples of Ireland. It features an eighteen page preface, nine 'books' or divisions and a seventy-four page Clar or general index in double columns. It consists of eight hundred and seventy one pages, 95% of which is in Mac Fhirbhisigh's handwriting. The remainder is in the hand of an unknown amanuensis, and incorporates some pages written in 1636 by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. Many questions concern Leabhar na nGenealach. In the words of Nollaig Ó Muraíle: " . . . who or what prompted Mac Fhirbhisigh to undertake the compilation of Leabhar na nGenealach? . . . how much planning and organisation (such as the collection of source material) preceded the writing of the book . . ? Did he, at any time during the compilation . . . entertain hopes of seeing it printed . . . ? Unfortunately, we have very little in which to base even the most tentative of answers to these questions. We simply do not know . . . "Nor is it known how he supported himself in Galway, though he did commissions for the Poor Clares and John Lynch while there. O Muraile suggests that it was a work compiled in his spare time, in between possible tutorial work for the children of local families (see The Tribes of Galway). Unlike the Four Masters, he appears to have had neither patron nor sponsorship of any sort. As to the question of why he wrote Leabhar na nGenealach, Mac Fhirbhisigh himself stated it was his intention to ". . . do mhórughadh glóire Dé agus do ghéunamh iúil do chách i ccoithchinne/to increase the glory of God and to give knowledge to everyone generally". Thus it appears to have been a labour of love, and as a strong defence of traditionalGaelic learning, though not uncritically so. That it seems to be a book written for all the peoples of Ireland is indicated by the following: "Na slioinnte, iomorra, da suarraighe atáid, ní fuigfeam dar ndeóin éanghloinneadh aca gan a aireamh ó a cheap fén/of the surnames, moreover, however undistinguished they may be, we do not willing leave a single one of them without reckoning it from its own stock". This preface states it was . . . compiled by Dubhaltach Mac Fhiribhisigh of Lecán, 1650. The díonbhrollach describes the contents of the book, including: It is customary for great lords that, when their families and kindreds multiply, their clients and their followers are oppressed, injured and wasted. Begins with the following introduction: "Senchus genealach gabháltas uasal Éreann agus Albansgot go ccraobhsgaoileadh a ccineadhach ó créudthós na n-aimsior n-aicsidhe gus aniú (mar ghebh mid/The history of the genealogies of the invasions of the nobles of Ireland and of the Scots of Alba with the genealogical branchings of their races from the beginning of visible times until today, as we find, according to the order". Mac Fhirbhisigh draws upon a recension of Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh for a summary which deals with the legendary invaders of Ireland from the time of Partholón to Míl Espáine. Following this, Mac Fhirbhisigh begins the book proper, with the genealogies of Síol Éreamhóin (Érimón). This is the first division or 'book' of Leabhar na nGenealach. Titled "Craobhsgaoileadh Cloinne Partholón" (the ramifications of the family of Partholón) it describes the ancestry and descendants of Partholón, who was the leader of the second group of people to settle in Ireland. It covers pages 27 to 30 in the autograph of the work. The following divisions cover all the invaders of Ireland up to the Milesians. Book five comprises some three hundred and fifty pages of the autograph, representing just under half of the total text. It concerns the following groups and dynasties, and their many sub-divisions: Cenél nEógain; Cenél Conaill; Clann Cholmáin and Síl nÁedo Sláine (the Southern Uí Néill; Uí Briúin; Uí Fiachrach; Airgíalla (including the Uí Maine, the Déisi and the Dál Riata; the Laigin. While much of Book Five's information is derived from the Book of Lecan or the Book of Ballymote, Mac Fhirbhisigh added material not found in either of these sources; indeed, much of it is entirely unique to Leabhar na nGenealach. In a small number of cases - Ó Néill and Mac Suibhne - this is due to Mac Fhirbhisigh updating pedigrees to his own lifetime. In the U F tract this applies to the later generations of the Clan MacFhirbhisigh, their pedigree appearing in no later manuscript. The Leabhar Oirghiallach is in many instances very obviously drawn from versions of the Books of Lecan and Ballymote, yet once again there is unique material concerning Clann Mca Domhnaill, a Gallóglaigh family. They derive from a leabhar teagloim, and a Leabhar Balbh Shémus Mec Fhirbhisigh, neither of which now survives. The latter, The Dumb Book of Séamus Mac Fhirbhisigh was written by Mac Fhirbhisigh's great-grandfather, Séamus mac Diarmada Chaoich. Other sources for the remaining subjects include: Senchus fer n-Alban; the Book of Uí Maine, from sections now missing; Amhra Colm Cille; Opus chronologicum by Ubbo Emmius; versions of De Shíl Chonairi Móir, De Maccaib Conaire, the Duan Albanach; the poem 'Saor do leannán, a Leamhain' by Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh (fl. 'c'. 1200). Leabhar Laighin is in part derived from the books of Lecan and Ballymote, and the Book of Glendalough (aka Book of Leinster). However, once again, entirely unique material found in no other surviving manuscript is preserved here by Mac Fhirbhisigh. The only source explicitly named - though he refers vaugely to other books - is once called Leabhar Buidhe Lecan Mec Fhirbhisigh, now lost. This book outlines the history and genealogical ramifications of the descendants of Íor son of Míl Espáine, known as the Síol Ír. The material was derived from Leabhar Uí Dubhagáin (aka the Book of Uí Maine). This section is followed by a shorter one treating of the Dál nAraidi and the descendants of Fergus mac Róich. It ends with a version of 'Clann Ollamhan Uaisle Eamhna', similart to, though not exactly, the one found in the Book of Uí Maine Mac Fhirbhisigh added "a great amount of additional material . . . both in the margins and interlineally . . . those inserted between the lines are variant readings, some of them of considerable interest, deriving as they do from quite a different recension of the work; . . . represented by just one manuscript older than LGen, namely RIA B iv2. " Book seven deals with the descendants of Ebhar mac Milidh, written or begun in 1649, comprising pages 599 to 689 (eight-five pages are blank). As Mac Fhirbhisigh intended to merely summarise material, he did not reproduce the original texts, which were extracts from Saltair Chaisil, written in Latin. Pages 640. 5 to 645. 5 feature the descendants of Brian Bóruma, such as the O'Brien's, including the Anglo-Irish Plunkett family. This was a fabrication, based on the Plunkett's status in the late 16th century, claiming them as descended from King Donnchad mac Briain, who died in Rome in 1064. As did Geoffrey Keating, Mac Fhirbhisgh reserves doubts on this, though pointing out that it should not be discounted merely because of Donnchad's age, as "there is no period in a man's life in which he may not beget. " The families of Eustace, Bennett and Power, along with others, are given the same ancestor. Further sections concern the descendants of Cian mac Ailill Aulom, which were at least partly assembled in the early 8th century. The final section is at least in part derived from the Book of Ui Maine. Titled Naoimhsheanchas, this book concerns the genealogies of the Irish saints. "This now extends from p. 692 to p. 753, but it contains various layers of material inserted at different times and from quite a variety of sources. They include the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ui Maine, Leabhar Breac, and Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh's recension of Naoimhsheanchas Naomh Inse Fáil. Mac Fhirbhisigh thought well enough of Ó Cléirigh's additions to incorporate them into LGen. While most of the text was written at that period , it is clear from variations in the ink and handwriting that Dubhaltach made numerous later additions to the work. The most notable of these appear to date from 1653, and other insertions may have been made in 1657 and 1664. " The Naoimhsheanchas is set out in much the same manner as Leabhar na nGenealach itself; ". . . the layout of the saints genealogies (on pp. 697-739) exactly parallels the sequence of the secular genealogies of the Gaoidhil (or Gaelic people) in LGen. " Rém Ríogharaidhe Éreann, a catalogue of the Kings of Ireland to 1198, concludes the book. Mac Fhirbhisigh's main source is very likely to be RIA MS C iii3 or volume c of the autograph section of the Annals of the Four Masters - which he refers to as Leabhar Airison Fhearghaill Uí Ghadhra, Fearghal Ó Gadhra being a patron of the annals - covering the years AM 2242 to AD 1171. Mac Fhirbhisigh notes that the text was completed ". . . i cColáisde na Gaillmhe dhia Céadaoin vii. Augusti. anno MDCXLIX/in the college of Galway, 8 August 1649. " Given that Galway was within days of plague, famine and siege, O Muraile expressed the wish "for the merest hint by Mac Fhirbhisigh of what conditions were like in the stricken city while he was penning his list of Irish kings!" Covering pages 768 to 852, it consists of eleven distinct sections, almost all on the post-Gaelic invaders (Vikings, Normans, Welsh, etc . . ). Pages 853-932 comprise the Clár, or index of the secular genealogies, whilc pages 926-932, Clár Naomh nÉireann, is an index concerning Irish saints. It finishes with a dedication and note by Mac Fhirbhisigh: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, DF do theagair agus rus graif for Iuil, 1653/To the greater glory of God. D F arranged and wrote it during July (?) 1653. This is followed by three poems from pages 935 to 957: 'Triallam timcheall na Fodla'; Tuilleadh feasa ar Eirinn oig'; 'Foras focal luaightheal libh' for the full article, see Cuimre na nGenealach The Cuimre is an adbridgement of Leabhar na nGenealach. The original is now lost, but it survives in two apparently incomplete 18th century transcripts; RIA MS 24 N2, and Maynooth Irish MS B 8. While containing about 30% of the material of Leabhar na nGenealach, it also contains much new, and some unique material. Mac Fhirbhisigh began it on Monday April 1, 1666, at his home at Castletown, Co. Sligo. By Saturday May 5, he had completed some 45% of the surviving material, and would appear to have finished prior to returning to Dublin and work for Sir James Ware. Mac Fhirbhisigh was stabbed to death by Thomas Crofton in a shebeen at Doonflin, Co. Sligo, in January 1671., Leabhar_na_nGenealach 2009-10-08T15:49:41Z Leabhar na nGenealach is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas's church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. He continued to add material till at least 1666 (he was murdered in 1671). It was published in a five volume edition in Dublin in 2004 as The Great Book of Irish Genealogies. Described by Eoin MacNeill "by far the largest and fullest body of Irish genealogical lore", it contains roughly twice as much material as found in the Book of Ballymote and the Book of Lecan. It preserves notes on families from all parts of Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, the pre-Gaelic, Viking and Old English peoples of Ireland. It features an eighteen page preface, nine 'books' or divisions and a seventy-four page Clar or general index in double columns. It consists of eight hundred and seventy one pages, 95% of which is in Mac Fhirbhisigh's handwriting. The remainder is in the hand of an unknown amanuensis, and incorporates some pages written in 1636 by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. Many questions concern Leabhar na nGenealach. In the words of Nollaig Ó Muraíle: " . . . who or what prompted Mac Fhirbhisigh to undertake the compilation of Leabhar na nGenealach? . . . how much planning and organisation (such as the collection of source material) preceded the writing of the book . . ? Did he, at any time during the compilation . . . entertain hopes of seeing it printed . . . ? Unfortunately, we have very little in which to base even the most tentative of answers to these questions. We simply do not know . . . "Nor is it known how he supported himself in Galway, though he did commissions for the Poor Clares and John Lynch while there. O Muraile suggests that it was a work compiled in his spare time, in between possible tutorial work for the children of local families (see The Tribes of Galway). Unlike the Four Masters, he appears to have had neither patron nor sponsorship of any sort. As to the question of why he wrote Leabhar na nGenealach, Mac Fhirbhisigh himself stated it was his intention to ". . . do mhórughadh glóire Dé agus do ghéunamh iúil do chách i ccoithchinne/to increase the glory of God and to give knowledge to everyone generally". Thus it appears to have been a labour of love, and as a strong defence of traditional Gaelic learning, though not uncritically so. That it seems to be a book written for all the peoples of Ireland is indicated by the following: "Na slioinnte, iomorra, da suarraighe atáid, ní fuigfeam dar ndeóin éanghloinneadh aca gan a aireamh ó a cheap fén/of the surnames, moreover, however undistinguished they may be, we do not willing leave a single one of them without reckoning it from its own stock". This preface states it was . . . compiled by Dubhaltach Mac Fhiribhisigh of Lecán, 1650. The díonbhrollach describes the contents of the book, including: It is customary for great lords that, when their families and kindreds multiply, their clients and their followers are oppressed, injured and wasted. Begins with the following introduction: "Senchus genealach gabháltas uasal Éreann agus Albansgot go ccraobhsgaoileadh a ccineadhach ó créudthós na n-aimsior n-aicsidhe gus aniú (mar ghebh mid/The history of the genealogies of the invasions of the nobles of Ireland and of the Scots of Alba with the genealogical branchings of their races from the beginning of visible times until today, as we find, according to the order". Mac Fhirbhisigh draws upon a recension of Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh for a summary which deals with the legendary invaders of Ireland from the time of Partholón to Míl Espáine. Following this, Mac Fhirbhisigh begins the book proper, with the genealogies of Síol Éreamhóin (Érimón). This is the first division or 'book' of Leabhar na nGenealach. Titled "Craobhsgaoileadh Cloinne Partholón" (the ramifications of the family of Partholón) it describes the ancestry and descendants of Partholón, who was the leader of the second group of people to settle in Ireland. It covers pages 27 to 30 in the autograph of the work. The following divisions cover all the invaders of Ireland up to the Milesians. Book five comprises some three hundred and fifty pages of the autograph, representing just under half of the total text. It concerns the following groups and dynasties, and their many sub-divisions: Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill (Northern Uí Néill); Clann Cholmáin and Síl nÁedo Sláine (Southern Uí Néill); Uí Briúin and Uí Fiachrach (Connachta); Airgíalla (including the Uí Maine, the Déisi and the Dál Riata); the Laigin. While much of Book Five's information is derived from the Book of Lecan or the Book of Ballymote, Mac Fhirbhisigh added material not found in either of these sources; indeed, much of it is entirely unique to Leabhar na nGenealach. In a small number of cases - Ó Néill and Mac Suibhne - this is due to Mac Fhirbhisigh updating pedigrees to his own lifetime. In the U F tract this applies to the later generations of the Clan MacFhirbhisigh, their pedigree appearing in no later manuscript. The Leabhar Oirghiallach is in many instances very obviously drawn from versions of the Books of Lecan and Ballymote, yet once again there is unique material concerning Clann Mca Domhnaill, a Gallóglaigh family. They derive from a leabhar teagloim, and a Leabhar Balbh Shémus Mec Fhirbhisigh, neither of which now survives. The latter, The Dumb Book of Séamus Mac Fhirbhisigh was written by Mac Fhirbhisigh's great-grandfather, Séamus mac Diarmada Chaoich. Other sources for the remaining subjects include: Senchus fer n-Alban; the Book of Uí Maine, from sections now missing; Amhra Colm Cille; Opus chronologicum by Ubbo Emmius; versions of De Shíl Chonairi Móir, De Maccaib Conaire, the Duan Albanach; the poem 'Saor do leannán, a Leamhain' by Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh (fl. 'c'. 1200). Leabhar Laighin is in part derived from the books of Lecan and Ballymote, and the Book of Glendalough (aka Book of Leinster). However, once again, entirely unique material found in no other surviving manuscript is preserved here by Mac Fhirbhisigh. The only source explicitly named - though he refers vaugely to other books - is once called Leabhar Buidhe Lecan Mec Fhirbhisigh, now lost. This book outlines the history and genealogical ramifications of the descendants of Íor son of Míl Espáine, known as the Síol Ír. The material was derived from Leabhar Uí Dubhagáin (aka the Book of Uí Maine). This section is followed by a shorter one treating of the Dál nAraidi and the descendants of Fergus mac Róich. It ends with a version of 'Clann Ollamhan Uaisle Eamhna', similart to, though not exactly, the one found in the Book of Uí Maine Mac Fhirbhisigh added "a great amount of additional material . . . both in the margins and interlineally . . . those inserted between the lines are variant readings, some of them of considerable interest, deriving as they do from quite a different recension of the work; . . . represented by just one manuscript older than LGen, namely RIA B iv2. " Book seven deals with the descendants of Ebhar mac Milidh, written or begun in 1649, comprising pages 599 to 689 (eight-five pages are blank). As Mac Fhirbhisigh intended to merely summarise material, he did not reproduce the original texts, which were extracts from Saltair Chaisil, written in Latin. Pages 640. 5 to 645. 5 feature the descendants of Brian Bóruma, such as the O'Brien's, including the Anglo-Irish Plunkett family. This was a fabrication, based on the Plunkett's status in the late 16th century, claiming them as descended from King Donnchad mac Briain, who died in Rome in 1064. As did Geoffrey Keating, Mac Fhirbhisgh reserves doubts on this, though pointing out that it should not be discounted merely because of Donnchad's age, as "there is no period in a man's life in which he may not beget. " The families of Eustace, Bennett and Power, along with others, are given the same ancestor. Further sections concern the descendants of Cian mac Ailill Aulom, which were at least partly assembled in the early 8th century. The final section is at least in part derived from the Book of Ui Maine. Titled Naoimhsheanchas, this book concerns the genealogies of the Irish saints. "This now extends from p. 692 to p. 753, but it contains various layers of material inserted at different times and from quite a variety of sources. They include the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ui Maine, Leabhar Breac, and Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh's recension of Naoimhsheanchas Naomh Inse Fáil. Mac Fhirbhisigh thought well enough of Ó Cléirigh's additions to incorporate them into LGen. While most of the text was written at that period , it is clear from variations in the ink and handwriting that Dubhaltach made numerous later additions to the work. The most notable of these appear to date from 1653, and other insertions may have been made in 1657 and 1664. " The Naoimhsheanchas is set out in much the same manner as Leabhar na nGenealach itself; ". . . the layout of the saints genealogies (on pp. 697-739) exactly parallels the sequence of the secular genealogies of the Gaoidhil (or Gaelic people) in LGen. " Rém Ríogharaidhe Éreann, a catalogue of the Kings of Ireland to 1198, concludes the book. Mac Fhirbhisigh's main source is very likely to be RIA MS C iii3 or volume c of the autograph section of the Annals of the Four Masters - which he refers to as Leabhar Airison Fhearghaill Uí Ghadhra, Fearghal Ó Gadhra being a patron of the annals - covering the years AM 2242 to AD 1171. Mac Fhirbhisigh notes that the text was completed ". . . i cColáisde na Gaillmhe dhia Céadaoin vii. Augusti. anno MDCXLIX/in the college of Galway, 8 August 1649. " Given that Galway was within days of plague, famine and siege, O Muraile expressed the wish "for the merest hint by Mac Fhirbhisigh of what conditions were like in the stricken city while he was penning his list of Irish kings!" Covering pages 768 to 852, it consists of eleven distinct sections, almost all on the post-Gaelic invaders (Vikings, Normans, Welsh, etc . . ). Pages 853-932 comprise the Clár, or index of the secular genealogies, whilc pages 926-932, Clár Naomh nÉireann, is an index concerning Irish saints. It finishes with a dedication and note by Mac Fhirbhisigh: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, DF do theagair agus rus graif for Iuil, 1653/To the greater glory of God. D F arranged and wrote it during July (?) 1653. This is followed by three poems from pages 935 to 957: 'Triallam timcheall na Fodla'; Tuilleadh feasa ar Eirinn oig'; 'Foras focal luaightheal libh' for the full article, see Cuimre na nGenealach The Cuimre is an adbridgement of Leabhar na nGenealach. The original is now lost, but it survives in two apparently incomplete 18th century transcripts; RIA MS 24 N2, and Maynooth Irish MS B 8. While containing about 30% of the material of Leabhar na nGenealach, it also contains much new, and some unique material. Mac Fhirbhisigh began it on Monday April 1, 1666, at his home at Castletown, Co. Sligo. By Saturday May 5, he had completed some 45% of the surviving material, and would appear to have finished prior to returning to Dublin and work for Sir James Ware. Mac Fhirbhisigh was stabbed to death by Thomas Crofton in a shebeen at Doonflin, Co. Sligo, in January 1671. Leabhar na nGenealach was edited and published in 2004 as the The Great Book of Irish Genealogies. The editor, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, had been studying the book since 1971. It was published in five volumes by De Burca Books in 2004 in Dublin. | 0 |
