id
stringlengths 2
8
| url
stringlengths 31
389
| title
stringlengths 1
250
| text
stringlengths 2
355k
|
|---|---|---|---|
5388051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Film%20Archive | Hong Kong Film Archive | The Hong Kong Film Archive is a film archive collects, preserves, and screens Hong Kong films and other related materials. The archive was founded in 1993, when its Planning Office was opened by the Urban Council. It joined the International Federation of Film Archives in 1996. The archive has been under the management of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department since 2000.
The film archive building in Sai Wan Ho regularly hosts exhibitions, screenings and seminars showcasing Hong Kong film.
The archive edits the book series Hong Kong Filmography and Monographs of Hong Kong Film Veterans. It also distributes a quarterly Newsletter that reports on the latest developments of the Archive and includes features on certain aspects of film culture.
Collection
On 17 November 2011, TVB handed over about 1,000 film titles from the 1930s to the 1990s to the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) for permanent preservation. About 600 film titles, including 27 Chaozhou and Amoy dialect films, are new to the HKFA's collection.
Films to be handed over include the earliest Chinese film in TVB's library, Little Heroine (1939), starring Hu Rongrong and Kung Chiu-hsia; and the earliest Hong Kong film in the library, Female Spy 76 (1947) starring Wu Lai-chu and Wang Hao. The eight films on the list of HKFA's recommended "100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies" are: Wong Fei-hung's Whip that Smacks the Candle (1949), Wong Fei-hung Burns the Tyrants' Lair (1949), "Blood-stained Azaleas" (1951), Mysterious Murderer (1951) parts one and two, Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom (1959), Father Is Back (1961) and The Pregnant Maiden (1968).
Facility
The archive is housed in a five-story building at 50 Lei King Road, Sai Wan Ho, which opened on 3 January 2001. Public screenings of archive holdings are routinely held in the 125-seat cinema housed within. The regular ticket price is $40, with concessionary pricing available for students, seniors, and the disabled.
Floorplan
Basement: Carpark and Plants Rooms (not open to the public)
G/F: Box Office, Exhibition Hall
M/F: Machine and Air-conditioning Plants Rooms (not open to the public)
1/F: Film Store and Cinema
2/F: Film Projection Room, Film Store and Cinema (entrance on 1/F)
3/F: Resource Centre, Staff Office and Film Store
4/F: Admin. Office, Film Related Material Store
5/F: Roof (scheduled for expansion)
Only the Box Office, Exhibition Hall and Resource Centre are public access facilities.
Transportation
The archive building is approximately a five-minute walk from Exit A of Sai Wan Ho MTR station.
References
External links
Hong Kong Film Archive Database
Museums in Hong Kong
Film archives in Asia
Sai Wan Ho
Cinema museums in China
1993 establishments in Hong Kong |
5388075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20F.%20Smith%20High%20School | Oscar F. Smith High School | Oscar F. Smith High School (also known as Smith High or OSHS) is a public high school with an enrollment of approximately 2,200 students in grades 9-12. The school is located on a campus in the Greenbrier West area of the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
History
A new brick building for the school was built on Rodgers Street in South Norfolk, to replace the aging South Norfolk High School. When South Norfolk merged with Norfolk County to form the city of Chesapeake in 1963, Smith High became part of the new city. The school opened in 1954 and was named after Oscar Frommel Smith (25 October 1891 – 4 May 1950), a Hampton Roads fertilizer magnate and civic leader, who had recently died and whose widow, Ruth, offered the school the $50,000 if it would name the new stadium after her husband. The city council decided that not only the stadium, but the whole school would be named after him.
In 1955 Ruth Smith donated $1,200 the school board to go toward a radio station permit. This resulted in the radio station with callsign WFOS - which stands for "W Frommel Oscar Smith" - founded at the high school and currently located at the Chesapeake Center for Science and Technology, transmitting since 1973 on frequency 88.7 FM MHz for the Southside of Hampton Roads and via radio stream online. WFOS features Blues, Beach, Oldies, R&B and a wide variety of other music, as well as national and local news.
The school moved to its current location on Great Bridge Boulevard and Tiger Drive in Chesapeake's Greenbrier section in 1994. After the move the school kept its old name, and the Rodgers Street building became Oscar F. Smith Middle School. Therefore, Oscar Frommel Smith is the only person to be the namesake of two Chesapeake schools.
Smith High was authorized to begin administering the IB Diploma Program by the International Baccalaureate Organization in 2003 and IB students from all six Chesapeake zones feed into it. Up to 60 applicants are accepted each year for the four-year program. Chesapeake Public Schools' pre-IB academy instruction consists of intensified courses in grades 9 and 10 in English, Spanish or French, social studies, science, and mathematics in preparation for the college-level curriculum of the grade 11-12 diploma program. IB students have the opportunity to earn the International Baccalaureate diploma in addition to the Virginia Advanced Studies Diploma.
As part of his 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in the J. William Myers gymnasium on 21 August 2008. John Kerry held a similar event in the gym in 2004.
Facilities
One of the newest school buildings in the Chesapeake City Public Schools, Smith High houses some of the newest technology in the district, including numerous networked computer, business, and technology labs, and a 1,000-seat auditorium.
The Linda P. Overton Theatre at the school houses technology for student presentations. In 1994 it was named in honor of Linda Peel Overton (17 June 1939 - 28 February 2017), a past president of the Chesapeake Council of PTA’s, past chairperson of the Tidewater Region of the Virginia School Board Association, past member of Board of Directors of Virginia School Board Association, and a nine year member of the School Board for Chesapeake Schools.
The 3,850-seat gymnasium is one of the largest gyms in the Hampton Roads area, housing three full basketball courts. It was named after J. William Myers (23 November 1940 - 16 February 2006) and is also known as the "Dollar Dome" gym, after Myers’s nickname, “Dollar Bill”. Bill Myers joined the Smith High faculty in 1977 to teach health and physical education. He also served as Athletic Director until his retirement in 2004 and he coached varsity basketball, baseball, track and junior varsity football. In 1994, Bill was inducted into the Oscar Smith High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
The 7,000-seat Beard-DeLong-Easley Field stadium is the home of the Oscar Smith Tigers football team. It was dedicated on 6 September 1996, in honor of three All-American Athletes who graduated from Smith High and who went on to play in the NFL. Edward Leroy Beard (born 9 December 1939 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1955 to 1959 and played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1965 to 1972. Steven Cyril DeLong (3 July 1943 - 18 August 2010) attended from 1957 to 1961 and was the number one draft pick of the Chicago Bears where he played for one year, and the San Diego Chargers where he played from 1965 to 1972. Kenneth Mason Easley Jr. (born 15 January 1959 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1973 to 1977 and played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1981 to 1987. In 2017, Easley was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Athletics
The Oscar Smith football team entrance on the field through the so-called "Tiger Cage" is a spectacle. The Oscar Smith Tigers have won 4 state championships in football. Previous Coach Richard Morgan won state titles in 2008 against the Osbourn Eagles and in 2011 against the Centreville Wildcats. The Tigers won their third state title in 2020, defeating the South County Stallions in a rematch of the 2019 championship game. The Tigers most recently won the state championship in 2021 against James Madison High School. This victory gave the Tigers back-to-back state championships for the first time in the state of Virginia, since Granby High School in 1945-46.
Orchestra
The Oscar F. Smith High School Orchestras have grown from forty eight members to over one hundred members. The orchestras have earned top awards at music festivals in Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Florida, New York and Indiana and have consistently earned superior ratings at the VBODA/VMEA District IV Orchestra Festival.
The Chamber Orchestra earned a standing ovation for its outstanding performance as the final orchestra performance of the 2005 Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) In-Service Conference. They have also performed by invitation at the 2007 National Band & Orchestra Festival in Carnegie Hall, the 2008 and 2011 Music for All National "Orchestra America" Festival in Indianapolis and the 2009 and 2012 ASTA National Orchestra Festival in Atlanta (as a part of the American String Teachers Association's National 'ASTA' Conference).
Notable alumni
Ed Beard (class of 1959), linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers from 1965 to 1972.
Steve DeLong (class of 1961), defensive lineman for the San Diego Chargers from 1965 to 1971 and for the Chicago Bears in 1972.
Kenny Easley (class of 1977), defensive back for the Seattle Seahawks from 1981 to 1987.
Richard K. Mott (class of 1981), relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1981 and 1982.
Jamie Burke (class of 1998), USA Women's National Rugby Team from 2004 to 2014, and captain in 2010.
Greg Boone (class of 2004), player for the Milwaukee Mustangs (arena football) in 2011 and 2012.
Anthony T. Shawler (class of 2005), drafted by the Washington Nationals in 2005 and by the Detroit Tigers in 2008, pitcher in the minor league from 2008 to 2010.
Andrew Brown (class of 2014), defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals from 2018 to present.
Josh Sweat (class of 2015), defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2018 to present.
References
External links
Oscar F. Smith High School website
Educational institutions established in 1954
Public high schools in Virginia
Schools in Chesapeake, Virginia
1954 establishments in Virginia |
5388078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20David%20Allis | Charles David Allis | Charles David Allis (born March 22, 1951) is an American molecular biologist, and is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics at The Rockefeller University.
Research
In pursuit of understanding the DNA-histone protein complex and the intricate system which allows for gene activation, the Allis lab focuses on chromatin signaling via histone modifications – acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation.
David Allis is best known for deciphering regulatory mechanisms that impinge upon the fundamental repeating unit of chromatin. Allis was not the first one to recognize histone acetyltransferase activity (), nor its role in the regulation of gene expression (Allfrey, V. G. (1970) Changes in chromosomal proteins at times of gene activation Fed. Proc. 29 (4): 1447–1460.) but he sparked renewed interest in chromatin function. Histone acetylation as well as other modifications (methylation, phosphorilation, ubiquitination) may frame the "Histone Code" or "Epigenetic Code." While the DNA code is responsible for the sequence of RNA's and proteins, the Histone Code may ultimately be responsible for the epigenetic regulation of this genetic information. Allis discovered the critical link, through histone acetyltransferase-containing transcriptional coactivators, between targeted histone acetylation and gene-specific transcriptional activation. In further studies, he linked histone phosphorylation events to mitosis and mitogen action, established a synergy between histone phosphorylation and acetylation events and elaborated the ‘histone code hypothesis’ (and extensions thereof), one of the most highly cited theories governing epigenetics.
Recent studies suggest a new model wherein histone mutations (‘oncohistones’) represent a novel and previously unrecognized mechanism to alter epigenetic states in a variety of pathologies through inhibition of a wide range of histone methyltransferases. In turn, oncohistone mutations exert their oncogenic effect by reprogramming the cellular epigenome and transcriptome, thereby disrupting the highly coordinated epigenetic programs required for cell-specific differentiation. Implications of this research for human biology and human disease, notably cancer, are far-reaching and continuing at a remarkable pace.
Education
University of Cincinnati, B.S., summa cum laude, biology, 1973
Indiana University, Ph.D., biology, 1978, "Isolation and characterization of pole cells and polar granules from Drosophila melanogaster,"
University of Rochester, postdoctoral fellowship, 1978–1981
Honors and awards
Phi Beta Kappa
2001: Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001: DeWitt Stetten Jr. Award Recipient, sponsored by the Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH
2002: Dickson Prize in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2003: Massry Prize in Chromatin and Transcription (shared with Drs. Michael Grunstein and Roger Kornberg)
2004: Wiley Prize for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
2005: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences,
2007: Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Cincinnati
2007: Gairdner Foundation International Award
2008: ASBMB-Merck Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
2011: Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research (shared with Dr. Michael Grunstein), Brandeis University
2011: Howard T. Ricketts Prize for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences, University of Chicago
2013: Nicholson Award Lecturer at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2014: Japan Prize
2014: Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize of the Académie des Sciences, France
2015: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
2016: Gruber Prize in Genetics from the Rockefeller Foundation (jointly with Michael Grunstein)
2017: March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
2018: Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (jointly with Michael Grunstein)
Notes
References
External links
Allis Lab at The Rockefeller University
National Academy of Sciences Profile of C. David Allis
ISI Highly Cited Researchers
1951 births
Living people
Scientists from Cincinnati
American geneticists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rockefeller University faculty
Massry Prize recipients
University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
5388081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crew%20%28comics%29 | The Crew (comics) | The Crew was the name of comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series involved teams of primarily dark skin tone superheroes banding together in New York City to fight injustice.
The first series was published in 2003 and ran for seven issues. The series was written by Christopher Priest and illustrated by Joe Bennett. The second series, a revival known as Black Panther and the Crew, was published in 2017 and ran six issues. It was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and illustrated by Butch Guice.
Publication history
2003 series
According to writer Christopher Priest's pitch, The Crew was about four hardened heroes who had all lost their families; four men who came together initially out of self-interest, but would soon discover their commonality of loss. The Crew was all in one way or another orphans. These men were intensely dedicated to their respective goals, but each had a hole in their center. The seven stories that were released before the book's cancellation were for the most part introductory pieces, basically breaking down the lives of each member, his personal pain, and the universe he lived in. If the series had continued, it would have highlighted each man's personal evolution to his "state of grace."
The bulk of the first story arc, Big Trouble In Little Mogadishu, was focused on the origin of Josiah X, son of Isaiah Bradley from Truth: Red, White & Black. Writer Priest intended that Josiah would eventually lead the team.
2017 series
After the success of his run on Black Panther, Coates launched the spinoff title Black Panther and the Crew, a revival of the 2003 series.
Coates originally wanted to use the same characters from the 2003 series, but found that a number of them weren't available. After selecting a new Crew, he ultimately added two female members — Misty Knight and Storm. Poet Yona Harvey also contributed to the series (as she did on another short-lived Black Panther spinoff, World of Wakanda). Black Panther and the Crew ran six issues before being canceled due to low sales.
Overview
2003 series
The Crew takes place in the No man's land between the streets of the fictional "Little Mogadishu" and those of the fictional exclusive gated community of "Princeton Walk" in Brooklyn, New York. Princeton Walk was developed by multimillion-dollar investments and tax incentives to Grace & Tumbalt, a largely black-owned corporation, who cleaned up a section of Brooklyn and moved the criminal element and the poverty line residents out. Little Mogadishu, or "The Mog," as the locals call it, is a side effect of the gentrification process so that displaced criminal and poverty elements are now concentrated in a war zone outside Princeton Walk's walls.
Jim Rhodes, formerly War Machine but now down on his luck, came to Little Mogadishu to look into the murder of his estranged sister, and when it became apparent that the police were not going to get any results, he took the matter into his own hands. He delivered the men responsible for his sister's murder to the police in a neatly tied up package for them, coming across the local Muslim preacher Josiah X along the way. However, this was not enough to satisfy Rhodey, and he set his sights on the 66 Bridges leader, Triage. His covert, vigilante action and contact with Josiah put him on Kasper Cole's radar, making Kasper suspicious of what a guy like Rhodey was doing in a place like the Mog. Rhodey hit Little Mogadishu like a force of nature, derailing the secret money train that delivered bribes in bulk to a large number of corrupt officials. This action drew in Junta, who smelled the opportunity to leverage his way back into the spy business if he could get a piece of the action. He found himself drafted into Rhodey's plan along with Kasper Cole and eventually a reluctant Josiah X.
Together, the Crew blackmailed a long list of corrupt officials to turn in evidence against 66 Bridges and Triage and then went after Triage directly. As Triage was no lightweight, the situation got messy and some of the Crew had to decide between their self-interests and being heroes. For Josiah, the decision to do the right was simple and instant. Junta reluctantly turned Triage into the authorities, blowing his chance to use Triage to get back in with his former bosses. Kasper Cole kept busy saving lives as the White Tiger, sacrificing his chance to get in on the big bust as Kasper Cole and further his police career.
The Crew apparently did not remain together after this event. Rhodey soon went back to being War Machine, and Josiah was said to have disappeared.
While many of the characters in The Crew were members of racial minorities in the United States, Priest chose not to center The Crew around race relations:
Nonetheless, critics have called Priest's The Crew, "The blackest superhero story that Marvel Comics ever published."
2017 series
Black Panther and the Crew takes place in the context of All-New, All-Different Marvel. Following Black Panther's gathering of evidence of outside influences fueling dissent in Wakanda, T'Challa calls on Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Storm, and Eden Fesi. Luke Cage describes the group as "The Crew". The series is set in Harlem and the plot is set into motion by an episode of police brutality.
Members
Original Crew
Junta — Daniel "Danny" Vincent, freelance intelligence agent and con man
Justice — Josiah "Josiah X" Bradley, son of Isaiah Bradley, the black Captain America
Kasper Cole — Kevin "Kasper" Cole, the White Tiger, is heir-in-waiting to the title of Black Panther
War Machine — Jim Rhodes, former United States Marine and friend of Iron Man
Black Panther and the Crew
Black Panther — T'Challa, King of Wakanda, member of The Avengers
Eden Fesi — aka Manifold; aboriginal Australian mutant with the ability to bend time and space, connecting one piece to another and allowing him to teleport
Luke Cage — Hero for hire
Misty Knight — former NYPD officer, now private investigator with bionic prosthetic arm
Storm — Ororo Munroe, mutant and member of the X-Men
See also
Truth: Red, White & Black
Notes
References
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
(2017)
External links
The Crew at Marvel.com
The Crew by Christopher Priest
2003 comics debuts
2004 comics endings
2017 comics debuts
2017 comics endings
African-American superheroes
Comics set in New York City
Marvel Comics superhero teams
Black Panther (Marvel Comics) |
5388090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette%20High%20School%20%28Virginia%29 | Lafayette High School (Virginia) | Lafayette High School is a public secondary school in James City County, Virginia, just outside the city limits of Williamsburg, Virginia. It is part of Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools and is located at 4460 Longhill Road.
Most of the Williamsburg city limits is in the Lafayette High attendance zone.
History
Lafayette High School opened in 1973 and served as the sole high school for James City County and Williamsburg City. The school itself is located in James City County though it has a Williamsburg mailing address.
In 1997, half of its student body with the exception of rising seniors were moved to Jamestown High School which opened to alleviate overcrowding at Lafayette. The Williamsburg area began to develop rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s, which prompted the opening of Warhill High School in 2007. Students were forced to redistrict.
Campus
The main office is located right at the main entrance of the school. The wide hallway opens up into the "upper commons". The cafeteria is located in this area. There are three lines for purchasing food. The auditorium is located to the left. Three large hallways branch out from the "upper commons." A smaller hallway leads to the girls locker room and the weight room used for athletic training. The first hallway across from the main office leads to the marketing classes, the gymnasium, the boys locker room, and the trailers, which will no longer be in use after the 2007–08 school year. There are two hallways which parallel the sides the auditorium. The first is known as the ramp. Another hallway at the top of the ramp leads to the fine arts classrooms. The other hallway leads to "the stairs. Another hallway branches off here as well. It leads to the mathematics and art classrooms. At the end of "the ramp" and "the stairs" is the "lower commons." The lower commons is a smaller gathering area that is busy when classes are changing. The Media Center is located at the back of the "lower commons." A loop goes around the media center. On one side is the semicircular world language and science hallway. On the outside of the semicircle is a pair of well equipped computer labs. On the other side is the social studies and technology hallway. At the back of the loop surrounding the Media Center is the entrance/exit to the bus loop. Two hallways branch off from the "lower commons." One leads to the small lecture hall and the fine arts hallway. The other leads to math hallway and the social studies hallway.
Enrollment
† New high schools opened in each of these years, leading to students being reassigned.
Teacher statistics
Full-time: 67 (2012-2013)
Student/Teacher Ratio: 16.4:1
Demographics
As of the 2012–2013 school year, Lafayette High School's student body was 61% (667) White; 25% (276) Black; 7% (79) Hispanic; 3% (29) Asian; and 4% (47) other. The school was 53% male and 47% female.
Culture
Lafayette High School has several activities throughout the year. The first big occasion is the typical Spirit Week and Homecoming Dance. Lafayette is known in the school district for having a parade in Colonial Williamsburg that features each class making a float to accompany their class princes/princesses/kings/queens. A number of clubs also participate as well. One year, the Operation Smile club hosted a Sadie Hawkens Dance as a fundraiser. The sophomore class at one point held their Ring Dance at the school. Prom and After Prom have also been held at the school in past years. The school also has pep rallies for every sports season (Fall, Winter, and Spring).
Athletics
The mascot is a ram and the sports teams currently play in the AAAA Bay Rivers District. Lafayette High School has major track, cross country, and football programs that has produced several professional athletes. Lafayette enjoyed short a stint in the AA Bay Rivers District and will move to the AAAA Bay Rivers District in Fall 2015. Before Jamestown's opening, the Rams were in the AAA Peninsula District. The Rams have won seventeen AA state titles. They have five girls swimming titles from 2004–2008; one in field hockey in 2003; three titles in boys swimming in 1999, 2000, and 2009; two in boys indoor track in 2005 and 2015; one in boys outdoor track in 2005; one in AA Division 4 football in 2001; two consecutive individual girls tennis singles titles from 2007-2008; one in boys cross country in 2013; one in girls outdoor track in 2015; and in baseball in 2015 and 2019.
Band
The Lafayette Band program has won grand championships at several band festivals since the school opened in the early '70s under the direction of D. Keith Miller. During the period of the early '80s "Corp" style marching programs was introduced by Director Miller and carried on by Directors John Ford and Director David Smith. The fledgling marching program was making great strides with the new competitive program and with the introduction of a solid marching program that further inspired the students to raise Lafayette's band program to a higher level. The latter '80s brought a change when acclaimed Director Alan Wright took over changing the program back to concert format band. The band consistently received Superior Ratings and was viewed as one of the top concert and jazz band programs in the state. When Director Wright retired in the early 2000s, the new Director T. Jonathan Hargis reestablished the marching program. Mr. Chris Smith directed the band for a short time as Hargis had stints at Warhill HS and Berkeley Middle Schools. Hargis returned in Fall 2014. In the fall of 2019 the Marching Band received their second Superior rating.
Clubs
Lafayette has a number of clubs that have been around for years. They include:
Art Club,
Art Honor Society,
ASL (American Sign Language) Club,
Band,
Chamber Choir,
Dance Team,
Debate Team,
DECA,
FBLA,
Flag Squad,
Forensics Team,
French Club,
French Honor Society,
German Club,
German Honor Society,
Gay-Straight Alliance,
Harmonics,
Interact Club,
Jazz Ensemble,
Key Club,
Latin Club,
Latin Honor Society,
The Lafayette Ledger,
LESA,
Literary Magazine,
Logos,
Mock Trial Team,
Model UN,
Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society),
National Honor Society,
Operation Smile,
Orchestra,
Peer Partners,
Project Reach-out,
Quill and Scroll,
Rams and Lambs,
SCA,
SGA,
Scholastic Bowl,
Show Choir,
Spanish Honor Society,
Student to Student,
Student Athletic Trainers,
TCE Skills USA,
Thespian Society,
Video Gaming Club, and
Yearbook
Theatre
Lafayette High School has a long tradition of an outstanding theatre program. The current director is 2004 WJCC MS Teacher of the Year Suzan McCorry who has directed productions like Grease, Anything Goes, Happy Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Lend Me a Tenor, A Piece of My Heart, and Noises Off. Lafayette's one-acts have a very successful history, having gone to states each year under McCorry's direction. The most recent production is Guys and Dolls in April 2022.
Past Directors Include: Jack Poland, Bill Snyder, Gail Albert, Rosemarie Allmann, and Phil Raybourn.
Notable alumni
Mark Carnevale, professional golfer, winner of 1992 Chattanooga Classic and 1992 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.
Michael Derks, Balsac, the Jaws of Death, guitarist for the heavy metal band GWAR
Mel Gray, former kick returner for the NFL's New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, Houston Oilers and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Although Bruce Hornsby, three time Grammy Award winning pianist and singer, has been listed as an alumnus of Lafayette High School, he actually was in the last graduating class of James Blair High School, Williamsburg, Virginia, in June 1973.
Seneca Lassiter,1997, 2002 U.S. Outdoor 1,500m champ; 2001 U.S. Indoor mile champ; 1997, 98 NCAA 1500 champ; 1999 & 2001 USA 1,500m runner-up.
Chris Luzar, former NFL player.
Terrance Martin, former NFL player.
Mark Morton, guitar player for the heavy metal band Lamb of God
Maj. Anthony Mulhare, current Advance Pilot/Narrator for the United States Air Force Thunderbirds. Currently flies the number 8 jet on the team. AA Region I
Jessica Roulston, professional actor and producer for film and television. Emmy Award winner for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007, Visual FX producer for Academy Award-winning film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Visual FX producer for the teaser / trailer for Tron: Legacy are some highlights of her career.
Dr. Alan Theodore Sherman (’74) is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). As director of the UMBC Chess Program, Sherman led the UMBC Chess Team to win a record six national collegiate championships and ten Pan-American championships. He earned a PhD in computer science from MIT.
Canaan Smith, American country singer and a reality television contestant on The Amazing Race
Ron Springs, former running back for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Lawrence Taylor, retired Hall of Fame American football player who played his entire career as a linebacker for the NFL's New York Giants. Regarded by many as the greatest defensive player of all time. Also holds the Giants career sack record with 142. Taylor also Defeated BAM BAM Bigelow At WWF's WrestleMania XI in 1995
Identical Twins Ross and James Hall, Class of 2003. Professional Wrestling Tag-Team, Hall Bros. 2003-2007, HallStars 2007-2018 Retired by WWE Hall of Fame Tag-Team Rock N Roll Express in Hampton, Va. March 3, 2018. Both were part of The 2001 AA Division 4 football State Championship Team and The 2002 AA Division 4 football State Runner-up. Ross(LB),James(Off. Guard)
Philippe Warren, Class of 2010. Navy Flight Surgeon and member of the United States Navy Blue Angels.
References
Public high schools in Virginia
Schools in James City County, Virginia
Education in Williamsburg, Virginia
Educational institutions established in 1973
1973 establishments in Virginia |
5388094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricola%20of%20Avignon | Agricola of Avignon | Saint Agricola (Agricol, Agricolus) of Avignon (c. 630–c. 700) was a bishop of Avignon. According to tradition, Agricola ("farmer") was the son of Saint Magnus, also a bishop of the city.
Life
At the age of sixteen, he was professed a monk at the Abbey of Lérins. However, at the age of thirty, he was summoned by his father Magnus to Avignon, where he was appointed coadjutor. When his father died in 660, he succeeded as bishop. He built a church in the city that was staffed by the monks of Lérins. He built a convent for Benedictine nuns. He was a well-known preacher, and famous for his charity and defense of the poor and sick against civil authorities.
He died of natural causes and was succeeded by Saint Veredemus.
Veneration
A charter of 919 mentions that Saint Agricola had been buried in the Avignon church dedicated to Saint Peter (Saint-Pierre). At the end of the 11th century, Bishop Arbert of Avignon made a donation that referred to the abbey of Saint-Agricol; the church of Saint-Agricol (Saint Agricola) that seems to have been built in the 12th century was made collegial in 1321 by Pope John XXII, one of the Avignon-based popes, who equipped it with a statute and income. It is possible that on this occasion that the transfer of the relics of St. Agricola from the church of Saint-Pierre to Saint-Agricol occurred. They are still preserved in this church.
The cult of Saint Agricola increased in the 14th and 15th centuries. 15th-century documents record that he prevented an invasion of storks by his blessing. He is thus patron of storks and is depicted with them as his emblem. In 1647, he was declared patron saint of the city of Avignon by Archbishop César Argelli. Devotees prayed to the saint whose name signifies "cultivator of fields" for good weather, fine harvests, and rain during times of drought. He is also invoked against the bubonic plague and misfortune of all kinds. His feast day is September 2.
References
Sources
Elizabeth Hallam (ed.), Saints: Who They Are and How They Help You (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 100.
External links
Patron Saints Index
Saint Patrick's Patron Saints Index
Saint Agricol d'Avignon, évêque
630 births
700 deaths
7th-century Burgundian bishops
Bishops of Avignon
7th-century Frankish saints |
5388119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclaim%20Games | Acclaim Games | Acclaim Games Incorporated was an American video game company that offered free massively multiplayer online role-playing games on its website upon registration. The company was founded in 2006 and was the successor to Acclaim Entertainment in terms of brand name. After Acclaim Entertainment filed for bankruptcy, former Activision CEO Howard Marks purchased the "Acclaim" name in September 2004 for a reported $100,000. He, along with Neil Malhotra, set up a new company, Acclaim Games, that was to take a different approach to the market than Acclaim Entertainment.
While Acclaim Games primarily focused on bringing to North America and Europe online games originally from Asia, it also gave the opportunity to its registered members to submit video games they created. Acclaim Games relied on In-game advertising and items sales for revenues, while releasing the games themselves, free.
The company released fourteen games: The Chronicles of Spellborn, Kogamu, BOTS!! (which was its launching title), 9Dragons, 2Moons, Ponystars, Dance Online, My Diva Doll, Tribal Nations and Prize Potato. As of December 2007, the company had 15 million registered accounts and 500,000 active players across all games.
On May 18, 2010, Playdom acquired the company. Three months later, on August 26, Playdom closed Acclaim Games.
Games
Bots!! - A multi-player online fighting game in which players choose from one of three basic BOTS (Patch, Surge, and Ram) and then upgrade their character throughout the game. There are multi-player story modes that include Sector (Player vs Virus), PVP (Player/Team vs Player/Team) and Base (Base vs Base). This game has been out since April 2006. Before the game's original release, a 2D promo of the game was available for a short amount of time.
Kogamu - Kogamu is effectively a lightweight MMORPG, modeled after the Korean "Dungeon and Fighter" title. This was the second title Project Top Secret winner Mike (Doran) Zummo spearheaded. All the action of the game takes place on side-scrolling screens occupied by randomly moving enemies that need to be beaten, shot, burned or otherwise killed off.
RockFree - A Guitar Hero-like, free-to-play, flash based game. This game was the first title Project Top Secret winner Mike (Doran) Zummo worked on. Originally starting on the Web, RockFree allowed up to 8 players to face off playing the guitar tracks to popular songs. Leveraging licences from Aerosmith, Heart, and many others, the game attracted great attention. In a partnership with Slide, the game was ported to Facebook, where it peaked at 1.5 monthly average users before being discontinued.
9Dragons - A 3D MMORPG set in China during the Ming Dynasty. It includes actual Chinese geography and historical features such as the Great Wall of China and the Shaolin Temple. 9Dragons was developed by Korean company Indy21 and the lore and in-game storyline was remastered and re-directed in the United States by best-selling author Steven-Elliot Altman.
2Moons - A translation of the Korean MMORPG Dekaron by Gamehi, featuring a new story line. Published by Acclaim under the direction of David Perry, 2Moons uses an in-game advertising business model. In December 2007 the game had 500,000 active players, with fewer than 10% buying items through this advertising.
Ponystars - an online virtual pets game, launched in June 2008. It is a US-hosted version of the French game Pony Valley and is operated in partnership with that game's creator, Feerik.
My Diva Doll - A multi-player online fashion and decorating game. Partnership with French company Feerik.
Tribal Nations - A multi-player online sim set in the Native Tribes of Mesoamerica. Partnership with French company Celsius Online. The game was based on Celsius Online's then-popular webgame Renaissance Kingdoms. After Acclaim ended the partnership, Celsius continued the game, renaming it Native Kingdoms.
Prize Potato - This flash game was Acclaim's first foray into social games on Facebook. The final incarnation had people create characters that people in their social network voted on. The owner of the character with the most votes won major prizes like concert tickets, trips, video cameras, and more selected at the outset of the race.
The Chronicles of Spellborn - MMORPG developed by Spellborn International, released on November 27, 2008 in the Europe. Release for the US and the UK is planned for Q1 of 2009.
Knight's Blood- A multi-player online Knight fighting game. In partnership with RedMoonStudios GmbH & Co. KG.
Muniz Online
Prize Island
Top Secret - A Scalable Multi-player Online Racing Game directed by David Perry and developed by Acclaim Games. It is an online collaboration in video game development, drawing on both established professionals and novices. The project also features a competition, where the top contributor will take the role as director for a new game.
Dance! Online
References
External links
Official website
2006 establishments in California
2010 disestablishments in California
American companies disestablished in 2010
American companies established in 2006
Companies based in Beverly Hills, California
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies based in California
Video game companies disestablished in 2010
Video game companies established in 2006 |
5388126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin%20%28comics%29 | Fin (comics) | The Fin is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Golden Age Fin has elements of both the swashbuckling pirate and superhero genres.
Publication history
Stories about the first Fin initially appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #7-8, (April 1941, Jan.1942) and, in issue #9 (April 1942) as well after the title's name change to Comedy Comics; The Fin was created by Bill Everett. Decades later, a simulacrum of the Fin briefly appeared, along with simulacra of the Blazing Skull, the Patriot, and the Golden Age Angel and Vision, to aid the superhero team the Avengers in The Avengers #97 (March 1972). In 2004, the Fin was revived by Marvel Comics and appeared as an ally of the Invaders in that team's series The New Invaders #2-3 (Nov.-Dec. 2004), #6 (March 2005), and #8-9 (May–June 2005). He was in the (unfinished) miniseries All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes as a member of the Crazy Sues, a unit of Allied men with special abilities during World War II. The Fin received an entry in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Golden Age (2004).
Fictional character biography
The Fin (Peter Noble)
Peter Noble was an officer of the United States Navy who was caught in a sinking submarine and was shocked to find that the immense pressure and lack of air did not kill him. He discovered an undersea civilization called Neptunia, and after several adventures on and under the sea he was made the Neptunians' ruler.
At some unknown point he met, fell in love with and married Nia Noble, who became his Queen and co-ruler. Half a century later, he was called back to America and recalled to active duty as an admiral in command of a new vessel, the Infiltrator. This ship was no ordinary battleship; it had been designed by Bruce Dickson, the Thin Man, using technology from an incredibly advanced civilization. Infiltrator was capable of taking shortcuts through space, in theory making it undetectable and uncatchable. Noble and his wife came aboard and ran the ship's day-to-day operations, with the vessel acting as a base for the New Invaders team of superhuman operatives in their battle against the evil Neo-Nazi group called Axis Mundi. In the end, the vessel was destroyed and the Invaders members went their separate ways. Admiral Noble (ret.) once again returned to Neptunia with his bride to take up his duties as ruler.
Wild Pack version
The second Fin is a character originally from the 1990s series Silver Sable and the Wild Pack. Although he initially disputed the name Fin when pressed to reveal his real identity by fellow Intruder Sandman, he begrudgingly accepted the moniker others had given him.
He is later seen as a member of the Garrison, the Vermont Fifty State Initiative superhero team, joined by fellow Intruders and Wild Pack alumni Man-Eater. They were assigned to apprehend Thunderbolts member Penance only to be defeated by him.
Powers and abilities
The first Fin has twenty times normal human strength and is able to survive the crushing pressures of the ocean's depths. He can breathe air or water, and can swim as fast as a torpedo. However, if not immersed in water, his strength gradually weakens. The Fin is armed with a magical cutlass, able to cut through nearly anything. The cutlass's magic also prevents him from aging.
The second Fin has uncharted superhuman strength as well as the ability to send out a signal toward any object one hundred times a second, possibly a form of sonar, used for echolocation. He is also a physics expert, whether or not this is merely a personal interest of Fin's or he possesses formal training, is as yet unrevealed. Fin has kept his scientific expertise somewhat quiet in an attempt to prevent being exploited for his knowledge.
Other versions
In the Ultimate Marvel reality, Fin is an amphibious villain and a member of the Serpent Skulls. When he and Arnie tried to rob Ganke in Hell's Kitchen, they were defeated by Cloak and Dagger.
References
External links
Fin (Peter Noble) at Marvel Wiki
Fin (Wild Pack) at Marvel Wiki
The Fin profile
Characters created by Bill Everett
Comics characters introduced in 1941
Fictional lieutenants
Fictional swordfighters in comics
Fictional United States Navy officers
Golden Age superheroes
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics male superheroes
Marvel Comics superheroes
Timely Comics characters |
5388129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie | Ossie | Ossie is a nickname usually used in place of a given name such as Osama, Osman, Oswald, Oscar, Ossian, Osmond, Osbourne and Osvaldo. In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, it is used as a diminutive for Joseph and Yousif.
It may refer to:
People
Given name
Ossie Abeygunasekera (1950–1994), assassinated Sri Lankan politician
Osvaldo Ardiles (born 1952), Argentinian football manager, pundit and former player
Ossie Asmundson (1908–1964), Canadian National Hockey League player
Ossie Bertram (1909–1983), Australian rules footballer
Ossie Blanco, 1970s baseball player
Ossie Bluege (1900–1985), American Major League Baseball player
Ossie Byrne (1926–1983), Australian record producer best known for his work with the early Bee Gees
Ossie Clark (1942–1996), British fashion designer
Ossie Davis (1917–2005), African-American actor and activist
Ossie Dawson (1919–2008), South African cricketer
Ossie Fraser (1923–1982), Canadian politician
Ossie Green (1906–1991), Australian rules footballer
Ossie Lovelock (1911–1981), Australian sportsman
Ossie Male (1893–1975), Welsh rugby union player
Ossie Moore (born 1958), Australian golfer
Oswald Morris (1915–2014), British cinematographer
Ossie Nicholson (1906–1965), Australian cyclist
Ossie Nortjé (born 1990), South African rugby union player
Ossie Ocasio (born 1955), Puerto Rican retired boxer and former world cruiserweight champion
Ossie Pickworth (1918–1969), Australian golfer
Ossie Schectman (1919–2013), American basketball player who scored the first basket in National Basketball Association history
Ossie Solem (1891–1970), American college football and basketball head coach
Ossie Vitt (1890–1963), American Major League baseball player and manager
Peter Osgood (1947–2006), English footballer nicknamed 'Ossie'
Surname
Manuel Ossie (born 1968), Liberian boxer
Fictional characters
Ossie Ostrich, on the Australian TV programs Tarax Show, Hey Hey It's Saturday and The Ossie Ostrich Video Show
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for funny animal films in the 1920s and '30s
See also
Ozzie
Ossi (disambiguation)
Masculine given names
Lists of people by nickname
Hypocorisms |
5388139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Unaipon | James Unaipon | James Unaipon, born James Ngunaitponi, (c. 1835 – 1907) was an Australian Indigenous preacher of the Warrawaldie (also spelt Waruwaldi) Lakalinyeri of the Ngarrindjeri.
Born James Ngunaitponi, he took the name James Reid in honour of the Scottish Free Church minister who baptised him. As James Reid he was sponsored by the Aborigines' Friends' Association for training as a missionary at the Point McLeay Mission on the banks of Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia in 1865. After arriving at Point McLeay from his home in Wellington, Unaipon returned to using his birth name of Ngunaitponi however, the Europeans anglicised his name to Unaipon in correspondence.
On 27 July 1866 Unaipon married Nymbulda, the daughter of Pullum (King Peter) who was the Rupelle (misinterpreted as "King" by colonists) of the Ramindjeri. The Rev George Taplin assumed that the position of Rupelle was hereditary and widely promoted Nymbulda as a queen, believing that a missionary related to royalty would be more influential in converting the Ngarrindjeri. The Rupelle was in fact elected by the Indigenous Tendi (government) and conferred no additional status to his family.
Unaipon co-authored writings on the Ngarrindjeri language was the first Aboriginal deacon, and the father of renowned Australian inventor, David Unaipon.
Notes
Citations
Sources
1830s births
1907 deaths
Australian Protestant ministers and clergy
Indigenous Australian people
Ngarrindjeri
Year of birth uncertain
Indigenous Australian clergy |
5388158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archiveus | Archiveus | Archiveus is a computer virus for Microsoft Windows operating systems that is used as a method of extortion.
It is a Trojan horse-type ransomware virus that encrypts the user's files. The user must then purchase something on specific Web sites to obtain the password to decrypt the files.
In May 2006, the password protection was cracked. The password for restoring the affected files was found to be "mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw".
References
External links
Virus information by Symantec
Windows file viruses |
5388168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitab%20al-Musiqa%20al-Kabir | Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir | Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir (, ) is a treatise on music in east by the medieval philosopher al-Farabi (872-950/951). The work prescribes different aspects of music such as maqamat, and is believed to be influenced by the Pythagorean theory of harmonic ratios. The book was translated into Hebrew by Joseph ben Judah ibn Aknin.
Content
Al-Farabi divided Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir into two treatises. The first treatise is composed of two parts; following the Aristotelian tradition, al-Farabi split his study of music into a theoretical and practical aspect. The first part, which consists of two discourses, is an introduction which establishes the theoretical principles of music and investigation into how sound is generated. The second part applies the theoretical principles established in the first part to the musical instruments that were in use during al-Farabi’s time, while also discussing musical intervals and different kinds of melodies. The second treatise was intended to be a commentary to the thought of previous theorists of music, but it is not extant.
References
External links
World Music: Arab Classical at National Geographic
10th-century Arabic books
Music of the medieval Islamic world
Persian music
Al-Farabi |
5388173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyline | Moneyline | Moneyline may refer to:
Moneyline odds, a form of fixed-odds gambling also known as American odds
Moneyline, renamed Lou Dobbs Moneyline in 2001 and Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003, a television series hosted by Lou Dobbs on Cable News Network |
5388174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%20No.%201%20%28Smetana%29 | String Quartet No. 1 (Smetana) | String Quartet No. 1 ("From My Life", ) in E minor, written in 1876, is a four-movement chamber composition by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. It is an autobiographical work with nationalistic elements and was published in 1880 by František Augustin Urbánek in Prague. It was given a private premiere in 1878 in Prague, with Antonín Dvořák as violist, and its public premiere took place on 29 March 1879, performed by Ferdinand Lachner, Jan Pelikán, Josef Krehan and Alois Neruda. Smetana was a complex figure in his time, straddling his Austro-Hungarian upbringing coupled with his ethnic Czech background. His first quartet encompasses the politics and culture that resulted from that upbringing.
Background
Autobiography
At an unknown point in Smetana’s life, he contracted syphilis—in 1874, at 50 years old, his health began to swiftly decline. After a gradual decrease in his hearing, he became completely deaf by October of that year. It is widely believed that his deafness was caused by syphilis. After becoming deaf, Smetana moved in 1876 from Prague to Jabkenice. He still hoped that the condition would not be permanent. In the autumn of that year, he began to compose a new work. It was to be his intimate confession, a work depicting the course of his life. Included in the work was a high-pitched E natural which mimicked the ringing in his ears. He completed the composition on 29 December 1876. In a letter to his friend Josef Srb-Debrnov, Smetana formulated the work's ideological conception and the features of the individual movements. Smetana endured many hardships throughout his life, and these hardships inspired him to write music. For example, his daughter's death was the inspiration to write his Trio in G flat, while the death of his first wife, Catherine, was the inspiration for the third movement of his String Quartet No. 1. The work was published in 1880 by Fr. Urbánek in Prague.
Nationalism
Though he was known for his orchestral and operatic works, in his last years, Smetana’s From My Life (Quartet No. 1) was played more frequently than his other works. His chamber music was seen as less of a threat perhaps because much of his other work held political undertones of Czech nationalism. While his Quartet No. 1 was not overtly political, it honored his Czech roots with the polka featured in the second movement.
Until 1848, in Czechoslovakia, the educated, elite classes were taught to speak and write only in German; they learned just enough Czech to communicate with peddlers and servants. Smetana learned German at home and in school and struggled to learn the Czech language later in life; it became an important part of his growing nationalism and informed his musical sensibilities. His music is often held as the beginning and premier of distinctively Czech music.
Structure
The cycle consists of four movements:
Allegro vivo appassionato
Allegro moderato à la Polka
Largo sostenuto
Vivace
Smetana described the first movement as a romantically driven sketch of his youth as an artist. He also wrote of the movement’s forewarning of the future, as well as a longing for the indefinable. Smetana described the second movement as a polka holding nationalistic tones. The movement depicts his youth as a lover of dance—Smetana held this love from the early age of 6. The third movement was composed as a tribute to his first wife, whom Smetana pronounced his “first love.” The last movement entails Smetana’s loss of hearing and the decay of his health, containing a held E natural which mimicked the ringing in his ears. In his letter, Smetana understood his First Quartet to take on an unconventional form.
The work is semi-autobiographical and consists of sketches of periods from Smetana's life, as is suggested by its subtitle Z mého života ("From My Life"). Its notable features include a prominent viola solo at the very beginning of the first movement, and a high, sustained harmonic E on the first violin in the last movement, which represents the ringing in his ears that presaged Smetana's deafness, although the actual ringing was a chord in A-flat major.
The prominent viola solo in the first movement, as well as the significant use of viola throughout, uniquely captures the sense of foreboding and the rich romanticism entailed throughout the movement.
Use in film
The dramatic opening of the first movement was featured in the 1992 film Sneakers at a concert which the characters attend.
Orchestral version
George Szell orchestrated the piece in the mid-twentieth century to bring it to new audiences. This version is rarely played, but orchestral recordings exist and it was performed at the BBC Proms in 2012.
Footnotes
See also
List of compositions by Bedřich Smetana
References
Bedřich Smetana: Quartetto I. Mi minore. Z mého života. Score. Prague: Editio Supraphon, 1991. S 7676.
External links
Notes by Joseph Way
Notes to a performance by the La Jolla Music Society
Chamber music by Bedřich Smetana
Smetana
1876 compositions
Compositions in E minor |
5388179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20on%20the%20Green%20%28Atlanta%29 | Screen on the Green (Atlanta) | Screen on the Green is an annual summertime event in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Originally sponsored by Turner Classic Movies, the event has been hosted during the last few years by local Atlanta television station Peachtree TV. Screen on the Green consists of free movies shown on a large screen outdoors. The event typically draws between 5,000 and 10,000 people for each film. Through the 2007 series screen, tents, glass containers, pets, and grills are not allowed at the event.
Due to drought conditions in Piedmont Park during the 2008 and 2009 seasons, the event was temporarily moved to Centennial Olympic Park. It returned to Piedmont Park for the 2010 season.
In 2010, several of the early movies were disrupted by altercations including several acts of random violence. While additional security was provided for later movies, many long-time attendees were shaken by the events.
In 2011, Screen on the Green was cancelled because of lack of funding from Peachtree TV after a management change. Weeks later, Screen on the Green was saved by new sponsors. It was canceled again in 2012. In 2013, the event was held in Centennial Olympic Park.
2011 movies
June 2 - Back to the Future
June 9 - Imitation of Life
June 16 - Sixteen Candles
June 23 - Viewers Choice – The Birds, 1963 vs. Frankenstein, 1931
June 30 - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2010 movies
May 27 --- National Treasure
June 3 --- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 10 --- Dreamgirls
June 17 --- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
June 24 --- Jurassic Park
2009 movies
May 28 --- Back to the Future
June 4 --- Dreamgirls (not played due to inclement weather)
June 11 --- Field of Dreams
June 18 --- Home Alone
June 25 --- Ghostbusters (decided by online vote)
2008 movies
May 29 --- Jaws
June 5 --- Big Momma's House
June 12 --- Chicago
June 19 --- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
June 26 --- Footloose (decided by online vote)
2007 movies
May 31 --- Casablanca
June 7 --- Car Wash
June 14 --- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
June 21 --- Funny Girl
June 28 --- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (not played due to rain and inclement weather)
2006 movies
June 1 --- Houseguest
June 8 --- The Wiz
June 15 --- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
June 21 --- Breakfast at Tiffany's
June 28 --- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2005 movies
June 2 --- Some Like It Hot
June 9 --- To Kill a Mockingbird
June 16 --- The Birds
June 23 --- Mommie Dearest
June 30 --- Grease
External links
Official site
References
Festivals in Atlanta
Tourist attractions in Atlanta |
5388187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie | Ozzie | Ozzie or Ozzy is a masculine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Oswald, Oscar, Osborne, Osman and Ozymandias and other names, surname and nickname which may refer to:
Animals
Ozzie (gorilla) (born c. 1961)
People
Chris Osgood (born 1972), National Hockey League goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings
Ray Ozzie (born 1955), former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
Oscar Ozzie Cadena (1924–2008), American record producer
Osvaldo Ozzie Canseco (born 1964), Cuban-born former baseball player, brother of José Canseco
Osborne Colson (1916–2006), Canadian figure skater and coach
Osborne Cowles (1899-1997), American college basketball and football player and coach
Oswaldo Ozzie Guillén (born 1964), Venezuelan former Major League Baseball player and manager
Oscar Ozzy Lusth (born 1981), Survivor reality TV show contestant
Michael Myers (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1943), American politician convicted for his part in the Abscam scandal
Oswald Ozzie Nelson (1901-1975), American band leader, actor, director, and producer, best known for playing the father in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Ozzie Newsome, American former National Football League player and current general manager of the Baltimore Ravens, member of the Hall of Fame
Danny Ozzie Osborn (born 1946), American former Major League Baseball pitcher in 1975
John Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948), English lead singer for heavy metal band Black Sabbath, songwriter and star of the reality TV show The Osbournes'
Ozzie Silna (1932-2016), American businessman and basketball franchise co-owner
Oze Ozzie Simmons (1914-2001), African-American college football player
Osborne Ozzie Smith (born 1954), American retired Major League Baseball player and member of the Hall of Fame
Ozzie Sweet (1918-2013), American sports photographer born Oscar Cowan Corbo
Osborne Ozzie Timmons (born 1970), American former Major League Baseball player
Osvaldo Ozzie Virgil, Sr. (born 1932), former Major League Baseball utility player from the Dominican Republic
Osvaldo Ozzie Virgil, Jr. (born 1956), former Major League Baseball All-Star catcher from Puerto Rico
Ozzie Albies (born 1997) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Fictional characters
Osvaldo "Ozzie" Don Altobello, main villain in the film The Godfather Part III, played by Eli Wallach
Ozzie Mandrill, villain in computer adventure game Escape from Monkey Island Ozzie, Slash, and Flea, villains who serve Magus in the role-playing game Chrono Trigger Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs, creator of the wormholes technology and the gaïa field in the Commonwealth universe of Peter F Hamilton
"My Ozzie," bachelor owner of Earl, the Jack Russell terrier in Mutts'', the comic strip
Ozzie Graham, reporter who joins the StarCrossed group in the TV series People of Earth.
Ozzy Delvecchio, character played by John Leguizamo in Bloodline (TV series).
See also
Aussie, a slang term for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia
Ossi (disambiguation)
Ossie, a given name
References
Masculine given names
Hypocorisms |
5388199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA%20Highlands%20District | AA Highlands District | The AA Highlands District was a high school conference of the Virginia High School League that included schools from Southwest Virginia, mostly in the Bristol and Kingsport areas. The schools of the Highlands District competed in AA Region IV with the schools in the AA Piedmont District and the AA Southwest District. The district dissolved in 2007 after two of its members, Lee High School and Virginia High dropped to Group A with the formation of the Clinch Mountain District, which prompted Abingdon High School and Marion High School to move to the Southwest District.
Virginia High School League |
5388215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi | Ossi | Ossi may refer to:
Organizations
Open Source Seed Initiative, dedicated to maintaining access to plant genetic resources
Open Source Software Institute, promoter of open-source software solutions in the US Federal, state and municipal government agencies
Organisation of Serbian Students Abroad
People
Ossi (East Germans), a nickname given to former residents of the country East Germany (GDR)
Ossian Ossi Blomqvist (1908–1955), Finnish speed skater
Oskar "Ossi" Bonde (born 1979), the drummer of the rock band Johnossi
Ossi Kauppi (1929–2000), Finnish ice hockey player
Ossi Oikarinen (born 1970), Finnish engineer who works in Formula One
Ossi Oswalda (1899–1948), German silent film actress
Ossi Reichert (1925–2006), German Alpine skier
Ossi Runne (1927–2020), Finnish conductor and composer
Ossi Sandvik (born 1953), Finnish politician
Other uses
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
Ossi, Sardinia, a city in the province of Sassari, Sardinia
See also
Ossie, a given name
Ozzie, a given name |
5388220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight%20Peak | Twilight Peak | Twilight Peak is the highest summit of the West Needle Mountains range of the San Juan Mountains System in southwestern Colorado.
The prominent peak is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, south-southwest (bearing 199°) of the Town of Silverton in San Juan County.
Climbing
The standard approach to Twilight Peak is via a trail from Molas Pass to the north. The trail leads to Crater Lake from where the summit is accessible. Adjacent to Twilight Peak are North Twilight Peak (13,075 feet) and South Twilight Peak (12,932 feet).
See also
List of mountain peaks of Colorado
References
External links
Mountains of San Juan County, Colorado
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
San Juan National Forest
North American 4000 m summits
Mountains of Colorado |
5388228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Distinguished%20School | California Distinguished School | California Distinguished School is an award given by the California State Board of Education to public schools within the state that best represent exemplary and quality educational programs. Approximately 5-10% of California schools are awarded this honor each year following a selection process. It is one of many programs in the California School Recognition Program (CSRP) and is funded by CSRP sponsors.
Program
The program was established in 1985 and alternates each year between elementary (even years) and secondary (odd years) schools. In the past, schools that were recognized as distinguished held the title for four years. Currently, schools that are recognized as distinguished hold the title for two years, and after that the recognition may be renewed. Eligibility criteria are subject to change between award cycles.
Eligibility
California School Dashboard
For 2020, the California Distinguished Schools Program will use the accountability metrics compiled on the public California School Dashboard. The Dashboard is a website available to the public and geared toward parents and non-educators. The California Department of Education states “The Dashboard is a key component of California’s five-year overhaul of the state’s school accountability system.” The Dashboard is not just an interface, but relevant to award criteria because it “replaces the state’s former accountability system—the Academic Performance Index (API), which relied exclusively on standardized tests and gave schools a single score. That system was suspended (in 2014).” The Dashboard compiles local and state information about schools and helps users compare schools against state performance. Details for each metric are included and then summarized by a score on a color graph. The scoring pattern is red (“lowest performance”), to orange, yellow, green, up to Blue (“highest performance”).
Details about the California Distinguished Schools application are issued from the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction (Tony Thurmond) and disclosed to School Principals, County and District Superintendents, and Charter School Administrators. Schools communicate with their County Coordinator for the California School Recognition Program to submit the application.
Award criteria
Awardees will fall into two categories: “Closing the Achievement Gap,” and “Exceptional Student Performance.”
“Closing the Achievement Gap” criteria
Poverty Rate of at least 40 percent in the prior two school years.
Highest percent of growth that met standard in ELA OR Mathematics between the two prior school years for the student groups targeted in those years (e.g. English Learners, Foster Youth. See Dashboard website for full listing).
The ALL student group must be Blue/Green on both ELA and Mathematics using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year.
The ALL student group must be Blue/Green/Yellow on the Suspension Rate Indicator using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year
The ALL student group must be Blue/Green/Yellow on the Chronic Absenteeism Indicator using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year.
95 percent participation rate in the prior two school years for both ELA and Mathematics.
“Exceptional Student Performance” criteria
The ALL student group must be Blue in both ELA and Mathematics using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year.
The ALL student group must be Blue on the Suspension Rate Indicator using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year.
The ALL student group must be Blue on the Chronic Absenteeism Indicator using Dashboard data for the prior completed school year
95 percent participation rate in the prior two school years for both ELA and Mathematics.
Program funding
The California Distinguished Schools Program receives funding from California School Recognition Program Sponsors. Sponsors include companies such as Comcast, programs such as the California State Lottery, and special interest groups such as the California Teachers Association.
Historical criticism and response
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times wrote an article identifying complaints with the program's selection process. Times author Jessica Garrison wrote that, at the time, the application process required that “schools must score in the top half of the state’s Academic Performance Index and write an exhaustive, 10-section application describing everything from campus culture to library services.” The critique primarily focused on the lack of incentive, resources, and recognition for lower-performing schools that make significant improvements. The article also lamented the lack of rigorous data to back applicant's claims of student success.
Historical Interim Award Program
Between 2015 and 2017, the California Department of Education awarded the California Gold Ribbon School designation for three years while California transitioned to its new assessment and accountability system. It returned to the California Distinguished School system beginning in 2018.
References
Education in California |
5388229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont%20District | Piedmont District | The AA Piedmont District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League that includes schools from Southwest and Southside Virginia, mostly in the Martinsville and the Danville areas. The schools of the Piedmont District compete in AA Region IV with the schools in the AA River Ridge District and the AA Southwest District. Until the 1990s, the AA Piedmont District was a member of AA Region III but was moved to balance the number of schools in the VHSL's AA regions. Due to declining school enrollment, Dan River High School became a member of the A Dogwood District beginning in the 2007–08 school year.
The Piedmont District has traditionally been strong in men's basketball, with Martinsville High School having won multiple VHSL Championships. Martinsville High School has won more men's basketball State Championships (a total of 15) than any other school in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Martinsville High School has won more state championships in the Piedmont District than any other team. Championships include twelve men's basketball state championships, one women's basketball state championship, two football state championships, and two golf state championships.
Tunstall High School has won four state championships in baseball and one state title in wrestling.
Member schools
Bassett High School Bengals of Bassett, VA
George Washington High School Eagles of Danville, VA
Halifax County High School Comets of South Boston, VA
Magna Vista High School Warriors of Ridgeway, VA
Martinsville High School Bulldogs of Martinsville, VA
Patrick County High School Cougars of Stuart, VA
Tunstall High School Trojans of Dry Fork, VA
Mecklenburg County High School (Mascot - Phoenix) will become the newest member of the Piedmont District as of July 1, 2022. Mecklenburg County is the consolidation of Bluestone and Park View-South Hill High Schools.
Virginia High School League |
5388242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon%20Chicken%20Inn | Coon Chicken Inn | Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants that was founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name contained the word Coon, considered a racial slur, and the trademarks and entrances of the restaurants were designed to look like a smiling caricature of an African-American porter. The smiling capped porter head also appeared on menus, dishes, and promotional items. Due to changes in popular culture and the general consideration of being culturally and racially offensive, the chain was closed by 1957.
The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant was opened in then-suburban Lake City, Seattle, and a third was opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. A fourth location was advertised but never opened in Spokane, Washington. Later, a cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to the Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants. The Portland location at 5474 NE Sandy Blvd. closed in 1949 and was converted into another restaurant, and is currently the location of Clyde's Prime Rib. The Seattle location also closed in 1949 and is no longer standing. That address at 8500 Lake City Way is now occupied by The Growler Guys restaurant. The Salt Lake City location at 2960 S. (sometimes listed as 2950 S.) Highland Drive closed in 1957 and is now the site of a furniture store.
Popular culture
An antique promotional poster for Coon Chicken Inn featured as a plot device in the 2001 black comedy film Ghost World.
See also
Sambo's restaurant chain
List of chicken restaurants
List of defunct restaurants of the United States
References
1925 establishments in Utah
1957 disestablishments in Utah
American companies established in 1925
American companies disestablished in 1957
Restaurants established in 1925
Restaurants disestablished in 1957
African-American history of Utah
Buildings and structures in Salt Lake City
Chicken chains of the United States
Defunct restaurant chains in the United States
Defunct restaurants in Portland, Oregon
History of racism in Oregon
History of racism in Utah
History of racism in Washington (state)
History of Salt Lake City
Hollywood, Portland, Oregon
Restaurants in Utah
Restaurants in Washington (state)
Companies based in Salt Lake City |
5388244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20District%20%28VHSL%29 | Southwest District (VHSL) | The Southwest District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League that includes schools from southwestern Virginia, United States. The Southwest District was established in the former AA Region IV.
The AA Highlands District dissolved in 2007, with Abingdon and Marion joining the Southwest District. The AA Southwest District had several changes for the 2013–2014 school year during the overall VHSL realignment. Carroll County, a member of the new Group 4A, moved to the AA River Ridge District. Virginia High School and Lebanon High School joined from the dissolved A Clinch Mountain District. Graham High School (Bluefield, Virginia) recently joined the district after 6 years with the A Mountain Empire District due to the new alignment plan mapped out by the VHSL.
Abingdon is a member of the new Group 3A while the other schools are members of the new Group 2A. Abingdon left the Southwest District in the 2017 - 2018 School Year for the new Mountain 7 District. These schools are part of the new region system after conferences fell by the wayside. Region 2 D is the new classification.
Member schools
Marion Scarlet Hurricane of Marion, VA
Graham G-Men of Bluefield, VA
Richlands Blue Tornado of Richlands, VA
Tazewell Bulldogs of Tazewell, VA
Virginia Bearcats of Bristol, VA
Grayson County Blue Devils of Independence, VA --- added for ended season possibilities only
Virginia High School League |
5388257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanza%20Osme%C3%B1a | Esperanza Osmeña | Esperanza Escolar Limjap Osmeña (December 18, 1894 – April 4, 1978) was the second wife of Philippine President Sergio Osmeña and is considered the fourth First Lady of the Philippines.
Biography
Esperanza Limjap y Escolar was born in San Miguel, Manila to Mariano Limjap y Nolasco and María Escolar y Carreón.
She married Osmeña in on January 10, 1920 in San Miguel, Manila, two years after the death of Osmeña's first wife, Estefania Chiong Veloso. The couple had three children: Ramón, Rosalina, and Victor.
She became first lady upon the death of Manuel L. Quezon, when her husband succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile in the United States. However, while her husband was president-in-exile, she herself was still in the Philippines and remained there, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. On 30 Oct. 1944, Russell_W._Volckmann's forces rescued Mrs. Osmena and family from Baguio.
She died on April 4, 1978 in at Makati Medical Center in Makati due to heart failure. She was buried at Manila North Cemetery in Santa Cruz, Manila on April 11, 1978.
See also
List of American guerrillas in the Philippines
References
|-
|-
1894 births
1978 deaths
Filipino Roman Catholics
Esperanza Osmena
First Ladies and First Gentlemen of the Philippines
People from Cebu
People from Makati
People from San Miguel, Manila
Burials at the Manila North Cemetery
Spouses of presidents of the Philippines |
5388271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue%20des%20Francs-Bourgeois | Rue des Francs-Bourgeois | Rue des Francs-Bourgeois () is one of the longer streets in the Marais district of Paris, France.
Starting near Centre Georges Pompidou (rue Rambuteau), the road is considered trendy, with numerous fashion boutiques. Rue des Francs-Bourgeois is one of the few streets which largely ignores France's strong tradition of Sunday closure, even within Paris. As such, it is a popular location for weekend brunches and walks. Notable buildings include the ancient hôtels Carnavalet, Lamoignon, Sandreville, d'Albret, d'Alméras, Poussepin, de Coulanges, Hérouet, de Jaucourt, de Fontenay, de Breteuil and de Soubise. Hôtel Carnavalet houses the museum of the history of Paris.
History
The street was once known as the Rue des Poulies. In 1415, a noble called le Mazurier offered the Chief Prior of France a huge private mansion with 24 bedrooms to receive 48 poor people. These people were so poor that they didn't pay the taxes of the city, and were called francs-bourgeois. In 1868, the street was joined with Rue Neuve Saint-Catherine and Rue du Paradis au Marais.
References
External links
1868 establishments in France
Streets in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris
Streets in the 4th arrondissement of Paris
Le Marais |
5388277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itagaki | Itagaki | is a Japanese surname.
People with the name
, Japanese ski jumper
, Japanese manga artist
, one of the Twenty-four Generals of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period
, Japanese manga artist
, World War II Imperial Japanese army general
, Meiji period political leader
, Japanese video game designer, formerly of Tecmo
, Japanese artist and photographer
Hangaku Gozen, Japanese warrior also called Itagaki
, Japanese actor and former idol M!LK
Fictional characters
, characters from the manga series Hajime no Ippo
Japanese-language surnames |
5388281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witheridge%20F.C. | Witheridge F.C. | Witheridge Football Club is a football club based in the Devon village of Witheridge. They are currently members of the and play at Edge Down Park.
History
Witheridge have come a long way since the days of the Married team and Singles team. Up until the Second World War, Witheridge played their football in the North Devon League. After the war Witheridge didn't rejoin the North Devon League but joined the Tiverton and District league, playing clubs like Bampton and Elmore.
In 1971, Witheridge decided it was time to move on from the Tiverton League and joined the Devon and Exeter League, starting in Intermediate Four. The 1970s and 1980s at times were hard for Witheridge but the team kept plugging away and for a small village club managed to keep themselves going. Witheridge did have good times during this period but it wasn't until the 1990s that they started to make people in the Devon and Exeter League look up and take notice that the little village club was beginning to make a big stir.
In 1990 the side won the Express and Echo Shield and they soon started flying through the Devon and Exeter League. 1992 saw Witheridge promoted to Intermediate One then race through Senior Three, Two and One. Then in 1996 Witheridge won promotion to the Devon and Exeter Premier League.
In 1997 Andre Pike was appointed as first team manager and from that point on the club went from strength to strength. The 1999/2000 season saw Witheridge finish runners-up in the Devon and Exeter Premier League and also win three cups, the Okehampton Cup, Devon Premier Cup and the East Devon Senior Cup, all within two weeks of each other.
During their spell in the Devon and Exeter premier division, Witheridge became one of the big teams, finishing as runners-up four times in their last 7 seasons in the league. 2006 saw Withy finally promoted to the Devon County League and in their only season managed to finish 11th place, which saw Witheridge promoted into the newly formed South West Peninsula League Premier Division.
In the inaugural season of the South West Peninsula League, Witheridge managed a mid table finish despite being bottom of the league on Christmas Day which included a 12-match unbeaten run which stretched from February to the end of the season.
2009 saw the club take a massive step forward when levelling work was done to the pitch as well as the installation of floodlights at Edge Down Park which allowed the club to enter The FA Vase for the very first time.
During the summer of 2012, the club's changing rooms were completely renovated and a brand new 100-seat stand installed as well as a new pathway down to the stand.
Witheridge Football Club entered the FA Cup for the first time in the clubs 94-year history in August 2014 and won their inaugural match after beating Barnstaple Town 1–0 at Mill Road.
Ground
Witheridge play their home games at Edge Down Park, Fore Street, Witheridge, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 8AH.
Honours
Devon and Exeter League
Runner-up: 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06
Devon & Exeter League Cup
Winners 1999–2000
East Devon Cup
Winners 1999–2000
Okehampton Cup
Winners 1999–2000, 2004–05
Westward Ho! Cup
Winners 2001–02
Rowe Charity Cup
Winners 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05
Season-by-season record since 2000
References
External links
Official website
Football clubs in Devon
Association football clubs established in 1920
1920 establishments in England
South West Peninsula League
Football clubs in England
Devon County League
Devon Football League |
5388286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barncluith | Barncluith | Barncluith is an area of Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Barncluith forms the south-eastern part of the town, between the urban centre and the Avon Water. It lies either side of Carlisle Road (A72), which leads out of Hamilton to Chatelherault Country Park, Larkhall and the Clyde Valley. The name derives from "Baron's Cleugh", a cleugh being a ravine.
Barncluith Primary School closed in the 1990s. The school building stands at the corner of Miller Street and Townhead Street, and is now the Barncluith Business Centre. The parish church is St. John's Centre on Duke Street.
Barncluith House and gardens
To the south of the area, alongside the Avon Water, are Barncluith tower house and Barncluith House. The tower house dates to the 16th century, while the house is of 18th-century origin. The are a category A listed building, and are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens. The house and tower are both category B listed, having been extensively restored in the 20th century.
History
The lands of Barncluith were held by the Machan family, of Norman origin. In 1507 Anne Machan married William Hamilton of Rossmoor, kinsman of the Duke of Hamilton. Their son fought and died at the Battle of Langside (1568), and Barncluith was subsequently inherited by their grandson John Hamilton. The tower house of Barncluith dates to around this time, and was probably built by John Hamilton along with the gardens. The building of the terraces along the river is thought to date to the 17th century.
Another John Hamilton of Barncluith was Sheriff of the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire from shortly after 1707. He is said to have held his court within the pavilion in the terrace garden, and to have carried out executions at a nearby oak tree. In the 1730s, the involvement of the architect William Adam in works at Barncluith is suggested by surviving correspondence with his clerk of works.
Ownership of Barncluith passed from the Hamiltons to the Ruthven family in the 19th century. At this time the gardens at Barncluith were renowned as an example of an old Scots garden, and were popular with visitors to the area. It was bought in 1908 by lawyer James C. Bishop, who restored the gardens. In 1927 Hamilton Palace was demolished, and Bishop secured a number of fragments of carved masonry which he brought to Barncluith and re-used as garden ornaments. These include a large carving of the Hamilton coat of arms.
References
External links
St John's Church Hamilton
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Populated places in South Lanarkshire |
5388290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Lotus | Lady Lotus | Lady Lotus (also known as Lotus Newmark) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Lady Lotus first appeared in The Invaders #37 (Feb. 1979), and was created by Don Glut, Rick Hoberg, Chic Stone and Alan Kupperberg.
Fictional character biography
Lady Lotus was born in Japan, and exhibited strong psychic powers at a young age. She developed these abilities through constant meditation, and supplemented her powers with the sacred lotus flower. At the age of 21, she moved to the United States. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States began holding Japanese-Americans in concentration camps to determine their loyalties. Disgusted by this, Lady Lotus took refuge in New York's Chinatown and opened a curio shop called "The House of Lotus". She cast a subtle hypnotic suggestion over anyone who came into the store, convincing her customers that she was actually Chinese. Angered at how her people were being treated by the Americans, she vowed to destroy the United States, and allied with the Axis Powers.
When U-Man was about to attempt an attack upon the Sub-Mariner's flagship, he was suddenly compelled away by the mental powers of Lady Lotus, who commanded him to come to her lair. When U-Man arrived at the House of Lotus, Lady Lotus sent her guards to test his strength, and was impressed. When U-Man tried to fight back against her, he was powerless because of her mental abilities. She told him she was interested in the Kid Commandos team member, Golden Girl. With her powers, she made sure that Japanese saboteurs would make an attempt at the Santa Monica Pier which would be stopped by the Kid Commandos. After they had beaten the saboteurs, she sent U-Man to capture Golden Girl and he brought her back to a warehouse at Lady Lotus's request. There, Golden Girl was treated with utmost respect and was even offered tea as Lady Lotus retold her story to her. She attempted to appeal to their common Japanese ancestry so they could work together to take over the U.S., but Golden Girl was unshaken in her commitment to America, despite what she and her father, Dr. Sam Sabuki, had suffered. Lady Lotus tried to take over her mind, but one of Golden Girl's blasts of energy blinded her. The Invaders and the other Kid Commandos arrived just as U-Man and Lady Lotus' soldiers attempted to capture Golden girl, causing Lady Lotus to flee with U-Man.
Meanwhile, some of Lady Lotus' agents attempted to revive Baron Blood and when he came to, Lady Lotus directed him to the House of Lotus to join her forces. After bathing in lotus petals and scented water, Lady Lotus confronted Baron Blood and U-Man, and demonstrated to Baron Blood that she could control him as effectively as Dracula. She then provided him with a coffin and soil from England for him to rest in, and a new costume to replace his tattered garment. She then sent Baron Blood to help Master Man and Warrior Woman smuggle into America. The Invaders interfered but Baron Blood is still successful in the scheme.
Lady Lotus captured a number of men and women from Chinatown and hypnotized them to have the men serve as her guards and the women as her maids. With the four costumed Axis agents assembled, Lady Lotus declared that they would join forces as the Super-Axis. Warrior Woman and Master Man refused to obey a Japanese woman, but Lady Lotus drove them into compliance with hypnotic illusions.
Meanwhile, the Human Torch arrived at the House of Lotus, wondering if there was a connection to Lady Lotus. She greeted him and took control of him with hypnosis, offering her love to him, and playing on his feelings of rejection after Spitfire chose Captain America. She sent the Super-Axis and Human Torch to destroy Chicago's railroad center to hamper American supplies, and directed them mentally from a distance. When the Torch nearly killed Miss America and the Whizzer, Captain America was able to help him regain his senses. Angered at how she played with his emotions, the Torch attacked the House of Lotus solo. She sent her samurai to fight him, but he released a bright flash of light that broke her spell over them. Lady Lotus escaped during the melee. With the Super-Axis' defeat, Lady Lotus retreated into Chinatown. Days later, she chanced to encounter the Yellow Claw and his young niece, Suwan, in the rain. She was taken aback, thinking the Claw was only a legend. The Claw said that he admired her ambition, but promised that even if it took him another decade to it, he would be the one to conquer the United States.