Noomi Rapace | Noomi Rapace 2011-01-02T04:26:16Z Noomi Rapace (born Norén; 28 December 1979 in Hudiksvall) is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in film adaptions of the "Millennium Trilogy": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest and also for playing the role of Sim in the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes 2. Rapace's parents were Nina Norén, a Swedish actress, and Rogelio Durán, a Spanish cantaor (Flamenco singer) from Badajoz of Gypsy descent. Rapace has said that she saw her father only occasionally before his death in 2007. At the age of five, she moved from Sweden to Flúðir, Iceland with her mother and stepfather. At the age of seven, Rapace was given a non-speaking part in the film Í skugga hrafnsins by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. This experience made her decide to be an actress. She left home at age 15 and enrolled in a Stockholm theater school. In 1996, she made her TV debut playing the part of Lucinda Gonzales in the TV series Tre kronor. From 1998 to 1999, Rapace studied at Skara Skolscen. She has been engaged at Theater Plaza 2000–2001, Orionteatern 2001, Teater Galeasen 2002, Stockholms stadsteater in 2003 as well as at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. She drew acclaim for her award-winning portrayal of a troubled teen mother in the 2007 Danish film Daisy Diamond. In 2009 she played the role of Lisbeth Salander in the filmadaption of the bestselling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She reprised her role in the sequels The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. On 11 September 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that Rapace has been cast in Sherlock Holmes 2, her first English-speaking role, possibly as a French gypsy. Rapace married Swedish actor Ola Rapace in 2001. The couple have a son, Lev (b. 2003). In September 2010, the couple reportedly filed for divorce. Rapace's sister, Særún Norén, is a photographer. , Noomi Rapace 2012-12-29T21:56:19Z Noomi Rapace (/ˈnoʊmi rəˈpɑːs/ NOH-mee rə-PAHSS; née Norén; born December 28, 1979) is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. She is also known for playing Madame Simza in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and the lead role of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in the Ridley Scott science fiction film Prometheus. Rapace was born in Hudiksvall, Sweden. Her mother, Nina Norén (born Kristina Norén; 1954) is a Swedish actress, and her father, Rogelio Durán (1953–2006), was a Spanish Flamenco singer from Badajoz. She has said that her father may have been of part Roma descent, and though she is "not sure if it is true," she has "always been interested in the culture." Rapace's sister, Særún Norén, is a photographer. Rapace has said she saw her father only occasionally before his death. At the age of five, she moved from her native Sweden to Flúðir, Iceland with her mother and stepfather. Two years later, she made her film debut in a minor role in In the Shadow of the Raven. At the age of seven, Rapace was given her first film role, which was a non-speaking part in the film Í skugga hrafnsins by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. This experience made her decide to be an actress. She left home at age 15 and enrolled in a Stockholm theatre school. In 1996, she made her television début playing the part of Lucinda Gonzales in the series Tre kronor. From 1998 to 1999, Rapace studied at Skara Skolscen. She has been engaged at Theater Plaza 2000–01, Orionteatern 2001, Teater Galeasen 2002, Stockholms stadsteater in 2003 as well as at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 2007, she won acclaim for her award-winning portrayal of a troubled teen mother in the Danish film Daisy Diamond, directed by Simon Staho. She won the two top film awards in Denmark (the Bodil and Robert prize) for Best Actress for her role in the film, which was also selected for the main competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film was criticized for the abuse a baby actor was subjected to during production. In 2009 she played the role of Lisbeth Salander in the television adaptation of the best-selling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, reprising this role in the sequels The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (all three were originally screened as two-part telemovies, then re-edited for theatrical release). On September 11, 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that Rapace had been cast in Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, her first English-speaking role, as a French Gypsy; the film was released in 2011. Her breakthrough in America is considered to be Ridley Scott's project called Prometheus. She played the leading role, a scientist named Elizabeth Shaw. The film was released June 2012. She will star alongside Rachel McAdams in Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Passion, which is the English-language remake of 2010's French psychological thriller Love Crime. They both appeared together in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows but did not share scenes together. As of June 2012, she is shooting Niels Arden Oplev's crime thriller Dead Man Down. In November 2012 she appeared topless as a lead role in a Rolling Stones video for the single Doom and Gloom. Rapace married Swedish actor Ola Rapace in 2001. The couple have a son. In September 2010, the couple filed for divorce, taking effect during 2011. | 1 |
Portage, Indiana | Portage, Indiana 2008-01-01T20:28:42Z Portage ( is a city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 36,300 as of the 2006 Population Estimates issued by the United States Census Bureau. It is the largest city in Porter County, Indiana, and third largest in Northwest Indiana. Portage is located at 41°34′55″N 87°11′12″W / 41.58194°N 87.18667°W / 41.58194; -87.18667Invalid arguments have been passed to the {{#coordinates:}} function (41.581850, -87.186553) According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.4 square miles (71.0 km²), of which, 25.5 square miles (65.9 km²) of it is land and 2.0 square miles (5.1 km²) of it (7.18%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 33,496 people, 12,746 households, and 9,011 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,315.8 people per square mile (508.0/km²). There were 13,375 housing units at an average density of 525.4/sq mi (202.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.52% White, 1.45% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 3.20% from other races, and 1.86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.94% of the population. There were 12,746 households out of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.7% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 23.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.09. In the city the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $47,500, and the median income for a family was $54,316. Males had a median income of $46,224 versus $25,428 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,146. About 5.8% of families and 7.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.6% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over. The commercial airport nearest Portage is the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary. Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport are also in close proximity and provide the bulk of flights servicing Portage. Portage is also connected to Chicago, Illinois and South Bend, Indiana by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, operated by NICTD. Portage is intersected by several major highways, including Interstate 94 and Interstates 80/90 (Indiana Toll Road) as well as U.S. Route 6, U.S. Route 12, U.S. Route 20, and Indiana 149 and Indiana 249. Also located on the shores of Lake Michigan is the Port of Indiana. Portage is home to Portage Township Schools. http://www.portage.k12.in.us/ Higher Education: Purdue University North Central (classes offered at Portage High School) Indiana University Northwest Ivy Tech (classes offered at Willowcreek Middle School. Full-service campus to be built in 2008) High School: Portage High School http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/phsweb/index.htm Middle Schools: Willowcreek Middle School http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/wcweb/index.htm Fegely Middle School http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/feweb/index.htm Elementary Schools: Jones http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/joweb/index.htm Kyle http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/kyweb/index.htm Aylesworth http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/ayweb/index.htm Central http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/ceweb/index.htm Myers http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/myweb/index.htm Crisman http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/crweb/index.htm Saylor http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/saweb/index.htm South Haven http://www.portage.k12.in.us/Schools/shweb/index.htm The Corporation is reviewing the results of a population growth study to determine future facility needs. Current options include: 1) Constructing a ninth elementary school; 2) Constructing a third middle school; or 3) Constructing an intermediate (5th-6th grade) school. For the 2007-2008 school year the Portage Township Schools student enrollment was 8,541. Portage Parks offer a wide variety of service, from sports leagues, to crafts, to hiking and water sports. http://www.ci.portage.in.us/parks/ The Portage Public Marina offers boat launch and slips for public use. The marina opens to the Burns Waterway and has access to nearby Lake Michigan. The marina's operating season is April 1 to October 31 each year. http://www.ci.portage.in.us/marina/ Portage is also home of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Indiana Dunes), a beautiful showcase of land and lake on the south shore of Lake Michigan. West Beach, the largest beach in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore system, is located within Portage. The Mayor of Portage is Douglas W. Olson until December 31, 2007. On December 7, 2006 he announced he was not seeking re-election as mayor. Mayor Olson has endorsed City Councilwoman Olga Velazquez (http://www.olga4mayor.com/) for the Democratic ticket and the Republicans slated James Snyder (http://www.snyder4portage.com/) as their candidate. This came after the April 25, 2007 death of City Councilman David Highlands who was the only Republican to file for the May primary. He died just before the primary election and was not replaced on the ballot. This allowed the Republicans to slate Synder as a replacement candidate on June 30, 2007. On November 6, 2007 Democrat Olga Velazquez was elected Mayor of Portage. She defeated Republican Jim Synder 52.2% to 47.8% (3,585 to 3,283 votes). Velazquez will take office on January 1, 2008 for a four year term. Keith Kizer (P.H.S. 1984), Executive Director of the Nevada Athletic Commission (http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scotto042006.asp), and former Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Nevada, grew up in Portage (http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/06/05/news/news01.txt). , Portage, Indiana 2009-12-30T03:03:14Z Portage ( is a city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 36,505 as of the 2007 Population Estimates issued by the United States Census Bureau. It is the largest city in Porter County, Indiana, and third largest in Northwest Indiana. Portage is located at 41°34′55″N 87°11′12″W / 41.581850°N 87.186553°W / 41.581850; -87.186553 (41.581850, -87.186553). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.4 square miles (71.0 km2), of which, 25.5 square miles (65.9 km2) of it is land and 2.0 square miles (5.1 km2) of it (7.18%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 33,496 people, 12,746 households, and 9,011 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,315.8 people per square mile (508.0/km2). There were 13,375 housing units at an average density of 525.4/sq mi (202.8/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 92.52% White, 1.45% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 3.20% from other races, and 1.86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.94% of the population. There were 12,746 households out of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.7% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 23.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.09. In the city the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $47,500, and the median income for a family was $54,316. Males had a median income of $46,224 versus $25,428 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,146. About 5.8% of families and 7.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.6% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over. The commercial airport nearest Portage is the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary. Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport are also in close proximity and provide the bulk of flights servicing Portage. Portage is also connected to Chicago, Illinois and South Bend, Indiana by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, operated by NICTD. Portage is intersected by several major highways, including Interstate 94 and Interstates 80/90 (Indiana Toll Road) as well as U.S. Route 6, U.S. Route 12, U.S. Route 20, and Indiana 149 and Indiana 249. Also located on the shores of Lake Michigan is the Port of Indiana. Portage Parks offer a wide variety of service, from sports leagues, to crafts, to hiking and water sports. The Portage Public Marina offers boat launch and slips for public use. The marina opens to the Burns Waterway and has access to nearby Lake Michigan. The marina's operating season is April 1 to October 31 each year. Portage is also home of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Indiana Dunes), a beautiful showcase of land and lake on the south shore of Lake Michigan. West Beach, the largest beach in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore system, is located within Portage. Robbins Pond is located on Superior St. as well as Superior Avenue and Samuelson Road in Portage. The lake contains largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, other panfish, and bullhead catfish,making it a popular fishing site. The lake is home to many turtles including snapping turtles . It also has a small drainage pond, which has most of the above mentioned wildlife. The drainage pond links to Kevins Creek, which then runs to Salt Creek and out to Lake Michigan. The Mayor of Portage was Douglas W. Olson until December 31, 2007. On December 7, 2006 he announced he would not be seeking re-election as mayor. Mayor Olson has endorsed City Councilwoman Olga Velázquez (http://www.olga4mayor.com/) for the Democratic ticket and the Republicans slated James Snyder (http://www.snyder4portage.com/) as their candidate. This came after the April 25, 2007 death of City Councilman David Highlands who was the only Republican to file for the May primary. He died just before the primary election and was not replaced on the ballot. This allowed the Republicans to slate Snyder as a replacement candidate on June 30, 2007. On November 6, 2007 Democrat Olga Velázquez was elected Mayor of Portage. She defeated Republican Jim Snyder 52.2% to 47.8% (3,585 to 3,283 votes). Velázquez took office on January 1, 2008 for a four year term. Keith Kizer (P.H.S. 1984), Executive Director of the Nevada Athletic Commission , and former Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Nevada, grew up in Portage. | 1 |
Imagine Entertainment | Imagine Entertainment 2013-01-02T18:36:58Z Imagine Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1986 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. Karen Kehela Sherwood is co-chair with Grazer and Howard. Kim Roth is the president of production. Michael Rosenberg is the president of entertainment. Francie Calfo is the president of Grazer and Howard's television venture, Imagine Television. The feature-film division has participated in over sixty productions and is associated with Universal Pictures, which has distributed many of Imagine's productions, some with other studios. 1989 |} 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 | class="col-break " | 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |} 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 | class="col-break " | 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |} 2010 2011 2012 2013 Its television division, Imagine Television has participated in over seventeen productions. The company partnered with DreamWorks SKG and Vulcan Ventures to buy movie website CountingDown.com in June 2000., Imagine Entertainment 2014-12-15T19:57:15Z Imagine Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1986 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. The feature-film division has participated in over sixty productions and is associated with Universal Pictures, which has distributed many of Imagine's productions, some with other studios. 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Its television division, Imagine Television has participated in at least twenty productions. The company partnered with DreamWorks SKG and Vulcan Ventures to buy movie website CountingDown.com in June 2000. | 1 |