U-Man later had his revenge upon Lady Lotus for making him her slave by raping her and she gave birth to his daughter, Nia.
Lady Lotus was revealed to be the true identity of contemporary Los Angeles crime lord "Lotus Newmark" in Captain America: Forever Allies #1 (2010). As Lotus Newmark, she had previously appeared in storylines in Avengers Spotlight (featuring Hawkeye, written by Steve Gerber), Wonder Man and Nomad.
Powers and abilities
Lady Lotus possesses the ability to hypnotize others from miles away, forcing them to obey her will. She can also psychically project images into a crystal ball, cast mental illusions and had limited powers of precognition. Exposure to lotus flowers heightened her powers, and she would bathe for an hour in a bath of the flowers to increase her abilities. Due to apparent mystical means, she also does not age.
References
External links
Lady Lotus Marvel Wikia
Comics characters introduced in 1979
Fictional characters with precognition
Fictional characters with slowed ageing
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional secret agents and spies
Marvel Comics female supervillains
Marvel Comics characters who have mental powers
Marvel Comics telepaths
Marvel Comics mutants |
5388308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern%20California%20University%20School%20of%20Law | Northwestern California University School of Law | Northwestern California University School of Law is an online-based law school in Sacramento, California, founded in 1982.
It is approved by the State Bar of California, and is registered to award the Juris Doctor degree upon completion and graduation from the program. However, it is not accredited by the American Bar Association.
Online Law Education
The school delivers courses entirely through a distance education format. The main teaching medium is the internet by means of virtual classrooms, discussion boards, live online audio and video lectures, online study groups, and the use of videoconferencing. NWCU Law offers its courses through eJuris, an online law school platform developed by the school. All students are also provided with access to LexisNexis and to CALI.
NWCU is a part time program spanning four years of continuous study. As a part time program the NWCU Law program is regulated according to the standards set by the State Bar of California, requiring a cumulative 3,600 hours of verified academic engagement and study. Foundational classes are taught in year long blocks requiring a 12-month course of study.
Degrees Offered
NWCU offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree. Graduates receive the J.D. degree after the successful completion of their 4L year.
Accreditation
Northwestern California University School of Law is approved by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Students to whom the school awards the JD degree are eligible to take the California Bar Examination and become licensed in the State of California. The school is not accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). As a result, students are generally not permitted to take the bar exam outside of California immediately after graduation. Currently 23 states allow graduates to take their respective bar exams and be admitted to practice law after passing the bar in California and practicing for a set number of years
Tuition
NWCU's tuition is $3,900 per year, not inclusive of books or other expenses. The total tuition for the four-year program is $15,600.
Notable alumni
Max Hardberger, maritime security specialist and author.
Mark Whitacre, President of Archer Daniels Midland's bioproducts division, who became a whistleblower under U.S. federal whistleblower statutes. The movie The Informant starring Matt Damon was based on Whitacre's role in the ADM price-fixing case.
References
External links
Law schools in California
Educational institutions established in 1982
Distance education institutions based in the United States
1982 establishments in California
Education in Sacramento, California
Online law schools in the United States |
5388309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra%20Pradesh%20and%20Madras%20Alteration%20of%20Boundaries%20Act | Andhra Pradesh and Madras Alteration of Boundaries Act | Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959, enacted by the Parliament of India under the provisions of article 3 of the constitution, went into with effect from 1 April 1960. Under the act, Tirutani taluk and Pallipattu sub-taluk of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh were transferred to Madras State in exchange for territories from the Chingelput (Chengalpattu) and Salem Districts.
A total of 319 villages from three different taluks of Chitoor district and a small forest area were transferred from Andhra Pradesh to Madras State in exchange for 148 villages of Chingelput district and three villages from Salem district, together with certain forest areas.
The parliamentary constituencies of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and the Chingleput and Tiruvallur in Madras were considerably altered by this exchange of territories. As the greater parts of Tiruttani and Ramakrishnarajapet assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh were transferred to Madras in exchange for a smaller area, which was constituted into one taluk by the name of Sathyavedu, these two constituencies (one two-member and the other single-member) were replaced by a two-member assembly constituency of Sathyavedu. Consequently, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh was reduced from 301 to 300. Meanwhile, the Madras Legislative Assembly gained one seat, the total increasing from 205 to 206. A new assembly constituency called Tiruttani came into being in Madras and the extent and boundaries of Ponneri, Gummidipundi and Tiruvallur assembly constituencies were considerably altered.
See also
States Reorganisation Act
History of Tamil Nadu
References
Acts of the Parliament of India 1959
Reorganisation of Indian states
1959 in India
1950s in Madras State
1950s in Andhra Pradesh |
5388316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad%20de%20Leon-Roxas | Trinidad de Leon-Roxas | Trinidad de Leon-Roxas (née de Leon y Roura; October 4, 1900 – June 20, 1995) was the wife of Philippine President Manuel Roxas and the fifth First Lady of the Philippines. They were married in 1921 and had two children, Ruby and Gerardo (Gerry).
A native of San Miguel, Bulacan, De León-Roxas was also a beauty pageant contestant, having been crowned Carnival Queen (Queen of the Orient) at the Manila Carnival in 1920.
As the country's first lady during the post-war years, De León-Roxas got involved in various charitable organizations such as the White Cross and the Girl Scouts of the Philippines and restored the annual Malacañang Christmas gift-giving begun prior to World War II. The annual gift-giving has become a tradition to this day.
De León-Roxas died on June 20, 1995.
References
1900 births
1995 deaths
Filipino Roman Catholics
Tagalog people
Filipino beauty pageant winners
People from San Miguel, Bulacan
People from Capiz
First Ladies and First Gentlemen of the Philippines
Trinidad
Burials at the Manila North Cemetery
Spouses of presidents of the Philippines |
5388318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nicknames%20of%20United%20States%20Army%20divisions | List of nicknames of United States Army divisions | Many Army divisions have over the years earned nicknames; some laudatory, some derogatory, but mostly colorful. Sometimes, the nicknames themselves have overshadowed the actual name of the division, e.g. the "Screaming Eagles" for the 101st Airborne Division.
Special designation
An official special designation is a "nickname granted to a military organization" which has been authorized by the Center of Military History and recognized through a certificate signed by the Secretary of the Army.
A division's nickname may derive from numerous sources:
it may be inspired by the division's badge or insignia, such as the 1st Infantry Division's "Big Red One". On the other hand, some division's badges are actually suggested by the nickname, such as the "CY" patch of the "Cyclone Division" (38th Infantry Division);
it may derive from the place where the division was raised or trained (36th Infantry Division, "Texas"), or the places of origin of the division's soldiers (29th Infantry Division, "Blue and Gray", for northern and southern states);
it may be bestowed by the enemy in battle, such as the moniker "Red Devils", a nickname for the 5th Infantry Division "granted" by the Germans at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, World War I;
it may be the pairing of an adjective (such as "Fighting") paired with the division's ordinal, such as "The Fighting First" for the 1st Infantry Division; or
it may defy accurate explanation (albeit not without numerous theories), such as the 9th Infantry Division, or "Old Reliables".
Active divisions are listed in boldface; no distinction has been made between regular Army divisions and those of the Army Reserve or National Guard. The origin of the nickname is noted where possible. In some cases, the nickname was officially adopted by the division in question; this is indicated along with date of adoption (where known). Official status might also be inferred by the presence of the nickname on official distinctive unit insignia or in official military source materials.
Airborne divisions
11th Airborne Division – "The Angels"; possibly after their shoulder patch, a white-bordered red circle with a white numeral "11", with white wings rising obliquely from the circle, all on a royal blue field
13th Airborne Division – "Golden Unicorns"; taken from their shoulder patch, a winged unicorn in orange on an ultramarine blue, the branch of service colours of the United States Army Air Corps, was approved on 2 June 1943. A gold on black "Airborne" tab was worn above the insignia.
17th Airborne Division – "Golden Talon"; taken from their shoulder patch.
173rd Airborne Brigade – "Sky Soldiers"; They received their official nickname (Tien Bien translates to Sky Soldiers) from the Taiwanese locals during exercises when they were parachuting in Taiwan. The 173rd was part of the only major conventional airborne operation (Operation Junction City) during the Vietnam War. The unit's shoulder patch was referred to as the "Flying Butter Knives."
82nd Airborne Division – "America's Guard of Honor", "All-Americans"; original members of the division in 1917 came from every state in the Union. In addition, the 82nd Airborne has been called "Alcoholics Anonymous" or "Almost Airborne" in reference to the "AA" on its shoulder patch by members of other divisions.
101st Airborne Division – "The Screaming Eagles"; after their shoulder insignia, a bald eagle's head on a black shield. During the Vietnam War, the nicknames "Puking Buzzards" and "One 'o Worst", a comment on their mode of transportation and a play on the official divisional name, were used. Both were used derogatorily by other soldiers, and were not used by the division itself. In addition, the Vietnamese called them the "Chicken Men" since they had never seen a bald eagle. Several regiments within the 101st were nicknamed "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne", due to their part in holding the important crossroads town during the Battle of the Bulge.
Armored divisions
1st Armored Division – "Old Ironsides" (official, 1941); Devised by its first commander, Major General Bruce Magruder, after he saw a picture of the USS Constitution, which bears the same nickname
2nd Armored Division – "Hell on Wheels"; Brigadier General George S. Patton, while witnessing it on maneuvers in 1941, reportedly said the division would be "Hell on Wheels" when it met the enemy
3rd Armored Division – "Spearhead"; in recognition of the division's role as the "spearhead" of many attacks during the liberation of France in 1944.
4th Armored Division
"Breakthrough" – According to the Center of Military History, the 4th was "sometimes called the 'Breakthrough Division,' but the division never officially pursued the designation, preferring to be 'known by its deeds alone.'"
"Name Enough"
"Rolling Fourth"
5th Armored Division – "Victory"; probably from the Roman numeral 5, which is a "V" (for "Victory").
6th Armored Division – "Super Sixth"
7th Armored Division – "Lucky Seventh"
8th Armored Division
"Thundering Herd"
"Iron Deuce"
"Iron Snake"
"Show Horse"
"Tornado"
9th Armored Division –
"Phantom"; so dubbed by the German army at the Battle of the Bulge because, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the division "seemed, like a phantom, to be everywhere along the front."
"Remagen"; because the division captured intact the Ludendorf Bridge at Remagen, Germany; the first bridge across the Rhine River captured by the Allies.
10th Armored Division – "Tiger Division"; so named by Major General Paul Newgarden, the division's first commander, because a tiger has soldierly qualities, including being clean and neat and the ability to maneuver and surprise his prey.
11th Armored Division – "Thunderbolt"
12th Armored Division – "Hellcat Division" "Suicide Division" The Mystery Division"
13th Armored Division – "Black Cat"
14th Armored Division – "Liberators"; earned during the last days of World War II when it liberated some 200,000 Allied prisoners of war from German prison camps.
20th Armored Division – "Armoraiders"; not official, but the division did associate itself with this nickname while in training at Camp Campbell during World War II
27th Armored Division – "Empire"; referring to the fact that it was a New York National Guard unit, after the state's nickname.
30th Armored Division – "Volunteers"; referring to the fact that it was a Tennessee National Guard unit, after the state's nickname.
40th Armored Division – "Grizzly"; referring to the fact that it was a California National Guard unit, after the state's nickname.
48th Armored Division – "Hurricane"
49th Armored Division – "Lone Star"; referring to its status as a Texas National Guard formation, after the state's nickname.
50th Armored Division – "Jersey Blues"; referring to the fact that it was a New Jersey National Guard unit. This is today's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
Cavalry divisions
1st Cavalry Division – "The First Team" "Hell for Leather" (see: https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.20366), "The Black Horse"
Infantry divisions
1st Infantry Division
"The Big Red One" – from the division's official shoulder patch: Red numeral "1" on an olive drab shield.
"The Fighting First"
"The Big Dead One"
2nd Infantry Division
"Warrior Division" – official nickname
"Indian Head" – Official as of 1948. From the shoulder patch: an Indian head on a white star superimposed on black shield.
3rd Infantry Division
"Rock of the Marne" and "Marne Men" – earned for the Battle of the Marne during World War I, when the division held its position and repulsed two German divisions.
"Blue and White Devils" () – during the Battle of Anzio during World War II, the division was called this nickname by their German opponents, based on their shoulder patch (a square containing three diagonal white stripes on a dark blue field).
"Broken Television" – from their shoulder patch resembling a television with static on screen.
"Dog Faced Soldiers" – from the 3rd ID Song.
4th Infantry Division
The division's patch is four ivy leaves pointing up, down, and to the sides
"Ivy" – play on the Roman numeral "IV" ("4"). Also, ivy leaves are symbolic of tenacity and fidelity, the basis of the division's motto, "Steadfast and Loyal".
"Iron Horse" – official nickname, has been recently adopted to indicate the speed and power of the division
"Famous Fighting Fourth"
"Lost Lieutenants" or "4 Lieutenants Pointing North" – a play on the division shoulder sleeve insignia and the stereotype of 2nd Lieutenants being inexperienced and unskilled.
5th Infantry Division
"Red Diamonds" – a plain red diamond or lozenge shape
"Red Devils" – during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in World War I, the Germans referred to the division as "Die roten Teufel" (German, "The Red Devils").
6th Infantry Division
The division's patch is a red six-pointed star
"Sightseeing Sixth"
”Death Star”
”Commie Jew Division” (as described by GEN Westmoreland when it was proposed the 6th Division would be sent to Vietnam)
”Jumping Jews” (when worn with an Airborne tab, 1/501 PIR in the 1990s)
7th Infantry Division
"Bayonet Division" – this nickname "became synonymous with the division through its participation in the Korean War and symbolizes the fighting spirit of the men of the 7th Infantry division."
"H-Hour" – Shoulder patch: Red circular patch bearing black hour glass which is formed by an inverted "7" and a superimposed "7".
”The Crushed Beer Can”
8th Infantry Division
"Golden Arrow" – Official as of 1948. Shoulder patch: An upward pointing gold arrow piercing a silver figure "8" on a blue shield.
"Pathfinder Division" – Official; original nickname (supplanted by "Golden Arrow" and later reinstated), so named in honor of John C. Fremont, an explorer of California, the namesake of Camp Fremont, which is where the division was formed.
”The Eight-Up Division” (play on words and the design of the patch alluding to the Army term “ate up” which means incompetent)
9th Infantry Division
"Varsity"
"Old Reliables" – origin unknown, but some possibilities recorded here
"Psychedelic Cookie" – Used during the Vietnam War in reference to its shoulder patch.
10th Mountain Division
"Mountaineer"
”Fighting Beer Keg”
12th Infantry Division
"Carabao"
23rd Infantry Division
"Americal" – At one point in time this was the official Divisional designation, when it was redesignated as the 23rd Infantry Division, Americal became the divisional nickname. Originally formed in World War II out of separate American National Guard units on the island of New Caledonia, hence the origin of the name.
24th Infantry Division
"Taro Leaf";
25th Infantry Division
"Tropic Lightning" – Official (adopted August 3, 1953). In 1942 the division was ordered to deploy to Guadalcanal to relieve U.S. Marines there; only 31 days were required to accomplish the mission and earned the division its official designation. The Division patch is a taro leaf (indicating Hawaii, where the division was formed), and a lightning bolt, "representative of the manner in which the Division performs its allotted assignments."
"Electric Strawberry" – so called because the shoulder patch taro leaf resembles a strawberry with a lightning bolt on it.
26th Infantry Division – "Yankee"; This is today's 26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade.
27th Infantry Division – "Empire," a legacy of the 27th Armored Division.
"O'Ryan's Roughnecks," a reference to the first division commander, John F. O'Ryan.
"New York Division." – Many members were part of the New York National Guard.
The abbreviation N.Y.D. can be seen in the division shoulder sleeve insignia. The insignia also contains an "O" for O'Ryan, as well as a depiction of the Orion constellation as a pun on O'Ryan's name. This is today's 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
28th Infantry Division
"Keystone" – The badge is a red keystone; the division was formed in Pennsylvania, the "Keystone State"
"Bloody Bucket" – So called by German soldiers in World War I and World War II because the keystone shaped patch was red and resembled a bucket.
"Iron Division" – From a comment by John J. Pershing following the 1918 Battle of Château-Thierry
29th Infantry Division
"Blue and Gray" – In 1919, when shoulder sleeve insignia were first authorized, the division consisted of two masses of men, one from the North (represented by blue) and the other from the South (represented by gray).
30th Infantry Division – "Old Hickory"; This is today's 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team.
31st Infantry Division – "Dixie";
32nd Infantry Division
"Red Arrow"; "shot through a line denoting that it pierced every battle line it ever faced"; This is today's 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
"Les Terribles" – ("The Terrible Ones" intended as a complement, given by French General Charles Mangin after their decisive action against the Germans at the WW1 Second Battle of the Marne
33rd Infantry Division
"Illinois";
"Prairie"; sometimes official nickname
"Golden Cross" – take from the design of the insignia, used as the title of the World War II history. This is today's 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
34th Infantry Division
"Red Bull" – The badge is a red bull's skull on a black background.
"Sandstorm" – the division was formed at Camp Cody, in a desertlike area of New Mexico
"Desert Bull" – sometimes used during modern deployments
35th Infantry Division
"Santa Fe" – The badge is a blue background with a white "Santa Fe cross", a device used to mark the old Santa Fe Trail, an area where the division trained
36th Infantry Division
"Arrowhead" – Official depicting insignia.
"Texas" – The division is based in Texas.
"Lone Star" – Texas is the "Lone Star State".
37th Infantry Division
"Buckeye"; This is today's 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
38th Infantry Division
"Cyclone" – official. Named after a tornado hit the camp where the division was training prior to deployment during World War I.
"The Avengers of Bataan" This is today's 38th Sustainment Brigade.
40th Infantry Division
"Sunburst" – the badge is a gold sunburst on a blue background.
"Ball of Fire" – Nickname adopted during its deployment to Korea.
"Flaming Assholes" – The unofficial nickname came from the Korean War era when the unit was training in Japan. It was a combined result of disparaging remarks made by Army regulars about the National Guard division and the appearance of the unit shoulder sleeve insignia. The California Guardsmen took to their new nickname with a soldier's sense of humor, and turned it into a rallying symbol (sometimes used for the 9th Infantry Division, due to the appearance of that division's shoulder sleeve insignia).
41st Infantry Division
"Jungleers" – due to combat in the Pacific during WW II
"Sunset" – Unit patch has a half sun represents the setting sun on the Pacific. Often humorously referred to as the "Days Inn Patch" or "Thirteen Lieutenants Pointing North", this is today's 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
42nd Infantry Division – "Rainbow"
43rd Infantry Division
"Red Wing"
"Winged Victory"
Named for World War II commander Leonard F. "Red" Wing
45th Infantry Division – "Thunderbird" – official nickname; This is today's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
47th Infantry Division – "Viking" – a unit of the Minnesota Army National Guard.
63rd Infantry Division – "Blood and fire"; This is today's 63rd Regional Support Command.
65th Infantry Division – "Battle Axe";
66th Infantry Division – "Black Panther";
69th Infantry Division
"Fightin' 69th" – official nickname; earned after breaking through the Siegfried Line in 1945.
"Three B's" – nickname adopted during training. Humorous reference to the division's dislike of frequent bivouacking ordered by their original Commander, Charles L. Bolte.
70th Infantry Division – "Trailblazer";
71st Infantry Division – "Red Circle";
76th Infantry Division – "Onaway";
77th Infantry Division – "Metropolitan" or "Liberty"; This is today's 77th Sustainment Brigade.
78th Infantry Division – "Lightning";
79th Infantry Division – "Cross of Lorraine";
80th Infantry Division – "Blue Ridge"; This is today's 80th Training Command.
81st Infantry Division – "Wildcat"; This is today's 81st Regional Support Command.
83rd Infantry Division
"Ohio" –
"Ragtag Circus" – Ostensibly because of the vehicles the division commandeered from French and German sources, including a concrete mixer and fire truck, to transport troops into Germany during World War II.
84th Infantry Division – "Railsplitters"; This is today's 84th Training Command.
85th Infantry Division – "Custer"; This is today's 85th Support Command.
86th Infantry Division – "Blackhawk";
87th Infantry Division – "Golden Acorn"; This is today's 87th Support Command.
88th Infantry Division
"Blue Devils";
"Cloverleaf";
"The Puckering Butthole" – Due to the shape of the patch, a pair of crossed numeral 8's;
"8 Across and 8 Up!" – A play on military slang, insinuating that the quality of the division is low; This is today's 88th Regional Support Command.
89th Infantry Division
"Rolling 'W'"
"Middle West";
90th Infantry Division – "Tough 'Ombres" – Due to the members of the division being from the Texas-Oklahoma area, close to Mexico.
91st Infantry Division – "Powder River";
92nd Infantry Division
"Buffalo" – a racially segregated African-American formation, named for the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the late 1800s.
93rd Infantry Division
"Red Hand"; "Adrians"; "Blue Helmets"
94th Infantry Division
"Neuf Cats" – a play on the division's ordinal numbers ("94") rendered into French ("neuf-quatre")
95th Infantry Division
"Iron Men of Metz" -from the siege of the town of Metz in eastern France during World War II.
"Victory"
"OK";
96th Infantry Division – "Deadeye";
97th Infantry Division – "Trident";
98th Infantry Division – "Iroquois";
99th Infantry Division – "Checkerboard"; This is today's 99th Regional Support Command.
100th Infantry Division – "Century";
102nd Infantry Division – "Ozark";
103rd Infantry Division – "Cactus";
104th Infantry Division – "Timberwolf";
106th Infantry Division – "Golden Lion"
See also
List of nicknames of British Army regiments
List of warships by nickname
Lists of nicknames – nickname list articles on Wikipedia
Regimental nicknames of the Canadian Forces
References
Sources
The Institute of Heraldry, Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army
United States Army
Division nicknames
United States Army divisions
United States Army |
5388325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acuity%20Insurance | Acuity Insurance | Acuity Insurance is a mutual insurance company headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Overview
Acuity Insurance is the 56th-largest insurer in the United States.
They do not sell insurance directly, instead relying on independent agents.
The company operates in 29 states, generates over $1.5 billion in revenue through more than 1,000 independent agencies, manages over $5.5 billion in assets, and employs approximately 1,500 people. Acuity Insurance is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best and also receives an A+ rating from Standard and Poor's. In 2021, Acuity was named on Forbes America’s Best Midsize Employers list, as well as being ranked by Forbes as the best employer in Wisconsin.
History
Early Years
In 1925, a group of farmers and small town business men from Sheboygan County came together to form the Mutual Auto Insurance Company of the Town of Herman. The formation of the company came at a time when direct writers, mutual companies that sold insurance to farmers and others in specific agricultural businesses, as well as ownership of personal automobiles, were on the rise. The next year, in 1926, William J. Prietzel became the first president and CEO of Mutual Auto Insurance, and would remain in this position for 33 years.
The 1950's would end up being a decade of many changes for the company. First, the company changed its name to Mutual Auto of Wisconsin in 1953. This name would only last for 4 years, as the company was renamed to Heritage Mutual Insurance Company in 1957.
The Marvin Hessler Era
In 1959, Marvin C. Hessler was named the president and CEO of Heritage Mutual, after the sudden death of Prietzel. Hessler was the treasurer of Heritage at the time, as well as another longtime member of the company with over 25 years of involvement at the time he took up the mantle of leadership.
Hessler most notably played an important role in the company's negotiations with the Citizens Bank of Sheboygan to purchase their new corporate office. In 1960, the company finished its move to Sheboygan.
The John Holden Era
In 1969, Wisconsin attorney John R. Holden became the president and CEO of Heritage Mutual. Holden was instrumental in moving Heritage's headquarters to Sheboygan's southwest side along Interstate 43, where it sits today. At the time of the company's initial move in 1979, he was quoted in The Sheboygan Press saying, "Ninety-nine percent of the people passing Sheboygan will never see the downtown, but will view it from I-43. We think what they should see is our company building and grounds … and I think it will be a favorable recollection." Heritage Mutual completed its move to its current location in 1984.
Holden served as President and CEO from 1969 to 1999. During this time, the company's written premium grew from just over $7 million to $249 million. Under his leadership, much of the groundwork for the company's later growth and expansion were set.
The Ben Salzmann Era
In August 1999, Holden stepped down from the presidency. Ben Salzmann, the current Vice President of Technology at the time, became the new president and CEO. The company would change its name to Acuity Insurance in 2001.
The company opened a $39 million addition to its headquarters in 2004. The addition added 262,000 square feet (24,300 m2) to the facility and renovated about 20,000 square feet (2,000 m2) of space.
In 2022, Acuity was named to Forbes’s Best Midsize Employers list. The company was ranked at #26 out of 500 companies on the list, a more than 400-point jump for the insurer over 2021.
COVID-19
In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis hit the United States. When the nationwide Stay-at-Home order was given in March 2020, Acuity remained open and operational. This was thanks in due part to the company's approach on remote work technology and procedures, as well as flex hour options for employees. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Acuity would operate on a work-from-home basis, providing their employees with necessary equipment, gift cards, and other presents.
Acuity received universal praise for their handling of the Covid-19 crisis, with Ben Salzmann being ranked as the 8th Best CEO in the United States during the pandemic. Employees would also rank Acuity as the best company for work-life balance during Covid-19.
Flagpoles
Acuity Insurance raised the tallest flagpole in the United States on July 2, 2005. The steel pole was high, wide at the base, weighed 65 tons (without the flag), and was sunk into a 550-cubic yard block of concrete that was deep, wide and reinforced by steel rods. The American flag was by , or 7,200 square feet (670 m2).
Each star was high and each stripe was feet wide. It weighed . This flag and flagpole outdid an earlier Acuity record, a flag raised June 2, 2003, atop a flagpole. The new flagpole was a replacement; the old pole toppled over due to stress and high winds, falling away from nearby Interstate 43. The new flagpole was designed with extra bracing and placed much farther from the highway. A powered hoist raises the flag at per minute, regardless of wind conditions, and is synchronized so that the flag reaches the top of the pole just as the Star Spangled Banner ends. On October 4, 2007 it was announced that the flag pole would yet again be rebuilt to allow access to the beacon marker on top in case of light bulb replacement. The flag was rebuilt and the top section finished on April 4, 2008. On April 7, 2008 the pole, without a flag yet flying, began swaying noticeably during relatively low wind speeds. On April 8, 2008 the ball and top section were again removed, followed by a full removal of the pole.
In April 2014, Acuity Insurance announced another attempt at the nation's largest flagpole to be erected by that year's Fourth of July, this time with a pole built in Manitowoc, WI by wind turbine manufacturer Broadwind Energy. The flag to be hoisted will measure x, with an LED lighting system designed to be visible from Cedar Grove south and much heavier reinforcement of the pole structure. The new flag pole stands tall. A by flag was raised for the first time on May 22, 2014. The pole has a concrete base spanning wide at the bottom, with the top portion able to retract into the bottom portion like a whip antenna in high wind conditions.
In November 2015, Acuity Insurance began flying a by flag. The new flag at Acuity Insurance, covering nearly 10,000 square feet, features stripes that are over 5 feet high and stars that are nearly 3 feet across. Weighing 340 pounds dry, the nylon flag requires 72 cubic feet of storage space when not being flown. The flag is the world's largest free-flying American flag.
On June 2, 2020, the flag was severely damaged during a heavy storm. Several red and white stripes were torn away.
Gallery
References
External links
Official website
Dun & Bradstreet Overview
Financial services companies established in 1925
Companies based in Wisconsin
Insurance companies of the United States
Buildings and structures in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1925 establishments in Wisconsin
Mutual insurance companies of the United States
American companies established in 1925 |
5388343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acuity | Acuity | Acuity may refer to:
Visual acuity, the behavioral ability to resolve fine image details
Tactile acuity, the ability to resolve fine spatial details of an object with the sense of touch
Acuity Brands, a lighting and building management firm headquartered in Atlanta, GA., with operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia.
Acuity Advisors Limited, a technology corporate finance company with headquarters in London, UK
Acuity Insurance, an insurance company with headquarters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Acuity Solutions, a manufacturing consulting company with headquarters in Tigard, Oregon
Acuity (Health Care), Level of Care (Full-Time / Quarter Time care per patient). To prioritize patient care based on the acuity of a patient's presenting symptoms/conditions during triage
, a British coaster
ACUITY, an acronym for "Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage Strategy" |
5388344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Meolans | José Meolans | José Martin Meolans (born June 22, 1978 in Córdoba) is a freestyle swimmer from Argentina, who won the world title in the 50 metre freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, Russia.
A year later he won 100m freestyle at the 2003 Pan American Games. Meolans, a member of the swimming team at the Club Atlético River Plate, is trained by Orlando Moccagatta. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.
In the 24th International Championship held on 2006 in Porto, Portugal, he won two gold medals in freestyle: 50 metres (23.14 sec) and 100 (50.66 sec). He also finished third at the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in 100 metre freestyle.
See also
Argentine records in swimming
South American records in swimming
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina
Argentine male freestyle swimmers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
Argentine male swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Argentina
Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Goodwill Games medalists in swimming
South American Games gold medalists for Argentina
South American Games medalists in swimming
Competitors at the 2006 South American Games
Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games |
5388358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20squadrons%20in%20the%20New%20Zealand%20Air%20Training%20Corps | List of squadrons in the New Zealand Air Training Corps | This is a list of units in the New Zealand Air Training Corps.
Each unit is led and managed by the Cadet Unit Commander, and their officers and staff.
There are currently 49 Air Training Corps units in New Zealand.
Former Units
See also
New Zealand Air Training Corps
New Zealand Cadet Forces
References
Air Training Corps, New Zealand
New Zealand Air Training Corps
New Zealand military-related lists |
5388383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20of%20the%20Lost%20%28radio%20series%29 | Land of the Lost (radio series) | Land of the Lost was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern. Each week the show opened with the line, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea...", and then Red Lantern showed Billy and Isabel where different lost objects were stored beneath the waves.
The Land of the Lost radio series aired from 1943 to 1948 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and ABC. Betty Jane Tyler was the voice of the young Isabel, and Ray Ives was the voice of Billy. Several actors voiced Red Lantern, including Art Carney, Junius Matthews and William Keene. The announcer was Michael Fitzmaurice, and Cyril Armbrister directed.
With music by John Winters and lyrics by Barbara Miller, Peggy Marshall did the vocal arrangements. Organist Bob Hamilton provided background music.
A pioneer female radio commentor prior to Land of the Lost, Hewson did a food shopping show, Morning Market Basket, on the NBC Red network during World War II. She launched Land of the Lost October 9, 1943, and it was broadcast Saturday mornings at 11:30am on the ABC Blue network until September 22, 1945. In 1944, it also was on ABC Tuesdays at 7:00pm from July 4 until October 3. On October 14, 1945, the series moved to Mutual, where it was heard until July 6, 1946 (Sundays at 3:30 until mid-January and then Saturdays at 11:30am). Sponsored by Bosco, Land of the Lost aired on ABC from October 11, 1947 until the end of the run on July 3, 1948.
Book
Illustrated by Olive Bailey, the children's book, Land of the Lost, was published by Whittlesey House (an imprint of McGraw Hill) in 1945. Hewson's story was outlined in the back cover blurb:
Billy 13, and Isabel, 11, fishing from their rowboat, catch Red Lantern, the Guiding Light of the Land of the Lost. In return for letting him go, Red Lantern takes them to the wonderful kingdom under the sea where all lost things eventually arrive. Here they find the doll Henrietta that Isabel had lost overboard and the toy soldier Sergeant Pine, who is now a captain. Then there is the villainous Kid Squid and his band of cuttlefish, who nearly prevent Isabel and Billy's return to earth. Best of all are the Knives of the Square Table, with Billy's lost Jack Knife, the Great Horn Spoon, Sir Keen Carver and Lavinia Ladle. These fascinating stories have been developed from Isabel Manning Hewson's Blue Network radio program, Land of the Lost, which, as this book goes to press, is carried on more than 80 radio stations throughout the United States. Mrs. Hewson also reports that there are more than 3500 Land of the Lost Clubs and the number is growing daily.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Olive Bailey learned drawing from her mother while she traveled throughout the west with her family as a small child. Bailey studied painting at the University of Detroit and married the British-born artist, Arno Scheiding.
Comic books and animation
In addition to the Land of the Lost comic book series, drawn by Olive Bailey for EC Comics, Hewson's stories were animated as part of Famous Studios' Noveltoon series: Land of the Lost (1948), Land of the Lost Jewels (1950) and Land of Lost Watches (1951). Voices in these animated films included Mae Questel as Isabel (in a Canadian accent) and Rosita Wristwatch (in a Spanish accent), Jack Mercer as the Knives of the Round Table and various characters, Cecil Roy as Billy and Wally the Watch and Jackson Beck as Red Lantern and other characters.
Recordings
During the late 1940s, Columbia released on 78 rpm, The Land of the Lost, as a three-record album.
In 1950, Columbia Records issued the LP, Bongo with The Land of the Lost (Columbia JL-8503). Side one featured Dinah Shore and a supporting cast in a tale about Bongo from Walt Disney's Fun and Fancy Free. Side two, written and produced by Hewson, was a journey to the Magic Sea Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the series is not otherwise well preserved. Of the hundreds of weekly episodes originally broadcast during its five-year run, only 7 or 8 (from between April 1944 and December 1947) are known to have survived into the present day.
References
RadioGold Index: Land of the Lost
External links
Isabel Manning Hewson
American radio dramas
1943 radio programme debuts
1948 radio programme endings
American children's radio programs
History of Dayton, Ohio
Mutual Broadcasting System programs
ABC radio programs
Comics based on radio series
Fantasy comics
Fantasy radio programs
EC Comics publications
Radio programs adapted into films
Radio programs adapted into comics
Radio programs adapted into novels |
5388389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20Canan | Magical Canan | (also appears as Magical Kanan) is a Japanese adult visual novel developed and published by Terios. It was later adapted into two erotic OVA series and a 13-episode anime television series. Both OVA series were previously licensed for distribution in North America by NuTech Digital in 2004. Since 2006, the OVAs are licensed by Adult Source Media. The TV series has been licensed for distribution in the Philippines and dubbed in Tagalog by Hero and licensed in Taiwan by Mighty Media Co., Ltd. The game has never been licensed for distribution in North America. The anime television series has been licensed for a North American release by Discotek Media.
Plot
The plot of the story is that five dangerous "seeds" have been stolen from their vault in the world of Evergreen and sent to Earth. The magical seeds can bind themselves to humans and prey off their desires, turning them into monsters. Natsuki, an agent of Queen Tsuyuha, is sent to Earth to seek out a Magical Warrior. He and Hiiragi Chihaya, a high school girl, meet, and she transforms into Magical Senshi Carmein. Complications arise with the arrival of the obnoxious Magical Warrior Cerulean Blue, and the mysterious transfer student, Emi Kojima.
Characters
Note that the following descriptions are specific to the anime.
A high school student who works at Angel Kiss, the restaurant managed by her mother. With the help of Natsuki, she can transform into Magical Warrior Carmein (カーマイン). Carmein is Chihaya's idealized self (a more adult appearance) and she also receives magical powers while in that form.
An animal that appeared at Chihaya's school. He appears to be similar to a rabbit but is an unknown animal and the school nurse wished to dissect him when he was captured. Chihaya rescued him and took him to her house, though problems arose with her parents as animals are not permitted in the restaurant. Natsuki revealed himself to be a person from Evergreen, a magical land. He appears as an animal due to lack of magical energy. Despite his intimacy with Chihaya, she is chalk and cheese with him in the OVA, but this has been dulled down quite a lot in the anime.
A very rich girl who is Chihaya's close friend. She can transform into Magical Warrior Cerulean Blue (with the help of her partner Hazuna) and takes the form of her idealized self (being more outspoken). She has a strong bond with Hazuna, so she is very powerful as a Magical Warrior, however, this consumes much of her physical strength, so she is weak in her civilian form.