World Bank | World Bank 2018-01-10T18:40:07Z The World Bank (French: Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group. The World Bank's stated official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of capital investment. The World Bank is different from the World Bank Group, an extended family of five international organizations: The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The president of the World Bank is, traditionally, an American. The World Bank and the IMF are both based in Washington, D.C., and work closely with each other. Although many countries were represented at the Bretton Woods Conference, the United States and United Kingdom were the most powerful in attendance and dominated the negotiations. : 52–54 Before 1974, the reconstruction and development loans provided by the World Bank were relatively small. The Bank's staff were aware of the need to instill confidence in the bank. Fiscal conservatism ruled, and loan applications had to meet strict criteria. : 56–60 The first country to receive a World Bank loan was France. The Bank's president at the time, John McCloy, chose France over two other applicants, Poland and Chile. The loan was for US$250 million, half the amount requested, and it came with strict conditions. France had to agree to produce a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments. World Bank staff closely monitored the use of the funds to ensure that the French government met the conditions. In addition, before the loan was approved, the United States State Department told the French government that its members associated with the Communist Party would first have to be removed. The French government complied and removed the Communist coalition government - the so-called tripartite. Within hours, the loan to France was approved. : 288, 290–291 When the Marshall Plan went into effect in 1947, many European countries began receiving aid from other sources. Faced with this competition, the World Bank shifted its focus to non-European countries. Until 1968, its loans were earmarked for the construction of infrastructure works, such as seaports, highway systems, and power plants, that would generate enough income to enable a borrower country to repay the loan. In 1960, the International Development Association was formed (as opposed to a UN fund named SUNFED), providing soft loans to developing countries. From 1974 to 1980 the bank concentrated on meeting the basic needs of people in the developing world. The size and number of loans to borrowers was greatly increased as loan targets expanded from infrastructure into social services and other sectors. These changes can be attributed to Robert McNamara, who was appointed to the presidency in 1968 by Lyndon B. Johnson. : 60–63 McNamara implored bank treasurer Eugene Rotberg to seek out new sources of capital outside of the northern banks that had been the primary sources of funding. Rotberg used the global bond market to increase the capital available to the bank. One consequence of the period of poverty alleviation lending was the rapid rise of third world debt. From 1976 to 1980 developing world debt rose at an average annual rate of 20%. In 1980 the World Bank Administrative Tribunal was established to decide on disputes between the World Bank Group and its staff where allegation of non-observance of contracts of employment or terms of appointment had not been honored. In 1980 McNamara was succeeded by US President Jimmy Carter's nominee, Alden W. Clausen. Clausen replaced many members of McNamara's staff and crafted a different mission emphasis. His 1982 decision to replace the bank's Chief Economist, Hollis B. Chenery, with Anne Krueger was an example of this new focus. Krueger was known for her criticism of development funding and for describing Third World governments as "rent-seeking states." During the 1980s the bank emphasized lending to service Third-World debt, and structural adjustment policies designed to streamline the economies of developing nations. UNICEF reported in the late 1980s that the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank had been responsible for "reduced health, nutritional and educational levels for tens of millions of children in Asia, Latin America, and Africa". Beginning in 1989, in response to harsh criticism from many groups, the bank began including environmental groups and NGOs in its loans to mitigate the past effects of its development policies that had prompted the criticism. : 93–97 It also formed an implementing agency, in accordance with the Montreal Protocols, to stop ozone-depletion damage to the Earth's atmosphere by phasing out the use of 95% of ozone-depleting chemicals, with a target date of 2015. Since then, in accordance with its so-called "Six Strategic Themes", the bank has put various additional policies into effect to preserve the environment while promoting development. For example, in 1991 the bank announced that to protect against deforestation, especially in the Amazon, it would not finance any commercial logging or infrastructure projects that harm the environment. In order to promote global public goods, the World Bank tries to control communicable disease such as malaria, delivering vaccines to several parts of the world and joining combat forces. In 2000 the bank announced a "war on AIDS" and in 2011 the Bank joined the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership. Traditionally, based on a tacit understanding between the United States and Europe, the president of the World Bank has always been selected from candidates nominated by the United States. In 2012, for the first time, two non-US citizens were nominated. On 23 March 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would nominate Jim Yong Kim as the next president of the Bank. Jim Yong Kim was elected on 27 April 2012. Various developments had brought the Millennium Development Goals targets for 2015 within reach in some cases. For the goals to be realized, six criteria must be met: stronger and more inclusive growth in Africa and fragile states, more effort in health and education, integration of the development and environment agendas, more as well as better aid, movement on trade negotiations, and stronger and more focused support from multilateral institutions like the World Bank. To make sure that World Bank-financed operations do not compromise these goals but instead add to their realisation, environmental, social and legal safeguards were defined. However, these safeguards have not been implemented entirely yet. At the World Bank's annual meeting in Tokyo 2012 a review of these safeguards has been initiated, which was welcomed by several civil society organisations. The President of the Bank is the president of the entire World Bank Group. The president, currently Jim Yong Kim, is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Boards of Directors and for overall management of the Bank. Traditionally, the President of the Bank has always been a US citizen nominated by the United States, the largest shareholder in the bank (the managing director of the International Monetary Fund having always been a European). The nominee is subject to confirmation by the Board of Executive Directors, to serve for a five-year, renewable term. While most World Bank presidents have had banking experience, some have not. The vice presidents of the Bank are its principal managers, in charge of regions, sectors, networks and functions. There are two Executive Vice presidents, three Senior Vice presidents, and 24 Vice presidents. The Boards of Directors consist of the World Bank Group President and 25 Executive Directors. The President is the presiding officer, and ordinarily has no vote except a deciding vote in case of an equal division. The Executive Directors as individuals cannot exercise any power nor commit or represent the Bank unless specifically authorized by the Boards to do so. With the term beginning 1 November 2010, the number of Executive Directors increased by one, to 25. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has 189 member countries, while the International Development Association (IDA) has 173 members. Each member state of IBRD should be also a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and only members of IBRD are allowed to join other institutions within the Bank (such as IDA). In 2010 voting powers at the World Bank were revised to increase the voice of developing countries, notably China. The countries with most voting power are now the United States (15.85%), Japan (6.84%), China (4.42%), Germany (4.00%), the United Kingdom (3.75%), France (3.75%), India (2.91%), Russia (2.77%), Saudi Arabia (2.77%) and Italy (2.64%). Under the changes, known as 'Voice Reform – Phase 2', countries other than China that saw significant gains included South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Singapore, Greece, Brazil, India, and Spain. Most developed countries' voting power was reduced, along with a few developing countries such as Nigeria. The voting powers of the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia were unchanged. The changes were brought about with the goal of making voting more universal in regards to standards, rule-based with objective indicators, and transparent among other things. Now, developing countries have an increased voice in the "Pool Model", backed especially by Europe. Additionally, voting power is based on economic size in addition to International Development Association contributions. The following table shows the subscriptions of the top 20 member countries of the World Bank by voting power in the following World Bank institutions as of December 2014 or March 2015: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Member countries are allocated votes at the time of membership and subsequently for additional subscriptions to capital (one vote for each share of capital stock held by the member). For the poorest developing countries in the world, the bank's assistance plans are based on poverty reduction strategies; by combining a cross-section of local groups with an extensive analysis of the country's financial and economic situation the World Bank develops a strategy pertaining uniquely to the country in question. The government then identifies the country's priorities and targets for the reduction of poverty, and the World Bank aligns its aid efforts correspondingly. Forty-five countries pledged US$25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries", aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA), which distributes the loans to eighty poorer countries. While wealthier nations sometimes fund their own aid projects, including those for diseases, and although IDA is the recipient of criticism, Robert B. Zoellick, the former president of the World Bank, said when the loans were announced on 15 December 2007, that IDA money "is the core funding that the poorest developing countries rely on". World Bank organizes Development Marketplace Awards, a competitive grant program that surfaces and funds innovative, development projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable and/or replicable. The grant beneficiaries are social enterprises with projects that aim to deliver a range of social and public services to the most underserved low-income groups. The World Bank has been assigned temporary management responsibility of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), focused on making renewable energy cost-competitive with coal-fired power as quickly as possible, but this may not continue after UN's Copenhagen climate change conference in December 2009, because of the Bank's continued investment in coal-fired power plants. Together with the World Health Organization, the World Bank administers the International Health Partnership (IHP+). IHP+ is a group of partners committed to improving the health of citizens in developing countries. Partners work together to put international principles for aid effectiveness and development cooperation into practice in the health sector. IHP+ mobilizes national governments, development agencies, civil society and others to support a single, country-led national health strategy in a well-coordinated way. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in 2012 that: The World Bank doubled its aid for climate change adaptation from $2.3bn (£1.47bn) in 2011 to $4.6bn in 2012. The planet is now 0.8 °C warmer than in pre-industrial times. It says that 2 °C warming will be reached in 20 to 30 years. The World Bank Institute (WBI) creates learning opportunities for countries, World Bank staff and clients, and people committed to poverty reduction and sustainable development. WBI's work program includes training, policy consultations, and the creation and support of knowledge networks related to international economic and social development. The World Bank Institute (WBI) can be defined as a "global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction". It aims to inspire change agents and prepare them with essential tools that can help achieve development results. WBI has four major strategies to approach development problems: innovation for development, knowledge exchange, leadership and coalition building, and structured learning. World Bank Institute(WBI) was formerly known as Economic Development Institute (EDI), established on 11 March 1955 with the support of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. The purpose of the institute was to serve as provide an open place where senior officials from developing countries could discuss development policies and programs. Over the years, EDI grew significantly and in 2000, the Institute was renamed as the World Bank Institute. Currently Sanjay Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute. The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is a partnership of over 120 learning centers (GDLN Affiliates) in nearly 80 countries around the world. GDLN Affiliates collaborate in holding events that connect people across countries and regions for learning and dialogue on development issues. GDLN clients are typically NGOs, government, private sector and development agencies who find that they work better together on subregional, regional or global development issues using the facilities and tools offered by GDLN Affiliates. Clients also benefit from the ability of Affiliates to help them choose and apply these tools effectively, and to tap development practitioners and experts worldwide. GDLN Affiliates facilitate around 1000 videoconference-based activities a year on behalf of their clients, reaching some 90,000 people worldwide. Most of these activities bring together participants in two or more countries over a series of sessions. A majority of GDLN activities are organized by small government agencies and NGOs. The GDLN in the East Asia and Pacific region has experienced rapid growth and Distance Learning Centers now operate, or are planned in 20 countries: Australia, Mongolia, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Thailand, Laos, Timor Leste, Fiji, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and New Zealand. With over 180 Distance Learning Centers, it is the largest development learning network in the Asia and Pacific region. The Secretariat Office of GDLN Asia Pacific is located in the Center of Academic Resources of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. GDLN Asia Pacific was launched at the GDLN's East Asia and Pacific regional meeting held in Bangkok from 22 to 24 May 2006. Its vision is to become "the premier network exchanging ideas, experience and know-how across the Asia Pacific Region". GDLN Asia Pacific is a separate entity to The World Bank. It has endorsed its own Charter and Business Plan and, in accordance with the Charter, a GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee has been appointed. The committee comprises China (2), Australia (1), Thailand (1), The World Bank (1) and finally, a nominee of the Government of Japan (1). The organization is currently hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, founding member of the GDLN Asia Pacific. The Governing Committee has determined that the most appropriate legal status for the GDLN AP in Thailand is a "Foundation". The World Bank is currently engaging a solicitor in Thailand to process all documentation in order to obtain this legal status. GDLN Asia Pacific is built on the principle of shared resources among partners engaged in a common task, and this is visible in the organizational structures that exist, as the network evolves. Physical space for its headquarters is provided by the host of the GDLN Centre in Thailand – Chulalongkorn University; Technical expertise and some infrastructure is provided by the Tokyo Development Learning Centre (TDLC); Fiduciary services are provided by Australian National University (ANU) Until the GDLN Asia Pacific is established as a legal entity tin Thailand, ANU, has offered to assist the governing committee, by providing a means of managing the inflow and outflow of funds and of reporting on them. This admittedly results in some complexity in contracting arrangements, which need to be worked out on a case by case basis and depends to some extent on the legal requirements of the countries involved. A Justice Sector Peer-Assisted Learning (JUSTPAL) Network was launched in April 2011 by the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Department of the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. The JUSTPAL objective is to provide an online and offline platform for justice professionals to exchange knowledge, good practices and peer-driven improvements to justice systems and thereby support countries to improve their justice sector performance, quality of justice and service delivery to citizens and businesses. The JUSTPAL Network includes representatives of judiciaries, ministries of justice, prosecutors, anti-corruption agencies and other justice-related entities from across the globe. The Network currently has active members from more than 50 countries. To facilitate fruitful exchange of reform experiences and sharing of applicable good practices, the JUSTPAL Network has organized its activities under (currently) five Communities of Practice (COPs): (i) Budgeting for the Justice Sector; (ii) Information Systems for Justice Services; (iii) Justice Sector Physical Infrastructure; (iv) Court Management and Administration; and (v) Prosecution and Anti-Corruption Agencies. As a guideline to the World Bank's operations in any particular country, a Country Assistance Strategy is produced, in cooperation with the local government and any interested stakeholders and may rely on analytical work performed by the Bank or other parties. Clean Air Initiative (CAI) is a World Bank initiative to advance innovative ways to improve air quality in cities through partnerships in selected regions of the world by sharing knowledge and experiences. It includes electric vehicles. Initiatives like this help address and tackle pollution-related diseases. Based on an agreement between the United Nations and the World Bank in 1981, Development Business became the official source for World Bank Procurement Notices, Contract Awards, and Project Approvals. In 1998, the agreement was re-negotiated, and included in this agreement was a joint venture to create an electronic version of the publication via the World Wide Web. Today, Development Business is the primary publication for all major multilateral development banks, United Nations agencies, and several national governments, many of whom have made the publication of their tenders and contracts in Development Business a mandatory requirement. The World Bank or the World Bank Group