Sayaka's partner and an agent of Queen Tsuyuha. Like Natsuki, he has the ability to transform Sayaka into a Magical Warrior. His animal form is similar to a purple ferret (a yellow one in the OVA). He poses as Sayaka's private tutor. He is also Natsuki's brother.
A girl from Evergreen who transfers to Chihaya's school under the name Emi Kojima. Her real name is Septem. She is in love with Bergamot, but he is only attracted to her because of her resemblance to his wife, Emi Hiiragi. She works with Bergamot to help protect Chihaya from Fennel and Calendula. Though depicted as a heroine in the anime, in the OVA she was depicted as a villainess.
Chihaya's father. Fennel talked him into stealing the seeds from their vault. Even before that, however, he became a fugitive for eloping with the human Emi Hiiragi, who became Chihaya's mother. Eventually he comes to Earth with Septem with the intent of protecting Chihaya from Fennel. While on Earth, he poses as a teacher at Chihaya's school under the name Jounouchi.
The main antagonist of the series. He is the one behind the seeds coming to Earth. He aims to harness Chihaya/Carmein's power at its peak, infecting her and using it to destroy the world and "purify" it. On Earth he poses as the chairman of Chihaya's school.
Fennel's underling. She is responsible for infecting the individual humans with seeds. Near the end of the series, she is infected with first one, then two seeds so as to make her stronger, which ends up destroying her.
Music
Opening theme: "Magical Chodai" by Ui Miyazaki
Ending theme: "Koi Gokoro" by Ai Tokunaga
Reception
Both OVA series released on DVD by NuTech Digital, Inc. were reviewed by Chris Beveridge for the media blog Mania.com. He gave a positive review for the six-episode Magical Kanan Box Set and gave it an overall grade of "B." He gave a less positive review for the two-episode Magical Kanan Special Box Set and gave it an overall grade of "C."
See also
Papillon Rose
UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie
References
External links
Canan official website
Kanan MxTV website—requires Flash
2000 anime OVAs
2005 anime television series debuts
Anime International Company
Discotek Media
Eroge
Hentai anime and manga
Magical girl anime and manga
Magical girl parodies
Tokyo MX original programming |
5388417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve%20Officer%20Training%20Unit | Reserve Officer Training Unit | The Reserve Officer Training Unit (Abbr.: ROTU, – PALAPES) is a military programme that trains undergraduate students to be reserve officers for the Malaysian Armed Forces. Those who complete the training will be commissioned as officers in the Malaysian Armed Forces Reserve, either as Second lieutenants in the Territorial Army Regiment () and the Royal Malaysian Air Force Volunteer Reserve (), or as Acting Sub-lieutenants in the Royal Malaysian Navy Volunteer Reserve ().
History
Origin: The University of Malaya reserve army
During the Indonesia–Malaysia conflict in 1965, 30 University of Malaya students who were also alumni of the Royal Military College volunteered to enlist for military training at Siputih Training Camp in Batu Gajah, Perak, during their semester break. On 3 April 1965, the staff and lecturers of the University of Malaya formed the 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion (). Due to the lack of a military installation nearby at the time, the staff and 30 students conducted military training in a small room at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
When the University of Malaya's reserve army expanded in 1969, the university constructed a five-row wooden structure at KM 8, Jalan Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, to serve as the reserve army's headquarters and training centre. This area was later dubbed "Damansara Camp". The wooden structure was built on University of Malaya's land by the Malaysian Public Works Department as part of an agreement between University of Malaya and the Ministry of Defense. As part of the agreement, the University of Malaya must share the building with the Malaysian Army. With this, the headquarters of the 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion will be shared with the 11th Infantry Division.
In 1983, the 11th Infantry Division constructed two new structures: a garage and an instructors' quarter. The 11th Infantry Division later relocated from Damansara Camp to Imphal Camp in Kuala Lumpur in 1984, leaving Damansara Camp to be managed solely by the University of Malaya.
Extend the unit to other universities
With the emergence of a communist insurgency in Malaysia in 1968, the 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion was expanded in 1970 to three other universities: MARA Institute of Technology (Now known as Universiti Teknologi MARA), University of Agriculture Malaysia (Now known as University of Putra Malaysia), and National University of Malaysia. The MARA Institute of Technology unit became A Company, 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion, the University of Agriculture Malaysia became B Company, 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion, and the National University of Malaysia became C Company, 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion, while the University of Malaya became HQ Company, 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion.
The creation of the Reserve Officer Training Unit
Brigadier General Dato' Abdul As Ismail, the Commander of the Territorial Army Regiment at the time, invited all public university vice chancellors and the Director of MARA Institute of Technology to a meeting in 1978 and expressed his desire to establish a military officer training programme at universities to train university lecturers, staff, and students. The opinion was well received, and on 18 December 1978, the Chief of Defense Forces and the Chief of the Army officially established the Reserve Officer Training Unit (: ROTU).
On 26 February 1979, the Chief of the Army convened a meeting with all public university vice chancellors and the Director of MARA Institute of Technology, and directed the universities to establish ROTU at their respective institutions. The National University of Malaysia was the first university to establish ROTU on 1 July 1979, while Professor Mohd Ghazali was appointed as the first commandant and given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
The 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion was officially dissolved on 2 February 1980, and the University of Malaya established their ROTU on 5 February 1980, followed by the University of Agriculture Malaysia on 8 February 1980 and MARA Institute of Technology on 6 March 1980. Until 2017, 18 more ROTUs were established at other universities and institutions, three of which were MARA Institute of Technology branches. In the late 1980s, the Reserve Officer Training Unit was officially renamed the Pasukan Latihan Pegawai Simpanan, or PALAPES for short.
Navy's and Air force's version
The Navy's version of ROTU, the PALAPES Laut, was introduced in 1986 at Universiti Sains Malaysia, while the Air Force's version of ROTU, the PALAPES Udara, was introduced in 1989 at Universiti Utara Malaysia. All military branches of ROTU remain under one command, but their military training is provided by the respective military branches.
Objectives
ROTU objectives may differ between universities and institutions, but the core objectives remain the same. The core objectives are as follows:
To introduce undergraduate students to military field.
Students are trained to be disciplined and patriotic.
Providing manpower resources from higher education institutions that have been trained in the military field for the Malaysian Armed Forces, whether regular or reserves.
The Structure of ROTU at universities and institutions
The ROTU structures differ between universities and institutions. However, each university and institution has a commandant, who is an honorary position given to the vice chancellor of the university or the chief executive officer of the institution, and a deputy commandant, who is the highest position for a staff-in-charge. The Deputy Commandant is assisted by the Head Instructor, an regular officer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel for universities with larger ROTU and Major or Lieutenant Commander for universities with smaller ROTU. There is an adjutant and a regimental sergeant major below the Head Instructor. All of them are supported by regular officers and other ranks for a variety of tasks.
In addition to regular Malaysian Armed Forces officers and other ranks, the ROTU is assisted by university lecturers or staff who were commissioned from ROTU during their learning days or are still active as reserve officers in any branch of the Malaysian Armed Forces.
Selection and training of ROTU cadets
Before being commissioned as an officer, ROTU cadets must complete three phases of training, each lasting a year. According to Malaysian government statistics from 2017, the maximum quota for total cadets for a university is 450 cadets for all three phases, with the exception of the National Defence University of Malaysia, which has a quota of 650 cadets, and the Universiti Teknologi MARA campuses, which has a quota of 105 cadets for each campus. Each year, new selections are made available to first-year students, and the number of new students admitted to the training programme is determined by the quota. This quota, however, only applies to the Army ROTU. There is no mention of any other types of ROTU.
ROTU is accessible to full-time first-year bachelor's degree students. The minimum physical requirements for males under the MK LAT CPL/SIMP 500/3/5/6 are for height, for weight, and BMI does not exceed 26.9, while females are for height, for weight, and BMI does not exceed 26.9. They must also not be colorblind. First-year students interested in joining ROTU must submit their names and wait for selection.
Selection
All ROTU branches have a three-stage selection process. The first and second stages take place in their respective universities and institutions, while the third part takes place elsewhere. At this stage, each student is known as a Bakal Pegawai Kadet, or Potential Officer Cadet in English, and is followed by their batch name, for example, Bakal Pegawai Kadet Ambilan 19.
Physical Fitness Test (Phase 1)
Each potential officer cadet must pass a series of physical fitness tests in accordance with Malaysian Armed Forces standards. Among the tests are the following:
Cardiovascular evaluation:
run in less than 15 minutes.
sprint in less than 11 seconds.
Strength evaluation:
Standing broad jump more than .
35 sit-ups in less than a minute.
Medical Examination (Phase 2)
Each potential officer cadet must be examined to ensure that they do not have any chronic conditions, such as heart disease. They were also tested for asthma, hypertension and colorblindness.
Personality Test (Phase 3)
In phase 3, potential officer cadets are directed to their ROTU branches. They must pass an interview, which is usually done at the respective military bases; for example, the Universiti Malaysia Pahang Navy ROTU went to the RMN Kuantan Naval Base.
Oath-taking ceremony
All potential officer cadets who have completed all phases must take their oath in front of the Commanding Officer of the military base before beginning their phase as an officer cadet.
Training
The ROTU training that officer cadets must undergo is determined by their ROTU branches. Depending on the year of study, their instruction is divided into three phases.
After completing all three phases of ROTU, officer cadets are commissioned as reserves officers. Undergraduate students whose programmes are only three years long will graduate from the university and continue to serve as reserves officers at military camps near them, whereas undergraduate students whose programmes are longer than three years long, such as engineering or medical programmes, can help train their ROTU units as full-fledged military officers.
Cadets benefits
Students compete for ROTU slots because of the benefits that come with being selected as a cadet and being commissioned as a military reserve officer.
Military training
Depending on the ROTU branch, cadets receive military training comparable to that of the regular army. The training is customised to the cadets' phases. In the Army ROTU, for example, cadets must learn different types of weapons based on their stage. Junior cadets must be skilled at using a combat rifle; intermediate cadets must know how to use a grenade launcher and light machine guns; and senior cadets must know how to use a general-purpose machinegun and a portable rocket launcher. Cadets in the Navy ROTU are taught seamanship and how to operate a military ship as part of a crew. Cadets in the Air Force ROTU are educated to be air force infantry while also being introduced to the RMAF's aircraft and operations.
Allowances
The allowance are paid by the Malaysian Armed Forces to the cadets. All branches of ROTU receive similar allowances. Cadets are sponsored for food in addition to financial allowances as long as they are in one of the three phases.
Hostels
This varies depending on the university or institution. Cadets are typically provided with a free three-year residence; for example, University of Putra Malaysia places all cadets at Kolej Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah, or KOSASS.
Job opportunities in the armed forces
Graduates from universities or institutions who have completed their ROTU programmes can continue to serve as reserve military officers by attending reserve units near their home. For them to remain qualified as reserve military officers, they must complete at least 70% of the total annual training. Those who have been inactive for a long time can reactivate their membership by reporting to the nearest reserve camp, but they must go through the process of retaking the fitness test and providing documentation.
Graduates who have completed their ROTU programmes can also apply to work as full-time military officers in the Malaysian Armed Forces by enrolling in the Kursus Pegawai Kadet Graduan (). Aside from the military experience gained at ROTU, there are no advantages for ROTU applicants over regular undergraduate graduates for Kursus Pegawai Kadet Graduan. As a result, they are free to join any military branch, even if it is not the same as their ROTU. The Kursus Pegawai Kadet Graduan lasts 9 months.
Cadets ranks structure
The ranks of ROTU cadets are dependent on their rank in the Malaysian Army Academy, KD Sultan Idris I and Malaysian Air Force Academy. The Army and Air Force ROTU rankings are comparable, but the Navy ROTU is quite different.
Army ROTU ranks
Navy ROTU ranks
When compared to other branches' ROTUs, the Navy ROTU has a very distinct rank structure. The structure is based on KD Sultan Idris I, Malaysia's version of Britannia Royal Naval College. Both second and third-year cadets have the same rank in Malay, which is Pegawai Kadet Kanan, but the rank in English is named based on seniority. In the Navy ROTU, there are also "rank-holder" positions such as cadets' commanding officer and cadets' executive officer. The position of cadet executive officer is also known as a "Division Commander", and the number of division commanders is determined by the size of the Navy ROTU at the respective universities or institutions. In Navy ROTU, there are two divisions: Thana, denoted by the red colour, and Zain, denoted by the blue colour. For larger ROTU, the divisions can be more than two, but the names Thana and Zain are maintained. For example, Thana Alpha, Thana Bravo, Zain Alpha, and Zain Bravo.
The Malaysian Maritime Academy's Navy ROTU has a different rank structure because cadets must spend a year on a merchant ship for internship, so they skip the Junior Midshipman phase (second year). The training that they should receive during the Junior Midshipman phase was divided into two parts and completed during the first and third years.
Air Force ROTU ranks
The rank structure of the Air Force ROTU is comparable to that of the Army ROTU. The pattern of their rank epaulette is similar to that of the Army, except instead of green, the Air Force's is dark blue with yellow stripes. The word "MALAYSIA" is written in yellow at the bottom of the epaulette.
Ongoing units of ROTU
There are currently 21 universities and institutions of higher learning that have established Reserve Officer Training Units.
There is one Air Force ROTU unit at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sarawak Branch, which was established in June 2004 but was officially dissolved on 7 July 2013.
See also
Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps – U.S. Army ROTC
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps – U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps ROTC
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps – U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force ROTC
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (Philippines)
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (South Korea)
References
Military of Malaysia
Reserve forces of Malaysia |
5388424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Tyson | Isaac Tyson | Isaac Tyson Jr. (1792–1861) was a Quaker businessman from Baltimore, Maryland, who held a virtual monopoly on world supplies of chromium minerals during the mid-19th century and a very successful entrepreneur and industrialist.
The son of Baltimore flour merchant Jesse Tyson senior, and his wife Margaret, the younger Tyson studied geology, mineralogy, and chemistry in France, skills which he would use to great advantages during his industrial career.
He first began mining chromite on his farm at Bare Hills in surrounding rural Baltimore County some time after 1808. The sight of a piece of chromite being used to prop a barrel at a Bel Air market in Harford County, Maryland, led him to investigate its source. Tyson was among the first to make the connection between the occurrence of chromite and serpentine barrens, areas of sparse vegetation on metal-rich and inhospitable serpentine deposits. One of these was Soldiers Delight, near northwestern Baltimore County's Owings Mills area. Tyson began mining chromite here in 1827. He commenced buying up serpentine barrens wherever he could find them. The primary belt extended from Maryland into the southern counties of Pennsylvania, including the Nottingham, Pennsylvania serpentine barrens and the Wood Farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which would become the world's largest single chromite mining site during his ownership. Having bought up all the significant chromite sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, Tyson found himself with a world monopoly on chromite as the original earlier discovered chromium sources in Siberia (eastern Russian Empire) petered out.
Not content to confine his efforts to chromium ores, he also prospected for copper, and investigated the Strafford, Vermont, copper mines in 1828. He was involved in the Ely Mine, and by 1830, had become a partner with the local Binney family in working copper deposits on Copperas Hill, in Strafford. He personally supervised the construction and operation of six small furnaces nearby in 1833 and 1834, hoping to introduce hot blast techniques, using hard anthracite coal, to refining copper from the refractory pyrrhotite ores of the deposit. This was a very novel venture for the time, as hot blast was only just being considered for iron smelting. The furnaces were shut down in 1835 during public riots over city bank closings or 1837 due to financial difficulties during the financial panic and recession of the time (though not any particular deficiency of his smelting methods), but he retained a half-share in mineral rights at the site, which was worked sporadically for the remainder of his life.
While prospecting for copper in Vermont, he also discovered iron ore in the valley of the Black River along the Connecticut River in 1835. He set up Tyson Furnace near Plymouth, Vermont to smelt it, and the furnace operated until his retirement in 1855.
In 1845, he established the Baltimore Chrome Works company factory on the waterfront of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River of the Baltimore Harbor, at the western end of the Fells Point neighborhood (near modern skyscrapers development at Harbor East in the 1990s and subsequently the site of the long-time chrome works, last owned/operated by Allied-Signal in the 1980s and renamed as "Harbor Point" with a major controversial redevelopment project proposed in 2015 over the heavily-polluted capped soil surface).
Baltimore Chrome Works was one of the largest facilities in the country then to refine the chromite into pigments, the primary use of the mineral at the time. Until then, this work had largely been done abroad, in Liverpool, England and elsewhere, and he continued to export chromite to manufacturers there. The expansion into pigment production helped cushion the shock when chromite deposits were discovered in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) in 1848 and began to supplant U.S. chromium ores. He continued iron and copper explorations, opening the Springfield Mine for those two metals in Sykesville, Maryland in southern Carroll County, just west of Bare Hills in 1849.
Tyson married Hannah A. Wood, by whom he had at least four children:
Rachel Tyson (1807?–1883), married John Jackson and established the Sharon Female Academy in Sharon, Pennsylvania
Richard W. Tyson
Jesse Tyson (1826–1906)
James Wood Tyson (1828–1900)
He purchased a large mansion townhouse on East Baltimore Street near Lloyd Street in the Old Town neighborhood, just east of the Jones Falls, and later established and further endowed the McKim School, a free school for the poor (elementary/grammar school level) in a landmark Greek Revival architecture style stone temple structure a block away, (still existent in 2017), prior to the formal establishment of city public schools in 1829.
In the 1850s, he bought the Elba Furnace in Maryland for youngest son James to operate, and both James and Jesse followed him into the metallurgical profession.
Tyson was posthumously inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in 1996.
External links
Wood Farm chromite ore
References
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/features/soldiers.html
http://www.vermonthistory.org/educate/change/pages/work/tyson.html
http://vermonthistoricalsociety.org/journal/70/vt703_404.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20060520045412/http://www.sykesville.net/scans/newsletter/HD_news_2003_spring.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20061022200941/http://www.leadville.com/miningmuseum/inductee.asp?i=132&b=inductees.asp&t=n&p=T&s=
http://www.mininghalloffame.org/inductee.asp?i=132&b=inductees.asp&t=n&p=T&s=
American mining businesspeople
American businesspeople in metals
American ironmasters
American Quakers
1792 births
1861 deaths
Businesspeople from Maryland
19th-century American businesspeople |
5388440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bradshaw | Peter Bradshaw | Peter Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at The Guardian since 1999, and is a contributing editor at Esquire.
Early life and education
Bradshaw was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire and studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Footlights. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, followed by postgraduate research in the Early Modern period in which he studied with Lisa Jardine and Anne Barton. He received his PhD in 1989.
Career
In the 1990s, Bradshaw was employed by the Evening Standard as a columnist, and during the 1997 general election campaign, editor Max Hastings asked him to write a series of parodic diary entries purporting to be written by the Conservative MP and historian Alan Clark, which Clark thought deceptive and which were the subject of a court case resolved in January 1998, the first in newspaper history in which the subject of a satire sued its author. Bradshaw was not put into the witness box by his QC Peter Prescott, and the judge Gavin Lightman found in Clark's favour, granting an injunction, deciding that Bradshaw's articles were then being published in a form that "a substantial number of readers" would believe they were genuinely being written by Alan Clark. Bradshaw found it "the most bizarre and surreal business of my professional life. I'm very flattered that Mr Clark should go to all this trouble and expense in suing me like this."
Since 1999, Bradshaw has been chief film critic for The Guardian, writing a weekly review column every Friday for the paper's Film&Music section. Bradshaw is a regular guest reviewer on the Film... programme broadcast on BBC One. Bradshaw wrote and performed a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled For One Horrible Moment, recorded 10 October 1998 and first broadcast 20 January 1999, which chronicled a young man's coming of age in 1970s Cambridgeshire. His bittersweet short story Reunion, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 21 October 2016, was narrated by Tom Hollander and described as "sad and sly, and connected impermeably to the mid-Seventies and what it felt like to be young". Another short story, entitled Neighbours Of Zero, first broadcast on Radio 4 on 17 November 2017, was narrated by Daniel Mays. His Senior Moment, first broadcast on Radio 4 on 22 May 2020, was narrated by Michael Maloney. He co-wrote and acted in David Baddiel's sitcom Baddiel's Syndrome, first aired on Sky One.
Favorite films
In a 2012 Sight & Sound poll of cinema's greatest films, Bradshaw indicated his ten favourites, given alphabetically, are:
The Addiction (USA, 1994)
Andrei Rublev (Soviet Union, 1966)
Annie Hall (USA, 1977)
Black Narcissus (UK, 1947)
Hidden (France, 2005)
I am Cuba (Cuba, 1964)
In the Mood for Love (China, 2000)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK, 1949)
Raging Bull (USA, 1980)
Singin' in the Rain (USA, 1952)
Awards
Bradshaw has been shortlisted four times at The Press Awards in the Critic of the Year category, in 2001, 2007, 2013 and 2014, "Highly Commended" the last time.
References
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
People educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
English male journalists
English male non-fiction writers
English film critics
The Guardian journalists
Living people
1962 births |
5388443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idarado%20Mine | Idarado Mine | The Idarado Mine was a mining operation in the San Juan Mountains of Ouray County, Colorado near the now-ghost town of Guston, producing primarily lead, silver and zinc along with lesser amounts of gold and copper. The mine is within the Sneffels-Red Mountain-Telluride mining district. The remains of the operation are visible from the Million Dollar Highway, north of Red Mountain Pass, between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. The tunnels of the Idarado extend some 5 miles (8 km) west under 13,000 foot (4,000 m) mountains to the Pandora Mill near Telluride, a trip of more than 60 miles (100 km) by highway.
The mine was a consolidation of several previously inactive mines interconnected via the Treasury Tunnel. The Treasury Tunnel was initially created in 1896 with the hope of connecting older mine workings to allow for drainage and exploiting ore deposits thought to exist between the mines of Red Mountain and Telluride. The tunnel operated for about 10 years with limited success. In 1939 several companies merged and secured the mining rights to many of the inactive mines on the west side of the Red Mountain Valley, utilizing the old Treasury Tunnel. Many of the interconnected mines had been some of the district's best producers before closing due to low metal prices and inability to pump the deep mines dry. The operation was named Idarado and in all, some 80 miles of underground workings were created or connected.
The Idarado produced large amounts of lead, silver and zinc, with lesser amounts of gold and copper. During World War II, the Idarado was a large supplier of critically needed lead and zinc. The mine operated in limited capacity until 1979, when production stopped. Eventually the concentration mill was removed and activity at the mine turned to reclamation.
During the 1980s, reclamation efforts took place at the mill-tailings ponds near the mine and farther north down the valley, near the old Ironton town site, where more mill tailings ponds had been created after all available space near the mine had been exhausted. The old tailings ponds can still be seen just off the highway, appearing now as flat, grassy meadows.
References
Mindat.org: Minerals of the Idarado Mine — from Mindat.org.
External links
Gold mines in Colorado
Buildings and structures in Ouray County, Colorado
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Underground mines in the United States |
5388466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20of%20New%20Trade%20Unions%20of%20Slovenia%20%22Independence%22 | Confederation of New Trade Unions of Slovenia "Independence" | The Confederation of New Trade Unions of Slovenia "Independence" () (KNSS "Independence") is a national trade union center in Slovenia. It was founded in March 1990.
References
External links
KNSS "Independence" official site.
Trade unions in Slovenia
Trade unions established in 1990 |
5388468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior%20Woman%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Warrior Woman (Marvel Comics) | Warrior Woman is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Warrior Woman first appears in Invaders #16 (May 1977) and was created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.
Fictional character biography
Julia Koenig first appears in a multi-issue storyline in the title Invaders, posing as a servicewoman dating an American soldier in London during World War II. Koenig is revealed to be a Nazi spy, code-named Madame Rätsel (Madame Mystery), who is sent to obtain information from a soldier, who was also a cartoonist and is suspected of knowing the secret of the Super-Soldier Serum, which originally empowered hero Captain America. The soldier is captured and interrogated by Koenig, who attempts to replicate the experiment in a laboratory. The materials used are unstable, and when a superior officer intervenes, trying to stop Koenig from using the formula on herself, she whips him, accidentally throwing him into the machinery, causing an explosion that transforms Koenig into a female version of fellow Nazi agent Master Man (although courtesy of a higher level of exposure to the Serum, Master Man is physically superior). Koenig dubs herself Warrior Woman.
To celebrate the capture of superhero team the Invaders (in a prison in the German city of Berlin), Hitler insists Koenig and Master Man marry, his logic being that they are the progenitors of a new race. The ceremony, however, is interrupted when the priest is killed by rubble from a building damaged during a battle between the Invaders and German troops. Warrior Woman and Master Man retreat when confronted by the Human Torch, who becomes enraged when his ward, Toro, is wounded by gunfire. The character reappears in the final issue of the Invaders as part of a team formed by the Japanese spy Lady Lotus to battle the heroes - the Super-Axis.
It is revealed in a flashback from Namor the Sub-Mariner, that near the end of World War II, Baron Strucker placed Warrior Woman and Master Man in suspended animation in a hidden laboratory, thereby "preserving" the Nazi dream for use at a later time. Master Man is revived by Axl Nacht's scientists, and at Nacht's direction, the character abducts the original Human Torch and Ann Raymond (Toro's widow) - their blood being necessary for reviving Warrior Woman, who had suffered brain damage. Nacht betrays Master Man when it is revealed that his father first cared for the two superbeings while in suspended animation, and unknowingly instilled in the younger Nacht an obsession with Warrior Woman.
In another flashback, Warrior Woman assisted Master Man and Armless Tiger Man into partaking in the invasion of Wakanda where they fought Captain America, T'Chaka, and Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.
When Namor the Sub-Mariner, former founding member of the Invaders, finds the laboratory, he battles Master Man until the Nazi loses his abilities and reverts to Wilhelm Lohmer. Nacht steals Master Man's abilities for himself, and has apparently also won the affections of the revived, but unstable Warrior Woman. Namor rescues the prisoners as Lohmer destroys the laboratory, although no bodies are found in the wreckage.
Later, she resurfaces alongside Nacht (now wearing armor) as one of the leaders of Axis Mundi, a resurgent fascist terrorist organization who was opposed by the New Invaders. Other members of Axis Mundi included U-Man, Baroness Blood (female heir to Baron Blood) and the Pterrorists, an army of cloned insectoid warriors whose mind and DNA were derived from Agent Axis.
Powers and abilities
Julia Koenig was a normal human who excelled at espionage and hypnotism, and when exposed to a variant of the Super-Soldier Serum receives enhanced strength and stamina.
References
External links
Warrior Woman at Marvel Wiki
Warrior Woman at Comic Vine
Warrior Woman aka Kriegerfrau
Characters created by Frank Robbins
Characters created by Roy Thomas
Comics characters introduced in 1977
Fictional women soldiers and warriors
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics female supervillains
Marvel Comics Nazis
Marvel Comics supervillains |
5388477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha%20Siddiqa | Ayesha Siddiqa | Ayesha Siddiqa
(), (born April 7, 1966), is a Pakistani political scientist, a political commentator and an author who serves as a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She previously served as the inaugural Pakistan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center between 2004 and 2005.
Biography
Born in Lahore, Siddiqa studied at Kinnaird College and went on to join the Civil Service of Pakistan. As a civil servant, Siddiqa served as the director of naval research with the Pakistan Navy, making her the first civilian and the first woman to work at that position in Pakistan's defence establishment. She also worked in military accounts and as deputy director Defense Services Audit. Siddiqa moved to London, where she received her PhD from King's College London in war studies. After leaving the civil service, she served as the senior research fellow at the Sandia National Laboratories and went on to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and the Quaid-e-Azam University. She also served as the Charles Wallace Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2015.
She has written extensively on the Pakistan military, and her research has covered issues varying from the Pakistan military's covert development of military technology, defensive game theory, nuclear deterrence, arms procurement and arms production, to civil-military relations in Pakistan. After leaving the bureaucracy, she authored Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99: In Search of a Policy, 2001, and later, in 2007, published her critically acclaimed book: Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy. She also regularly writes critical columns for English language newspapers, including Dawn, Daily Times, The Friday Times and Express Tribune.
References
External links
Soldiers of Fortune - by Ayesha Siddiqa
1966 births
Living people
Pakistani women journalists
Pakistani political scientists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Pakistani military writers
Ayesha Siddiqa
Pakistani expatriates in the United Kingdom
Pakistani expatriates in the United States
Pakistani scholars
Alumni of King's College London
Peace and conflict scholars
Kinnaird College for Women University alumni
People from Islamabad
Women military writers
Pakistani scholars of Pakistan studies
Military theorists
Pakistan Naval War College faculty
Pakistan Army civilians
Pakistan Navy civilians
Women columnists
Women political scientists |
5388490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santi%20Bose | Santi Bose | Santiago Bose (July 25, 1949 – December 3, 2002 in Baguio, Philippines), often known by his nickname Santi Bose, was a mixed-media artist from the Philippines. Bose co-founded the Baguio Arts Guild, and was also an educator, community organizer and art theorist.
Overview
Bose often used indigenous media in his work, ranging from bamboo and volcanic ash, to the cast-offs and debris (found objects, bottles, "trash"). His assemblages communicated a strong sense of folk consciousness and religiosity, and the strength of traditional cultures in a culture inundated with foreign cultural influences.
Bose worked toward raising an awareness of cultural concerns in the Philippines. After studying at the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines between 1967 and 1972, Bose continued his studies in the United States, at the West 17th Print Workshop in New York City.
He returned to Baguio in 1986 and began his explorations into the effects of colonialism on the Philippine national identity. In particular, Bose focused on the resilience of indigenous cultures, like that of his home region of the Cordilleras.
Baguio Arts Guild
Bose was the founding president of the Baguio Arts Guild in 1987. He became president again in 1992. The Guild is an active cultural association in the northern Cordillera region, emphasizing regional tribal traditions and the importance of using indigenous materials. Bose played a formative role in establishing the Baguio International Arts Festival.
Through his work, Bose addressed difficult social and political concerns in the Philippines. His subject(s) were approached with deep criticality and gravity, although never without a sense of humor and wit, however irreverent.
Bose said, "...The artist cannot but be affected by his society. It is hard to ignore the pressing needs of the nation while making art that serves the nation's elite... We struggled to change society, which is difficult and dangerous, and we also sought to preserve communal aspects of life. I too am haunted by visions of hardship, poverty, disenfranchisement of the 'primitive' tribes, but between outbursts of violence and exploitation are also tenderness, selflessness and a sense of community. These will always remain unspoken and unrecognized unless we make art or music that will help to transform society. The artist takes a stand through the practice of creating art. The artist articulates the Filipino subconscious so that we may be able to show a true picture of ourselves and our world."
Awards and exhibits
Bose was granted the Thirteen Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1976. He has exhibited in major international events such as the Third Asian Art Show in Fukuoka, Japan and the Havana Biennial held in Cuba, both in 1989. In 1993, he was invited to the First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art held at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia. In 2000 Bose's work was included in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's exhibition "At Home & Abroad, 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists." In June 2002, he was presented the "Gawad ng Maynila: Patnubay ng Sining at Makabagong Pamamaraan" (Cultural Award for New Media presented to outstanding Filipino Artist) by the City of Manila. In 2006, he was posthumously shortlisted for the National Artist award.
As a widely sought after artist for public commissions and artist residencies, Bose's practice included extensive international travel and included several prominent grants and fellowships.
Bose's work was marked by a conscious avoidance of a single recognizable style, by varied foreign and local influences, and by an experimental bent.
Bose has been included in the Asian American Arts Centre's artasiamerica digital archive.
References
External links
Santiago Bose
1949 births
2002 deaths
Filipino artists |
5388493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneshaft | Geneshaft | is a Japanese science fiction anime television series set in space, produced by Bandai Visual in 2001, and directed by Kazuki Akane (of Escaflowne fame). It was broadcast on the WOWOW network and was translated and dubbed into English by the anime television network Animax, who broadcast it from within its respective networks in Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and around the world. Tubi TV later added the series.
The story revolves around the voyages of the Bilkis spaceship across the Solar System, and its crew of genetically engineered humans, as they attempt to uncover the mysteries of an alien technology threatening to destroy the Earth, and whose nature may reveal the true origins and destiny of humanity in the late 23rd century.
The series is characterized by its exploration of the theme of genetic engineering, and the possible consequences of this technology dominating and defining future human society. It also contains a distinctive metal soundtrack with electronica elements (composed by Akira Takasaki), often featuring electric guitar solos at dramatic moments.
Featured as a central plot element is the 'Shaft', a Mecha with a peculiar appearance. Made entirely using CGI, this humanoid robot's design appears to resemble gray mechanical cranes, lacking appealing characteristics common to other Mecha, such as bright colors or even a 'head'.
Plot
Geneshaft is set in a future where genetic engineering has become the dominating technology, defining human society entirely. The government of Earth is totalitarian and as a result there has been peace for 200 years. The government is in control of human reproduction, and is in charge of all (artificial) births, as well as altering the genetic characteristics of every new individual, according to their function in society. One alteration common to all individuals limits their lifespan to 45 years, in order to limit the extent of aging so that they remain healthy and able throughout all of their adult lives.
People are largely rated by the quality of their DNA, and those whose DNA is relatively unrefined, such as those of the 'white' gene type, are generally considered inferior. In order to prevent irrational behavior caused by strong emotional attachment, family structures have been disbanded, and the emotions of love and lust eliminated. The ratio of men to women is 1:9, as it is considered that males are more aggressive than females, and this was part of what led past societies to destruction. Modern society is completely peaceful, the few men typically having leading-type positions, and commonly being of gene types that grant enhanced decision-making skills, while the females are in charge of lesser positions. Men are assigned Registers - emotionless, drone-like women - whose purpose is to document all actions a man takes, as men's DNA contains elements of destructive desires that cannot be eliminated, while acting as his assistant.
The story begins at the time when a 500 kilometer in diameter ring-shaped structure had appeared near the Earth five years prior. Dispatched from nearby Markanan space station, several female astronauts were about to investigate its nature when it produces a massive energy blast which destroys the space station and a large portion of the surface of the Earth, after which it disappears. This instigates the mobilization of a special group of men and women with specific genetic characteristics, who set out aboard the Bilkis spaceship to investigate the origins of the ring, and the possible connection with mysterious alien technology found in Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
During their voyages they encounter several instances of the Ring technology, which they fight with the giant mecha, called 'Shaft'. The technology of Shaft is mysterious and the mecha requires very special skills to be piloted. Along the way, they also encounter situations and people which make them question their nature as 'superior', and raise doubts about how 'perfect' their society really is.
Characters
Mika Seido
Mika is the main protagonist of the story. She is short but has considerable strength, though it is explained that she has the genetype white, leading to her being mocked by other characters as being inferior. Mika is much more passionate and aggressive than many of the people around her, but is also extremely loyal. Mika was very close to her "mother," the woman who genetically engineered her, and her sentient dog. Her friend Ryoko was killed in the previous year, and she blames Amagiwa for her death, believing that he murdered her to save his own life (although since in this society humans are considered to be nothing more than the sum of their genes, Ryoko's death would never be considered murder since she had an identical twin). She repeatedly threatens him because of this, but finds it bewildering that he is so confident in her potential and abilities, especially since she is a "white." Mika eventually teams up with Amagiwa and helps defeat Mir and Sneak. She also finds that she has fallen in love with her former enemy.
Sofia Galgalim
Sofia is a colleague of Mika and was previously working as an underwater salvager. She has the alias of Lunar Teddybear, although Tiki claims she is more of a "Grizzly Bear." She is genetype purple, and so she has exotic looks and a calm personality. She also takes great pride in her physical capabilities, insisting that she is undefeated in fifty kinds of martial arts. Sofia's faith in her society begins to waver when she encounters a gang of 21st century astronauts who are still attached to the idea of love, lust and family. Sofia eventually sacrifices herself to save the Shaft (with Mika in it) and the Bilkis, but confesses to Mika before she dies that she wishes she could have been a mother.
Hiroto Amagiwa
Hiroto is an enemy of Mika because of events that took place prior to the beginning of the story, involving her dead friend Ryoko. Though Mika claims that he is a coward who only wants to save himself, Hiroto proves to be a capable commander who can make the tough decisions as well as more merciful ones. He has been groomed since birth to be a commander. He is also haunted by the loss of Ryoko because she committed suicide to save him, although he does not show it outwardly. The crew considers him almost robotic in his chilly command style, but he seems to be struck by the more loving, friendly demeanor of Mario. Despite Mika's initial hatred for him, Amagiwa teams up with her to defeat Sneak, and falls in love with her as well. Hiroto's sidearm of choice is the FN Herstal (Five-Seven), a Belgian pistol that can carry 5.7X28mm SS190, an armor-piercing ammunition used for P90 submachine guns.
Tiki Musicanova
Tiki who appears to be an energetic young girl is known as the Hell's Faerie from the Kerberos base on Mars where on the thirteenth operation she decimated an entire platoon by herself. She is also known as Tinkerbell and is the younger sister of Mario. Unlike her charming and mature brother, Tiki is hyperactive, childlike and rather obnoxious, often insulting Mika for the fun of it. She is a capable Shaft driver but loses focus too easily if nothing interesting is happening around her. However, she becomes more focused toward the end of the series, when her brother dies saving the Bilkis.
Mario Musicanova
Tiki's older brother, and the backup captain in case anything should happen to Amagiwa. In many ways he is Amagiwa's opposite: he is extremely warm, caring and outgoing, and has a deep bond with his sister despite society's rejection of family. He also becomes very close to Amagiwa's Register, the seemingly aloof Beatrice, and may even fall in love with her. Mario briefly serves as captain of the Bilkis when Amagiwa falls ill. However when the Bilkis is attacked by a former classmate of his, Jean, Mario invades Jean's ship and assassinates him. He suffers from severe nerve damage from the transport, but is still able to detonate a bomb strapped to his body, killing both himself and Jean, and saving the Bilkis.
Lieutenant Mir Lotus
Mir, commonly known as the Ice Queen, is a conceited, egotistical woman whose DNA grants her perfect skills, which she frequently mentions to those around her. She is also extremely snobby, insisting that she will never use a tool that is imperfect, such as the Shaft, and belittling Mika whenever she has the chance. The only person she actually seems to respect is Lord Sneak, and she is badly shaken when he admits in the first episode that he used her to weed out terrorists. However, his smooth talk and flattery soon make her devoted to him again because of his perfect genetics. Even when Sneak's treachery is revealed, Mir attempts to help him for a while, fighting the "inferior white" Mika, but is defeated by her and after subsequently talking to both Mika and Tiki realizes that she has others who care about her. She then returns to the Bilkis.
Remmy Levistrauss
Remmy, sometimes called the Desert Medusa, is an analytical girl who is supportive of, and seeks acknowledgment from other people—in particular, Mir. She constantly fawns on Mir because of her perfect genetype, but begins to develop a fondness for Mika because she's "interesting." It turns out that Remmy is more complex than anyone thought: she is part of a rebel terrorist faction hoping to restore humanity's natural order, and she is actually in league with Lord Sneak. When she learns his true plans, she attempts to save the Bilkis and he murders her.
Dolce Saito
A brilliant, ten-year-old computer genius known as the "Puppet Master," who is on the Bilkis to debug the Shaft. Dolce is quiet and hardly ever speaks, but carries around a screeching puppet android that constantly howls orders at other programmers, and cackles insanely all the time. She devoutly believes that her computer skills are perfect and unparalleled.
Lord Sergei the 4th Sneak
A high-ranking commander who has perfect DNA, and is responsible for the Bilkis' journey. Lord Sneak turns out to be highly manipulative and cunning. During an evacuation, he fatally shoots his annoying Register, and admits to Mir that he used her to sniff out terrorists. Despite this, Mir remains devoted to him because of his genetic purity, and even teams up with him at the end. It is revealed that he is actually malignant and destructive on a far wider scale, and believes that he must cleanse the universe of human beings. For this end, he has been in league with Oberus all along. He is killed by lava on Europa.
Anime
On March 21, 2001, it was announced that Geneshaft would premiere on April 5, 2001 on the WOWOW network. On October 2, 2003, TechTV acquired the broadcast rights to broadcast the series.
The opening is "Shaft Drive" by Akira Takasaki/Ji-Zo while the ending theme is "Broken Camera" by Ji-Zo. For episode 13, the ending theme is "The Day Believe All Things" by Akira Takasaki. All episode titles are references to science-fiction books.
References
External links
Bandai Entertainment page
Geneshaft at Media Arts Database
2001 anime television series debuts
Adventure anime and manga
Bandai Entertainment anime titles
Mecha anime and manga
Satelight
Wowow original programming
Anime with original screenplays
Biopunk anime and manga |
5388527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%20Jung-yoon | Choi Jung-yoon | Choi Jung-yoon (born 9 May 1977) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for starring in television dramas, with leading roles in Romance Hunter (2007), Manny (2011), Ojakgyo Family (2011), Angel's Choice (2012), and Cheer Up, Mr. Kim! (2012). Choi has also appeared in supporting roles on the big screen, notably in Ahn Byeong-ki's horror movies and Lee Joon-ik's dramedy Radio Star (2006).
Personal life
Choi married Yoon Tae-jun on 3 December 2011. Yoon is the eldest son of Park Sung-gyung, vice chairwoman of retail conglomerate E-Land Group; currently a businessman, Yoon was also a member of the short-lived '90s boy band Eagle Five. They welcomed a daughter in Nov 2016. On 6 October 2021, Choi’s agency confirmed that she is in the process of divorcing her husband.
Filmography
Television series
Film
Television show
Theater
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Choi Jung-yoon at Heavenly Star
Choi Jung-yoon at Daum
Actresses from Seoul
South Korean television actresses
South Korean film actresses
1977 births
Living people
20th-century South Korean actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses |
5388542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Burse | Charlie Burse | Charlie Burse (August 25, 1901 – December 20, 1965) was an American blues musician, best known for his work with the Memphis Jug Band. His nicknames included "Laughing Charlie," "Uke Kid Burse" and "The Ukulele Kid." The "uke" in his nicknames referred to the first instrument he was known for, the tenor banjo, which was commonly called a "ukulele-banjo" in the South. Later photographs show him with a tenor guitar, a similar instrument that he played in the same tuning.
Biography
Career
Burse was raised in Sheffield, Alabama by his father—a hotel cook—and mother, along with seven siblings. During the 1920s, he moved to Jackson, where he met his wife, Birdie Crawford, and had three children. He then moved his family to Memphis, Tennessee in 1928. Burse played many musical instruments, including the piano, saxophone and spoons, but was only recorded on guitar, tenor guitar and mandolin.
As a singer and multi-instrumentalist, Burse recorded over 60 commercial sides with Will Shade's Memphis Jug Band. Burse was described as a "smart mouth" and Roger Brown remarked that he was "boisterous" and "the most irrepressible person I've ever met." This contrasted with Shade, who was businesslike and orderly in managing the band. Yet Burse became Shade's most frequent collaborator and a key member of the jug band in subsequent years. Shade and Burse were recorded by blues researchers Samuel Charters in 1956 and Alan Lomax in 1959, and appeared on a Memphis TV special called "Blues Street" in 1958. In 1963, the pair made one of their last recordings, Beale Street Mess-Around. They continued to perform together on street corners or private parties until Burse's death. Their renown revived toward the end of their lives, beginning with their rediscovery by Charters.
Burse participated in other projects, being photographed with an outfit called the Schlitz Jug Band (named for their sponsor, a beer brewer) in the early 1930s, and recording as Charlie Burse and His Memphis Mudcats in 1939. The Memphis Mudcats updated the traditional jug band lineup, adding drums instead of washboard, bass instead of jug, and saxophone instead of harmonica. He achieved an even more modern, piano-driven sound in 1950 with "Shorty the Barber," one of the first tracks recorded by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios.
Memphis nightclub owner Robert Henry credited Burse for inspiring Elvis Presley's signature "leg shake": "He would watch the coloured singers, understand me, and then he got to doing it the same way as them," Henry said. "He got that shaking, that wiggle, from Charlie Burse, Ukulele Ike we called him, right there at the Gray Mule on Beale."
Burse's brother, Robert, performed and recorded on washboard with the Memphis Jug Band and performed on washtub bass with the Will Batts Novelty Band. His sister, Fannie Carter, worked as a burlesque dancer, and her son Robert Carter played guitar with the Memphis Jug Band from at least 1940 on, adding electric guitar on their 1959 session with Alan Lomax.
Burse died of heart disease on December 20, 1965, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. He was survived by his wife Birdie, children Charlie Jr., Lucille and Connie, and seven grandchildren. On May 8, 2019, Mount Zion Memorial Fund unveiled a new headstone for Burse in a ceremony.
References
1901 births
1965 deaths
People from Decatur, Alabama
American ukulele players
Blues musicians from Alabama
20th-century American musicians
20th-century African-American musicians |
5388544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Annenkov | Yury Annenkov | Yury Pavlovich Annenkov ( also known as Georges Annenkov); in Petropavlovsk, Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire – 12 July 1974 in Paris, France), was a Russian Empire born artist mostly known for his book illustrations and portraits. He also worked for theatre and cinema (design). A member of Mir Iskusstva.
In his essay "On Synthetism" (1922), Yevgeny Zamyatin writes that "[Annenkov] has a keen awareness of the extraordinary rush and dynamism of our epoch. His sense of time is developed to the hundredth of a second. He has the knack--characteristic of Synthetism--of giving only the synthetic essence of things."
Yury Annenkov was born into a well-known family (among his ancestors was Pavel Annenkov, Alexander Pushkin's publisher); his father, Pavel Annenkov was involved with revolutionary activities that led him to exile in Siberia. The Annenkovs moved back to St. Petersburg in 1892.
In 1908, Annenkov entered the University of St. Petersburg and attended Savely Seidenberg's studio classes, together with Marc Chagall. Next year, 1909, he attended Jan Ciągliński's studio. In 1911–1912, Annenkov moved to Paris to work in the studios of Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton. In 1913, Annenkov worked in Switzerland. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1914, Annenkov mostly contributed to magazines (Satirikon, Teatr i Iskusstvo, Otechestvo) and worked for theatres.
Maxim Gorky's fairy-tale book, Samovar, published in 1917 was his first work as a book designer. His recognition as a book illustrator came in the wake of his most known work — designing Alexander Blok's poem, "The Twelve", published in 1918 and gone through three printings within a year. In the next few years Annenkov designed numerous books for Petrograd authors (Mikhail Kuzmin and Aleksey Remizov, to name a few). In 1919 Annenkov designed and staged "First Distiller, or How an Imp Earned a Hunk of Bread", a comedy by Count Lev Tolstoi.
Commissioned by the Bolshevik government, Annenkov together with Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, S. Maslovski and A. Kugel, designed and staged the open-air mystery "Liberated Labour Anthem" on 1 May 1920 in Petrograd. Later that year, Annenkov staged and designed another mass show, The Storming of the Winter Palace, part of the October Revolution anniversary celebrations in Palace Square, Petrograd. In 1919-1920 Annenkov made a series of abstract sculptural assemblages and collages, influenced by the Dada movement.
1922 saw his book "Portraits". It contained 80 pictures of the key-figures of Russian art of the time (Gorki, Zamyatin, Remizov, Sologub, Blok, Akhmatova a.o.) made in 1906–1921. The book also included essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Mikhail Kuzmin. He joined the Mir Iskusstva.
Annenkov left the Soviet in July 1924, first living in Germany and later settling in Paris.
He continued to work as an artist and served as a costume designer for motion pictures. He was co-nominated with Rosine Delamare for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for their work in the film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953).
In 1934 he wrote a satyrical novel A Tale of Trivia (Повесть о пустяках) under a pen name B. Temiriasev. The novel takes place between the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War.
References
External links
1889 births
1974 deaths
People from Petropavl
People from Akmolinsk Oblast (Russian Empire)
20th-century Russian painters
Yury
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
Burials at the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
Soviet emigrants to France
Soviet costume designers
Soviet novelists
20th-century pseudonymous writers |
5388549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Acting | On Acting | On Acting is a book by Laurence Olivier. It was first published in 1986 when the actor was 79 years old. It consists partly of autobiographical reminiscences, partly of reflections on the actor's vocation.
Contents
Prologue
Part One: Before the Curtain
1. Beginnings
2. Lessons from the Past
Part Two: The Great Shakespearean Roles
3. Hamlet
4. Henry V
5. Macbeth
6. Richard III
7. King Lear
8. Othello
9. Antony and Cleopatra
10. The Merchant of Venice
Part Three: Contemporary Influences
11. Knights of the Theatre
12. Breakthrough
13. Colossus of the Drama
Part Four: The Silver Screen
14. Early Hollywood
15. Shakespeare on Film
16. In Front of the Camera
Part Five: Reflections
17. On Acting
Epilogue: A Letter to a Young Actress
List of Performances
Index
Quotations
From the essay 'On Acting'
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
From Part Two
On Antony and Cleopatra:
On Antony:
Why Othello is such a difficult part:
From various other parts
Non-fiction books about acting
Show business memoirs
1986 non-fiction books
Laurence Olivier |
5388551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Draxinger | Kevin Draxinger | Kevin Draxinger (born March 16, 1967) is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he finished in twelfth position in the 200-metre backstroke. In the same event he won the silver medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
At the 1991 Summer Universiade, Draxinger won a silver medal in the 200-metre backstroke.
He obtained an MD degree from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 1998, and further specialized himself in Orthopedic Surgery at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).
See also
List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
References
1967 births
Living people
Canadian male backstroke swimmers
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
Olympic swimmers of Canada
Swimmers from Vancouver
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
UBC Thunderbirds swimmers
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people |
5388556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions%20of%20an%20Actor | Confessions of an Actor | Confessions of an Actor is Laurence Olivier's autobiography. It was published in 1982, seven years before the actor's death.
References
British autobiographies
Non-fiction books about acting
Show business memoirs
1982 non-fiction books
English-language books
Laurence Olivier |
5388558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20of%20Trade%20Unions%20of%20Slovenia%20PERGAM | Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovenia PERGAM | The Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovenia PERGAM () (KSS PERGAM) is a national trade union center in Slovenia. It was created in 1991 as a breakaway union from the Confederation of New Trade Unions of Slovenia "Independence" (KNSS "Independence").
References
External links
KSS PERGAM official site.
Trade unions in Slovenia
Breakaway trade unions
Trade unions established in 1991
1991 establishments in Slovenia |
5388559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleiz%C3%A3o | Baleizão | Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 139.74 km2.
The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.
References
Freguesias of Beja, Portugal |
5388560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave%20Spring%20High%20School%20%28Roanoke%2C%20Virginia%29 | Cave Spring High School (Roanoke, Virginia) | Cave Spring High School is a public secondary school in Roanoke, Virginia. It is under the jurisdiction of Roanoke County Public Schools. Cave Spring is one of two high schools that serve southwest Roanoke County and one of five high schools that serve the Roanoke County school district.
Communities served
Cave Spring High School is located in the eponymous Cave Spring CDP and has a jurisdiction that includes suburban areas centered around Virginia State Route 419 and rural areas along the U.S. Route 220 and U.S. Route 221 corridors. Communities served include:
Back Creek
Bent Mountain
Cave Spring
Clearbrook
Starkey
Wright
History
Cave Spring High School opened in 1956. In 1968, the high school was moved to its current site, while its original building became Cave Spring Junior High School, which would later become Cave Spring Middle School in 2002. Cave Spring held grades 10-12 for a large number of years until 2002, when it fed approximately half of its 10-12 population into Hidden Valley High School after it was completed and first opened. In 2019, the high school underwent a $43.3 million renovation, with the "new" Cave Spring opening its doors in August 2020.
Academics
According to U.S. News & World Report, Cave Spring ranks 2nd in the Roanoke Valley, 3rd in Southwest Virginia, and 52nd in the Commonwealth of Virginia in terms of academic quality. Cave Spring students are also eligible to take classes at the Roanoke Valley Governor's School for Science and Technology and the Arnold R. Burton Technology Center.
Athletics
Cave Spring athletes are known as "Knights" and compete in the Virginia High School League's River Ridge District in regular season play against other schools in the Roanoke and New River Valleys. The Knights are also part of Class 3, Region D for regional and local competitions, competing against similarly sized schools in Southwest Virginia and across the state. The Knights have won multiple state titles, including in boys basketball (2022), boys soccer (2018), boys tennis (2018), wrestling (2018), and girls tennis (2017).
Notable alumni
Gregg Marshall (1981), former Wichita State head basketball coach
George Canale (1983), Milwaukee Brewers 1st baseman
Lapthe Flora (1983), United States Army promotable to the rank of brigadier general
Tiki Barber (1993), a former New York Giants and University of Virginia running back, former NBC News anchor and co-founder of Thuzio
Ronde Barber (1993), a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and University of Virginia cornerback
Tyler Lumsden (2001), a pitcher for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Kevin Munson (2007), professional baseball player
JJ Redick (2002), consensus National College Player of the Year at Duke University and retired NBA player.
Jen Lilley (2003), an actress in The Artist, ABC's General Hospital, and MTV's Disaster Date
Danny Aiken (2006), a retired long-snapper who played in the National Football League and former University of Virginia football standout
Josh Woodrum (2011), former Liberty University standout and current free agent quarterback who has spent time with multiple NFL teams
References
External links
Cave Spring High School Website
Public high schools in Virginia
Educational institutions established in 1956
Schools in Roanoke, Virginia
1956 establishments in Virginia |
5388583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9t | Tét | Tét () is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary. It is located between the town of Pápa (21 km north) and the city of Győr (24 km south) in the Little Hungarian Plain. According to 1990 census it used to have 4,252 inhabitants, nearly all of them Hungarian by ethnicity. Neighbouring settlements are: Rábaszentmihály, Kisbabot, Rábaszentmiklós, Mórichida, Gyömöre, Felpéc, Győrszemere and the city of Győr.
History
In 1910 Tét was a village in the Sokoróalja district of the Győr County with 4,111 inhabitants. In terms of religion: 1,935 citizens (47,1%) were Lutheran, 1,890 (46,0%) Roman Catholic, 432 (10,5%) Jewish and 52 (1,3%) others. Tét population grew steadily in the interwar period. Notably, the Jews of Tét were forced into a transit ghetto and than sent aboard Holocaust trains to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. They are featured in the Auschwitz Album, the only surviving pictorial evidence of the extermination process from inside Birkenau.
Tét received town rights (Város) in 2001. Current population is estimated at 4,104 inhabitants.
Notable people
Károly Kisfaludy (1788–1830) a Hungarian dramatist and artist.
Gábor Faludi (1846–1932) a theatre manager in Budapest
Gallery
References
External links
in Hungarian
Populated places in Győr-Moson-Sopron County |
5388585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRRY | KRRY | KRRY (100.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Canton, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Townsquare Media.
It broadcasts a classic rock music format to the greater Quincy, Illinois, and Hannibal, Missouri, area.
History
In January 1989, Lewis and Clark Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell KQCA to Bick Broadcasting Company. The deal was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on February 22, 1989, and the transaction was consummated on March 3, 1989.
The new owners requested that the FCC change the station's call letters to KBXB on September 21, 1989. The station changed its callsign to the current KRRY on September 1, 1995.
In May 2006, Bick Broadcasting Company reached an agreement to sell KRRY to Double O Radio. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 30, and the transaction was consummated on August 31.
On May 1, 2017, KRRY changed its slogan to "The Tri-States Biggest Variety", as well as updating the station's old logo as it transitioned from Top 40/CHR to Hot Adult Contemporary (KGRC "Real 92.9" continues to air a Top 40/CHR format to this day).
On May 27, 2021 at 3pm, KRRY abruptly dropped their longtime CHR/Hot AC format and flipped to classic rock as "100.9 The Eagle". The change came with very little public warning beforehand, to the point that the change was marked simply by the station segueing from "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa straight into "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith; the station also launched with the announcement of a countdown of the top 500 classic rock songs to start the following day, the 28th, and extending through that upcoming Memorial Day weekend. The change was also triggered by the retirement of morning host Jeff "The Big Dog" Dorsey, who had served as a DJ for the station since 2001, and had a career in the Quincy-Hannibal radio market (including stops at WGEM, WTAD, and WQCY-FM) since 1978. Dorsey’s co-host Sarah Deien has also exited. Dorsey later told the Muddy River News that he was notified of the change the previous Tuesday and that, while he would have preferred to choose the date himself, he was grateful that Townsquare allowed him his own personal signoff before the change, a move rather uncommon with many radio stations.
Former logo
See also
List of media outlets in Quincy, Illinois
References
External links
RRY
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Lewis County, Missouri
Townsquare Media radio stations |
5388595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1930 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1930 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 8th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 21 and 22 June 1930. It saw the first appearance of a German car and the first entry from female drivers.
In the smallest ever field in the Le Mans history; there were only 17 starters. This was a race of two halves. At the start the Mercedes of Rudolf Caracciola/Christian Werner was pursued by the supercharged ‘Blower’ Bentley of Tim Birkin. Twice he passed the white car on the Mulsanne Straight and both times he was thwarted by a rear-tyre blowout. Then Sammy Davis chased in a works Bentley. When that car was put into the sandbank at Pontlieue corner, it was the other works Bentley of Woolf Barnato and Glen Kidston taking up the Germans’ challenge. The lead changed a number of times into the night, until at 1.30am when the Mercedes was retired with a broken dynamo and a flat battery.
After that it became a procession for the remaining Bentleys, although both the privateer Blower Bentleys retired on Sunday. The two works cars carried on and cruised to another formation finish. Barnato had won his third consecutive Le Mans, from three starts. Talbot finished third and fourth and took the lucrative Index of Performance prize by the narrowest of margins (0.004) from the winning Bentley. The Bugatti of Marguerite Mareuse and Odette Siko had a trouble-free run and finished seventh, stealing the contemporary headlines from Bentley.
Regulations
The AIACR (forerunner of the FIA) Appendix C rules stayed in effect. The biggest change this year was the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) now allowing private entrants as well as “works” entries from the manufacturers. This just acknowledged the existing practice of private owners being entered by the car-company. Five engine-classes were specified, with brackets at 3.0, 2.0, 1.5 and 1-litres.
To be eligible, a minimum of thirty vehicles had to have been produced, and the cars had to be “as per sales catalogue”. Many small companies were selling bare chassis upon which an owner would get a coach-builder to put on a body-shelled, so the specifications were still quite broad as long as the car had some basic minimum equipment (mudguards, lights, hood, windscreen etc.).
As engine power advanced, the ACO once again adjusted the Index target distances. Example targets included the following:
The Société des Pétroles Jupiter, Shell's French agents, provided three standard fuel options: Gasoline, Benzole and a 70/30 blend of the two. Teams were allowed to add up to 2% by volume of their own additives. As before, all liquids (fuel, oil and water) could only be replenished after every 20 laps ().
Night-time, when headlights had to be used, was defined by the ACO for the race as between 9.30pm and 4am.
Entries
In the middle of the Great Depression, the auto-industry was being hit very hard. Only 33 cars entered for the race, of which only 19 arrived. That said it was a quality field with two big Bentley entries challenged by a mighty 7-litre supercharged Mercedes and one of the supercharged Alfa Romeos dominating European racing, both privately entered. France could muster only two works Tractas, a BNC and a privateer Bugatti to their premier touring car race.
Note: The first number is the number of entries, the second the number who started.
Defending champions Bentley once again arrived with a solid works team, this year bringing a trio of their big Speed Six model. Introduced in 1928 as a competitor to the Rolls-Royce Phantom I, it had a 6.6-litre engine that produced 190 bhp giving it a top speed of 185 kp/h (115 mph).
Company director (and race winner in 1928 and 1929), Woolf Barnato would drive the lead car – the same chassis that had been entered in the 1929 race. This year his co-driver was his wealthy friend Glen Kidston. The other two were driven by 1924-winner Frank Clement with former Stutz-driver Dick Watney, and 1927-winner and journalist Sammy Davis with Clive Dunfee.
Back in 1928, Barnato's fellow race-winner, Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin had seen the threat posed by the new supercharged Mercedes and Alfa Romeos to Bentley's dominance of touring car racing. He had approached W. O. Bentley and Barnato about supercharging the green cars. Barnato was not convinced and W.O loathed the idea. He eventually found an investor in the form of young heiress, and keen motorist, Dorothy Paget (who already owned a Mercedes-Benz SSK). The cars were not race-ready in time for the 1929 race; however Barnato quietly approved sufficient funds to allow the required production quantity to be met. Based on the 4½ Litre model, a massive, distinctive Roots supercharger was fitted in front of the radiator. This boosted the engine output from 130 to 240 bhp. However, it also raised the fuel consumption and its front-end weight gave the car noticeable understeer. Improved over the close-season, a team of three “Blower Bentleys” arrived, managed by former Bentley-driver and Lagonda team-manager Bertie Kensington-Moir. Birkin renewed his 1928 Le Mans partnership with Jean Chassagne, while race-winner Dudley Benjafield drove with former Alfa Romeo test-driver (and now British resident) Giulio Ramponi. The third car was driven by Boris Harcourt-Wood and Jack Dunfee, Clive's older brother.
The first German car to run at Le Mans was a privateer entry. Mercedes and Benz had merged in 1926 and had considerable racing success, but with the Depression the company closed its works racing team. Team manager Alfred Neubauer, however, convinced the board to bankroll a privateer team. This was run by their top works driver Rudolf “Rudi” Caracciola. The SSK (Super Sports Kurz) was designed by Ferdinand Porsche as a development of the SS model. The giant 170 bhp 7.1-litre engine could be augmented by a Roots supercharger to put out 300 bhp. However, unlike the Bentleys, the supercharger was not designed to be run all the time (not least for reasons of chronic fuel consumption), and the team was able to convince the ACO to discount the 1.3 supercharger modifier when dictating the car's target distance. Caracciola's co-driver was also from the Mercedes-Benz works team, Christian Werner.
Stutz was present at Le Mans again, through two black-painted private entries. The latest model M versions came in two wheelbase lengths, with the shorter designated the “MA”. The new 5.3-litre sidevalve engine now put out 120 bhp. Edouard Brisson was having his first race after the bad 1929 Le Mans when a fuel-fire had badly burnt his face and hands. His co-driver was the experienced Louis Rigal, former Ariés works driver. The other car was owned by wine-company heir Philippe de Rothschild. Keen to keep his anonymity he raced under the pseudonym “Georges Philippe” and had an American banking friend, Dick Parke, put the entry in for him. He had Edmond Bourlier (formerly from Talbot and Delage works teams) as his co-driver with Parke acting as reserve driver for both cars.
The Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq marque returned to Le Mans this year. The successful Talbot 14/45 had been developed into the 18/70 model with a racing version, the AO90 (a reference to its top speed over 90 mph). The 2.3L engine now put out 95 bhp. The Fox & Nicholl team were looking for new cars since Lagonda closed its racing programme in January. They purchased three Talbots but a disastrous fatal accident at Brooklands wrecked them. In less than five weeks, two were repaired for Le Mans. Georges Roesch, chief engineer at Clément-Talbot, was concerned that like the Blower Bentleys, the French fuels would not be suitable for the Talbots. He asked the ACO if they could run on ethyl fuel but this was refused. Leslie Callingham, head of Shell's technical department in London (and driving an Alfa Romeo in the race) said the hybrid fuel would be suitable, although the engine output would drop to about 70 bhp. The drivers were to be Johnny Hindmarsh / Tim Rose-Richards and Brian Lewis, Baron Essendon / Hugh Eaton.
The other significant Le Mans debut was also a privateer entry. Alfa Romeo had already achieved great success in grand prix racing in the 1920s. Vittorio Jano’s 6C successor design, debuting in 1927, followed on this adapting as a sports car or grand prix racer in the Formula Libre events. Initially a 1.5-litre, in 1929 it was also available with a 1752cc twin-cam engine, and both versions had a supercharged variant. As well as a works team, two other new significant customer teams ran the 1750 SS: Enzo Ferrari in Italy and Fred Stiles, the London importer, focusing almost exclusively on their respective countries. Its light weight and superior handling gave it excellent acceleration and made it better through the corners than the bigger cars. Le Mans was not considered by any of the three teams. However, a car owned by wealthy British racer Earl Francis Howe was entered, with support from the Stiles team including former Bentley driver, Leslie Callingham as co-driver. With the 1.3 supercharger co-efficient they had the same Index target as the Talbots.
After the withdrawals of Alvis and the new Scotsman car, the only entries in the 2-litre class were from BNC and Kenneth Peacock's supercharged Lea-Francis S-Type. Having raced the year before, Peacock had purchased a new car and returned as a privateer entry with Sammy Newsome again as co-driver. BNC had not survived the economic downturn and had been purchased by French entrepreneur Charles de Ricou, who also picked up Lombard and Rolland-Pilain, and its successor AER. The BNC Vedette was the new model based on the F28, the last Rolland-Pilain design.
Bugatti, despite having organised races for its car-owners on the Le Mans circuit, had not competed in the endurance race since the inaugural 1923 race. Wealthy French heiress Marguerite Mareuse entered her Type 40 tourer as a privateer, inviting talented driver Odette Siko as her co-driver – becoming the first women to enter the race. Based around the 1.5-litre engine of the Type 37 race-car, it put out about 45 bhp to a 4-speed gearbox.
Jean-Albert Grégoire’s small Tracta company had been very successful at Le Mans with its reliable front-wheel drive and patented Universal joint system. The works team bought two Type A models to the race (unsupercharged this time), Grégoire racing with Vallon as usual, and Bourcier with Debeugny. The smallest cars in the field were from MG Cars, making its Le Mans debut. Morris Garages was set up in 1909 by William Morris as a sales/service division of his Morris Motors. In 1928 after strong sales success, the company was relaunched as MG Car Company under Cecil Kimber. The MG M-type “Midget” was built on the Minor chassis with a plywood and fabric body. This year's version had the 847cc engine uprated to put out 27 bhp that made it capable of 110 kp/h (70 mph). Two cars were prepared for Sir Francis Samuelson and Huskinson & Fane, the London MG agents.
Practice
On race-week, the competitors were allowed to do practice laps on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights between 10pm and 6am. However, the roads were not closed to the public and the ACO advised drivers it was at their own risk. The big Mercedes showed its class, able to reach 195 kp/h (120 mph) on the Mulsanne straight.
The Paget-team Bentleys had a bad practice week. The Harcourt-Wood/Dunfee car had a big-end failure and all the cars were suffering overheating issues. This was found to be due to the high combustion temperatures of the hybrid fuel. The team decided to switch to the pure-benzol option, but it meant changing the engine compression ratios and fitting new pistons. There was only time to change two of the cars so the Harcourt-Wood/Dunfee car was withdrawn. Faced with a similar issue, the Talbots had been modified in May.
The BNC team had a last minute emergency just before the start. A split fuel-tank needed to be emptied and repaired. The race started as it was being refuelled, but then the car refused to start. So the starting field was only 17 – the smallest in the Le Mans race history.>
Race
Start
As a change from recent years, the race-day was sunny and hot. Caracciola, at the head of the line, was away first. On lap 2, his first flying lap, he broke the lap record (with a 6m52s) and then turned off the supercharger. This allowed the hard-charging Birkin in his Blower Bentley to close in. W.O. Bentley preferred to let the privateer do the chasing, telling his drivers to look after their cars and wave him through. On the fourth lap, Birkin was on Caracciola's tail at the Pontlieue curves. Reaching 195 kp/h he got past the Mercedes as they braked heavily for the Mulsanne corner. Birkin did a 6m48s to set a new lap record, but on the next lap the tread came off a rear tyre and he had to pit. It took only half a minute to change the wheel, and then in only five laps Birkin was right behind the Mercedes. Just as he again overtook Caracciola on the Mulsanne Straight the tread on the other tyre let go. Although he dropped two wheels off the road, Birkin was able to complete the pass until the tyre blew at Arnage forcing him to pit yet again.
Meanwhile, further back, de Rothschild had gone into the tight Arnage corner too fast and ploughed into the earth bank at speed. Able to reverse back out, he made it to pits where the crew verified the damage was not severe. The other Stutz had also had problems, with Brisson handling a misfiring engine at the start and then Rigal running off the road a couple of times, dislodging the exhaust pipe. The Lea-Francis lost time when it came to a stop about a kilometre from the pits. It took half an hour, but once Peacock cleaned the spark-plugs he was away again without further bother.
Caracciola's next challenger was Sammy Davis in his works Bentley. Despite a stone thrown up and smashing his goggles he stayed on the German's tail to the first pitstops after 20 laps. Bloodied, he handed over to Clive Dunfee who only managed a half-lap when he buried it in a sandbank at Pontlieue. With no shovel on hand it took him, and then Davis, over two hours to dig it out only to discover the front axle was wrecked. Kidston pitted his Bentley with a tyre tread thrown on his in-lap. Barnato took over and set about gradually closing in, finally overtaking Werner in the Mercedes around 8.30pm.
Behind the Mercedes and Bentleys ran the Stutzes and the Earl Howe's Alfa Romeo. The Talbots were running 9th and 10th, but were able to run an hour longer than the bigger cars ahead of them before refuelling. They picked up a place as the Alfa Romeo was delayed – a race-long struggle with fouled plugs and ignition from the blended fuel. At the back of the field, the nimble MGs were easily leading the Tractas (delayed, like others, by plug issues) in their own battle for small-engine honours. However the MGs soon ran into trouble. Samuelson's was waylaid by a failed big-end bearing, while Murton-Neale's skated off the track at the Pontlieue corners. French gendarmes had just sprinkled sand over the road to stop melting tar in the afternoon heat. He was furious and angrily threw the fencing he had just demolished with his car at the officials. Back at the pits, the car got assessed from damage. His co-driver did a few laps but was not convinced it was safe, so Murton-Neale got back in and drove on into the night. Around half-time, the car was finally retired with a broken con-rod.
At 9pm the Brisson/Rigal Stutz caught fire suddenly on the Mulsanne Straight. The improvised repairs to the exhaust pipe had come loose and flames set the car alight. Rigal managed to pull the car over and get out, narrowly missed by Barnato's Bentley. Hindmarsh, also running close behind him, stopped his Talbot and ran to help him with his own fire extinguisher. Parked far from any marshal posts, it took an hour for the fire to be put out, as official cars ferried fire extinguishers to the incident. The flames dazzled drivers and smoke from the destroyed car could be seen from the middle of Le Mans city. Not long after, the other Stutz had retired. The rear axle had, in fact, been knocked in de Rothschild's excursion and broke, leaving him not far from the other smouldering Stutz.
Night
By nightfall, after five tyre failures, the Birkin/Chassagne car was running seventh. In the sister car, Ramponi pitted with a high fever and feeling quite unwell. Benjafield took over facing having to drive the rest of the race. Mercedes team manager Neubauer authorised his driver to start re-using the supercharger to close back in and going into the night, the spectators watched a thrilling duel as the two cars swapped the lead. Just before midnight the two pitted together and the Bentley just got out first. This came to an end at 1.30am though when the Mercedes slowed with its headlights flickering. Werner pitted but could not restart from its pitstop. A wire had come loose on its dynamo and the battery had gone flat. This left the Bentleys running 1-2-3-5, the works Speed Sixes ahead of the Blowers with Barnato/Kidston holding a six-lap lead over Clement/Watney. The Talbots were now running fourth and sixth, splitting the hard-charging Birkin/Chassagne Bentley making up for its lost time. Shortly before 3am, Rose-Richards bought his Talbot into the pits when the front-wing began to come apart, affecting his headlamps. The team jury-rigged a fix with wire and cords. This allowed the Alfa Romeo, running better in the cool night, to pass back into sixth.
Morning
The second half of the race devolved into a routine procession. Early morning mist and a heavy rain shower also contributed to a dour race. After 8 o’clock Birkin and Chassagne finally caught the Lewis/Eaton Talbot and moved up to fourth. But then just before midday their Bentley broke a conrod and had to retire. Then within an hour, the other Blower Bentley also lost its engine, after Benjafield had driven solidly for fourteen hours without relief. This promoted the Talbots now into third and fourth, until the running repairs on the Hindmarsh/Rose-Richards car came adrift again. This time they pulled off the superfluous headlamp and secured the fender with leather straps going around the radiator cap and front chassis. The three pitstops required again allowed Howe's Alfa to get past a second time.