is also a sitting observer in the United Nations Development Group. The World Bank collects and processes large amounts of data and generates them on the basis of economic models. These data and models have gradually been made available to the public in a way that encourages reuse, whereas the recent publications describing them are available as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License, for which the bank received the SPARC Innovator 2012 award. The following table lists the top 15 DAC 5 Digit Sectors to which the World Bank has committed funding, as recorded by it in its International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) publications. The World Bank states on the IATI Registry website that the amounts "will cover 100% of IBRD and IDA development flows" but will not cover other development flows. The World Bank hosts the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) as an official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The World Bank's repository is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org. The World Bank has long been criticized by non-governmental organizations, such as the indigenous rights group Survival International, and academics, including its former Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises. Henry Hazlitt argued that the World Bank along with the monetary system it was designed within would promote world inflation and "a world in which international trade is State-dominated" when they were being advocated. Stiglitz argued that the so-called free market reform policies that the Bank advocates are often harmful to economic development if implemented badly, too quickly ("shock therapy"), in the wrong sequence or in weak, uncompetitive economies. Similarly, Carmine Guerriero notices that these reforms have introduced in developing countries regulatory institutions typical of the common law legal tradition because allegedly more efficient according to the legal origins theory. The latter however has been fiercely criticized since it does not take into account that the legal institutions transplanted during the European colonization have been then reformed. This issue makes the legal origins theory's inference unreliable and the World Bank reforms detrimental. One of the strongest criticisms of the World Bank has been the way in which it is governed. While the World Bank represents 188 countries, it is run by a small number of economically powerful countries. These countries (which also provide most of the institution's funding) choose the leadership and senior management of the World Bank, and their interests dominate the bank. : 190 Titus Alexander argues that the unequal voting power of western countries and the World Bank's role in developing countries makes it similar to the South African Development Bank under apartheid, and therefore a pillar of global apartheid. : 133–141 In the 1990s, the World Bank and the IMF forged the Washington Consensus, policies that included deregulation and liberalization of markets, privatization and the downscaling of government. Though the Washington Consensus was conceived as a policy that would best promote development, it was criticized for ignoring equity, employment and how reforms like privatization were carried out. Joseph Stiglitz argued that the Washington Consensus placed too much emphasis on the growth of GDP, and not enough on the permanence of growth or on whether growth contributed to better living standards. : 17 The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report criticized the World Bank and other international financial institutions for focusing too much "on issuing loans rather than on achieving concrete development results within a finite period of time" and called on the institution to "strengthen anti-corruption efforts". James Ferguson has argued that the main effect of many development projects carried out by the World Bank and similar organizations is not the alleviation of poverty. Instead the projects often serve to expand the exercise of bureaucratic state power. Through his case-studies of development projects in Thaba-Tseka he shows that the World Bank's characterization of the economic conditions in Lesotho was flawed, and the Bank ignored the political and cultural character of the state in crafting their projects. As a result, the projects failed to help the poor, but succeeded in expanding the government bureaucracy. Criticism of the World Bank and other organizations often takes the form of protesting as seen in recent events such as the World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests, the October Rebellion, and the Battle of Seattle. Such demonstrations have occurred all over the world, even among the Brazilian Kayapo people. Another source of criticism has been the tradition of having an American head the bank, implemented because the United States provides the majority of World Bank funding. "When economists from the World Bank visit poor countries to dispense cash and advice", observed The Economist in 2012, "they routinely tell governments to reject cronyism and fill each important job with the best candidate available. It is good advice. The World Bank should take it." Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American, is the most recently appointed president of the World Bank. The effect of structural adjustment policies on poor countries has been one of the most significant criticisms of the World Bank. The 1979 energy crisis plunged many countries into economic crisis. : 68 The World Bank responded with structural adjustment loans, which distributed aid to struggling countries while enforcing policy changes in order to reduce inflation and fiscal imbalance. Some of these policies included encouraging production, investment and labour-intensive manufacturing, changing real exchange rates and altering the distribution of government resources. Structural adjustment policies were most effective in countries with an institutional framework that allowed these policies to be implemented easily. For some countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, economic growth regressed and inflation worsened. The alleviation of poverty was not a goal of structural adjustment loans, and the circumstances of the poor often worsened, due to a reduction in social spending and an increase in the price of food, as subsidies were lifted. : 69 By the late 1980s, international organizations began to admit that structural adjustment policies were worsening life for the world's poor. The World Bank changed structural adjustment loans, allowing for social spending to be maintained, and encouraging a slower change to policies such as transfer of subsidies and price rises. : 70 In 1999, the World Bank and the IMF introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach to replace structural adjustment loans. : 147 The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach has been interpreted as an extension of structural adjustment policies as it continues to reinforce and legitimize global inequities. Neither approach has addressed the inherent flaws within the global economy that contribute to economic and social inequities within developing countries. : 152 Some critics, most prominently the author Naomi Klein, are of the opinion that the World Bank Group's loans and aid have unfair conditions attached to them that reflect the interests, financial power and political doctrines (notably the Washington Consensus) of the Bank and, by extension, the countries that are most influential within it. Among other allegations, Klein says the Group's credibility was damaged "when it forced school fees on students in Ghana in exchange for a loan; when it demanded that Tanzania privatise its water system; when it made telecom privatisation a condition of aid for Hurricane Mitch; when it demanded labour 'flexibility' in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami; when it pushed for eliminating food subsidies in post-invasion Iraq". The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with. Sovereign immunity waives a holder from all legal liability for their actions. It is proposed that this immunity from responsibility is a "shield which The World Bank wants to resort to, for escaping accountability and security by the people." As the United States has veto power, it can prevent the World Bank from taking action against its interests. World Bank favored PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant in a bid for privatizing the water distribution in Delhi, India World Bank Group, World Bank 2019-12-22T21:11:53Z The World Bank (French: Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of poorer countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group. The World Bank's most recent stated goal is the reduction of poverty. As of November 2018, the largest recipients of World Bank loans were India ($859 million in 2018) and China ($370 million in 2018), through loans from IBRD. The World Bank Group is an extended family of five international organizations, and the parent organization of the World Bank, the collective name given to the first two listed organizations, the IBRD and the IDA: The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The president of the World Bank is, traditionally, an American. The World Bank and the IMF are both based in Washington, D.C., and work closely with each other. Although many countries were represented at the Bretton Woods Conference, the United States and United Kingdom were the most powerful in attendance and dominated the negotiations. : 52–54 The intention behind the founding of the World Bank was to provide temporary loans to low-income countries which were unable to obtain loans commercially. The Bank may also make loans and demand policy reforms from recipients. In its early years the Bank made a slow start for two reasons: it was underfunded, and there were leadership struggles between the US Executive Director and the President of the organization. When the Marshall Plan went into effect in 1947, many European countries began receiving aid from other sources. Faced with this competition, the World Bank shifted its focus to non-European countries. Until 1968, its loans were earmarked for the construction of infrastructure works, such as seaports, highway systems, and power plants, that would generate enough income to enable a borrower country to repay the loan. In 1960, the International Development Association was formed (as opposed to a UN fund named SUNFED), providing soft loans to developing countries. Before 1974, the reconstruction and development loans provided by the World Bank were relatively small. The Bank's staff were aware of the need to instill confidence in the bank. Fiscal conservatism ruled, and loan applications had to meet strict criteria. : 56–60 The first country to receive a World Bank loan was France. The Bank's president at the time, John McCloy, chose France over two other applicants, Poland and Chile. The loan was for US$250 million, half the amount requested, and it came with strict conditions. France had to agree to produce a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments. World Bank staff closely monitored the use of the funds to ensure that the French government met the conditions. In addition, before the loan was approved, the United States State Department told the French government that its members associated with the Communist Party would first have to be removed. The French government complied and removed the Communist coalition government - the so-called tripartite. Within hours, the loan to France was approved. From 1974 to 1980 the bank concentrated on meeting the basic needs of people in the developing world. The size and number of loans to borrowers was greatly increased, as loan targets expanded from infrastructure into social services and other sectors. These changes can be attributed to Robert McNamara, who was appointed to the presidency in 1968 by Lyndon B. Johnson. : 60–63 McNamara implored bank treasurer Eugene Rotberg to seek out new sources of capital outside of the northern banks that had been the primary sources of funding. Rotberg used the global bond market to increase the capital available to the bank. One consequence of the period of poverty alleviation lending was the rapid rise of Third World debt. From 1976 to 1980, developing world debt rose at an average annual rate of 20%. The World Bank Administrative Tribunal was established in 1980, to decide on disputes between the World Bank Group and its staff where allegation of non-observance of contracts of employment or terms of appointment had not been honored. McNamara was succeeded by US President Jimmy Carter's nominee, Alden W. Clausen, in 1980. Clausen replaced many members of McNamara's staff and crafted a different mission emphasis. His 1982 decision to replace the bank's Chief Economist, Hollis B. Chenery, with Anne Krueger was an example of this new focus. Krueger was known for her criticism of development funding and for describing Third World governments as "rent-seeking states". During the 1980s the bank emphasized lending to service Third-World debt, and structural adjustment policies designed to streamline the economies of developing nations. UNICEF reported in the late 1980s that the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank had been responsible for "reduced health, nutritional and educational levels for tens of millions of children in Asia, Latin America, and Africa". Beginning in 1989, in response to harsh criticism from many groups, the bank began including environmental groups and NGOs in its loans to mitigate the past effects of its development policies that had prompted the criticism. : 93–97 It also formed an implementing agency, in accordance with the Montreal Protocols, to stop ozone-depletion damage to the Earth's atmosphere by phasing out the use of 95% of ozone-depleting chemicals, with a target date of 2015. Since then, in accordance with its so-called "Six Strategic Themes", the bank has put various additional policies into effect to preserve the environment while promoting development. For example, in 1991 the bank announced that to protect against deforestation, especially in the Amazon, it would not finance any commercial logging or infrastructure projects that harm the environment. In order to promote global public goods, the World Bank tries to control communicable disease such as malaria, delivering vaccines to several parts of the world and joining combat forces. In 2000 the bank announced a "war on AIDS" and in 2011 the Bank joined the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership. Traditionally, based on a tacit understanding between the United States and Europe, the president of the World Bank has always been selected from candidates nominated by the United States. In 2012, for the first time, two non-US citizens were nominated. On 23 March 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would nominate Jim Yong Kim as the next president of the Bank. Jim Yong Kim was elected on 27 April 2012 and re-elected for a second five-year term in 2017. He announced that he will resign effective 1 February 2019. He was replaced on an interim basis by World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva. Various developments had brought the Millennium Development Goals targets for 2015 within reach in some cases. For the goals to be realized, six criteria must be met: stronger and more inclusive growth in Africa and fragile states, more effort in health and education, integration of the development and environment agendas, more as well as better aid, movement on trade negotiations, and stronger and more focused support from multilateral institutions like the World Bank. To make sure that World Bank-financed operations do not compromise these goals but instead add to their realisation, environmental, social and legal safeguards were defined. However, these safeguards have not been implemented entirely yet. At the World Bank's annual meeting in Tokyo 2012 a review of these safeguards has been initiated, which was welcomed by several civil society organisations. The President of the Bank is the president of the entire World Bank Group. The president is responsible for chairing meetings of the Boards of Directors and for overall management of the Bank. Traditionally, the President of the Bank has always been a US citizen nominated by the United States, the largest shareholder in the bank (the managing director of the International Monetary Fund having always been a European). The nominee is subject to confirmation by the Board of Executive Directors, to serve for a five-year, renewable term. While most World Bank presidents have had banking experience, some have not. The vice presidents of the Bank are its principal managers, in charge of regions, sectors, networks and functions. There are two Executive Vice presidents, three Senior Vice presidents, and 24 Vice presidents. The Boards of Directors consist of the World Bank Group President and 25 Executive Directors. The President is the presiding officer, and ordinarily has no vote except a deciding vote in case of an equal division. The Executive Directors as individuals cannot exercise any power nor commit or represent the Bank unless specifically authorized by the Boards to do so. With the term beginning 1 November 2010, the number of Executive Directors increased by one, to 25. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has 189 member countries, while the International Development Association (IDA) has 173 members. Each member state of IBRD should also be a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and only members of IBRD are allowed to join other institutions within the Bank (such as IDA). In 2010 voting powers at the World Bank were revised to increase the voice of developing countries, notably China. The countries with most voting power are now the United States (15.85%), Japan (6.84%), China (4.42%), Germany (4.00%), the United Kingdom (3.75%), France (3.75%), India (2.91%), Russia (2.77%), Saudi Arabia (2.77%) and Italy (2.64%). Under the changes, known as 'Voice Reform – Phase 2', countries other than China that saw significant gains included South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Singapore, Greece, Brazil, India, and Spain. Most developed countries' voting power was reduced, along with a few developing countries such as Nigeria. The voting powers of the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia were unchanged. The changes were brought about with the goal of making voting more universal in regards to standards, rule-based with objective indicators, and transparent among other things. Now, developing countries have an increased voice in the "Pool Model", backed especially by Europe. Additionally, voting power is based on economic size in addition to International Development Association contributions. The following table shows the subscriptions of the top 20 member countries of the World Bank by voting power in the following World Bank institutions as of December 2014 or March 2015: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Member countries are allocated votes at the time of membership and subsequently for additional subscriptions to capital (one vote for each share of capital stock held by the member). For the poorest developing countries in the world, the bank's assistance plans are based on poverty reduction strategies; by combining an analysis of local groups with an analysis of the country's financial and economic situation the World Bank develops a plan pertaining to the country in question. The government then identifies the country's priorities and targets for the reduction of poverty, and the World Bank instigates its aid efforts correspondingly. Forty-five countries pledged US$25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries", aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA), which distributes the loans to eighty poorer countries. Wealthier nations sometimes fund their own aid projects, including those for diseases. Robert B. Zoellick, the former president of the World Bank, said when the loans were announced on 15 December 2007, that IDA money "is the core funding that the poorest developing countries rely on". World Bank organizes the Development Marketplace Awards, a grant program that surfaces and funds development projects with potential for development impact that are scalable and/or replicable. The grant beneficiaries are social enterprises with projects that aim to deliver social and public services to groups with lowest incomes. The World Bank has been assigned temporary management responsibility of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), focused on making renewable energy cost-competitive with coal-fired power as quickly as possible, but this may not continue after UN's Copenhagen climate change conference in December 2009, because of the Bank's continued investment in coal-fired power plants. (In December 2017, Kim announced the World Bank would no longer finance fossil fuel development.) Together with the World Health Organization, the World Bank administers the International Health Partnership (IHP+). IHP+ is a group of partners committed to improving the health of citizens in developing countries. Partners work together to put international principles for aid effectiveness and development cooperation into practice in the health sector. IHP+ mobilizes national governments, development agencies, civil society and others to support a single, country-led national health strategy in a well-coordinated way. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in 2012 that: The World Bank doubled its aid for climate change adaptation from $2.3bn (£1.47bn) in 2011 to $4.6bn in 2012. The planet is now 0.8 °C warmer than in pre-industrial times. It says that 2 °C warming will be reached in 20 to 30 years. In December 2017, Kim announced the World Bank would no longer finance fossil fuel development. However, a 2019 article by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that the World Bank continues "to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries," that "these fossil fuel investments make up a greater share of the bank’s current energy lending portfolio than renewable projects," and that the Bank "has yet to meaningfully shift away from fossil fuels." EU finance ministers joined civil sector groups, including Extinction Rebellion, in November 2019 in calling for an end to World Bank funding of fossil fuels. The World Bank Institute (WBI) was a "global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction". It aimed to inspire change agents and prepare them with essential tools that can help achieve development results. WBI had four major strategies to approach development problems: innovation for development, knowledge exchange, leadership and coalition building, and structured learning. World Bank Institute (WBI) was formerly known as Economic Development Institute (EDI), established on 11 March 1955 with the support of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. The purpose of the institute was to serve as provide an open place where senior officials from developing countries could discuss development policies and programs. Over the years, EDI grew significantly and in 2000, the Institute was renamed as the World Bank Institute. Sanjay Pradhan is the past Vice President of the World Bank Institute. As of 2019, World Bank Institute functions have been mostly encapsulated by a new unit Global Operations Knowledge Management Unit (GOKMU), which is now responsible for knowledge management and learning across the Bank. The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is a partnership of over 120 learning centers (GDLN Affiliates) in nearly 80 countries around the world. GDLN Affiliates collaborate in holding events that connect people across countries and regions for learning and dialogue on development issues. GDLN clients are typically NGOs, government, private sector and development agencies who find that they work better together on subregional, regional or global development issues using the facilities and tools offered by GDLN Affiliates. Clients also benefit from the ability of Affiliates to help them choose and apply these tools effectively, and to tap development practitioners and experts worldwide. GDLN Affiliates facilitate around 1000 videoconference-based activities a year on behalf of their clients, reaching some 90,000 people worldwide. Most of these activities bring together participants in two or more countries over a series of sessions. A majority of GDLN activities are organized by small government agencies and NGOs. The GDLN in the East Asia and Pacific region has experienced rapid growth and Distance Learning Centers now operate, or are planned in 20 countries: Australia, Mongolia, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Thailand, Laos, Timor Leste, Fiji, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and New Zealand. With over 180 Distance Learning Centers, it is the largest development learning network in the Asia and Pacific region. The Secretariat Office of GDLN Asia Pacific is located in the Center of Academic Resources of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. GDLN Asia Pacific was launched at the GDLN's East Asia and Pacific regional meeting held in Bangkok from 22 to 24 May 2006. Its vision is to become "the premier network exchanging ideas, experience and know-how across the Asia Pacific Region". GDLN Asia Pacific is a separate entity to The World Bank. It has endorsed its own Charter and Business Plan and, in accordance with the Charter, a GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee has been appointed. The committee comprises China (2), Australia (1), Thailand (1), The World Bank (1) and finally, a nominee of the Government of Japan (1). The organization is currently hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, founding member of the GDLN Asia Pacific. The Governing Committee has determined that the most appropriate legal status for the GDLN AP in Thailand is a "Foundation". The World Bank is currently engaging a solicitor in Thailand to process all documentation in order to obtain this legal status. GDLN Asia Pacific is built on the principle of shared resources among partners engaged in a common task, and this is visible in the organizational structures that exist, as the network evolves. Physical space for its headquarters is provided by the host of the GDLN Centre in Thailand – Chulalongkorn University; Technical expertise and some infrastructure is provided by the Tokyo Development Learning Centre (TDLC); Fiduciary services are provided by Australian National University (ANU) Until the GDLN Asia Pacific is established as a legal entity tin Thailand, ANU, has offered to assist the governing committee, by providing a means of managing the inflow and outflow of funds and of reporting on them. This admittedly results in some complexity in contracting arrangements, which need to be worked out on a case by case basis and depends to some extent on the legal requirements of the countries involved. A Justice Sector Peer-Assisted Learning (JUSTPAL) Network was launched in April 2011 by the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Department of the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. The JUSTPAL objective is to provide an online and offline platform for justice professionals to exchange knowledge, good practices and peer-driven improvements to justice systems and thereby support countries to improve their justice sector performance, quality of justice and service delivery to citizens and businesses. The JUSTPAL Network includes representatives of judiciaries, ministries of justice, prosecutors, anti-corruption agencies and other justice-related entities from across the globe. The Network currently has active members from more than 50 countries. To facilitate fruitful exchange of reform experiences and sharing of applicable good practices, the JUSTPAL Network has organized its activities under (currently) five Communities of Practice (COPs): (i) Budgeting for the Justice Sector; (ii) Information Systems for Justice Services; (iii) Justice Sector Physical Infrastructure; (iv) Court Management and Administration; and (v) Prosecution and Anti-Corruption Agencies. As a guideline to the World Bank's operations in any particular country, a Country Assistance Strategy is produced in cooperation with the local government and any interested stakeholders and may rely on analytical work performed by the Bank or other parties. Clean Air Initiative (CAI) is a World Bank initiative to advance innovative ways to improve air quality in cities through partnerships in selected regions of the world by sharing knowledge and experiences. It includes electric vehicles. Initiatives like this help address and tackle pollution-related diseases. Based on an agreement between the United Nations and the World Bank in 1981, Development Business became the official source for World Bank Procurement Notices, Contract Awards, and Project Approvals. In 1998, the agreement was re-negotiated, and included in this agreement was a joint venture to create an electronic version of the publication via the World Wide Web. Today, Development Business is the primary publication for all major multilateral development banks, United Nations agencies, and several national governments, many of whom have made the publication of their tenders and contracts in Development Business a mandatory requirement. The World Bank or the World Bank Group is also a sitting observer in the United Nations Development Group. The World Bank collects and processes large amounts of data and generates them on the basis of economic models. These data and models have gradually been made available to the public in a way that encourages reuse, whereas the recent publications describing them are available as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License, for which the bank received the SPARC Innovator 2012 award. The World Bank also endorses the Principles for Digital Development. The following table lists the top 15 DAC 5 Digit Sectors to which the World Bank has committed funding, as recorded by it in its International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) publications. The World Bank states on the IATI Registry website that the amounts "will cover 100% of IBRD and IDA development flows" but will not cover other development flows. The World Bank hosts the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) as an official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The World Bank's repository is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org. The World Bank has long been criticized by non-governmental organizations, such as the indigenous rights group Survival International, and academics, including Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig Von Mises, and its former Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz. Henry Hazlitt argued that the World Bank along with the monetary system it was designed within would promote world inflation and "a world in which international trade is State-dominated" when they were being advocated. Stiglitz argued that the so-called free market reform policies that the Bank advocates are often harmful to economic development if implemented badly, too quickly ("shock therapy"), in the wrong sequence or in weak, uncompetitive economies. Similarly, Carmine Guerriero notices that these reforms have introduced in developing countries regulatory institutions typical of the common law legal tradition because allegedly more efficient according to the legal origins theory. The latter however has been fiercely criticized since it does not take into account that the legal institutions transplanted during the European colonization have been then reformed. This issue makes the legal origins theory's inference unreliable and the World Bank reforms detrimental. One of the most common criticisms of the World Bank has been the way in which it is governed. While the World Bank represents 188 countries, it is run by a small number of economically powerful countries. These countries (which also provide most of the institution's funding) choose the leadership and senior management of the World Bank, and their interests dominate the bank. : 190 Titus Alexander argues that the unequal voting power of western countries and the World Bank's role in developing countries makes it similar to the South African Development Bank under apartheid, and therefore a pillar of global apartheid. : 133–141 In the 1990s, the World Bank and the IMF forged the Washington Consensus, policies that included deregulation and liberalization of markets, privatization and the downscaling of government. Though the Washington Consensus was conceived as a policy that would best promote development, it was criticized for ignoring equity, employment and how reforms like privatization were carried out. Joseph Stiglitz argued that the Washington Consensus placed too much emphasis on the growth of GDP, and not enough on the permanence of growth or on whether growth contributed to better living standards. : 17 The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report criticized the World Bank and other international financial institutions for focusing too much "on issuing loans rather than on achieving concrete development results within a finite period of time" and called on the institution to "strengthen anti-corruption efforts". James Ferguson has argued that the main effect of many development projects carried out by the World Bank and similar organizations is not the alleviation of poverty. Instead the projects often serve to expand the exercise of bureaucratic state power. Through his case-studies of development projects in Thaba-Tseka he shows that the World Bank's characterization of the economic conditions in Lesotho was flawed, and the Bank ignored the political and cultural character of the state in crafting their projects. As a result, the projects failed to help the poor, but succeeded in expanding the government bureaucracy. Criticism of the World Bank and other organizations often takes the form of protesting, such as the World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests, the 2007 October Rebellion, and the 1999 Battle of Seattle. Such demonstrations have occurred all over the world, even among the Brazilian Kayapo people. Another source of criticism has been the tradition of having an American head the bank, implemented because the United States provides the majority of World Bank funding. "When economists from the World Bank visit poor countries to dispense cash and advice", observed The Economist in 2012, "they routinely tell governments to reject cronyism and fill each important job with the best candidate available. It is good advice. The World Bank should take it." Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American, is the most recently appointed president of the World Bank. The effect of structural adjustment policies on poor countries has been one of the most significant criticisms of the World Bank. The 1979 energy crisis plunged many countries into economic crisis. : 68 The World Bank responded with structural adjustment loans, which distributed aid to struggling countries while enforcing policy changes in order to reduce inflation and fiscal imbalance. Some of these policies included encouraging production, investment and labour-intensive manufacturing, changing real exchange rates and altering the distribution of government resources. Structural adjustment policies were most effective in countries with an institutional framework that allowed these policies to be implemented easily. For some countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, economic growth regressed and inflation worsened. The alleviation of poverty was not a goal of structural adjustment loans, and the circumstances of the poor often worsened, due to a reduction in social spending and an increase in the price of food, as subsidies were lifted. : 69 By the late 1980s, international organizations began to admit that structural adjustment policies were worsening life for the world's poor. The World Bank changed structural adjustment loans, allowing for social spending to be maintained, and encouraging a slower change to policies such as transfer of subsidies and price rises. : 70 In 1999, the World Bank and the IMF introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach to replace structural adjustment loans. : 147 The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach has been interpreted as an extension of structural adjustment policies as it continues to reinforce and legitimize global inequities. Neither approach has addressed the inherent flaws within the global economy that contribute to economic and social inequities within developing countries. : 152 Some critics, most prominently the author Naomi Klein, are of the opinion that the World Bank Group's loans and aid have unfair conditions attached to them that reflect the interests, financial power and political doctrines (notably the Washington Consensus) of the Bank and, by extension, the countries that are most influential within it. Among other allegations, Klein says the Group's credibility was damaged "when it forced school fees on students in Ghana in exchange for a loan; when it demanded that Tanzania privatise its water system; when it made telecom privatisation a condition of aid for Hurricane Mitch; when it demanded labour 'flexibility' in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami; when it pushed for eliminating food subsidies in post-invasion Iraq". The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with. Sovereign immunity waives a holder from all legal liability for their actions. It is proposed that this immunity from responsibility is a "shield which The World Bank wants to resort to, for escaping accountability and security by the people". As the United States has veto power, it can prevent the World Bank from taking action against its interests. World Bank favored PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant in a bid for privatizing the water distribution in Delhi, India World Bank Group | 1 |
Zee_Horror_Show | Zee_Horror_Show 2008-08-07T13:33:56Z Zee Horror Show is a TV Series presented by Ramsay Brothers on Zee TV in the period 1993-1998. Ramsay Brothers were famous in Bollywood for churning out low budget horror films in the 70s and 80s. In 1993 they turned their interest towards Television. Zee Horror Show was a very popular adult program in the 90s. It featured short stories in the form of 4 to 5 episodes, each one based on spine-chilling suspense and horror. One of the episodes, "Jeevan Mrityu", based on female infanticide (featuring Pallavi Joshi) gained so much popularity that it was re-telecast on popular public demand. Some of the episodes that gained popularity were: , Zee_Horror_Show 2010-01-03T09:24:58Z Zee Horror Show is a TV series presented by Ramsay Brothers on Zee TV in the period 1993-1998. Ramsay Brothers were famous in Bollywood for churning out low budget horror films in the 70s and 80s. In 1993, they turned their interest towards Indian Television. Zee Horror Show was a very popular program in the 90s. It featured short stories in the form of 4 to 5 episodes, each one based on spine-chilling suspense and horror. The first episode was titled "Dastak" which was telecast in 1993 & featured Pankaj Dheer & Archana Puran Singh in the lead. One of the episodes, "Jeevan Mrityu", based on female infanticide (featuring Pallavi Joshi) gained so much popularity that it was re-telecast on popular public demand. Another episode called "Saaya" is till date remembered for the ferocious & scary ghost Vikranta Jabbar played by actor Surender Pal Singh. Some of the episodes that gained popularity were: Zee Horror Show's popularity is proved by the various communities created in its memory on social networking communities like Facebook & Orkut by its fans. | 0 |
Marc_Gini | Marc_Gini 2008-11-13T20:40:04Z Marc Gini (born November 8 1984 in Castasegna) is a Swiss alpine skier, specializing in slalom and giant slalom. He started his career in 2000, and has competed in World Cup races since 2003. He was Swiss slalom champion in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and additionally also Swiss giant slalom champion in 2006. He won his first World Cup race on November 11 2007. His sister Sandra Gini is also a professional alpine skier competing in the World Cup. This biographical article relating to Swiss winter sports is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This biographical article relating to alpine skiing is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Marc_Gini 2011-04-23T13:16:20Z Marc Gini (born November 8, 1984 in Castasegna) is a Swiss alpine skier, specializing in slalom and giant slalom. He started his career in 2000, and has competed in World Cup races since 2003. He was Swiss slalom champion in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and additionally also Swiss giant slalom champion in 2006. He won his first World Cup race on November 11, 2007. His sister Sandra Gini is also a professional alpine skier competing in the World Cup. Template:Persondata This biographical article relating to alpine skiing in Switzerland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Jimmi Simpson | Jimmi Simpson 2021-01-07T07:09:41Z James Raymond Simpson (born November 21, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in television series such as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Late Show with David Letterman, Psych, Breakout Kings, House of Cards, Hap and Leonard, Westworld, Black Mirror, and Unsolved. Simpson has also appeared in films such as Loser (2000), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Zodiac (2007), The Invention of Lying (2009), Date Night (2010), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), White House Down (2013), and Under the Silver Lake (2018). James Raymond Simpson was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, on November 21, 1975. He has two older brothers. He attended Hackettstown High School, where he took his first acting class. After graduating from Bloomsburg University with a BA in theater, he acted for four seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 2000, Simpson made his feature film debut in the teen comedy Loser. This was followed by various roles on television, including the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red and appearances on 24, NYPD Blue, Cold Case, and Carnivàle. Subsequent film roles included Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Seraphim Falls (2006), and Zodiac (2007). In 2008, Simpson starred as Philo T. Farnsworth in The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway. His portrayal was described as "superb" by The Chicago Tribune, and earned him a Theatre World Award. From 2008 to 2009, Simpson made several guest appearances as an intern named Lyle on The Late Show with David Letterman. During that time, he also appeared in episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, My Name is Earl, House, and Psych, as well as having supporting roles in the films The Invention of Lying (2009), and Date Night (2010). Other notable credits include the comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, on which he has appeared as Liam McPoyle over several seasons, and the A&E series Breakout Kings, where he starred as Lloyd Lowery. From 2012–2014, Simpson appeared in the films Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Truth About Emanuel, and White House Down. He then appeared as Gavin Orsay, a recurring character, on the Netflix series House of Cards (2014–2015). For this, Simpson—along with the rest of the main cast—was nominated on two occasions for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2016, Simpson starred in the first season of SundanceTV's series Hap and Leonard. That same year, he appeared in a principal role on the first season of HBO's series Westworld. His portrayal of William, a visitor to the titular futuristic Wild West-themed amusement park populated by androids, was described as "spellbinding" by Variety. For his work on Westworld, he was once again nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. For his performance in the second season, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2017, Simpson starred in "USS Callister", the first episode of the fourth season of the anthology sci-fi drama series Black Mirror. For his performance, he received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. Simpson met actress Melanie Lynskey in 2001, while working on Rose Red. They married in April 2007. Lynskey filed for divorce in September 2012, citing irreconcilable differences, and they were divorced in May 2014. Simpson married actress Sophia Del Pizzo in April 2019., Jimmi Simpson 2022-12-31T13:23:40Z Jimmi Simpson (born November 21, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his work on television, which includes recurring roles as Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–2013), Lyle the Intern on The Late Show with David Letterman (2008–09), Mary Lightly on Psych (2009–13), Lloyd Lowery on Breakout Kings (2011–13), Jack Spaniel on The Newsroom (2014), Gavin Orsay on House of Cards (2014–15), and the younger William on Westworld (2016–2020). For the last role, he received a nomination for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2022, he starred in a television series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Simpson also starred as Soldier on SundanceTV's Hap and Leonard (2016), Detective Russell Poole on USA's Unsolved (2018), and James Schaeler on ePix's Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019). He received a nomination for the 2018 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister" (2017). Simpson made his feature film debut in Loser (2000). Subsequent film roles have included Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Stay Alive (2006), Seraphim Falls, Zodiac (both 2007), The Invention of Lying (2009), Date Night (2010), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), White House Down, Knights of Badassdom (both 2013), Under the Silver Lake (2018), Unhinged (2020), Breaking News in Yuba County, and Silk Road (both 2021). On stage, Simpson's portrayal of Philo Farnsworth in The Farnsworth Invention (Broadway, 2007–08) earned him a Theatre World Award. Simpson was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, on November 21, 1975. He has two older brothers. He attended Hackettstown High School, where he took his first acting class. After graduating from Bloomsburg University with a BA in theater, he acted for four seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Simpson made his film debut at age 25 when he played Noah in the romantic comedy Loser (2000), directed by Amy Heckerling. This was followed by a supporting role in the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red in 2002 and appearances on television shows such as 24, NYPD Blue, Cold Case, Carnivàle, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where he played the recurring character Liam McPoyle over several seasons, beginning in 2005. Subsequent film roles during this period included the sports comedy Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) opposite Lindsay Lohan, revisionist Western Seraphim Falls (2006) with Liam Neeson, and the David Fincher thriller Zodiac (2007). In 2008, Simpson starred as Philo T. Farnsworth in a production of Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway, opposite Hank Azaria. His portrayal of Farnsworth was described as "superb" by The Chicago Tribune and earned him a Theatre World Award. That same year, he made the first of several appearances as Lyle—a fictional intern—on The Late Show with David Letterman, a role he frequented until November 2009. During that time he also played guest roles in episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, My Name is Earl, House, and Psych, and had supporting parts in the films The Invention of Lying (2009) and Date Night (2010). He later starred in one of the principal roles—Dr. Lloyd Lowery—on the A&E crime drama series Breakout Kings, which ran from 2011 to 2012. Simpson's next projects were the films Hello I Must Be Going (2012), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), The Truth About Emanuel (2013), Knights of Badassdom (2013), and the Roland Emmerich action epic White House Down (2013). He then joined the cast of Netflix political thriller series House of Cards to play the recurring role of Gavin Orsay between 2014 and 2015. For this, Simpson was nominated on two occasions—alongside his co-stars—for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2015, Simpson starred with Laurie Metcalf in a Circle X Theatre production of Trevor, a play written by Nick Jones. Simpson's performance was roundly praised, with KCRW writing, "... you can't imagine the humanity that actor Jimmi Simpson brings to Trevor. Yes, it's a funny play and, yes, there's some 'monkey business' but Mr. Simpson's gift is restraint. Instead of playing for broad laughs, he plays Trevor's struggle for just that: an honest struggle". Simpson starred as Soldier, a psychotic drug dealer, on the first season of SundanceTV's dark comedy-drama Hap and Leonard in 2016. That same year, he appeared in a principal role on the debut season of HBO's science fiction drama series Westworld. His portrayal of William, a businessman who visits the titular Wild West-themed amusement park and falls in love with one of its android inhabitants (played by Evan Rachel Wood), was described as "spellbinding" by Maureen Ryan of Variety. Simpson was once again nominated alongside his co-stars for an SAG Award in 2017, while his work on the show's second season earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2017, Simpson appeared as Walton—a lieutenant aboard the titular spaceship—in "USS Callister", the opening episode of the fourth season of anthology sci-fi series Black Mirror. In their review, Den of Geek called Simpson "one of best-kept secrets" and commented that his performance "pops off the screen". His portrayal of Walton earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor the following year. Simpson starred as the real-life Det. Russell Poole on Unsolved in 2018, a ten-part USA Network series based on the 1990s murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. IndieWire praised the "elevated artistry" of Simpson's performance, while Vulture.com commented in their review: "In an ensemble this solid, it can be challenging for one performance to emerge as a standout. But Simpson's does because he so carefully calibrates Poole's intensity, dialing it up by slight degrees in each episode until he's radiating with panicky determination ... Simpson physically and emotionally illustrates internal struggle beautifully". Simpson's recent film work includes David Robert Mitchell's neo-noir black comedy Under the Silver Lake (2018), the action thriller Unhinged (2020)—where he starred opposite Russell Crowe—and the comedic crime drama Breaking News in Yuba County (2021). He also starred in the stop-motion AMC+ series Ultra City Smiths as Detective David Mills. Simpson stars as Spencer Clay in the Showtime adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, based on the 1963 novel of the same name. Simpson met New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey in 2001 during the filming of Rose Red, in which they both appeared. They became engaged in 2005 and married on April 14, 2007, in a chapel on Lake Hayes, near Queenstown, New Zealand. Lynskey filed for divorce in September 2012, citing irreconcilable differences. It was finalised in May 2014. Simpson married English actress Sophia Del Pizzo in April 2019. It was announced in July 2021 that the pair had split and that Simpson had filed for divorce. | 1 |
A587_road | A587_road 2010-02-16T17:06:34Z The A587 is a road in England that runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood in Lancashire. The road runs a total distance of approximately 9 miles (14 km), largely on residential and commercial streets. It begins by the Oxford roundabout, in Marton, in the south-eastern part of Blackpool, as a turning off the A583, Preston New Road. It continues north, as South Park Drive, past Stanley Park and Blackpool Victoria Hospital for about 1. 5 miles (2. 4 km). At this point, as St Walburga's Road, it becomes dual carriageway for 0. 7 miles (1. 1 km). After a roundabout, it crosses the railway, and continues north as Bispham Road for a further 1. 4 miles (2. 3 km) to Bispham roundabout, where it becomes Devonshire Road and then Fleetwood Road. 1. 3 miles (2. 1 km) further on it is joined at Anchorsholme by the A584, the Queen's Promenade, and continues north through Cleveleys for 0. 5 miles (0. 80 km) as a dual carriageway, with the tram tracks dividing the road. Past Cleveleys, as a single lane road, now known as Rossall Road, it continues north for a further 1. 5 miles (2. 4 km), past Rossall School and into Fleetwood, where it becomes Broadway. The road crosses West View roundabout, and turns right down Poulton Road, eventually terminating at the new Ash Street roundabout, near Fleetwood Freeport, where it joins to the A585. , A587_road 2010-10-02T19:55:39Z The A587 is a road in England that runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood in Lancashire. The road runs a total distance of approximately 9 miles (14 km), largely on residential and commercial streets. It begins by the Oxford roundabout, in Marton, in the south-eastern part of Blackpool (53°48′15″N 3°01′29″W / 53. 8043°N 3. 0246°W / 53. 8043; -3. 0246 (A587 road (southern end))), as a turning off the A583, Preston New Road. It continues north, as South Park Drive, past Stanley Park and Blackpool Victoria Hospital for about 1. 5 miles (2. 4 km). At this point, as St Walburga's Road, it becomes dual carriageway for 0. 7 miles (1. 1 km). After a roundabout, it crosses the railway, and continues north as Bispham Road for a further 1. 4 miles (2. 3 km) to Bispham roundabout, where it becomes Devonshire Road and then Fleetwood Road. 1. 3 miles (2. 1 km) further on it is joined at Anchorsholme by the A584, the Queen's Promenade, and continues north through Cleveleys for 0. 5 miles (0. 80 km) as a dual carriageway, with the tram tracks dividing the road. Past Cleveleys, as a single lane road, now known as Rossall Road, it continues north for a further 1. 5 miles (2. 4 km), past Rossall School and into Fleetwood, where it becomes Broadway. The road crosses West View roundabout, and turns right down Poulton Road, eventually terminating at the new Ash Street roundabout, near Fleetwood Freeport (53°55′09″N 3°00′51″W / 53. 9193°N 3. 0142°W / 53. 9193; -3. 0142 (A587 road (northern end))), where it joins to the A585. Download coordinates as: 53°52′06″N 3°02′21″W / 53. 8682°N 3. 0392°W / 53. 8682; -3. 0392 (A587 road) | 0 |
Stefan Marinovic | Stefan Marinovic 2020-01-07T08:17:33Z Stefan Tone Marinovic (Croatian: Stefan Tone Marinović, pronounced ) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League side Wellington Phoenix. Marinovic attended Auckland private school, Kings College. In 2005, he won the New Zealand Nike Cup. In 2008, Marinovic was selected for the New Zealand under-19 schoolboys national team for its tour of Austria. He received trials from clubs such as Everton FC, FC Zürich and FC Schalke 04, but they all failed, and so he joined Waitakere United. He reached the national final with United, but they lost 6–0 to Canterbury. In mid-2009, he graduated from the Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence, created to help talented players earn trials overseas. Marinovic was spotted by German club, SV Wehen Wiesbaden, in the 3. Liga at that time, and he signed a professional contract with them. He was the third choice goalkeeper during the 2010–11 season, and played with the U23 team. He made his professional debut for Wiesbaden on 27 April 2010 in an away game to league leaders Erzgebirge Aue when Marc Birkenbach was injured after 30 minutes. The game finished 2–2. When Michael Gurski was signed, he again became the third choice keeper, only being used for the U23 team. In 2013, Marinovic left Wiesbaden and joined FC Ismaning and then 1860 Munich Reserves, making one appearance at each club. In 2014, Marinovic signed with German Regionalliga club SpVgg Unterhaching, playing an important role in their promotion to the 3. Liga in his final season. On 21 July 2017, Marinovic signed with MLS side Vancouver Whitecaps FC after impressing with the national team. Marinovic was released by Vancouver at the end of their 2018 season. On 7 March 2019, Marinovic signed for EFL Championship side Bristol City until the end of the 2018–2019 season, covering for injured goalkeepers Frank Fielding and Niki Mäenpää. He was released by Bristol City at the end of the 2018–19 season. On 6 June 2019, Marinovic signed a two-year contract with A-League club Wellington Phoenix. In 2011, Marinovic made two appearances for New Zealand at the FIFA U20 World Cup in Colombia. On 8 March 2015, Marinovic was called into the New Zealand national football team to play a friendly against South Korea by coach Anthony Hudson. He made his debut in the match in Seoul on 31 March, playing the full 90 minutes, and has since established himself as the No.1 stopper for New Zealand. On his debut, he conceded a penalty kick, but saved it, eventually conceding the only goal of the game by Lee Jae-sung in the 86th minute. , Stefan Marinovic 2021-12-23T12:15:54Z Stefan Tone Marinovic (Croatian: Stefan Tone Marinović, pronounced ) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Israeli Premier League side Hapoel Nof HaGalil. Marinovic attended Auckland private school, Kings College. In 2005, he won the New Zealand Nike Cup. In 2008, Marinovic was selected for the New Zealand under-19 schoolboys national team for its tour of Austria. He received trials from clubs such as Everton FC, FC Zürich and FC Schalke 04, but they all failed, and so he joined Waitakere United. He reached the national final with United, but they lost 6–0 to Canterbury. In mid-2009, he graduated from the Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence, created to help talented players earn trials overseas. Marinovic was spotted by German club, SV Wehen Wiesbaden, in the 3. Liga at that time, and he signed a professional contract with them. He was the third choice goalkeeper during the 2010–11 season, and played with the U23 team. He made his professional debut for Wiesbaden on 27 April 2010 in an away game to league leaders Erzgebirge Aue when Marc Birkenbach was injured after 30 minutes. The game finished 2–2. When Michael Gurski was signed, he again became the third choice keeper, only being used for the U23 team. In 2013, Marinovic left Wiesbaden and joined FC Ismaning and then 1860 Munich Reserves, making one appearance at each club. In 2014, Marinovic signed with German Regionalliga club SpVgg Unterhaching, playing an important role in their promotion to the 3. Liga in his final season. On 21 July 2017, Marinovic signed with MLS side Vancouver Whitecaps FC after impressing with the national team. Marinovic was released by Vancouver at the end of their 2018 season. On 7 March 2019, Marinovic signed for EFL Championship side Bristol City until the end of the 2018–2019 season, covering for injured goalkeepers Frank Fielding and Niki Mäenpää. He was released by Bristol City at the end of the 2018–19 season. On 6 June 2019, Marinovic signed a two-year contract with A-League club Wellington Phoenix. In 2011, Marinovic made two appearances for New Zealand at the FIFA U20 World Cup in Colombia. On 8 March 2015, Marinovic was called into the New Zealand national football team to play a friendly against South Korea by coach Anthony Hudson. He made his debut in the match in Seoul on 31 March, playing the full 90 minutes, and has since established himself as the No.1 stopper for New Zealand. On his debut, he conceded a penalty kick, but saved it, eventually conceding the only goal of the game by Lee Jae-sung in the 86th minute. SpVgg Unterhaching New Zealand U20 New Zealand | 1 |