In the early afternoon, a short, heavy downpour swept across the circuit. The main excitement was the close race for the Index prize between Bentley and Talbot. Both teams told their leading cars to push on harder. With two hours to go, Eaton pitted his Talbot to clear a fuel blockage: a paper label off a fuel-churn had fallen in and got stuck on the filter. It cost a lap and let the Bentley get ahead. The handicapping favoured the smaller car and Eaton's hard driving soon retook the lead only to lose it again when they pitted to free a stuck throttle. When a late stop delayed Howe in the Alfa Romeo, the Talbots once again were in third and fourth.
Finish and post-race
Once again Bentley staged a formation finish. Woolf Barnato, getting back-to-back victories in the same Speed-Six chassis as he driven to win in 1929, promptly announced his retirement with the enviable Le Mans record of three entries for three outright wins. In the end the Alfa Romeo was only eighteen kilometres (1 lap) behind the Talbots. British drivers filled the first six places with the privateer Lea-Francis coming home in sixth. Despite the early delay, Peacock and Newsome still covered four more laps than their previous year's effort.
In a tight finish, Talbot won the Index prize by the narrowest of margins: only 0.004 from the winning Bentley, amounting to barely a lap between them. Three French cars were the remaining finishers, highlighted by the women in the Bugatti after a trouble-free run to seventh, and Jean-Albert Grégoire leading home both his Tracta cars. Grégoire was lucky to finish, as he had just put his car in a ditch on his last lap. Unofficial help from spectators pulled him out in time.
It was a curious fact that the Bentleys had a number of tyre delaminations of their Dunlops. Whereas the Talbots, and Mercedes (albeit abbreviated), had run on their starting set of Dunlops through their whole race.
Bentley had now achieved five wins in the first eight Le Mans. But like many other manufacturers, the company was hit hard with plummeting demand in the Great Depression and soon after Bentley disbanded its works racing team. In 1931 Barnato let two loan repayments lapse. The receivers were called in and in November the company was bought out by Rolls Royce. Nor did Glen Kidston get back to Le Mans. A keen pilot, he was attempting an endurance record from England to Cape Town when he was killed on the return route when his plane broke up pin stormy weather.
In October, Dorothy Paget withdrew her financial support for the Blower Bentley project after ongoing unreliability and only limited success. Philippe de Rothschild, knowing his identity was now revealed, retired from racing to build his family company into one of the great French wine labels.
Official results
Finishers
Results taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.
Did Not Finish
Note *: [B]= car also entered in the 1929-30 Biennial Cup.
Note **: equivalent class for supercharging, with x1.3 modifier to capacity.
Did Not Start
1930 Index of Performance
Class Winners
Statistics
Fastest Lap – H. Birkin, #9 Bentley 4½ Litre 'Blower'– 6:48secs;
Winning Distance –
Winner's Average Speed –
References
Citations
Bibliography
Clarke, R.M. - editor (1998) Le Mans 'The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939' Cobham, Surrey: Brooklands Books
Clausager, Anders (1982) Le Mans London: Arthur Barker Ltd
Fox, Charles (1973) The Great Racing Cars & Drivers London: Octopus Books Ltd
Laban, Brian (2001) Le Mans 24 Hours London: Virgin Books
Spurring, Quentin (2017) Le Mans 1930-39 Sherbourne, Dorset: Evro Publishing
External links
Racing Sports Cars – Le Mans 24 Hours 1930 entries, results, technical detail. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
Le Mans History – entries, results incl. photos. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
World Sports Racing Prototypes – results, reserve entries & chassis numbers. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
24h en Piste – results, chassis numbers & driver photos (in French). Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
Radio Le mans – Race article and review by Charles Dressing. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
Unique Cars & Parts – results & reserve entries. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
Formula 2 – Le Mans results & reserve entries. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
Motorsport Memorial – motor-racing deaths by year. Retrieved 6 Dec 2018
24 Hours of Le Mans races
Le Mans
1930 in French motorsport |
5388599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Brown%20%28swimmer%29 | Raymond Brown (swimmer) | Raymond Brown (born May 6, 1969) is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada.
Brown competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he finished in 18th position in the 100-metre backstroke, and in 15th place in the 200-metre backstroke.
He currently is a financial advisor in Cleveland, Ohio.
References
sports-reference
1969 births
Living people
Canadian male backstroke swimmers
Canadian male medley swimmers
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Olympic swimmers of Canada
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Cambridge, Ontario
Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from Ontario
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games |
5388600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Amavia | Daniela Amavia | Daniela Amavia () (born 4 March 1966), also credited as Daniela Elle and Daniela Lunkewitz, is an actress and model, appearing in numerous films and international fashion events.
Career
Born in Greece, raised in Germany and schooled in the United Kingdom, Amavia speaks fluent Greek, German, French, and English. As a young girl she was a dancer, but her teacher told her that she was too tall for the ballet, and suggested that she try acting. She began acting at the State Theatre Corps de Ballet, and studied drama and literature at Goethe University, and acting in London, where she soon received small roles. While studying to be an actress, she also modeled, doing runway work in Paris, France for Chanel and Dior, spokesmodel work for Chloé, and cover work for Vogue, Elle, and Femme.
In 2001, Amavia won the Best Actress award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for the film The Woman Every Man Wants (aka Perfect Lover), as well as the Deutscher Filmpreis, the German equivalent of the Academy Award. In addition to acting and modeling, Amavia also has written, directed, and produced several short films.
In 2003, Amavia appeared as Alia Atreides in the TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. Laura Fries of Variety called her performance "layered".
In 2013, Amavia wrote and directed the indie drama A Beautiful Now, about a passionate dancer who finds herself considering an extreme act when she reaches a crossroads in her life.
References
External links
1966 births
Living people
Actresses from Athens
German female models
German film actresses
German people of Greek descent
German television actresses
Goethe University Frankfurt alumni
Greek emigrants to Germany |
5388608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas%20Priesthood | Phineas Priesthood | The Phineas Priesthood, also called Phineas Priests, are American domestic terrorists who follow the ideology which was set forth in the 1990 book Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood by Richard Kelly Hoskins.
The Phineas Priests are not an organization, and they have no discernible leadership or institutional structure. For ideological adherents, a "Phineas Priest" is someone who commits a "Phineas action" – this means that they follow the example of Phineas, a Hebrew man who, according to the Old Testament, was rewarded by God for killing an interfaith couple. The term "Phineas action" is broadly used by white supremacists, not only as a term for murders of interracial couples, but also as a term for attacks on Jewish people, members of other non-white ethnic groups, "multiculturalists," and anyone else who they consider their enemy.
Ideology and activities
The ideology which is set forth in Hoskins' book includes Christian Identity beliefs which oppose interracial relationships, the mixing of races, homosexuality, and abortion. It also is marked by anti-Semitism and anti-multiculturalism.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "Many people mistakenly believe that there is an actual organization called the Phineas Priesthood, probably because there was a group of four men in the 1990s who called themselves Phineas Priests. The men carried out bank robberies and a series of bombings in the Pacific Northwest before being sent to prison. But there is no evidence that their organization was any larger than those four individuals."
The Phineas Priesthood is not considered an organization because it is not led by a governing body, its members do not hold gatherings, and it does not have a membership process. One simply becomes a Phineas Priest by adopting the Priesthood's beliefs and acting upon them. Adherents of the Phineas Priesthood ideology are considered terrorists because, among other things, their crimes include numerous abortion clinic bombings in 1996, the 1996 bombing of The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington bank robberies, and plans to blow up FBI buildings. Four men who professed to follow the "religious philosophy of Phineas priests" were convicted of crimes that included bank robbery and bombings, and each of them was (initially) sentenced to life in prison in 1997 and 1998.
Hoskins' book was found in a van that was driven by Buford Furrow when he killed one person and wounded five others in an attack on a Jewish Community Center in California in 1999. In 2012, Drew Bostwick renamed a splinter faction of neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations the "Tabernacle of the Phineas Priesthood-Aryan Nations" when he replaced August Kreis as the group's leader.
On November 28, 2014, 49-year-old Larry Steven McQuilliams fired more than 100 rounds at a federal courthouse, a Mexican consulate building (which he also tried to set on fire), and a police station in Austin, Texas; he was killed by return fire from police. A copy of Hoskins' book was found in McQuilliams' home.
Name
The Phineas Priesthood is named after the Israelite Phineas, grandson of Aaron (). According to Numbers 25, Phineas personally executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were together in the man's tent, ending a plague which had been sent by God in order to punish the Israelites for intermingling both sexually and religiously with Baal-worshipers. Phineas is commended for having stopped Israel's fall into idolatrous practices which were introduced to it by Moabite women. God commends Phineas as zealous through Moses, gives him a "covenant of peace," and grants him and "his seed" an everlasting priesthood. This passage was cited in Hoskins' book as a justification for using violent means against people who have interracial relationships and practice other forms of alleged immorality.
See also
Byron De La Beckwith, the assassin of NAACP and Civil rights movement leader Medgar Evers became a Phineas Priest
Larry Gene Ashbrook, a mass murderer who allegedly was a self-professed Phineas Priest
List of white nationalist organizations
References
External links
The Order and Phineas Priesthood by the Anti-Defamation League
Overview by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Anthony Rees, [Re]Reading Again: A Mosaic Reading of Numbers 25, A thesis submitted to Charles Sturt University for a PhD, 2013. Chapter "A Violent Turn. The Phinehas Priesthood" (p. 126ff). Accessed 15 August 2018
Christian organizations established in 1990
American bank robbers
Christian Identity
Christian advocacy groups
Neo-Nazi concepts
Christian new religious movements
Religiously motivated violence in the United States
Terrorism in the United States
Neo-Nazism in the United States |
5388631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha%20Dam | Haditha Dam | The Haditha Dam () or Qadisiya Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Euphrates, north of Haditha (Iraq), creating Lake Qadisiyah (). The dam is just over long and high. The purpose of the dam is to generate hydroelectricity, regulate the flow of the Euphrates and provide water for irrigation. It is the second-largest hydroelectric contributor to the power system in Iraq behind the Mosul Dam.
Project history
The Haditha Dam project was conceived in the late 1960s; construction began in 1977. The dam embankment was designed by the Soviet Union's Ministry of Energy, with its power station and equipment being designed and constructed by various Yugoslavian firms; these included Hidrogradnja of Sarajevo, as the prime contractor; Energoprojekt of Belgrade for design; Metalna of Maribor for intake gates, bottom outlet gate, radial gates; Litostroj of Ljubljana for turbines; and Rade Končar of Zagreb for generators and transformers. It was conceived of as a multi-purpose project that would generate hydroelectric power, regulate the flow of the Euphrates, and provide water for irrigation. Construction lasted between 1977 and 1987 and was a joint undertaking by the Soviet Union and Iraqi governments. The cost of the initial construction of the Haditha Dam is estimated at US$830 million.
Flooding of Usiyeh and Anah
With the creation of the Haditha Reservoir, the ancient archeological site of Usiyeh along with Anah were flooded. Usiyeh was located on the right bank of the Euphrates between Haditha and Anah and was excavated by the Japanese Archaeological Expedition in Iraq between 1982 and 1983. A multi-room underground structure along with a staircase, four life-size lion terracotta statues, three medium-sized lion statues and one lion statuette were found. These findings dated back to 1800–1700 BC. Ancient Anah was also flooded and contained a prized minaret. Today, only modern Anah exists.
After the 2003 U.S. invasion
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, United States Army Rangers seized the Haditha Dam on 1 April in order to prevent it from being destroyed. Destruction of the dam would have significantly affected the functioning of the country's electrical grid and could cause major flooding downstream from the dam. Afterwards, various U.S. Marine units had been stationed at the dam, as well as a small detachment from Azerbaijan.
In 2004, the Gulf Region Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) carried out restoration works on one of the turbines to restore the dam's hydroelectric power station to full capacity. According to the Coalition Provisional Authority, the inauguration of this turbine on 3 June 2004 signified the first time since 1990 that the power station operated at full capacity. In the same year, a new power line was established between Haditha and Baghdad with the help of the USACE to restore a line that had previously been destroyed. This new line, stretching over a distance of with 504 towers, has an operating voltage of 400 kV and allows 350 MW of power from the Haditha Dam to be added to the national electrical grid. The cost of the line was US$56.7 million and was paid by Iraq's oil revenues.
Characteristics of the dam and the reservoir
The dam is situated in a narrow stretch of the Euphrates Valley where a small secondary channel branched off the main channel. The width of the main channel was whereas the secondary channel was wide. The hydroelectric station is located in this secondary channel. The Haditha Dam is long and high, with the hydropower station at from the dam's southern edge. The crest is at AMSL and wide. Total volume of the dam is . In cross-section, the dam consists of an asphaltic concrete cutoff wall at its core, followed by mealy detrital dolomites, and a mixture of sand and gravel. These materials were chosen because they are readily available near the construction site. This core is protected by a reinforced concrete slab revetment on the upstream side of the dam, and a rock-mass revetment on the downstream side.
The power station contains six Kaplan turbines capable of generating 660 MW. The turbines are installed in a hydrocombine unit that comprises both the spillway and the hydro-powerplant in one structure. Maximum discharge of the spillway is per second. Two bottom outlets on the dam can discharge per second for irrigation. Both these outlets and the spillway are controlled by tainter gates.
The Haditha Reservoir or Lake Qadisiyah has a maximum water storage capacity of and a maximum surface area of . Actual capacity is however , at which size the surface area is . At maximum capacity, annual evaporation from the lake is estimated at .
References
External links
Dams in Iraq
Hydroelectric power stations in Iraq
Dams on the Euphrates River
Al Anbar Governorate
Earth-filled dams
Dams completed in 1987
Iraq–Soviet Union relations
1987 establishments in Iraq
Energy infrastructure completed in 1987
Soviet foreign aid
Crossings of the Euphrates |
5388636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koml%C3%B3 | Komló | Komló (, , ) is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The name of the settlement is derived from the local crop of hops (komló), an ingredient of beer. By the 18th century a depiction of this plant running up a support already featured on the herald of the town.
The former village of Komló became a planned mining city during the socialist era. It was the second biggest mining centre in Hungary after Tatabánya.
History
The area was inhabited by the Romans, the ruins of 2nd-century Roman villas were discovered during the laying of foundations for new buildings in the area (Mecsekjánosi, Körtvélyes). The existence of the once village is first mentioned in a charter from 1256 as 'villa Compleov', then part of the estates of the Pécsvárad Abbey.
The small settlements that are part of Komló today were already inhabited during the Árpád Age (Kökönyös (Kwkenyes), Gadány-puszta (Gadan), Keményfalva (Kemefalua), Jánosi (Csépán), Mecsekfalu (Szopok), Kisbattyán (Battyan), Zobákpuszta (Zabaguy) and Sikonda (Sicund)).
Komló was not deserted during the Turkish rule, however the population was very scant. Until the end of World War II, the Inhabitants was Danube Swabians. Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Germany and Austria in 1945–1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.
Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange.
After 1945, Komló was among those settlements whose expansion into a city was a somewhat forced affair directed by political decisions. A determining factor of its development was the role in coal mining. After more than 100 years of operation mining in the area ceased on 1 January 2000.
Sightseeing
The ruin of Gothic medieval chapel is situated (dates from 13-14th) behind the church of Komló. A graveyard surrounded the chapel at one time.
The Museum of the Local History is settled in the centre of the town (there is an exhibition where one can see the footprints of the Komlosaurus carbonis).
Sikonda is a spa resort that belongs to Komló. Its thermal baths was developed around the slightly radioactive and carbonic acid waters discovered in 1928. In 1995 an earlier ruling was confirmed, recognising the therapeutic effects of the thermal waters.
Climate
Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate).
Sport
Komlói Bányász SK, football team
Twin towns – sister cities
Komló is twinned with:
Beiuș, Romania
Éragny, France
Neckartenzlingen, Germany
Torrice, Italy
Valpovo, Croatia
References
External links
in Hungarian
Populated places in Baranya County
Socialist planned cities
Planned cities in Hungary
Baranya (region)
History of Baranya (region) |
5388647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Islands%20Council%20of%20Trade%20Unions | Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions | The Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions (SICTU) is a national trade union center in the Solomon Islands.
It was created in the 1970s by the Solomon Islands General Workers' Union and had membership of over 90% of SI TUs. After the independence of SI, in 1978 the name was changed to the Solomon Islands National Union of Workers, a name that is still in some use.
In the 1980s SICTU set up the Solomon Islands Labour Party.
References
Trade unions in the Solomon Islands
Trade unions established in the 1970s |
5388648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szentl%C5%91rinc | Szentlőrinc | Szentlőrinc () is a town in Baranya county, Hungary.
Sport
The association football club Szentlőrinc SE, currently competing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II, are based in the town.
Twin towns
Szentlőrinc is twinned with:
Urbach, Germany
External links
in Hungarian
Populated places in Baranya County |
5388666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9csv%C3%A1rad | Pécsvárad | Pécsvárad (; ) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary.
Notable landmarks
Among the most significant Hungarian heritage from the Middle Ages is the castle built on a Benedictine monastery commissioned by King St Stephen. The building complex is now used as a museum and a hotel.
Twin towns – sister cities
Pécsvárad is twinned with:
Hausmannstätten, Austria
Jur nad Hronom, Slovakia
Külsheim, Germany
Pannonhalma, Hungary
Satu Mare, Romania
Unterschleißheim, Germany
Velyki Berehy, Ukraine
Notable people
Endre Nemes (1909–1985), artist
Gallery
References
External links
in Hungarian
Aerial photography: Pécsvárad
Populated places in Baranya County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
Hungarian German communities |
5388682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B3ly | Bóly | Bóly (; ) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the Inhabitants was Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because there Ancestors once came at the 17th century and 18th century from Fulda (district). Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.
Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabians Inhabitants.
Twin towns – sister cities
Bóly is twinned with:
Semriach, Austria
Heroldsberg, Germany
Cernat, Romania
Neded, Slovakia
Sports
The local sports team is called Bólyi SE.
References
External links
in Hungarian, English and German
Populated places in Baranya County
Hungarian German communities |
5388687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan%20Guiren | Yuan Guiren | Yuan Guiren (; born November 1950) is a Chinese academic and politician. He formerly served as Minister of Education of China and president of Beijing Normal University, his alma mater.
Biography
Yuan was born in Guzhen County, Anhui, in November 1950.
In October 2009, he succeeded Zhou Ji as Minister for Education, after the latter had been removed at a regular session of the National People's Congress. He had previously served under Zhou Ji as a deputy minister. At the first plenary session of the 12th National People's Congress in March 2013, he was re-elected.
He was a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee, the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (2007-2012), and a member of the 18th Central Committee.
References
External links
China Vitae Biography
1950 births
Living people
Ministers of Education of the People's Republic of China
Beijing Normal University alumni
People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui
Educators from Anhui
Politicians from Bengbu
Beijing Normal University faculty
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui
Presidents of Beijing Normal University |
5388691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West%20Academy%20of%20Public%20Administration | North-West Academy of Public Administration | The North-West Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (NWIM RANEPA) is a federal higher educational institution situated in the center of St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Academy carries out training, retraining and improvement of professional skills of the public employees in St. Petersburg and Northwest region of Russian Federation. The Academy is one of the most authoritative and prestigious educational institutions of St. Petersburg. The Academy was founded in 1991.
The educational process is divided with 6 schools and 21 departments. Courses of instruction include full-time, part-time and correspondence programs.
22,000 students attend full-time courses.
Annually 2,500 persons study on short-term advanced courses and seminars, conferences, round tables and meetings.
4,000 employees of the executive authority attend retraining courses in management and administration fields.
Today the Academy comprises:
School of State and Municipal Management
School of Public Administrators Training and Retraining
School of Law
School of International Relations
School of Economics and Finance
School of Social Technologies
Postgraduates studies in the fields of Political science, History, Law, Economics and Social studies
Wide network of 13 branches in North-West region of Russia
Official Website
Factsheet 2018-2019
Universities and colleges in Saint Petersburg |
5388694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 7th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 15 and 16 June 1929.
In the most dominant display in the race to date, Bentley achieved a comprehensive victory taking the first four places on distance. Bentley director Woolf Barnato repeated his victory of the previous year, co-driven this time by fellow Bentley Boy Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin. They had led from start to finish, setting a new distance record and lap record.
The race was relatively quiet, without serious incident, aside from a fuel fire burning Stutz driver Édouard Brisson. Half of the reduced field had retired by dawn on the Sunday and the Bentley team was able to stage a formation finish for its four finishers.
Regulations
The international regulations remained unchanged. However, for its part, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) decreed that 2-seater cars could now be no bigger than 1000cc (either supercharged or not) and the 3-seat dispensation for 1500cc cars was removed after two years. This year Shell petrol was the official fuel for all cars.
Residents of southern Le Mans city were successful in petitioning the council. A new by-pass road, the Rue de Circuit, was built 600 metres ahead of the Pontlieue hairpin at the edge of the city. It reduced the track length by 922 metres from to .
The road surface experiments continued on the track. The left-hand turn approaching Arnage was partially re-surfaced with bricks and named Indianapolis, after the famous American “Brickyard”. A new spectator area was opened between the two corners. Also, many roadside trees had their trunks painted white for visibility and all the corners were signposted.
The media centre was also enlarged to include six phone booths and a telegraph table.
Entries
The global recession was hitting the auto-industry hard and only 26 cars made it to the start-line. For the first time French cars were in the minority with none in line for outright distance honours. It became a three-nation entry list with cars only from France, Great Britain and the United States. In lieu of a lack of direct manufacturer support, more privateer entries arrived.
Supercharged engines were very popular with ten cars having ‘blown’ engines. Dunlop Tyres now shod all the cars in the field. Of the sixteen places open in the Biennial Cup final, thirteen were taken up.
Note: The first number is the number of entries, the second the number who started.
Belying its precarious financial position, defending winners Bentley arrived with a very strong five-car entry, led by the new Speed Six sport version of its 6½-litre tourer. The engine was developed by Harry Weslake using a magnesium-alloy (elektron) crankcase to reduce weight. It put out over 190 bhp and get to 185 kp/h (115 mph). The previous year's winner, and company director, Woolf Barnato would drive it with Henry “Tim” Birkin. Another Le Mans winner, Dudley Benjafield, was slated to drive the car, but he gave his place to Birkin believing he would have a better chance of winning.
The remaining four cars were the reliable 4½-litre tourers, the chassis strengthened after the issues from the previous year. They were assigned to more of the “Bentley Boys”: Frank Clement / Jean Chassagne, Benjafield with Baron André d’Erlanger and Glen Kidston/Jack Dunfee. The fourth car, of Earl Howe/Bernard Rubin, had only a week earlier been used in a 24-hour record-breaking attempt at Montlhéry by Mary Petre and her husband Victor Bruce. The experienced driving squad was supported by Bertie Kensington-Moir, back from Lagonda as team manager, and Walter Hassan as lead mechanic.
After the close-fought duel the previous year, Stutz returned with three cars. The new Model M Blackhawk had a 5.3-litre engine capable of 155 bhp through a four-speed gearbox. The cars were entered by their European dealerships. British agent Warwick Wright had George Eyston/Dick Watney as drivers. Automobiles Elite, of Paris, hired Guy Bouriat and Philippe de Rothschild; while Paris-based American Charles Terres Weymann had grand-prix master Louis Chiron with the experienced Édouard Brisson. Their car was fitted with an optional Roots-supercharger.
Like Stutz, Du Pont was in the American luxury car market. The new Model G had a big 5.3-litre Continental sidevalve engine. However, this was a two-seater tourer, and refused entry by the ACO under its new maximum engine-size rule. So, the company quickly fashioned four four-seater speedster models, however only one of the two entries was ready in time for the race. It would be driven by the first Americans at Le Mans – Charles Moran Jr. (a friend of E. Paul du Pont, who had raced in Europe the previous year) and Alfredo Luis Miranda (the Mexican-born New York dealer for DuPont).
Once again, the Grand Garage St Didier entered two of their Chrysler Six's. The ‘75’ was the 1929 model, driven by team regular Henri Stoffel, this time along with French GP racer Robert Benoist. The ‘77’ was a preview of the 1930 model and manned by Cyril de Vere and Marcel Mongin.
Invicta was an English firm founded in 1919. Offering a standard design in three wheelbase lengths, the 1928 LC (“large-chassis”) version featured the current 4.5-litre Meadows engine that put out 100 bhp. Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a major in the Royal Marines, put in a privateer entry for the race.
Similarly, Lea-Francis was an English firm manufacturing since 1920. The S-Type had arrived in 1927, with the Meadows 1.5-litre engine used in several English sports cars. Once fitted with a supercharger (as the S-Type Hyper) it could reach 145 kp/h (90 mph) and became very popular with privateer drivers and Kaye Don won the RAC Tourist Trophy handicap. Enthused by this, gentleman racer Ken Peacock entered a car with Lea-Francis distributor Sammy Newsome as his co-pilot.
The Lagonda works team had had a very disappointing season in 1928, with only one finish from seven entries in three races. However, a new team of Lagonda-owners (PERR) and the company's main agents, Fox & Nichol, approached the company to prepare four cars for racing. Major revisions were made to the 2-Litre Speed, including lowering the chassis, uprating the engine and fitting a tougher gearbox and suspension, all combining to give it a top speed of 160 kp/h (100 mph). One was entered for Le Mans, driven by Tim Rose-Richards and Brian Lewis, Baron Essendon. By contrast, the Alvis had been successful and returned with two of their new FA8/15 model. Still with front-wheel drive, the 1.5-litre engine now had a Roots supercharger. Drivers were 1927-winner and journalist Sammy Davis with Leon Cushman and Cyril Paul with Bill Urquhart-Dykes.
SARA was the only other manufacturer apart from Bentley to have been at every Le Mans to date. Since the last race founder Auguste Tisserant had sold the license for his patented air-cooled pushrod engine to Scottish entrepreneur H.E. Plaister's new company Scotsman Motors who intended to manufacture touring cars around the 1.5 and 1.8-litre engines. In a joint-venture the companies entered a pair of four-year-old SARA SP-7s for SARA works driver Gaston Mottet along with three British drivers.
The success of Tracta’s patented front-wheel drive system had attracted considerable investment from Charles Terres Weymann, which helped to allow the team to enter four cars to the race. The new regulations meant their two-seater Type A could only have a 1-litre engine, but each SCAP engine was fitted with a Cozette supercharger. Once again, owner Jean-Albert Grégoire drove one of his cars. Lucien Lemesle, the mechanic in the crowd who had volunteered to help Grégoire in the debacle that was their 1927 race, returned as a co-driver to Maurice Benoist. The fourth car was a streamliner special. The unique Cozette engine had opposed pistons at each end of the cylinders powered by the supercharger pressure, thus dispensing with a cylinder head and crankcase. Grégoire prudently assigned his head mechanic Tribaudot, who had assembled the engine, to co-drive Roger Bourcier (given the rule that only the drivers could work on the car during the race). Its distinctive engine easily made it the loudest, and smokiest, car in the race.
Bollack Netter and Co (BNC) had collapsed and been bought out by entrepreneur Charles de Ricou, who would also buy the struggling Rolland Pilain and Lombard companies. Two new models came to Le Mans: the four-seater Acacias, with a supercharged 1.5-litre Meadows engine, and a pair of the BNC 527, with its small 1-litre Ruby engine. One of those was also took the entry in the Biennial Cup.
Smallest car in the field was the D’Yrsan Grand Sport. After withdrawing its entries for the 1928 race, the company arrived this year. The low-slung car had a patented independent front suspension and ran with a supercharged 749cc Ruby engine. A normally-aspirated 1.1-litre entry was also submitted, but later withdrawn.
Practice
The British teams got to the track at the start of the week, to familiarise themselves with the circuit and the new layout in unofficial practices (with the roads still for public use). After testing and a shake-down run for the DuPont at the Montlhéry circuit, Moran was concerned about Miranda's lack of pace and decided to drive the whole event himself.
Race
Start
Once again, the race began under grey clouds and drizzling rain. First away were the DuPont and the Lagonda but Birkin, in the big Bentley Speed Six, was in the lead under the Dunlop bridge. Left at the line was the D’Yrsan with Trillaud losing seven minutes pushing the car up the road trying to get his engine fired (technically a disqualification offense). At the end of the first lap Birkin had already set a new lap record of 7m57s, from a standing start. The other Bentleys of Clement, Kidston and Benjafield were in formation behind, chased by the Stutzes of Bouriat and Eyston. Howe was next, though he soon moved up as the rain stopped to join his teammates, with Benoist and Mongin in their Chryslers and Moran's DuPont making up the top ten. Already there was a sizeable gap (over a kilometre) back to the Lagonda leading the smaller cars.
After three-quarters of an hour, Earl Howe was in the pits, his progress stymied by electrical issues. Replacing the sparkplugs and the magneto took an hour but was ultimately unsuccessful. The DuPont retired with a bent propshaft badly affecting its handling. Unlike most other teams who now used secured lead weights, the team had loaded their ballast as sandbags. These had broken through the floor and damaged the propshaft. With their twenty lap minimum done, the other cars started making their first pit stops for driver changes and refuelling. The well-drilled Bentley drivers were in and out in 3minutes. Alarmingly, fuel spilled onto the hot exhaust of Brisson's Stutz which quickly burst into flames. Brisson was burnt and had to be taken to hospital. After extended repairs to the car, Grand Prix driver Louis Chiron resolved to carry on driving solo.
Overtaken by the Alvis, the Lagonda was still going well until Lewis bought the car into the pits, saying the floorboards has been on fire. Initially thought it was thought a hot exhaust pipe had got bent, but when it was found to have a leak from a head gasket the team's race was over. In the meantime, the Alvis had also been put out, with a cracked cylinder head.
By 10pm as night fell, Barnato and Dunfee, having completed 44 laps, now had a lap's lead on the rest of the field. The remaining two Bentleys were next, themselves with a lap over Bouriat's Stutz (42) and with Eyston's Stutz and the Chryslers a further lap back (41).
Night
Through the night, the Bentley team kept building their lead. Dunfee lost second place when he had to pit to replace his lightbulbs, which had burnt out their wiring while he was doing 100mph down the Mulsanne Straight. He was livid when he found out the mechanics had installed bigger replacement bulbs for the event. Stoffel started pushing his Chrysler when he took over at 2am, making up ground with his track experience.
Then around 3am the Benjafield/d'Erlanger car, running fourth, got a water leak and electrical fault. By the time the niggly faults were repaired, they were being closely pursued by a resurgent Bouriat and Benoist. Then Benoist's skill as a Grand Prix driver came to the fore in the darkness as he successively overtook the Stutz and the Bentley to push up to fourth by 6am. Just before halftime the Tracta special – which had been in danger of disqualification as a driving hazard because of its excessive exhaust – broke a fuel line and retired. The Invicta, that had been running as high as 9th at nightfall, was retired when a complete loss of engine-oil had broken a big-end bearing. They had been “the best of the rest”, leading the Lea-Francis, a Tracta, BNC and SARA. Around dawn Clement's Bentley had to stop when the rear ballast came loose and went through the floorboards, damaging the suspension. He lost an hour undertaking repair.
Morning
So, as the spectators were rousing for breakfast, there were only a dozen cars left running. Barnato and Birkin were still running smoothly out in front. Kidston and Dunfee were now only a lap ahead of the Benoist/Stoffel Chrysler. Behind were the two delayed Bentleys and the two Stutzes. Chiron's solo-drive through the night had finally come to an end just after dawn when the clutch gave out. Then at 7 am, Eyston's Stutz ran out of fuel out on the track (with just a lap before his next pit-stop) because of a split fuel tank, leaving just one Stutz in the running.
A similar malady then forced the Chrysler to pit. Stoffel was under his car for nearly two hours doing extended repairs. That restored the Bentleys to the top four positions. The Lea-Francis had moved up the order through the night to eighth and was running well when one of the shock-absorbers broke. Despite a rough ride they made it to the finish.
Finish and post-race
From there it was a routine run to the finish. With over spreading the small field, the only real point of excitement was the Chrysler trying hard to reel in the Stutz to take fifth place. In the last hour, W. O. Bentley put the word out to his team to line up for a formation finish. Quite a novelty at the time, the “Motor” magazine described it as “superb, disposed in line ahead like a squadron of battleships.”
Bouriat/Rothschild bought the Stutz home in fifth, barely a lap ahead of the hard-charging Benoist in his Chrysler, with his teammate three laps further back. Ken Peacock's privateer Lea-Francis was the first smaller-engined car, in eighth, with two of the Tractas rounding out the ten finishers. Team-owner Grégoire almost had a race-ending spin at Arnage near the end of the race, but they were the only French cars to finish this year.
It was the most dominant display by a manufacturer in the short history of the race to date, and not matched until 1957 by Jaguar. The leading two Bentleys had not missed a beat. In the mighty Speed Six, Tim Birkin had stamped an impressive new lap record, fully 46 seconds faster, helped by the slightly abbreviated track layout. They also broke the race distance record, covering over . The Speed Six's performance was so strong that they also won all three major awards, becoming the biggest car to win the Index.
In finishing fourth, Frank Clement has the distinction of being the only driver to have participated in all seven of the Le Mans through the 1920s, all for Bentley and including the distance victory in 1924. Feeling very pleased with his consecutive victories, Barnato loaned Bentley another £25000.
In August, the innovative supercharging pioneer René Cozette was killed making a speed-record attempt when he crashed at 200 kp/h at Montlhéry.In November, Kidston was badly burned when he was the sole survivor in an air-crash in England of a Luft Hansa passenger flight.
Official results
Finishers
Results taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Although there were no official engine classes, the highest finishers in unofficial categories aligned with the Index targets are in Bold text.
Did Not Finish
Note *: [B]= car also entered in the 1928-9 Biennial Cup.
Note **: There were no official class divisions for this race. These are unofficial categories (used in subsequent years) related to the Index targets.
Did Not Start
1928-29 Coupe Biennale Rudge-Whitworth
1929 Index of Performance (Prix Saint-Didier)
Note: Only the top ten positions are included in this set of standings.
Highest Finisher in Class
Note *: setting a new class distance record.
There were no official class divisions for this race and these are the highest finishers in unofficial categories (used in subsequent years) related to the Index targets.
Statistics
Fastest Lap – H. Birkin, #1 Bentley Speed Six – 7:21secs;
Winning Distance –
Winner's Average Speed –
Citations
References
Clarke, R.M. - editor (1998) Le Mans 'The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939' Cobham, Surrey: Brooklands Books
Clausager, Anders (1982) Le Mans London: Arthur Barker Ltd
Fox, Charles (1973) The Great Racing Cars & Drivers London: Octopus Books Ltd
Laban, Brian (2001) Le Mans 24 Hours London: Virgin Books
Spurring, Quentin (2015) Le Mans 1923-29 Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing
External links
Racing Sports Cars – Le Mans 24 Hours 1929 entries, results, technical detail. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
Le Mans History – entries, results incl. photos, hourly positions. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
World Sports Racing Prototypes – results, reserve entries & chassis numbers. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
24h en Piste – results, chassis numbers & hour-by-hour places (in French). Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
Radio Le mans – Race article and review by Charles Dressing. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
Unique Cars & Parts – results & reserve entries. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
Formula 2 – Le Mans results & reserve entries. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
Motorsport Memorial – motor-racing deaths by year. Retrieved 13 Nov 2018
24 Hours of Le Mans races
Le Mans
1929 in French motorsport |
5388703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1sd | Sásd | Sásd () is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The total population of Sásd in 2015 was 3094.