Borough_United_F.C. | Borough_United_F.C. 2011-08-02T23:20:55Z Borough United were a minor Welsh football club based in Llandudno Junction who caused a shock by winning the Welsh Cup in 1963 before performing much better than anticipated in European football. The club was formed in 1952 by a merger of two struggling neighbouring clubs Llandudno Junction (who had previously been successful in their league but had fallen into financial difficulties) and Conwy Borough. The new club represented something of a continuation for Llandudno Junction as they continued to play at their Nant-y-Coed ground and wear their maroon and white strip. They were soon established as a strong side in the Welsh League North, winning the title in 1958-59 and 1962-63. In the latter season the club also recorded their Welsh cup triumph, with victories over Rhyl, Denbigh Town, cup holders Bangor City and Hereford United setting up a final with Football League side Newport County In the two-legged final the club won 2-1 at home and drew 0-0 at Somerton Park to secure the win. As a consequence of the success the club qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and faced Silema Wanderers of Malta in the first round. A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Czechoslovakia's ŠK Slovan Bratislava. Borough were defeated 1-0 at Wrexham before losing 3-0 in Bratislava. The results were no disgrace however as the part-timers of Borough United had played well against a club that fielded five full internationals. The club continued as a top five side in their league until 1967 when they were evicted from their Nant-y-Coed ground by its owners, the Irish Oblates of Mary Immaculate order, and were ultimately forced to eke out an existence in the very minor Vale of Conwy League. They lasted in this competition until 1969 when they folded. , Borough_United_F.C. 2013-02-26T08:39:29Z Borough United were a minor Welsh football club based in Llandudno Junction who caused a shock by winning the Welsh Cup in 1963 before performing much better than anticipated in European football. The club was formed in 1952 by a merger of two struggling neighbouring clubs Llandudno Junction (who had previously been successful in their league but had fallen into financial difficulties) and Conwy Borough. The new club represented something of a continuation for Llandudno Junction as they continued to play at their Nant-y-Coed ground and wear their maroon and white strip. They were soon established as a strong side in the Welsh League North, winning the title in 1958-59 and 1962-63. In the latter season the club also recorded their Welsh cup triumph, with victories over Rhyl, Denbigh Town, cup holders Bangor City and Hereford United setting up a final with Football League side Newport County In the two-legged final the club won 2-1 at home and drew 0-0 at Somerton Park to secure the win. As a consequence of the success the club qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and faced Silema Wanderers of Malta in the first round. A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Czechoslovakia's ŠK Slovan Bratislava. Borough were defeated 1-0 at Wrexham before losing 3-0 in Bratislava. The results were no disgrace however as the part-timers of Borough United had played well against a club that fielded five full internationals. The club continued as a top five side in their league until 1967 when they were evicted from their Nant-y-Coed ground by its owners, the Irish Oblates of Mary Immaculate order, and were ultimately forced to eke out an existence in the very minor Vale of Conwy League. They lasted in this competition until 1969 when they folded. | 0 |
Mazagran_(drinkware) | Mazagran_(drinkware) 2009-05-17T16:49:49Z Mazagran is a kind of drinkware usually used for coffee, which is named after a town of Mazagran in Algeria. A battle took place there in 1840 between French soldiers and Algerians and the legend says that during the night, the 123 besieged French soldiers drank coffee laced with brandy . It is a glass or cup on a foot, optionally also with a handle and a short stem. Mazagrans can be made of terracotta, porcelain or glass. Coffee drinks (for example: coffee with ice) served in mazagran are sometimes also named mazagran. Mazagran was a name of a failed carbonated coffee soda beverage developed as a collaboration between Starbucks and Pepsi in the mid 1990's. , Mazagran_(drinkware) 2011-01-15T00:56:21Z Mazagran is a kind of drinkware usually used for coffee, which is named after a town of Mazagran in Algeria. A battle took place there in 1840 between French soldiers and Algerians and the legend says that during the night, the 123 besieged French soldiers drank coffee laced with brandy . It is a glass or cup on a foot, optionally also with a handle and a short stem. Mazagrans can be made of terracotta, porcelain or glass. Coffee drinks (for example: coffee with ice) served in mazagran are sometimes also named mazagran. Mazagran was a name of a failed carbonated coffee soda beverage developed as a collaboration between Starbucks and Pepsi in the mid-1990s. Media related to Mazagrans at Wikimedia Commons | 0 |
Livia Brito | Livia Brito 2012-01-25T00:34:23Z Livia Brito Pestana was born in La Havana, Cuba on July 21, 1986. Started her talents for Televisa, which she acted as in the telenovela Triunfo del amor and Abismo de pasion. Livia Brito Pestana is a Cuban actress and resident of Mexico City. Her talents attributed to heredity, it comes from an artistic family, her father was a leading actor in Cuba and his mother was a major ballet dancer. Her infancy in Mexico City began as aide and model for 19 years, this to pay for his studies of Business Administration; career had to leave because she went to Queen Beauty Contest Banana World in 2009 Ecuador which was second runner up, Miss photogenic and best face representing Mexico. Later she began her studies at the Center for Arts Education (CEA), an institution which is already graduated. She currently has a relationship with the salsa singer Danny Frank Colombian origin. , Livia Brito 2013-12-23T06:23:48Z Livia Brito Pestana (born July 21, 1986 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-Mexican actress. Livia debuted in Televisa's telenovelas, starting in Triunfo del amor and Abismo de pasión. The daughter of Rolando Brito and Gertrudis Pestana, Livia Brito Pestana and her family immigrated to Mexico in the year 2000. Brito was between 13 and 14 years of age at the time. A year after settling in Mexico City, her father opened a restaurant called La Cubana, which offered traditional Cuban dishes. Brito worked as a waitress at the family restaurant, and later as a model, to help pay for her studies in Business Administration. She represented Mexico in the 2009 edition of the Reina Mundial del Banano, finishing as first runner-up and awarded Miss Photogenic. She later enrolled in Televisa's Centro de Educación Artística (CEA). Her talents attributed to heredity, coming from an artistic family. Her father was a leading actor in Cuba, while her mother was a major ballet dancer. Livia had a relationship with Colombian salsa singer Danny Frank. In May 2012, it was confirmed that she had been in an intimate relationship with Salvador Zerboni while taping episodes of Abismo de pasión, despite denying that fact in April. In 2010, she made her debut as Fernanda Sandoval Gutierrez in Triunfo del amor, produced by Salvador Mejía. In 2012, she starred (in a supporting role) as Paloma Gonzalez in Abismo de pasión, produced by Angeli Nesma Medina. She will star in Lucero Suárez's telenovela: De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero, marking the first time she stars as the protagonist. | 1 |
Richard_Gurney | Richard_Gurney 2009-08-24T14:17:56Z Richard Gurney, (1790-1843) was vice-warden of the stannaries of Devon. In 1830, he claimed to be elected member of parliament for Tregony in Cornwall, but did not succeed in obtaining the seat. He was the author of: He died at Bonn, Germany, in 1843. His wife, Catherine Harriet, died in 1876. He was the father of Archer Thompson Gurney, clergyman, hymn-writer and poet. This article about a writer, poet or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Richard_Gurney 2010-11-22T12:16:56Z Richard Gurney (1790–1843) was vice-warden of the stannaries of Devon. In 1830, he claimed to be elected member of parliament for Tregony in Cornwall, but did not succeed in obtaining the seat. He was the author of: He died at Bonn, Germany, in 1843. His wife, Catherine Harriet, died in 1876. He was the father of Archer Thompson Gurney, clergyman, hymn-writer and poet. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Gurney, Archer Thompson". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Template:Persondata This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
OpenStack | OpenStack 2013-01-01T10:55:53Z OpenStack is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing project started by Rackspace Cloud and NASA in 2010. Currently more than 150 companies have joined the project among which are AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and Yahoo!. It is free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License. It is portable software, but is mostly developed and used on the Linux operating system. OpenStack integrates code from NASA's Nebula platform as well as Rackspace's Cloud Files platform, and is included and released in both the Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux distributions. In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA jointly launched a new open source cloud initiative known as OpenStack. The mission of the OpenStack project is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware. The community's first official release, code-named Austin, was made available just 4 months later with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months. OpenStack has a modular architecture that encompasses following components: Several components have been added for the next release: OpenStack Compute (Nova) is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system). It is written in Python and utilizes many external libraries such as Eventlet (for concurrent programming), Kombu (for AMQP communication), and SQLAlchemy (for database access). OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) is a massively scalable redundant storage system. In Aug 2009, Rackspace started the development of Swift, which is a complete replacement for the Cloud Files product. The initial development team consists of nine developers. OpenStack Image Service (Glance) provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for virtual disk images. OpenStack has APIs compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 and thus client applications written for Amazon Web Services can be used with OpenStack with minimal porting effort. Some of the prominent users include: Further user stories such as Cisco Webex can be found in the User Stories section of the OpenStack web site {{{inline}}}, OpenStack 2014-12-25T09:39:13Z OpenStack is a free and open-source cloud computing software platform. Users primarily deploy it as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center—which users manage through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. OpenStack.org released it under the terms of the Apache License. OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. Currently, it is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. More than 200 companies have joined the project, including Arista Networks, AT&T, AMD, Avaya, Canonical, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Ericsson, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Mirantis, NEC, NetApp, Nexenta, Oracle, PLUMgrid, Pure Storage, Red Hat, SolidFire, SUSE Linux, VMware and Yahoo!. The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning phase of each release, the community gathers for the OpenStack Design Summit to facilitate developer working-sessions and to assemble plans. The most recent OpenStack Summit, in May 2014 in Atlanta, drew 4,500 attendees, a 50% increase from the Hong Kong Summit six months earlier. In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA jointly launched an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack. The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. The community's first official release, code-named Austin, appeared four months later, with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months. The early code came from NASA's Nebula platform as well as from Rackspace's Cloud Files platform. In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack with an unsupported technology preview of the OpenStack "Bexar" release for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal". Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds, starting with OpenStack's Cactus release. OpenStack became available in Debian Sid from the Openstack "Cactus" release in 2011, and the first release of Debian including OpenStack was Debian 7.0 (code name "Wheezy"), including OpenStack 2012.1 (code name: "Essex"). In 2012, Red Hat announced a preview of their OpenStack distribution, beginning with the "Essex" release. After another preview release, Red Hat introduced commercial support for OpenStack with the "Grizzly" release, in July 2013. In July 2013, NASA released an internal audit citing lack of technical progress and other factors as the agency's primary reason for dropping out as an active developer of the project and instead focus on the use of public clouds. An August 2013 published report announced that Avaya plans to use OpenStack with Shortest Path Bridging to create end-to-end virtual network backplanes. In May 2014, HP announced HP Helion and released a preview of HP Helion OpenStack Community, beginning with the IceHouse release. HP has operated HP Helion Public Cloud on OpenStack since 2012. OpenStack has a modular architecture with various code names for its components. OpenStack Compute (Nova) is a cloud computing fabric controller, which is the main part of an IaaS system. It is designed to manage and automate pools of computer resources and can work with widely available virtualization technologies, as well as bare metal and high-performance computing (HPC) configurations. KVM, VMware, and Xen are available choices for hypervisor technology, together with Hyper-V and Linux container technology such as LXC. It is written in Python and uses many external libraries such as Eventlet (for concurrent programming), Kombu (for AMQP communication), and SQLAlchemy (for database access). Compute's architecture is designed to scale horizontally on standard hardware with no proprietary hardware or software requirements and provide the ability to integrate with legacy systems and third-party technologies. OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) is a scalable redundant storage system. Objects and files are written to multiple disk drives spread throughout servers in the data center, with the OpenStack software responsible for ensuring data replication and integrity across the cluster. Storage clusters scale horizontally simply by adding new servers. Should a server or hard drive fail, OpenStack replicates its content from other active nodes to new locations in the cluster. Because OpenStack uses software logic to ensure data replication and distribution across different devices, inexpensive commodity hard drives and servers can be used. In August 2009, Rackspace started the development of the precursor to OpenStack Object Storage, as a complete replacement for the Cloud Files product. The initial development team consisted of nine developers. SwiftStack, an object storage software company, is currently the leading developer for Swift. OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) provides persistent block-level storage devices for use with OpenStack compute instances. The block storage system manages the creation, attaching and detaching of the block devices to servers. Block storage volumes are fully integrated into OpenStack Compute and the Dashboard allowing for cloud users to manage their own storage needs. In addition to local Linux server storage, it can use storage platforms including Ceph, CloudByte, Coraid, EMC (ScaleIO, VMAX and VNX), GlusterFS, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM Storage (Storwize family, SAN Volume Controller, XIV Storage System, and GPFS), Linux LIO, NetApp, Nexenta, Scality, SolidFire, HP (StoreVirtual and 3PAR StoreServ families) and Pure Storage. Block storage is appropriate for performance sensitive scenarios such as database storage, expandable file systems, or providing a server with access to raw block level storage. Snapshot management provides powerful functionality for backing up data stored on block storage volumes. Snapshots can be restored or used to create a new block storage volume. OpenStack Networking (Neutron, formerly Quantum) is a system for managing networks and IP addresses. OpenStack Networking ensures the network is not a bottleneck or limiting factor in a cloud deployment, and gives users self-service ability, even over network configurations. OpenStack Networking provides networking models for different applications or user groups. Standard models include flat networks or VLANs that separate servers and traffic. OpenStack Networking manages IP addresses, allowing for dedicated static IP addresses or DHCP. Floating IP addresses let traffic be dynamically rerouted to any resources in the IT infrastructure, so users can redirect traffic during maintenance or in case of a failure. Users can create their own networks, control traffic, and connect servers and devices to one or more networks. Administrators can use software-defined networking (SDN) technology like OpenFlow to support high levels of multi-tenancy and massive scale. OpenStack Networking provides an extension framework that can deploy and manage additional network services—such as intrusion detection systems (IDS), load balancing, firewalls, and virtual private networks (VPN). OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) provides administrators and users a graphical interface to access, provision, and automate cloud-based resources. The design accommodates third party products and services, such as billing, monitoring, and additional management tools. The dashboard is also brandable for service providers and other commercial vendors who want to make use of it. The dashboard is one of several ways users can interact with OpenStack resources. Developers can automate access or build tools to manage resources using the native OpenStack API or the EC2 compatibility API. OpenStack Identity (Keystone) provides a central directory of users mapped to the OpenStack services they can access. It acts as a common authentication system across the cloud operating system and can integrate with existing backend directory services like LDAP. It supports multiple forms of authentication including standard username and password credentials, token-based systems and AWS-style (i.e. Amazon Web Services) logins. Additionally, the catalog provides a queryable list of all of the services deployed in an OpenStack cloud in a single registry. Users and third-party tools can programmatically determine which resources they can access. OpenStack Image Service (Glance) provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for disk and server images. Stored images can be used as a template. It can also be used to store and catalog an unlimited number of backups. The Image Service can store disk and server images in a variety of back-ends, including OpenStack Object Storage. The Image Service API provides a standard REST interface for querying information about disk images and lets clients stream the images to new servers. OpenStack.org updates Glance every six months, along with other OpenStack modules. Some of the updates are to catch-up with existing cloud infrastructure services, as OpenStack is comparatively new. Glance adds many enhancements to existing legacy infrastructures. For example, if integrated with VMware, Glance introduces advanced features to the vSphere family such as, vMotion, high availability and dynamic resource scheduling (DRS). vMotion is the live migration of a running VM, from one physical server to another, without service interruption. Thus, it enables a dynamic and automated self-optimizing datacenter, allowing hardware maintenance for the underperforming servers without downtimes. OpenStack's image is an operating system installed on a virtual machine (VM). If a developer adds a variation to an image (as a configuration job) the result is an instance of that image. Subsequently, that instance is an image that developers can add more variations to. Glance—OpenStack's image service module—is a compute module, as it does not store images, variations, or instances—but rather catalogs them and holds their metadata from Swift or a storage backend datastore. Other modules must communicate with the images metadata through Glance—or example, Heat. Also, Nova can present information about the images, and configure a variation on an image to produce an instance. However, Glance is the only module that can add, delete, share, or duplicate images. OpenStack Telemetry Service (Ceilometer) provides a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters is traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system. Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native REST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API. Trove is a database-as-a-service provisioning relational and non-relational database engines. Ironic is an incubated OpenStack project that aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. It was initially forked from the Nova Baremetal driver and has evolved into a separate program. It is best thought of as a bare-metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins that interact with the bare-metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on and off machines, but Ironic supports and can be extended with vendor-specific plugins to implement additional functionality. Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service for Web developers. It combines the ideas pioneered by Amazon's SQS product with additional semantics to support event broadcasting. The service features a fully RESTful API, which developers can use to send messages between various components of their SaaS and mobile applications by using a variety of communication patterns. Underlying this API is an efficient messaging engine designed with scalability and security in mind. Other OpenStack components can integrate with Zaqar to surface events to end users and to communicate with guest agents that run in the "over-cloud" layer. Cloud operators can leverage Zaqar to provide equivalents of SQS and SNS to their customers. Zaqar was formerly known as Marconi. Sahara aims to provide users with simple means to provision Hadoop clusters by specifying several parameters like Hadoop version, cluster topology, nodes hardware details and a few more. After a user fills all the parameters, Sahara deploys the cluster in a few minutes. Sahara also provides means to scale already provisioned cluster by adding and removing worker nodes on demand. OpenStack APIs are compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 and thus client applications written for Amazon Web Services can be used with OpenStack with minimal porting effort. OpenStack is governed by a non-profit foundation and its board of directors, a technical committee and a user committee. The board of directors is made up of eight members from each of the eight platinum sponsors, eight members from the 24 defined maximum allowed Gold sponsors, and eight members elected by the Foundation individual members. The current sitting board of directors is: The Foundation's stated mission is providing shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem. Though, it has little to do with the development of the software, which is managed by the technical committee - an elected group that represents the contributors to the project, and has oversight on all technical matters. OpenStack has a wide variety of users, from a number of different sectors. Notable users include: | 1 |
Ambroise_Noumazalaye | Ambroise_Noumazalaye 2007-11-20T21:51:52Z Ambroise Edouard Noumazalaye (died November 17 2007) was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 1966 to 1968, under President Alphonse Massamba-Débat. Later in life he served as Secretary-General of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) and was a supporter of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He served as President of the Senate from 2002 to 2007. Following a failed coup against President Marien Ngouabi on February 22 1972, Noumazalaye was one of those arrested; he was sentenced to death along with 12 others on March 25 1972, but Ngouabi commuted the sentences to life in prison on the same day. He was elected Secretary-General of the PCT at its 1990 congress. During the presidency of Pascal Lissouba, from 1992 to 1997, Noumazalaye was Secretary-General of the opposition United Democratic Forces, which supported Sassou Nguesso. After Sassou Nguesso returned to power in 1997, Noumazalaye was elected President of the Senate in 2002, a post in which he served until he died in November 2007 in Paris. He was re-elected as Secretary-General of the PCT in December 2006. This article about a politician of the Republic of the Congo is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Ambroise_Noumazalaye 2008-09-02T14:20:08Z Ambroise Édouard Noumazalaye (September 23 1933 – November 17 2007) was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 1966 to 1968, under President Alphonse Massamba-Débat. Later in life he served as Secretary-General of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) and was a supporter of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He served as President of the Senate from 2002 to 2007. Noumazalaye was born in Brazzaville. At the constitutive congress of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) on June 29–July 2, 1964, he was elected as the party's First Secretary-General. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Pascal Lissouba in April 1966, Noumazalaye was appointed as his successor, at the head of a government approved by the MNR on April 19 and announced on May 6, in which Noumazalaye also served as Minister of Planning. He served as Prime Minister until January 12 1968, when President Massamba-Débat decided that it was unnecessary to have a Prime Minister and that he would assume the duties of the office himself. Later in 1968, Noumazalaye was a member of the National Council of the Revolution (CNR) as Secretary in charge of organization, but he was excluded from the CNR in December 1968. He joined the Political Bureau of the ruling PCT when it was expanded from eight to ten members at the party's extraordinary congress held on March 30–April 1 1970. At an extraordinary session of the PCT Central Committee held on December 27–December 31 1971, he was retained as a member of the Political Bureau, in charge of the Plan, when it was reduced to five members. Following a failed coup against President Marien Ngouabi on February 22 1972, Noumazalaye was one of those arrested; he was sentenced to death along with 12 others on March 25 1972, but Ngouabi commuted the death sentences to life in prison on the same day. Later, under Sassou Nguesso's presidency, Noumazalaye was elected to the Central Committee of the PCT in 1984 and also became Minister of Industry and Crafts in August 1984. He was elected Secretary-General of the PCT at its Fourth Extraordinary Congress in December 1990. Following the first round of the 1992 presidential election, Noumazalaye, representing the PCT, signed an agreement with Christophe Moukouéké of UPADS on August 11 1992; this agreement provided for PCT members to participate in the campaign of UPADS candidate Pascal Lissouba in exchange for the PCT receiving posts in the future government. However, following Lissouba's victory, the PCT went into opposition after receiving a smaller than expected number of posts. Under Lissouba's presidency, from 1992 to 1997, Noumazalaye was Secretary-General of the opposition United Democratic Forces (FDU) coalition, which supported Sassou Nguesso. After Sassou Nguesso returned to power in 1997, Noumazalaye was elected as a Senator from Likouala Region in 2002, and when the Senate opened on August 10 2002, Noumazalaye was elected as its President. He served in that position until his death five years later. He was re-elected as Secretary-General of the PCT at its Fifth Extraordinary Congress in December 2006, and he also served as Interim President of the FDU coalition around the same time. On April 24 2007, he signed an agreement on behalf of the PCT with the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI), led by Bernard Kolélas, in which the two parties formed an alliance for future elections. Noumazalaye died in November 2007 in Paris. Following his death, an official three-day mourning period was declared for Noumazalaye, beginning on November 22 2007. His body was returned to Congo on November 23, and it was interred in the Marien Ngouabi Mausoleum on November 24. | 0 |
El_País_(Uruguay) | El_País_(Uruguay) 2012-08-05T15:02:30Z El País is a Uruguayan newspaper, published for the first time on September 14, 1918, and distributed nation-wide. Founded and published in Montevideo, El País was founded and directed by Leonel Aguirre, Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta and Washington Beltrán Barbat. Originally it was a political newspaper devoted to the National Party. Later on it became a general interest newspaper. For decades, El País has been among the leading written media in Uruguay. , El_País_(Uruguay) 2013-07-06T20:37:38Z El País is a Uruguayan newspaper, first published on September 14, 1918, and distributed nation-wide. It belongs to the same media group as the television channel Teledoce. Established in Montevideo, El País was originally edited by Leonel Aguirre, Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta and Washington Beltrán Barbat. Begun as a political newspaper devoted to the National Party, it later developed into a general interest newspaper. For decades, El País has been among the leading written media in Uruguay, with a circulation of 65,000 on weekdays and 100,000 on Sundays. Its editorial focus is on the social, political and economic news of Uruguay, as well as the Mercosur regional trade alliance. This article about a Uruguayan newspaper is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 0 |
Tom Barkhuizen | Tom Barkhuizen 2015-04-04T18:46:55Z Thomas John "Tom" Barkhuizen (born 4 July 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Blackpool. Born in Blackpool, Barkhuizen played junior football on the Fylde coast with Blackpool Rangers. While growing up, Barkhuizen grew up supporting Blackpool. In May 2009 he signed on as a first-year scholar with Blackpool's youth department. Before that he had been at the Centre of Excellence for four months, and had scored in every game he played at both under-16 and under-17 levels. On 24 August 2010, whilst still a second-year youth scholar, he made his first team debut in the second round of the 2010–11 League Cup, against Milton Keynes at Stadium MK. Assistant manager Steve Thompson said of Barkhuizen: "Tom has come through the youth set up and I felt he handled himself very well for his debut. He is not the finished article by a long shot but once he gets a little bit of strength I think we've got a decent player there. I thought he did fantastic." In August 2011, he made a late substitute appearance in the League Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday before joining League Two side Hereford United on loan until the end of the year. He scored on his debut in a 4–1 Football League Trophy defeat to Bournemouth on 30 August. His first league goal came on 10 September 2011, in a 3-1 loss against Shrewsbury Town. On 20 December, after scoring seven goals for the Bulls, Barkhuizen stated that he wanted to stay at Edgar Street until the end of the season. His loan deal was extended until the end of the season on 9 January 2012. Then in late-February, Barkhuizen would score his first brace despite losing 5-4 to Gillingham and then scored a 2-1 win over Wimbledon, to end "a run of 10 home games without a win". Following the club's relegated to the Conference from League Two at the end of the 2011–12 season and made thirty eight appearance and scoring eleven times, Barkuizen was praised by Manager Jamie Pitman for his role as a striker and helping the club go into positive forms. Barkhuizen contract with Blackpool was extended for another year. On 29 August 2012, Barkhuizen joined Blackpool's Fylde coast neighbours Fleetwood Town on loan until January 2013, together with team-mate Ashley Eastham who joined on loan for one month. He made his debut three days later in a 4–1 win over Aldershot Town at Highbury Stadium. He scored his first and only goal for Fleetwood in a 2-1 win over Barnet on 29 September 2012. After five months at Fleetwood Town, Barkhuizen returned to his parent club. After this, Barkhuizen signed a one-year contract with the club following the end of the 2012-13 season. On 24 August 2013, in his second league appearance for the club, Barkhuizen scored his first goal for Blackpool in a 1-0 win over Reading. His second goal for the club came in the FA Cup against Bolton Wanderers on 4 January 2014. However, his season soon was disrupted with fractured and dislocated collarbone injury that kept him out for six weeks and then made his return to action in early March. After the end of 2013-14 season, Barkhuizen making fourteen appearance, his contract with Blackpool after his 12 month contract was activated further. Barkhuizen joined League Two side Morecambe on 17 October 2014 for one month. The next day, on 18 October 2014, Barkhuizen made his debut for Morecambe, where he came on as a substitute for Paul Mullin in the second half, which Morecambe won 2-0 against Burton Albion. After making five appearance for Morecambe, it announced on 17 November that Barkhuizen would return to his parent club in conclusion to his loan spell at Morecambe. Shortly after returning to Blackpool, Barkhuizen soon fractured his arm in a practice match, that left him out for a month. , Tom Barkhuizen 2016-12-21T09:34:12Z Thomas John "Tom" Barkhuizen (born 4 July 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays a forward. He last played for Morecambe and will join Preston North End on 2 January 2017. Born in Blackpool, Barkhuizen played junior football on the Fylde coast with Blackpool Rangers. Barkhuizen grew up supporting Blackpool. In May 2009 he signed on as a first-year scholar with Blackpool's youth department. Before that he had been at the Centre of Excellence for four months, and had scored in every game he played at both under-16 and under-17 levels. On 24 August 2010, whilst still a second-year youth scholar, he made his first team debut in the second round of the 2010–11 League Cup, against Milton Keynes at Stadium MK. Assistant manager Steve Thompson said of Barkhuizen: "Tom has come through the youth set up and I felt he handled himself very well for his debut. He is not the finished article by a long shot but once he gets a little bit of strength I think we've got a decent player there. I thought he did fantastic." In August 2011, he made a late substitute appearance in the League Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday before joining League Two side Hereford United on loan until the end of the year. He scored on his debut in a 4–1 Football League Trophy defeat to Bournemouth on 30 August. His first league goal came on 10 September 2011, in a 3–1 loss against Shrewsbury Town. On 20 December, after scoring seven goals for the Bulls, Barkhuizen stated that he wanted to stay at Edgar Street until the end of the season. His loan deal was extended until the end of the season on 9 January 2012. Then in late-February, Barkhuizen would score his first brace despite losing 5–4 to Gillingham and then scored a 2–1 win over Wimbledon, to end "a run of 10 home games without a win". Following the club's relegated to the Conference from League Two at the end of the 2011–12 season and made thirty eight appearance and scoring eleven times, Barkuizen was praised by Manager Jamie Pitman for his role as a striker and helping the club go into positive forms. Barkhuizen contract with Blackpool was extended for another year. On 29 August 2012, Barkhuizen joined Blackpool's Fylde coast neighbours Fleetwood Town on loan until January 2013, together with team-mate Ashley Eastham who joined on loan for one month. He made his debut three days later in a 4–1 win over Aldershot Town at Highbury Stadium. He scored his first and only goal for Fleetwood in a 2–1 win over Barnet on 29 September 2012. After five months at Fleetwood Town, Barkhuizen returned to his parent club. After this, Barkhuizen signed a one-year contract with the club following the end of the 2012–13 season. On 24 August 2013, in his second league appearance for the club, Barkhuizen scored his first goal for Blackpool in a 1–0 win over Reading. His second goal for the club came in the FA Cup against Bolton Wanderers on 4 January 2014. However, his season soon was disrupted with fractured and dislocated collarbone injury that kept him out for six weeks and then made his return to action in early March. After the end of 2013–14 season, Barkhuizen making fourteen appearance, his contract with Blackpool after his 12-month contract was activated further. Shortly after returning to Blackpool, Barkhuizen soon fractured his arm in a practice match that left him out for a month. Barkhuizen joined League Two side Morecambe on 17 October 2014 for one month. The next day, on 18 October 2014, Barkhuizen made his debut for Morecambe, where he came on as a substitute for Paul Mullin in the second half, which Morecambe won 2–0 against Burton Albion. After making five appearance for Morecambe, it announced on 17 November that Barkhuizen would return to his parent club in conclusion to his loan spell at Morecambe. On 9 May 2015, Barkhuizen joined Morecambe permanently on a two-year contract. After Morecambe were late paying staff wages in November 2016 due to cash-flow problems, the option of selling a player was proposed. Barkhuzien's contract was duly cancelled by mutual consent on 9 November 2016, and Morecambe's wages were paid the same day. On 17 November 2016, Barkhuizen agreed a pre-contract agreement with Preston. He will begin a two and a half year contract on 2 January 2017 and will wear the number 29 shirt. | 1 |
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