Twin towns – sister cities
Sásd is twinned with:
Westhausen, Germany
Izvoru Crișului, Romania
Raaba, Austria
Supino, Italy
Pierrelaye, France
Neftenbach, Switzerland
Mogilany, Poland
References
External links
in Hungarian
Populated places in Baranya County
Baranya (region)
History of Baranya (region) |
5388717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Not%20There | I'm Not There | I'm Not There is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Todd Haynes, and co-written by Haynes and Oren Moverman. It is an unconventional biographical film inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's public personas: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger (his final film to be released during his lifetime), and Ben Whishaw. A caption at the start of the film declares it to be "inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan"; this is the only mention of Dylan in the film apart from song credits, and his only appearance in it is concert footage from 1966 shown during the film's final moments.
The film tells its story using non-traditional narrative techniques, intercutting the storylines of seven different Dylan-inspired characters. The title of the film is taken from the 1967 Dylan Basement Tape recording of "I'm Not There", a song that had not been officially released until it appeared on the film's soundtrack album. The film received a generally favorable response for its acting, directing, and musical score, and appeared on several top ten films lists for 2007, topping the lists for The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Salon, and The Boston Globe. Particular praise went to Cate Blanchett for her performance, culminating in a Volpi Cup for Best Actress from the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Plot
I'm Not There uses a nonlinear narrative, shifting between six characters in separate storylines "inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan". Each character represents a different facet of Dylan's public persona: poet (Arthur Rimbaud), prophet (Jack Rollins/Father John), outlaw (Billy McCarty), fake (Woody Guthrie), "rock and roll martyr" (Jude Quinn), and "star of electricity" (Robbie Clark).
Production notes published by distributor The Weinstein Company explain that the film "dramatizes the life and music of Bob Dylan as a series of shifting personae, each performed by a different actor—poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity, rock and roll martyr, born-again Christian—seven identities braided together, seven organs pumping through one life story."
Arthur Rimbaud
19-year-old Arthur Rimbaud is questioned by interrogators. His cryptic responses are interspersed throughout the film, including remarks on fatalism, the nature of poets, "seven simple rules for life in hiding," and chaos.
Woody Guthrie
In 1959, an 11-year-old African American boy calling himself Woody Guthrie is freighthopping through the Midwestern United States. Carrying a guitar in a case bearing the slogan "this machine kills fascists", he plays blues music and sings about topics such as trade unionism. One African American woman advises him to sing about the issues of his own time instead. Woody is attacked by hobos and nearly drowns, but is rescued by a white couple who take him in. They are impressed with his musical talents, but Woody runs off when they receive a telephone call from a juvenile corrections center in Minnesota telling them he is an escaped fugitive. Upon learning that the real Woody Guthrie is deathly ill, Dylan travels to New Jersey to visit Guthrie in the hospital.
Jack Rollins/Father John
The career of folk musician Jack Rollins is framed as a documentary film, told by interviewees including folk singer Alice Fabian. Jack becomes a star of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, praised by fans for his protest songs. He signs to Columbia Records, but in 1963, just as the Vietnam War is escalating, he stops singing protest songs and turns away from folk music, believing that neither affects real social or political change. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jack gets drunk at a ceremony where he is receiving an award from a civil rights organization. Remarking in his acceptance speech that he saw something of himself in Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he is booed and derided by the audience. He goes into hiding, and in 1974 enters a bible study course in Stockton, California, and emerges a born again Christian, denouncing his past and becoming an ordained minister performing gospel music under the name "Father John".
Robbie Clark
Robbie Clark is a 22-year-old actor who plays Jack Rollins in the 1965 biographical film Grain of Sand. During filming in Greenwich Village in January 1964, he falls in love with French artist Claire, and they soon marry. Grain of Sand is a hit and Robbie becomes a star, but their relationship is strained and Claire observes Robbie flirting with other women. She is particularly offended when, during an argument in 1968 over whether the evils of the world can be changed, he opines that women can never be poets. Eventually Robbie moves out of their house, then goes to London for four months to film a thriller and has an affair with his female co-star. Richard Nixon's January 1973 announcement of the Paris Peace Accords inspires Claire to ask for a divorce. She gains custody of their two daughters, but allows Robbie to take them on a boating trip.
Jude Quinn
Jude Quinn is a popular former folk singer whose performance with a full band and electric guitars at a New England jazz and folk festival outrages his fans, who accuse him of selling out. Travelling to London, Jude is asked by journalist Keenan Jones if he has become disillusioned or thinks folk music has failed to achieve its goals of sociopolitical change. Jude is attacked by a hotel employee, hangs out with the Beatles, encounters his former lover Coco Rivington, and meets poet Allen Ginsberg, who suggests that Jude "sold out to God." Interviewing Jude, Keenan notes that Jude's songs are being used as recruitment tools by the Black Panther Party and opines that Jude refuses to feel deeply about anything while simultaneously being very self-conscious; Jude is offended and walks out of the interview. At a concert performing "Ballad of a Thin Man", Jude is booed and called a "Judas" by the audience. Keenan reveals on television that, despite his claims of a rough-and-tumble vagabond past, Jude is actually Aaron Jacob Edelstein, the suburban, middle-class, educated son of a Brookline, Massachusetts department store owner. Faced with a long string of upcoming European tour dates, Jude spirals into drug use and is killed in a motorcycle accident.
Billy McCarty
Outlaw Billy McCarty, believed to have been killed by Pat Garrett, lives in hiding in rural Riddle, Missouri. Learning that Commissioner Garrett plans to demolish the town to build a highway, which has caused several townspeople to commit suicide, Billy confronts Garrett. Garrett recognizes Billy as the outlaw Billy the Kid and has him thrown in jail. He is broken out by his friend Homer and hops into a boxcar on a passing train, where he finds Woody's guitar. As he rides away, he remarks on the nature of freedom and identity.
The film concludes with footage of Dylan playing a harmonica solo during a live performance in 1966.
Cast
Main cast
These six characters represent different aspects of Dylan's life and music.
Christian Bale as Jack Rollins/Pastor John. Jack Rollins depicts Dylan during his acoustic, "protest" phase which includes The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Times They Are a-Changin'. Rollins's speech mentioning Lee Harvey Oswald quotes from a speech Dylan made when receiving the Tom Paine Award from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in December 1963. Pastor John embodies Dylan's "born-again" period when he recorded Slow Train Coming and Saved.
Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn. Quinn "closely follows Dylan's mid-sixties adventures" and his "dangerous game propels him into existential breakdown." Quinn is an embodiment of Dylan in 1965–66, when he controversially played electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival and toured the UK with a band and was booed. This phase of Dylan's life was documented by D. A. Pennebaker in the film Eat the Document. Quinn is seen at a folk festival performing a rock version of "Maggie's Farm" to outraged folk music fans; Dylan performed this song at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, which provoked booing and controversy. Some of the questions Quinn is asked at a London press conference are quotes from Dylan's KQED press conference in San Francisco in December 1965. The sped-up film speed in the scene of Quinn gambolling with The Beatles echoes the style of Richard Lester's depiction in A Hard Day's Night. Quinn's reply, "How can I answer that if you've got the nerve to ask me?", to Bruce Greenwood's character comes from a similar response Dylan made to a reporter from Time magazine in Dont Look Back, Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1965 English tour. The scene in which Jude is called "Judas" by an audience member is based on a May 17, 1966, concert in Manchester, captured on Dylan's album Live 1966. The Jude Quinn character's death reflects a serious motorcycle accident Dylan had in 1966.
Marcus Carl Franklin as Woody. This character refers to Dylan's youthful obsession with folk singer Woody Guthrie. The slogan "This machine kills fascists" on Woody's guitar case mimics a label Guthrie famously had on his guitar.
Richard Gere as Billy the Kid. Billy refers to Dylan playing the role of Alias in Sam Peckinpah's 1973 western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The Billy character's final monologue in the film echoes remarks Dylan made in a 1997 interview with David Gates of Newsweek: "I don't think I'm tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. It doesn't even matter to me."
Heath Ledger as Robbie Clark, an actor who portrays Jack Rollins in a biographical film and becomes as famous as the person he portrays; he experiences the stresses of a disintegrating marriage, reflecting Dylan's personal life around the time of 1975's Blood on the Tracks. The scene in which Robbie and Claire run romantically through the streets of New York re-enacts the cover of the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan which depicts Dylan arm in arm with his then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo in Greenwich Village. Dylan was divorced from his first wife, Sara Dylan, in June 1977 and the divorce involved court battles over the custody of their children. In his production notes, Haynes wrote that Robbie and Claire's relationship is "doomed to a long stubborn protraction (not unlike Vietnam, which it parallels)."
Ben Whishaw as Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud is depicted as a man being questioned and responding with quotes from Dylan's interviews and writings. Dylan wrote in his autobiography Chronicles that he was influenced by Rimbaud's outlook.
Supporting cast
Charlotte Gainsbourg as Claire Clark, wife of Robbie Clark (a representation of Sara Dylan and Suze Rotolo)
David Cross as Allen Ginsberg
Eugene Brotto as Peter Orlovsky
Bruce Greenwood as Keenan Jones, a fictional reporter who investigates Jude Quinn, and Pat Garrett, nemesis of Billy the Kid. The name "Keenan Jones" echoes Dylan's song "Ballad of a Thin Man" with its chorus: "Something is happening here/ And you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" The character's revelation of Jude's past is based on a hostile profile of Dylan published in the October 1963 issue of Newsweek, revealing that he was originally named Robert Zimmerman and implying that he had lied about his middle-class origins.
Julianne Moore as Alice Fabian, a singer who resembles Joan Baez
Michelle Williams as Coco Rivington. The description of Rivington as "Andy's new bird" suggests this character is modelled on Edie Sedgwick, a socialite and actress within Andy Warhol's circle.
Mark Camacho as Norman, the manager of Jude Quinn, based on Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager until 1970.
Benz Antoine as Bobby Seale, the Black Panther leader, and Rabbit Brown
Craig Thomas as Huey Newton, the Black Panther leader. Newton and Seale listened "obsessively" to Dylan's song "Ballad of a Thin Man" while putting together the first issue of the Black Panther newspaper in 1967.
Richie Havens as Old Man Arvin
Kim Roberts as Mrs. Arvin
Kris Kristofferson as The Narrator
Don Francks as Hobo Joe
Vito DeFilippo and Susan Glover as Mr. and Mrs. Peacock, a middle-class couple who take "Woody Guthrie" in after a near-drowning incident
Paul Spence as Homer, Billy the Kid's friend
Production
Development
Todd Haynes and his producer, Christine Vachon, approached Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, to obtain permission to use Dylan's music and to fictionalize elements of Dylan's life. Rosen suggested that Haynes should send a one-page synopsis of his film for submission to Dylan. Rosen advised Haynes not to use the word "genius" or "voice of a generation". The page Haynes submitted began with a quote from Arthur Rimbaud: "I is someone else", and then continued:
Dylan gave Haynes permission to proceed with his project. Haynes developed his screenplay with writer Oren Moverman. In the course of writing, Haynes has acknowledged that he became uncertain whether he could successfully carry off a film which deliberately confused biography with fantasy in such an extreme way. According to the account of the film that Robert Sullivan published in the New York Times: "Haynes called Jeff Rosen, Dylan's right hand, who was watching the deal-making but staying out of the scriptwriting. Rosen, he said, told him not to worry, that it was just his own crazy version of what Dylan is."
In a comment on why six actors were employed to portray different facets of Dylan's personality, Haynes wrote:
A further Dylan-based character named Charlie, based on Charlie Chaplin, was dropped before filming began. Haynes described him as "a little tramp, coming to Greenwich Village and performing feats of magic and being an arbiter of peace between the beats and the folkies."
Grain of Sand
The film within a film, Grain of Sand, is not only important for the plot of I'm Not There but also for the film's connection to Bob Dylan's life. Larry Gross suggests that Grain of Sand actor Robbie may be the film's most accurate portrayal of Dylan despite being "a fictional actor playing a fictional alternative version of a real person" because of his tumultuous relationship with Claire. Gross also notes parallels between Robbie and Claire's ultimately failed marriage and Dylan's relationship with Suze Rotolo, claiming that Claire's character seems to be a portrayal of Rotolo, especially considering the shot in I'm Not There that mimicks the photo of Rotolo and Dylan on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
Filming
Principal photography took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Music festival scenes were filmed in Chambly, Quebec in the summer of 2006.
Music
The film features numerous songs by Dylan, performed by Dylan and also recordings by other artists. The songs feature as both foreground—performed by artists on camera (e.g. "Goin' to Acapulco", "Pressing On")—and background accompaniment to the action. A notable non-Dylan song in the movie is "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" by The Monkees, which plays in the background of a party scene set in London.
Release
In January 2007, The Weinstein Company acquired U.S distribution rights to the film. I'm Not There had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2007. The film went onto screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. The film opened in limited release in the United States on November 21, 2007. It was then released in Germany on February 28, 2008, by Tobis Film.
Home media
I'm Not There was released on DVD as a 2-disc special edition on May 6, 2008. The DVD special features include audio commentary from Haynes, deleted scenes, featurettes, a music video, audition tapes for certain cast members, trailers, and a Bob Dylan filmography and discography.
Reception
Critical response
I'm Not There received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 77% approval rating based on 162 reviews, with an average rating of 7.06 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states: "I'm Not Theres unique editing, visuals, and multiple talented actors portraying Bob Dylan make for a deliciously unconventional experience. Each segment brings a new and fresh take on Dylan's life." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 35 reviews.
Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Anthony DeCurtis wrote that casting six different actors, including a woman and an African-American child, to play Dylan was "a preposterous idea, the sort of self-consciously 'audacious'—or reassuringly multi-culti—gambit that, for instance, doomed the Broadway musical based on the life and music of John Lennon. Yet in I'm Not There, the strategy works brilliantly." He especially praised Blanchett:
Several critics praised Blanchett's performance as the mid-1960s Dylan. Newsweek magazine described Blanchett as "so convincing and intense that you shrink back in your seat when she fixes you with her gaze." The Charlotte Observer called Blanchett "miraculously close to the 1966 Dylan."
Todd McCarthy of Variety, concluded that the film was well-made, but was ultimately a speciality event for Dylan fans, with little mainstream appeal. He wrote: "Dylan freaks and scholars will have the most fun with I'm Not There, and there will inevitably be innumerable dissertations on the ways Haynes has both reflected and distorted reality, mined and manipulated the biographical record and otherwise had a field day with the essentials, as well as the esoterica, of Dylan's life. All of this will serve to inflate the film's significance by ignoring its lack of more general accessibility. In the end, it's a specialists' event." For Roger Ebert, the film was enjoyable cinematically, yet never sought to resolve the enigmas of Dylan's life and work: "Coming away from I'm Not There, we have, first of all, heard some great music ... We've seen six gifted actors challenged by playing facets of a complete man. We've seen a daring attempt at biography as collage. We've remained baffled by the Richard Gere cowboy sequence, which doesn't seem to know its purpose. And we have been left not one step closer to comprehending Bob Dylan, which is as it should be."
Dylan's response
In September 2012, Dylan commented on I'm Not There in an interview published in Rolling Stone. When journalist Mikal Gilmore asked Dylan whether he liked the film, he responded: "Yeah, I thought it was all right. Do you think that the director was worried that people would understand it or not? I don't think he cared one bit. I just think he wanted to make a good movie. I thought it looked good, and those actors were incredible."
Top ten lists
The film appeared on several critics' lists of the top ten films of 2007.
1st – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
1st – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
1st – Stephanie Zacharek, Salon
1st – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
3rd – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
3rd – Marc Mohan, The Oregonian
4th – A. O. Scott, The New York Times
4th – Nathan Lee, The Village Voice
4th – Shawn Levy, The Oregonian
5th – Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer
6th – Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
7th – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
9th – Glenn Kenny, Premiere
9th – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
10th – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
10th – Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
10th – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club
10th – Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club
Accolades
Academy Awards:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
British Academy Film Awards
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
Broadcast Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
Central Ohio Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Chicago Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Golden Globe Awards:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Independent Spirit Awards
Best Film (nominee)
Best Director (Todd Haynes, nominee)
Best Supporting Actor (Marcus Carl Franklin, nominee)
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Robert Altman Award (Todd Haynes, Laura Rosenthal, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Bruce Greenwood, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw, winner)
Las Vegas Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Los Angeles Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
New York Film Critics Circle:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
New York Film Critics Online:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
National Society of Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Nilsson Awards for Film
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
Best Cinematography
Best Compiled Soundtrack
Satellite Awards:
Best Actress – Comedy or Musical (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG):
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
Southeastern Film Critics:
Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
Venice Film Festival:
CinemAvvenire Award – Best Film (winner)
Golden Lion (Todd Haynes, nominee)
Special Jury Prize (Todd Haynes, winner)
Volpi Cup Best Actress (Cate Blanchett, winner)
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
"This Is Not a Bob Dylan Movie" (The New York Times)
2007 films
2007 biographical drama films
2000s musical drama films
American biographical drama films
American independent films
American musical drama films
American rock music films
Biographical films about musicians
Biographical musicals
Cultural depictions of Bob Dylan
Cultural depictions of the Beatles
Cultural depictions of Billy the Kid
Cultural depictions of Pat Garrett
Cultural depictions of Arthur Rimbaud
Cultural depictions of Woody Guthrie
2000s English-language films
Films about Bob Dylan
Films set in 1959
Films set in 1963
Films set in 1964
Films set in 1968
Films set in 1973
Films set in 1974
Films set in the United States
Films shot in Montreal
English-language German films
German biographical drama films
German musical drama films
German independent films
German rock music films
American nonlinear narrative films
Films with screenplays by Oren Moverman
Films directed by Todd Haynes
Films produced by Christine Vachon
Killer Films films
Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe-winning performance
Venice Grand Jury Prize winners
Films à clef
German nonlinear narrative films
2007 independent films
2007 drama films
2000s American films
2000s German films |
5388718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boateng | Boateng | Boateng is a Ghanaian surname. It is the fourth most common surname in Ghana. Notable people with the surname include:
A
Abrantee Boateng (born 1981), English presenter
Agyenim Boateng, Ghanaian lawyer
Agyenim Boateng Mensah (born 1996), Ghanaian footballer
B
Bismark Adjei-Boateng (born 1994), Ghanaian footballer
C
Charles Boateng (footballer, born 1989), Ghanaian footballer
Charles Boateng (footballer, born 1997), Ghanaian footballer
D
Daniel Jesse Boateng (born 1992), Ghanaian footballer
Daasebre Oti Boateng (born Emmanuel Oti Boateng, 1938–2021), Ghanaian statistician, academic, and traditional ruler.
Derek Boateng (born 1983), Ghanaian footballer
E
Emmanuel Boateng (born 1994), Ghanaian footballer
Emmanuel Boateng (born 1996), Ghanaian footballer
Eric Boateng (born 1985), British basketball player
F
Francis Akwaffo-Boateng (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer
Frank Boateng (born 1984), Ghanaian footballer
G
George Boateng (born 1975), Dutch footballer
Gideon Boateng (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer
Georginio Wijnaldum (born 1990), Dutch footballer, was named Georginio Boateng at birth
H
Hiram Boateng (born 1996), English footballer
J
Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), German footballer
Joseph Boateng Danquah (born 1947), Ghanaian military officer
Joshua Boateng (born 1987), Ghanaian footballer
Josh Boateng
K
Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 1987), German-Ghanaian footballer
Kennedy Boateng (footballer, born 1989), Ghanaian footballer
Kennedy Boateng (footballer, born 1996), Ghanaian footballer
Kingsley Boateng (born 1994), Ghanaian footballer
Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng (born 1950), Ghanaian cardiothoracic surgeon
Kwaku Boateng (1926–2006), Ghanaian politician
Kwaku Boateng (born 1974), Canadian high jumper
Kwame Boateng (born 1992), Ghanaian footballer
Kwame Boateng (English footballer) (born 1998), English footballer
M
Michael Boateng (born 1991), English footballer
N
Nelson Boateng (born 1968), Ghanaian sprinter
Nyan Boateng (born 1987), American footballer
O
Osei Boateng (born 1981), Ghanaian footballer
Ozwald Boateng (born 1967), British fashion designer
P
Paul Boateng (born 1951), British politician
R
Robert Boateng (born 1974), Ghanaian footballer
Richard Boateng (born 1992), Ghanaian footballer
Richard Kissi Boateng (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
S
Sarpong Siriboe Boateng (born 1976), American musician
T
T A Boateng (1937-2011), Ghanaian educationist and scientist
References
Surnames of Akan origin |
5388723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20the%20Bagrationi%20dynasty | Coat of arms of the Bagrationi dynasty | The coat of arms of the Bagrationi dynasty has been used by the former royal family of Georgia and its descendants. It is a symbol of the Bagrationi dynasty, which claims the erstwhile Georgian crown.
Description
In the arms of the Mukhrani branch of the family, the shield is quartered by the cross, depicting: in the first quarter, the harp and the sling, attributes of the biblical King David from whom the dynasty claimed their descent; in the second, the crossed sword and scepter crowned with the globus cruciger; in the third, a pair of scales, symbolizing King Solomon; and in the fourth, mounted Saint George, patron saint of Georgia, with a lance slaying a dragon.
An escutcheon shows the seamless robe of Jesus, representing the holiest relic of Georgia, said to be buried under the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the town of Mtskheta. The supporters are lions rampant. The shield is surmounted with the royal crown of Georgia, the so-called Iberian crown.
References
А. Б. Лакиер. Русская геральдика. изд. "Книга". М. 1990 г. ст. 325–328.
С. Думин, П. Гребельский. Дворянские роды российской империи. изд. Ликоминвест. т. III. М. 1996 г. ст. 50.
Общий гербовник дворянских родов Всероссийской Империи. С-Пб. т. VII. 1803 г. ст. 2.
В. Цихинский. Кавказский гербовник. Тавадские роды. (Рукопись). Петроград. 1922 г. ст. 9.
მიხეილ ვადბოლსკი. საქართველოს ჰერალდიკური სიმბოლიკა. გამომც. "ხელოვნება". თბ. 1980 წ. გვ. 95, ნახ. 147.
С. Думин. Герб их царских высочеств князей Багратион-Мухранских. Жур. «Гербовед». No. 2 (4).1993 г. ст. 26–32.
External links
National symbols of Georgia (country)
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi
Bagrationi |
5388737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Kleinman | Pablo Kleinman | Pablo Kleinman (born 1971) is an Argentine-born American entrepreneur and talk show host, pioneer of the development of online services in Latin America. Until January 2021, he was the host of Radio California Libre (Radio Free California), produced by Univision's Los Angeles flagship talk radio KTNQ. He is currently the Head of Content and Operations at Voz Media, a Dallas-based U.S. Hispanic media company.
He graduated from the University of Southern California School of International Relations (USC, Los Angeles) and went on to study at the London Business School and at the HEC School of Management in Paris, where he obtained an MBA.
Early life
Kleinman was born in Argentina into a family of Polish-Jewish origin. He attended elementary school in Buenos Aires and finished the first year at the renowned Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires before he immigrated to the United States at age 13, settling in the city of Los Angeles with his parents and siblings. His great-grandmother, however, had arrived in the United States via Ellis Island in the 1930s and his extended family has kept a permanent presence in Southern California since the 1940s. Since 2017 he has resided in Miami with his wife and children.
Technology pioneer
In 1986, at age 15, Pablo set up an electronic bulletin board system (BBS) in Buenos Aires called "TCC: The Computer Connection" which was one of the first in the region and the first to run under a Microsoft-designed platform. A year later, TCC became FidoCenter, the first node of the worldwide FidoNet network in Latin America. Pablo Kleinman was the coordinator of FidoNet for the whole of Latin America (FidoNet's Zone 4) between 1987 and 1991. During that period, FidoNet became the largest public-access computer network in the region. It grew throughout the different countries in the region and reached several hundreds of access points in dozens of Latin American cities. He was also the author of WorldPol, a policy proposal that was published originally in 1991 and constituted the first democratic organization proposal in cyberspace.
Many of the original participants of FidoNet in Latin America became the pioneers of the Internet in the following years. Pablo Kleinman was an active participant of the first Spanish-language newsgroups and was one of the founders of several of the Usenet groups dedicated to Latin American countries. Shortly after and during the following ten years, he participated in the founding of several online services companies, among them, Urbita Network, a series of travel and local-information online websites and apps with several million active users.
Journalism and media
Kleinman began working as a journalist in 1989 as Latin American correspondent for Billboard Magazine, the first one to cover the region for the prestigious trade publication.
In 2004, he founded and became editor-in-chief of Diario de América, the oldest political-opinion journal edited in Spanish in the United States. Around the same time, he became a syndicated writer, with columns regularly published in newspapers throughout Latin America and Spain, such as Chile's El Mercurio and La Nación, Panama's Panamá América and La Prensa, Nicaragua's La Prensa, Peru's El Comercio, Paraguay's Diario ABC Color, Venezuela's Diario 2001, Uruguay's El País, Costa Rica's La Nación, among others, as well as in the United States and the Middle East. Kleinman is also a frequent commentator on a few Spanish-language current affairs television programs, including the nighttime news on the Telemundo Network's Los Angeles station. He has also been featured on English-language television newscasts in the U.S. and Canada, usually talking about Latin American issues.
In April 2013, Pablo Kleinman became publisher of El Medio, the first Spanish-language political opinion journal about the Middle East. The magazine became known for espousing a pro-Western editorial line, something uncommon among most Spanish-language publications. It features points of view generally favorable to the United States, to Israel, and to supporters of liberal democracy throughout the Middle East.
Pablo regularly guest hosted the daily current affairs show, initially just on Los Angeles's KTNQ and later also on Univision's nationwide talk radio network, Univision America, between 2009 and 2014. He later hosted the conservative Radio California Libre (Radio Free California) program on KTNQ from late 2019 until it was cancelled in January 2021 shortly after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, with Kleinman saying it was possibly related to his comments alleging election irregularities during the 2020 United States presidential election.
Political career
Kleinman describes himself as being politically center-right. In early 2009, he took to organizing the Fundación Californiana or Californiana Foundation, a Section 501(c)(3) educational charity dedicated to reaffirming the notion of Hispanics as part of the mainstream of American society, primarily through its Romualdo Pacheco Initiative, and to educating the public on the principles of individual self-reliance and market economics in both English and Spanish.
In February 2014, Kleinman announced that he was running for United States Congress in California's 30th congressional district, against long-time incumbent Democrat Brad Sherman. Despite the poor brand image of the Republican Party in Los Angeles and the local trend of moderate Republicans running as Independents, Kleinman ran in the Primary as a GOP candidate and as a self-described New Generation Republican. Pablo Kleinman's campaign as the first Hispanic Jewish candidate in a heavily Jewish and Hispanic district generated attention by the media in an area where Democrats have won every election for many years. As a political outsider, he encountered difficulty getting endorsements from members of the Republican establishment, although he did secure prominent endorsements from Conservative Talk Radio hosts as well as from well-known local community figures. Kleinman lost the June 3rd, 2014 primary.
He is a former delegate and member of the executive committee of the California Republican Party. On June 7, 2016, he was elected to the central committee of the Los Angeles County Republican Party for a four-year (2016–2020) term.
Kleinman signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the conservative Spanish political party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".
Philanthropy
Kleinman is vice-president and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation in Spain, which is building the Hispanic-Jewish Museum in the Spanish capital. He is also the President of a sister charity based in Miami, called the Hispanic-Jewish Endowment.
References
External links
Pablo Kleinman's Flickr photo page
Diario de América - America's Daily (in Spanish)
Urbita: I love this place!
Revista El Medio
Article from the newspaper O Globo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) about the foundational meeting of FidoNet in that country (May 20th, 1991, in Portuguese)
1971 births
Living people
American computer businesspeople
American columnists
American political commentators
Jewish American journalists
American male journalists
American people of Argentine-Jewish descent
Argentine emigrants to the United States
Argentine Jews
Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent
Businesspeople from Buenos Aires
California Republicans
FidoNet
Alumni of London Business School
HEC Paris alumni
USC School of International Relations alumni
21st-century American Jews
Signers of the Madrid Charter |
5388745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Jones%20%28racing%20driver%29 | Andrew Jones (racing driver) | Andrew Jones (born 24 June 1980) is an Australian racing driver who previously competed in the Supercars Championship and Dunlop Super2 Series, driving with family-owned team Brad Jones Racing for majority of his career.
Jones has had success in a number of forms of motorsport in Australia. In 2004 he won the Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series, the second tier series, and went on to secure a drive with Garry Rogers Motorsport in the 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series. In 2006, he joined Tasman Motorsport, replacing Jamie Whincup but had a frustrating and disappointing year. It was announced that he was moving back to Albury to re-join his uncle Brad and father Kim's team, Brad Jones Racing, replacing John Bowe at the start of the 2007 season. His cousin Macauley Jones also races.
Career results
Complete Development Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
External links
Official Andrew Jones web site
Andrew's Blog
Team BOC Official Site
1980 births
Formula Ford drivers
Living people
People from Albury, New South Wales
Racing drivers from New South Wales
Supercars Championship drivers
Garry Rogers Motorsport drivers |
5388746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare%20%282000%20film%29 | Nightmare (2000 film) | Nightmare (; lit. "Scissors", also known as Horror Game Movie; released in the Philippines as Gawi: The Nightmare) is a South Korean horror film, released in 2000. It stars Kim Gyu-ri, Ha Ji-won and Choi Jung-yoon, and was directed and written by Ahn Byeong-ki, who also later directed Phone (2002), Bunshinsaba (2004) and APT (2006) The film was the 6th best selling film of 2000 with 322,000 admissions in Seoul after 5 weeks of screening.
Plot
After their college graduation, a clique of six friends went separate ways. Sun-ae moves to the United States. Hye-jin pursues her tertiary education in psychology. Hyun-jun, due to an injury to his knee, is unable to keep playing sports and is stuck working in a scrapyard. Se-hoon opens an art studio. Jung-wook works as a lawyer and is married, but has an affair with Mi-ryeong, who is now an actress.
After a few years, Sun-ae returns home and tells Hye-jin she was being pursued by the supposedly deceased Kyung-ah. Hye-jin visits Se-hoon, who is haunted by dreams of a woman whose face he can't remember. Hye-jin herself begins having visions of Kyung-ah.
Back when they were in college, Hye-jin befriended a girl named Eun-ju. Members of the clique began experiencing strange accidents. Sun-ae exposed Eun-ju's true identity as Kyung-ah, a girl from Sun-ae and Hye-jin's past. Kyung-ah was rumoured to be a "possessed" child who spread deaths and misfortune. One of the casualties was Hye-jin's father. Hye-jin told Eun-ju to stay away from her. That night, Hye-jin witnessed Eun-ju committing suicide.
Kyung-ah kills Se-hoon. Hye-jin calls the rest of the group and Jung-wook claims Sun-ae blamed herself for causing Kyung-ah's death, and reveals she went to the U.S. to seek mental treatment, not education. Desperate to escape his job, Hyun-jun blackmails Jung-wook into becoming his lawyer. He hands over a tape showing Jung-wook and Mi-ryeong having sex, recorded by Se-hoon, who had a habit of recording people. Se-hoon also recorded Kyung-ah's death. Hyun-jun is killed next. Hye-jin angrily asks Sun-ae her why Kyung-ah is going after them. Kyung-ah appears, visible only to Sun-ae, who runs away.
After almost being drowned by Kyung-ah, Mi-ryeong begs Jung-wook to stay with her, but he refuses. She breaks up with Jung-wook and is found dead in her bathroom. Hye-jin finds Se-hoon's video tape and learns what happened the night Kyung-ah died. After Hye-jin left, an altercation ensued, triggered by Kyung-ah's cat attacking Jung-wook and him trying to kill it. In the confusion, Hyun-jun fell and broke his leg, and Kyung-ah also fell and passed out from a head injury. To protect themselves, the five decided to fake Kyung-ah's suicide and push her body off a building. Kyung-ah woke up but Jung-wook killed her anyway.
Jung-wook breaks into Hye-jin's apartment to find the video tape, but Sun-ae attacks him. He chases her to the same building Kyung-ah died. Fixated on protecting his career, he attempts to kill Hye-jin and Sun-ae to cover up the truth. Sun-ae impales him with a metal rod, killing him.
Some time later, Sun-ae and Hye-jin meet. Kyung-ah appears, this time visible to Hye-jin as well, and kills Sun-ae so that the two of them can finally be together.
Cast
Kim Gyu-ri as Hye-jin
Choi Jung-yoon as Seon-ae
Ha Ji-won as Eun-ju/Kyung-ah
Yoo Ji-tae as Hyun-jun
Yoo Jun-sang as Jung-wook
Jung Joon as Se-hun
Jo Hye-yeong as Mi-ryeong
Production
Incidences
The actors had injuries and incidents while making this film, and also mentioned ghost sightings in the toilet.
Release
Nightmare was released in South Korea on July 29, 2000. In the Philippines, the film was released as Gawi: The Nightmare on March 3, 2004.
Home media
Tartan Video's Region 1 release of the film has a vertically stretched image, (the 1.85:1 film is presented in 1.74:1) which causes noticeable distortion of angles, as well as making everything appear thinner than it should.
Remake
A Chinese remake of the film, titled Bunshinsaba 2 (筆仙II, Bǐxiān II), also directed by Ahn Byeong-ki, was released on July 16, 2013, as part of a trilogy of the Mandarin-language films directed by Ahn. The title refers to the director's 2004 Korean film, Bunshinsaba, though none of the films in the trilogy bear any resemblance to it. It starred Xin Zhilei, Park Han-byul, Zhang Haoran, Sienna Li, Sun Shaolong, Yang Fan, and Zhang Tingting. It is almost a shot-for-shot remake, aside from the setting, language, and actor changes, a few details (Hyun-jun previously played baseball, whereas his Chinese counterpart, Hongrui, played tennis), and an additional scene that pays homage to the 2004 film Bunshinsaba.
References
External links
Nightmare at HanCinema
Review at Koreanfilm.org
2000 films
2000 horror films
2000s ghost films
2000s Korean-language films
2000s slasher films
Films directed by Ahn Byeong-ki
South Korean films remade in other languages
South Korean horror films
South Korean slasher films
2000s South Korean films |
5388751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGRC | KGRC | KGRC (92.9 FM) is a CHR (Top 40) format radio station in the Quincy, Illinois, region owned by STARadio Corporation.
History
The station was purchased by STARadio Corporation in early 2004 to compete with KRRY (Y101), which was dominating the Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk market. No other Top 40/Hot AC station was in the region.
Great River Country welcomed KGRC to life in 1968. It was the brain child of Mel Elzea, the stations first GM, and partner Frank Laughlin. They helped create Great River Communications, Inc., and signed the FM giant on air with the Fifth Dimension pop hit, “Up, Up and Away.” The station went on to become the dominant aural medium in the market in the 1970s. Highlights of the early years include a gold record for first airing, “Indian Reservation,” by The Raiders, (Paul Revere and the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay) and Missouri Broadcasting awards for flood coverage from up, up in a plane with Elzea and Program Director Mark Mathew.
KGRC covered many formats through the 1970s and 1980s, primarily drifting between some form of Adult Contemporary and Top 40.
The station sponsored Explorer scout "Troop 929" in the early-1970s. Scouts included John Wingate, a long-time television journalist and now a Minneapolis communications consultant and writer, Dan Matticks, a longtime radio broadcaster, video producer Louie Schaefer, IT professional Larry Schaffer, Ken Abbath, and Paula Dean.
The early-1990s brought the "Hot AC" boom, and a switch to the nickname "Variety 93".
By 2000, the station had become "92.9 The River", and flipped to its current Top-40 format. Today, it is known as "Real 92.9".
Signal/Coverage
KGRC is one of the primary radio signals of the Tri-State region. The station has 100,000 Watts of power so it covers a wide audience. The station's signal goes from Macon, Missouri, to Jacksonville, Illinois and Troy, Missouri, to Fort Madison, Iowa.
Programming
Elvis Duran
The Elvis Duran and the Morning Show is the daily morning show on Real 92.9 and is a syndicated program from New York City which also is broadcast on other stations throughout the country.
Retro Lunch
The Retro Lunch starts at Noon and features Retro hits of the 1990s and early-2000s. The program lasts about 60 minutes.
American Top 40
The American Top 40 (AT40) is a weekly countdown on Saturday nights that is heard in 400 cities, more than 30 countries, and the Armed Forces Network
Most Requested Live
Formerly known as Saturday Night Online, Most Requested Live is a syndicated interactive radio show known for its artist interviews and social media presence.
See also
List of media outlets in Quincy, Illinois
External links
KGRC official website
GRC
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States |
5388766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Meowy | Holly Meowy | Holly Michelle Meowy is an American actress, TV personality, model, and professional wrestling manager. She is best known for her work as the Beautiful Brenda on Lucha Underground.
TV and film
Meowy appeared in various low-budget films, such as Survivor: Los Angeles the Ultimate Parody (2001), Vampire Survivor (2002), I Love Your Work (2003), and Beat Boys Beat Girls (2003).
Meowy appeared as a contestant/Houseguest on the fifth Season of CBS's Big Brother US in 2004. She was evicted in Week 3.
Meowy also appeared on the reality based television show, MTV's Fear. Accompanied by four other contestants (including future America's Next Top Model runner up Mercedes Scelba-Shorte), Meowy was brought to Hopkins Military Academy which has been reported to be haunted. Over the course of the program Meowy and the other contestants were directed to do a series of dares. Meowy was one of three contestants that won $5000 for lasting the whole two nights and completing all six dares.
Meowy is also known for being "Gear Girl" on the National Lampoon Networks TV series Gamers. The weekly show discusses various aspects of video gaming. She's also done guest appearances on TV shows, such as Nip/Tuck on FX, NBC's Las Vegas, CBS's Two and a Half Men.
Professional wrestling
Meowy stepped into the world of professional wrestling in 2013 after being cast for the relaunch of the Women of Wrestling series. Her character was named Kitty, and she was paired with the returning Lana Star as her personal assistant. She accompanied Lana during her matches for season 2 and 3 of the program.
In 2016, Meowy appeared on season 2 of Lucha Underground as the Beautiful Brenda and was the valet of Famous B. She accompanied him as they both managed the likes of Mascarita Sagrada and Dr. Wagner Jr. She reprised her role for season 3, once again managing Famous B and Wagner Jr.
During the Cuerto Cup Tournament her arm along with Famous B was broken by Pentagon Dark who defeated Texano in Round 3 of the tournament.
In season 4, she started to manage Big Bad Steve.
References
External links
Living people
American film actresses
American television personalities
American women television personalities
Professional wrestling managers and valets
21st-century American women
1977 births |
5388767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20King | Holly King | Holly King may refer to:
Holly King (actress) (born 1977), American film actress and TV personality
Holly King (artist) (born 1957), Canadian artist and photographer
Holly King (soccer), American professional soccer player
Holly King and Oak King, personifications of seasonal cycles |
5388779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Perrey | Jean-Jacques Perrey | Jean Marcel Leroy (; 20 January 1929 – 4 November 2016), popularly known as Jean-Jacques Perrey, was a French electronic music performer, composer, producer, and promoter. He is considered a pioneer of pop electronica. Perrey partnered with composer-performer Gershon Kingsley to form the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, who issued some of the first commercial recordings featuring the Moog synthesizer. Perrey was also one of the first to promote, perform, and record with the Ondioline.
Biography
Early life
Jean Marcel Leroy was born in Amiens, in the north of France. He was given his first instrument, an accordion, at age 4 on Christmas Eve, 1933. He learned to play piano, and studied music at a conservatory for two months, during which he and several classmates formed a jazz band, which performed at the school and at public venues. However, the school's director warned the students that they could either "continue playing jazz or continue your studies". Perrey was expelled from the conservatory for violating a prohibition against students performing in public; he later graduated from the Lycée d'Amiens. He studied medicine in Paris for four years, and planned to pursue scientific research. He was an avid reader of science fiction, in particular the works of Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, and took occasional work as an accordionist.
Start of music career
In 1950, while enrolled in medical school, Perrey heard inventor Georges Jenny playing and promoting his homemade Ondioline on a French radio show. "With the audacity of youth [Perrey] phoned the radio station and requested Georges Jenny's telephone number, which he was duly given," wrote music historian Mark Brend. "Perrey then phoned Jenny himself, saying he liked the sound of the Ondioline but couldn't afford to buy one." Perrey offered to promote the instrument if Jenny would give him one for free. After a visit to the inventor's workshop, Perrey was loaned an Ondioline. For six months Perrey practiced playing the Ondioline with his right hand while simultaneously playing piano with his left. Jenny was so impressed with Perrey's proficiency, he offered him a job as a salesman and product demonstrator. After earning substantial commissions on sales made during a trip to Sweden (during which he performed on TV), Perrey quit medical school and devoted his career to electronic music.
In late 1950, singer/composer Charles Trenet heard about the Ondioline and requested a demonstration of the instrument by Perrey, who at the time was traveling to promote the new device. Trenet was so impressed that he hired Perrey for the recording session for the song "L'Âme des poètes" ("The Soul of Poets"). (At a second session, Perrey played Ondioline on three more Trenet songs; the guitarist on two of those later tracks was Django Reinhardt). "L'Âme des poètes" became an international commercial success, and Perrey was asked to accompany Trenet on stage. "My collaboration with [Trenet] lasted a year," said Perrey, "during which I was able to meet other great artists and singers such as Yves Montand and Jacques Brel. I made my debut on radio and French television, not only as an accompanist of great singing stars, but also performing my own musical act." Perrey began to travel extensively, first in France and then abroad to attend international music fairs. Eventually he developed a cabaret act, "Around the World in 80 Ways", which was a showcase for the Ondioline's versatility. Perrey explained:
Thanks to the Ondioline, I could imitate instruments from around the world, such as bagpipes from Scotland, American banjo, Gypsy violin, soprano voice, Indian sitar, and so on. I made a world tour in music and finished it with a gag of whistling a tune. At the end, the whistling was still going on (thanks to the Ondioline), but I was drinking a glass of water. We all laughed.
Perrey's first commercially released recording under his own name was Prelude au Sommeil (Prelude to Sleep), issued in 1958, which was described by the artist as an "auditory recipe" to induce sleep in insomniacs. "I had the good fortune of meeting scientists who were interested in the possibilities of using electronic sound for psycho-medical purposes," Perrey later recalled. "Together we had the idea of creating sound complexes to induce calm in disturbed, agitated people. We created a team of researchers: acousticians, medical doctors, physicists, psychiatrists, a total of nine in all. I was the catalyzer, the musician. We spent many hours making experiments to determine which sounds would induce a state of serenity and calm."
In 1959 Perrey performed on a 10" LP entitled Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace, a children's record issued on the Philips label; Perrey played Ondioline and provided sound effects. That same year, composer Paul Durand hired Perrey to provide Ondioline accompaniment for the main theme of the French-Italian tragi-comedic film La Vache et le Prisonnier (The Cow and the Prisoner), which starred French actor-singer Fernandel. In 1960 Perrey released a four-song EP entitled Mr. Ondioline, on the Pacific label. (Perrey was not identified as the performer and in the cover photo he is masked in a black hood.) A second EP on Pacific, Ondiolinorama, was issued in 1961. Both EPs featured Perrey’s arrangements of standard tunes; there were no original works.
At the Studio of Contemporary Music Research in France, Perrey met Pierre Schaeffer, who had pioneered the avant-garde sound art form known as musique concrète. Thereafter, Perrey began to experiment with tape manipulation. Around this time he performed at the Olympia Theater in Paris accompanying France's most acclaimed chanteuse, Edith Piaf, who became an enthusiastic proponent of Perrey's musical gifts. The association with Piaf, Perrey later wrote, proved pivotal in advancing his career.
Edith herself was very impressed by the immense possibilities of the Ondioline. From her, I learned many “tricks of the trade” having to do with show business and song arrangement. She gave me money to buy studio time, which allowed me to record a few pieces on magnetic tape which were a showcase for the Ondioline. She even decided herself which pieces I should record to obtain maximum effect. She was impeccable – very demanding. When she had decided that the tape was “almost perfect,” she told me, “Now you must mail this to a person I’m going to give you the name and address for in New York. I will write him as well, to let him know of your forthcoming correspondence. You’ll see; he will answer you.” It was impossible to debate with Edith; one always had to do as she decreed! Three weeks later, I received an envelope from America. There was no note enclosed – only a round-trip plane ticket with an open return date, plus one word written in big felt-tip pen on the envelope: “COME!” Thus began the fairy tale.
The man to whom Perrey had sent the tape was instrument contractor Carroll Bratman, the well-connected proprietor of Carroll Music.
Relocation to New York
In March 1960, Perrey relocated to New York under the mentorship of Bratman, who sponsored Perrey's green card, paid Perrey's living expenses at the Bristol Hotel on West 48th Street, got him registered with the musicians' union, paid him a salary, and landed him appearances performing the Ondioline on television. Bratman built Perrey an experimental laboratory and recording studio, with state-of-the-art tape recorders, and accorded him free use of any instruments in the Carroll Music collection.
Perrey made his U.S. television debut on Tonight Starring Jack Paar; he also appeared on The Garry Moore Show, I've Got a Secret, and Captain Kangaroo. Perrey composed jingles for radio and television, sometimes in partnership with Harry Breuer and Angelo Badalementi (working under the name "Andy Badale").
In 1962 Perrey issued the LP Musique Electronique du Cosmos (Electronic Music from Outer Space), in collaboration with Sam Fiedel and Harry Breuer, on the MusiCues label. (The album was recorded in New York, but the location was listed as Paris on the jacket to avoid union obligations.) The 15 short tracks (most under two minutes long and all composed or co-composed by Perrey) were intended for television and radio background use. Less than 500 copies were reportedly pressed.
Perrey & Kingsley and the Moog Synthesizer
Perrey was introduced to German-American composer/musician Gershon Kingsley in 1965 at Carroll Music. As a duo, Perrey and Kingsley recorded two albums for the Vanguard label: The In Sound From Way Out! (1966), for which Perrey played Ondioline and provided musique concrète "rhythmic patterns", and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (1967), on which the duo played mostly Moog synthesizers, with added special effects. Some tracks by Perrey and Kingsley were licensed for radio and television commercials. In 1968, "The Savers", from Kaleidoscopic Vibrations, won a Clio Award when it was used as the soundtrack for a No-Cal diet soft drink commercial.
After splitting from Kingsley, Perrey continued featuring the Moog (as well as Ondioline) on many of his subsequent solo records, most of which incorporated the name "Moog" in album titles: The Happy Moog! (1969, with Harry Breuer), Moog Indigo (1970), Moog Sensations (1971, credited to Pat Prilly, due to a contractual conflict), Moog Generation and Moog Expressions (both 1972, also credited to Prilly), Moog Mig Mag Moog (1974, credited to Prilly), Dynamoog (1976, with Gilbert Sigrist), and Moog is Moog (1977, credited to Prilly and Harry Breuer). The Happy Moog! was recorded with Harry Breuer, one of the first musicians he met when he moved to New York City. Perrey played Moog synthesizer and other keyboards, while Breuer played xylophone and other percussion. Breuer was credited on the cover for "Artistic Direction," while Perrey's name, again due to a contractual conflict, was omitted.
On the Moog Indigo track "Flight of the Bumblebee" (adapted from an interlude composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), Perrey began with a recording of actual bees:
For this composition, I took a Nagra tape recorder to an apiary in Switzerland to record the live sounds of bees buzzing about their hive. I took these bee tapes back to New York, where my studio had a variable-speed tape recorder. Using this machine, I transposed the bee buzzes to the subdivisions of the 12-tone equal-tempered scale and rerecorded them on another tape machine. Then, using manual splicing techniques, I edited the melody for one verse. Just this part took 52 hours of splicing work. People told me that I was crazy, but I told them to listen to the result! We added an accompaniment to the melody, recreating the "Flight of the Bumblebee" played by living bees.
Return to Europe (1970—2000)
After a decade in the United States, Perrey moved back to France in 1970, ostensibly for family reasons. He was named musical director of a ballet company, while continuing to explore therapeutic sounds to treat insomnia. He embarked on a project to record with dolphins in Vancouver, Canada, and recorded music for commercials and animated television shows. He continued showcasing the Moog with a series of production music albums on various labels, including Montparnasse 2000 and Mondiophone.
In 1995, Perrey began working occasionally with electropop musician/composer David Chazam; their collaborative album, Eclektronics, was issued on the Basetonic label in 1998. A collection of previously unreleased collaborative works, ELA, recorded over a number of years and at various locations, was independently issued by Chazam in May 2015; it was the final album of new Perrey material released during his lifetime.
In 1997 Perrey collaborated with the band Air on the tracks "Remember" (on the album Moon Safari) and "Cosmic Bird" (on the various artists compilation Source Lab 3 Y). The following year he performed at the Klinkende Munt festival in Brussels, Belgium, with David Chazam. Over the following decade, Perrey appeared at festivals in Brighton (UK); Paris; Nantes (France); Den Haag (Netherlands); Boulogne; St. Petersburg (Russia), and Lausanne (Switzerland).
In 1999 he composed and recorded "The Groovy Leprechauns" for a thematic compilation album At Home with the Groovebox, issued on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label. (In 1995 the Beastie Boys had issued an album entitled The In Sound From Way Out! that was an obvious homage to Perrey and Kingsley.)
Later years (2000—2016)
In 2001 Vanguard Records released a compilation titled The Out Sound From Way In! that collected four of the early albums Perrey and Kingsley had recorded for the label (two as a duo, and two solo releases by Perrey). The package included seven remixes, including Fatboy Slim's reworking of the Perrey song "E.V.A." and five remixes by Eurotrash.
In 2003, MediaDreams Productions produced a documentary titled Jean-Jacques Perrey: Extraterrestrial Musician, which was presented at MIPCOM in 2003.
With Luke Vibert Perrey recorded an album titled Moog Acid, which was released in 2007. AllMusic reviewer John Bush observed that Perrey "uncannily conjures the rather eerie ghosts of musique concrète's past, while Vibert anchors them with expert productions. ... The tracks are ... the 21st century equivalent of Perrey-Kingsley's vision of lock-solid arrangements accompanied by the far-out sound of the Moog as a lead voice."
Perrey and Dana Countryman released the collaborative album Destination Space in 2008; AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that "this is not an album to be taken seriously, but it is one to enjoy." Countryman also wrote a biography of Perrey titled Passport to the Future, which was published in 2010 through CreateSpace.
In 2009 Gilles Weinzaepflen produced a film documentary, titled Prélude au Sommeil, about Perrey's life and work.
In 2013, Belgian-Australian musician Wally (Gotye) De Backer composed and recorded a song inspired by Perrey's work, then contacted Perrey to share the track for review. At the time, Perrey was 80 and living in Lausanne, Switzerland. "To my great joy, Jean-Jacques and his daughter, Patricia, both responded really warmly and said it was really sweet that a young musician would be inspired by his work but also respond to it in that way by writing a piece like that, and they invited me to visit,” said De Backer. “To me, it was incredible as a fan and long time listener just to meet the wonderful old man who had a lot of great stories and a wink in his eye, who made time for me to come and chat about the aspects of his work that I was really interested in." Over the next few years, De Backer visited regularly and began helping the aging musician catalog and preserve his legacy. De Backer also began purchasing existing Ondiolines, undertaking their restoration (with technical help from Stephen Masucci), and learning how to play the instrument.
Eventually, after a number of Ondiolines had been reconstructed, De Backer formed the Ondioline Orchestra, consisting of two Ondiolines (played by De Backer and Rob Schwimmer), Moog, Theremin, clarinet, guitar, bass, drums, and sampling devices. The ensemble's debut was scheduled for November 22, 2016, at National Sawdust, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with Perrey invited to attend. However, his health declined, and he could not travel. Two and a half weeks before the performance, Perrey died of lung cancer at the age of 87. The concert was attended by Perrey's daughter, Patricia Leroy, and the daughter of Georges Jenny, Marie-Lorette Jenny.
De Backer and the Ondioline Orchestra have staged several performances of Gotye Presents a Tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey: at the Sydney Festival (January 16–17, 2017); at the Melbourne Recital Centre (January 20, 2017); and at the opening night of Roulette's Mixology Festival (February 3, 2018), in Brooklyn. The Sydney concert won a Helpmann Award in the Contemporary Music category.
De Backer launched a record label, Forgotten Futures, whose first release was Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline, a compilation album featuring rare and unreleased tracks with Perrey on the Ondioline. The album was released on vinyl and digitally in May 2017.
Discography
Studio albums and EPs
1958: Prelude au Sommeil (Institut Dormiphone)
1959: Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace (with Henri Gruel) (Philips)
1960: Mr. Ondioline (Pacific)
1962: Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (Electronic Music From Outer Space) (MusiCues)
1966: The In Sound From Way Out! (with Gershon Kingsley) (Vanguard)
1967: Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music From Way Out (with Gershon Kingsley) (Vanguard)
1968: The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey (Vanguard)
1968: Electronic Music (unreleased studio demo acetate)
1969: The Happy Moog! (with Harry Breuer) (Pickwick)
1969: Switched On Santa (engineer, Moog programming; with Sy Mann) (Pickwick)
1970: Moog Indigo (Vanguard)
1971: Moog Sensations (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
1972: Moog Expressions (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
1972: Moog Generation (Editions Montparnasse 2000/Zero International Records)
1974: Moog Mig Mag Moog (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
1976: Dynamoog (with Gilbert Sigrist) (Mondiophone/Crea Sound Ltd)
1977: Moog is Moog (with Harry Breuer) (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
1980: Kartoonery (with Daniel Longuein and Guy Boyer) (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
1982: Energize with Exercise (with Bette and Ione Darrel) (Black & White)
1998: Eclektronics (with David Chazam) (Basetonic; Basta Music)
2000: Circus Of Life (with Gilbert Sigrist and O.C. Banks) (Koka Media)
2006: The Happy Electropop Music Machine (with Dana Countryman) (Olgio)
2007: Moog Acid (with Luke Vibert) (Lo Recordings)
2008: Destination Space (with Dana Countryman) (Oglio)
2010: Froots (with Cosmic Pocket) (In-Vitro Records)
2015: ELA (with David Chazam) (Freaksville)
Compilations
1973: The Best Of The Moog (Vanguard)
1975: Incredible Synthesizer (Vanguard)
1975: The Essential Perrey & Kingsley (Vanguard)
2000: Good Moog: Astral Animations and Komputer Kartoons (Kosinus)
2001: The Out Sound From Way In! The Complete Vanguard Recordings (Vanguard)
2007: Vanguard Visionaries: Perrey & Kingsley (Vanguard)
2012: The Electronic Pop Songs (Welk Music Group)
2012: Space Age Computer Music (Welk Music Group)
2017: Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline (Forgotten Futures)
2019: Past Future Sound Tracks
Soundtracks
1959: Les Folles Aventures d'omer et de Jacques Courtois: Omer en Synovie (Polydor)
1971: (Riviera)
2006: Moog (one track, with Luke Vibert) (Hollywood Records)
In popular culture
"Chicken on the Rocks" (from Musique Electronique du Cosmos) was used in a 1960s commercial for the Ideal Toy Company.
"The Minuet of the Robots" (from The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey) served as the soundtrack for the Muppet feature "Big Bird's Dance" on December 14, 1969 in The Ed Sullivan Show, it was accompanied by arrangements made by the CBS Studio Orchestra.
"March of the Martians" (from The Happy Moog!) was used as the opening theme for the program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
"The Elephant Never Forgets" (from Moog Indigo) was used as main theme of the Canadian TV program The Buck Shot Show.
An orchestral adaptation of "Baroque Hoedown" (from Perrey & Kingsley's Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music From Way Out!) was used as the Main Street Electrical Parade theme at Disney parks.
Two pieces by Perrey were used as principal themes for television comedy shows created by and starring Mexican comedian Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños): "The Elephant Never Forgets" was used as the main theme for El Chavo, and "Baroque Hoedown" (co-composed by Perrey and Kingsley) was the closing theme for El Chapulín Colorado. "Country Rock Polka" was used in the program Chespirito. In 2009 the composers filed a lawsuit against the Televisa Network for improper use of their music; the case was settled and they now receive prominent credit in promotional materials for El Chavo del Ocho.
In 1973, a cover of "Passport to the Future" (originally from Moog Indigo) by instrumental rock band The Ventures peaked at #38 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
The track "E.V.A." (composed by Perrey, Badalamenti, and Marie Perreault, from the album Moog Indigo) has been sampled numerous times by hip-hop and rap artists, notable examples include "Just To Get A Rep" by Gang Starr (1990), "Lower da Boom" by Artifacts (1994), "Gameplan" by Lord Finesse (1995), "3000" by Dr.Octagon (1996), "Same Ol'Thing" by A Tribe Called Quest (1997), "Lunch Money" by Pusha T (2014), and "Every Little Thing I Do" by Jamila Woods and Taylor Bennett (2017).
In 1997 remix artist Fatboy Slim reconfigured the track, and in 2002 electronic artist Glyn Bush (under the name Lightning Head) recorded a "E.V.A." cover version for his album Studio Don.
In 2004, "E.V.A." featured in a Zelnorm commercial, in 2016 in an advertising campaign "Shot on iPhone" by Apple and also appeared in the 2018 film, Ocean's 8.
In 2010, a new recording by Perrey and Dana Countryman of "Chicken on the Rocks" (from The Happy Electropop Music Machine) was used in season 14, episode 3 ("Medicinal Fried Chicken") of the U.S. TV Series South Park. That same year, Perrey's "Brazilian Flower" was used in a soccer commercial, and Perrey's music was used in the TV series The Simpsons.
Perrey's music was used in three short films by David Lewandowsky: Going to the Store from 2011 (used the Perrey work "The Little Ships"); Late for Meeting from 2013 (used "The Mexican Cactus"); and Time for Sushi from 2017 (used the song "Dynamoog").
In 2018, Luke Vibert's Turn EP included a tribute song to Perrey titled "JJP".
His music was used in the show SpongeBob SquarePants and his track "Boys and Girls" was used as the end credits theme for The Mighty B!.
References
External links
November 2006 interview with Perrey
Jstor.org - Jean-Jacques Perrey y la ondiolina
Ondioline.com, curated by Wally De Backer
1929 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Switzerland
Deaths from lung cancer
Electroacoustic music composers
French composers
French male composers
French electronic musicians
Electronic musicians
French keyboardists
French experimental musicians
Vanguard Records artists |
5388787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan%20Weimin | Yuan Weimin | Yuan Weimin (; born July 8, 1939 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese sports administrator and civil servant. He was the Executive President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Player career
Yuan was selected to represent the Jiangsu province in the volleyball completion for the first National Games in 1958 while studying for the Nanjing Sport Institute. In 1962, he joined the national volleyball team.
Cultural Revolution hit when he was at his peak. While he was not persecuted because of his peasant background was considered politically reliable at the time, his team members were sent home. Yuan spent much of the time studying volleyball coaching, without a team to coach. Yuan retired as a player in 1974 from the position of national team captain.
Managerial career
In 1976, Yuan was appointed the head coach of the women's national volleyball team. His task was to restore the team to the pre-Cultural Revolution-level. He did more than that, transforming a team from a 16 place finish in the 1974 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship to a super power, winning the 1981 World Cup, the 1982 world championship and the 1984 Olympic gold medal.
Yuan was introduced to the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2007.
Political career
Yuan became a national hero after winning gold in the Olympics. His book My Way of Teaching was a sold out. Volleyball terms were quoted in household conversation. Yuan was promoted to vice-minister of the Sports Commission at age 36, and elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party In 1985. In 2000, Yuan was promoted to the Director General of the Chinese General Administration of Sports and the chair of the Chinese Olympic Committee.
Yuan was appointed to lead the Chinese Football Association after the disastrous 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification finish. He resigned in 1989 after the national Olympic team went goalless during the 1988 Olympics, but was brought back after his replacement Nian Weisi resigned following another failure in the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification AFC Final Round. Yuan chaired the association until 2004.
References
1939 births
Living people
Chinese volleyball coaches
Sportspeople from Suzhou
Asian Games medalists in volleyball
Volleyball players at the 1974 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Nanjing Sport Institute alumni |
5388791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Day%20Out%2006 | Big Day Out 06 | Big Day Out 06 is a New Zealand compilation album released to coincide with the Big Day Out music festival in 2006. To date, this was the last album released in this series.
Track listing
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" - Iggy & the Stooges
"The Denial Twist" - The White Stripes
"Do You Want To" - Franz Ferdinand
"L'Via L'Viaquez" - The Mars Volta
"Mind's Eye" - Wolfmother
"Good Timing" - Gerling
"Going Nowhere" - Cut Copy
"Are You The One?" - The Presets
"NY Excuse (Remix)" - Soulwax
"Entertain" - Sleater-Kinney
"King of the Rodeo" - Kings of Leon
"What's On Your Radio" - The Living End
"Forget To Remember" - Mudvayne
"O Yeah" - End of Fashion
"The Sentinel" - Hilltop Hoods
"Testify" - Common
"Galang 05" - M.I.A.
"Bottle Rocket" - The Go! Team
"Locket" - Magic Dirt
"Hurricane" - Faker
"Forever Lost" - The Magic Numbers
Music festival compilation albums
Compilation albums by New Zealand artists
2006 live albums
2006 compilation albums |
5388803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZZK | KZZK | KZZK is a regional rock radio station in the Quincy, Illinois Region owned by STARadio Corporation. As with most STARadio stations the studio is in Quincy, but the transmitter is in Missouri; the KZZK transmitter is located in New London, Missouri.
See also
Media in Quincy, Illinois
External links
Official website
ZZK |
5388805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%20Parade | Hero Parade | The Hero Parade was an (almost) annual gay and lesbian Parade through the streets of Auckland, New Zealand, in the 1990s. The last Parade was in 2001. It was the showpiece of the Hero Festival in Auckland which runs to the present day. The Hero Parade and Festival usually took place in February, a week or two ahead of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
The Parade was an event attended by more than one hundred thousand people annually, (and at its height, by as many as two hundred thousand), in the years that it ran, from 1992 to 2001.
LGBT rights in New Zealand were significantly improved because of the Hero Parade. In 1999 the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rt Hon Jenny Shipley, of the National Party announced that she would attend the Parade. The Leader of the Opposition, Rt Hon Helen Clark had attended the Parade several times before and she criticised the then National Government for not attending earlier. In the end the Hero Parade was the beneficiary of the publicity created, and the Parades in 1999 and 2001 were bigger than ever before.
In 1998, the Auckland City Promotions Committee voted against funding the Parade. A complaint against the Committee was made to the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, alleging "discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation". The Commission reported that it could not find any evidence of discrimination. By 2001 however Auckland City Council was prepared to support the Parade, and did so.
The Hero Parade, despite the support of many in the public, was under constant financial pressure. The 2000 Parade was cancelled for a lack of organised financial backing, and the 2001 Parade, for which there were high hopes, again saw the Hero Trust Board make a significant loss. The organisation responsible for the Hero Parade (the Hero Trust Board) was unable to continue.
2013 saw the return of the Hero festival as the Auckland Pride Festival for the first time in 12 years. The Auckland Pride Festival once again featured a parade along Ponsonby Road (during the day rather than at night), as well as a large closing party in the newly renovated Victoria Park.
See also
LGBT rights in New Zealand
Gay pride parades
References
External links
Photos - Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Human Rights Commission comment on discrimination complaint (Google cache)
Hero Parade (1998), hour-long TV broadcast, NZ On Screen
Events in Auckland
LGBT events in New Zealand
Pride parades
Recurring events established in 1992
Recurring events disestablished in 2001
1992 establishments in New Zealand
2001 disestablishments in New Zealand
Parades in New Zealand |
5388808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen%20Jump | Shōnen Jump | Shōnen Jump or Shonen Jump may refer to:
Weekly Shōnen Jump, a Japanese manga anthology magazine published by Shueisha since 1968
Jump (magazine line)
Shōnen Jump+, a digital magazine and mobile application started in 2014
Monthly Shōnen Jump, a former sister publication of Weekly Shōnen Jump, published from 1970 to 2007
Shonen Jump (magazine), a former American manga anthology magazine based on Weekly Shōnen Jump and published by Viz Media from 2002 to 2012
Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine), an American digital publication that replaced the print-based Shonen Jump, published by Viz Media since 2012, formerly named Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha |
5388824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Hamilton | Scott Hamilton | Scott Hamilton may refer to:
Scott Hamilton (figure skater) (born 1958), American figure skater
Scott Hamilton (musician) (born 1954), jazz tenor saxophonist
Scott Hamilton (rugby union) (born 1980), New Zealand rugby union footballer
Scott Hamilton (politician) (born 1958), British Columbia, Canada
Scotty Hamilton (1921–1976), American basketball player and coach |
5388826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-s-s-s | Gas-s-s-s | Gas-s-s-s (on-screen title: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.) is a 1970 post-apocalyptic black comedy film produced and released by American International Pictures.
It was producer Roger Corman's final film for AIP, after a long association. He was unhappy because AIP made several cuts to the film without his approval, including the removal of the final shot in which God comments on the action — a shot Corman regarded as one of the greatest he had made in his life.
The movie is a post-apocalyptic dark comedy, about survivors of an accidental military gas leak involving an experimental agent that kills everyone on Earth over the age of 25 (a cartoon title sequence shows a John Wayne-esque Army General announcing — and denouncing — the "accident"; the story picks up as the last of the victims are dying with social commentary on Medicare and Medicaid). The subtitle alludes to the 1968 quote "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it" attributed to a U.S. Army officer after the Battle of Bến Tre in Vietnam.
The lead characters, Coel and Cilla, are played by Robert Corff and Elaine Giftos, and the cast features Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, Bud Cort and Talia Shire (credited as "Tally Coppola") in early roles. Country Joe McDonald makes an appearance, as spokesman "AM Radio".
Plot
In Dallas, at Southern Methodist University, news comes in about a gas which has escaped from a military facility. It starts killing everyone over 25.
Hippie Coel meets and falls in love with Cilla. They discover a Gestapo-like police force will be running Dallas and flee into the country.
Their car is stolen by some cowboys. They then meet music fan Marissa, her boyfriend Carlos, Hooper and his girlfriend Coralee. Marissa leaves Carlos, who finds a new girlfriend.
The group meet Edgar Allan Poe, who throughout the film drives around on a motorbike with Lenore on the back and a raven on his shoulder, commenting on the action like a Greek chorus.
They then have an encounter with some golf-playing bikers, after which they attend a dance and concert where AM Radio is performing and passing on messages from God. Coel sleeps with Zoe, but Cilla is not jealous.
Coel, Cilla and their friends arrive at a peaceful commune where it seems mankind can start fresh. Then a football team attacks them.
Eventually, God intervenes. Coel and Cilla are reunited with all their friends and there is a big party where everyone gets along.
Cast
Production
Development
George Armitage had met Roger Corman at 20th Century Fox when the latter was making The St Valentine's Day Massacre. Armitage later recalled he wrote a script — "it was called either Carrot Butts or A Christmas Carrot — which had animated cartoon characters, Bugs Bunny and so on, coming to life. It was about the studio systems and all this stuff." His agent gave the script to Gene [Corman, Roger's brother], who gave it to Roger, "and he loved it, so they submitted it to UA (United Artists) where they had a deal — Mike Medavoy was just taking over there and he was younger than I was. From there, Roger said: "Well, that didn't work, why don't we try something else?" Usually he has a title or something and he'll say: "Go ahead, write something, just keep the title.""
Gas-s-s-s was an idea of Corman's, about a world where everybody over 30 had died. Corman later said "my first thought was to do a science fiction film with allegorical overtones." Armitage remembers the concept just being "a sentence, and that's what we went with...He let you make it your own, and I did."
Corman said that although "there was some good work in" Armitage's first draft, "the points I was trying to make in the script either did not come through or came through too obviously different parts, and it became less science fiction and more and more a direct liberal left wing statement picture. I didn't want to be quite that obvious about what I was doing. So I then decided to switch to a comedy, thinking back to Bucket of Blood and Little Shop of Horrors."
United Artists had financed the script, but Corman says they felt it was too risky to finance, as they believed it needed a budget of 2 million dollars. Corman bought the script back off them and decided to finance the film himself, at around $300,000.
Shooting
Corman says filming commenced using a first draft, which was rewritten constantly throughout the shoot. "Winter was coming and I wanted to do the film", said Corman. "I was going to be shooting in New Mexico. I actually shot in December and to wait one more month would have put me in January and I could not have made the film. To wait till next summer would have dated the material I was dealing with, so I wanted to bring the film out early."
Armitage recalls, "We went back in '69 to shoot in New Mexico and Texas. I was the associate producer as well, and we were writing it as we went—which is something that Roger liked to do.
"It was a very inexpensive film", said Corman. "It was shot with a skeleton crew, with a cast of almost entirely amateur actors. Only the leads were professionals."
Shooting took around four weeks. Corman sold the movie to American International Pictures for the negative cost.
The film features a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe. Corman says "It was actually a second thought when we put Poe in it. We just started putting things in. In the original concept, he wasn't in it. And we just decided to put him in on a motorcycle—it seemed appropriate."
"There was some sense of disorganization and experimentation as we went along", says Corman. He says the film showed:
that I was beginning to get a little disillusioned with the youth culture of the time. I intended that the picture be sympathetic toward our lead gang of kids yet, at the same time, I wanted to show that I was beginning to suspect that all of the ideas being spouted by the counter-culture and all of the dreams were not totally rooted in reality. In the picture, I wanted to literally give youth the world they desired and, then, make a cautionary statement about how youth might not be able to handle it as perfectly as they anticipated.
Corman said there were themes in the film "which go back through all my previous pictures, such as the theme of the destruction of the world which I've played with to a certain extent, and there are some certain political and religious overtones I've dealt with before but I've never put them all together like this. The film became something I firmly believe in."
He added in 1971 that the film was
an attempt to look at certain aspects of the youth movement and an attempt to move to a better way of life. I end there with something I probably believe, which is that there is a struggle and that it is possible to overcome but not necessarily probable. It's not like some of the youth films that have come out in the last couple of years that have been an unquestioning acceptance of all the values of the youth culture. I've just been around too long to accept anything unquestioningly. This would be a kind of questioning acceptance of many of the values but not all of this culture. For that reason I'm not certain Gasss will be a success...Also the film is a little flawed in some areas.
Editing disagreements
Roger Corman was angry about what AIP did to the film. He later wrote:
Corman elaborated, saying:
[God was] played by an actor with an outrageous New York Jewish accent and they were really startled by that. But cutting God really took the heart out of the picture. I think it was partially the fact that AIP had become a public company and Sam was Jewish and they didn't want to be accused of being anti-Semitic.
Samuel Z. Arkoff of AIP recalled it differently:
Reception
Corman says the film opened at the Edinburgh Film Festival and he "got a cable from the organizers of the festival saying, "gasss explodes. Five minutes standing ovation." I thought, "Boy, I've really got one."
The film premiered in New York as part of a retrospective on Roger Corman's work.
In 1971, Corman stated:
AIP hates the picture. They dislike it intensely and they would not give it a New York opening. Since it's a very inexpensive picture, they've been playing it around the country in drive-ins and small towns where it's been doing only moderate business. The projection is that it will break even and possibly make a tiny profit. They don't want to spend the money to open in New York because it's very expensive to open right in New York. They feel it will not do well here and will turn a possibly slight loser into a slight failure. Because of the retrospective we have an essentially free opening here. However, I'm not quite as optimistic about the picture as I was after the news of the Edinburgh Festival. The fact that its been playing around to only moderate audiences may indicate some weaknesses in the film. On the other hand, it could mean that it's been playing to the wrong audiences.
According to Samuel Z. Arkoff, "when Gas-s-s-s was released, it was promoted with ads that proclaimed, 'Invite a few friends over to watch the end of the world.' The picture didn't make any money."
Corman later reflected:
One of the great problems is that the film is far too intellectual. Other people have told me that they think it's a meaningless film. They may well be both right. It is the most intricate and the most organized intellectual film that I have ever made. I was so careful to keep each concept deep behind a humorous look at it. I didn't want at any time to allow the preachings of what I was saying to come across too heavily and disturb the flow of the picture and its humor. In my desire to keep it in the background, I may have kept it so far in the background that I'm the only person who is going to know what is in every scene.
It was the last film Corman directed for AIP, and he only made one more movie before a 20-year sabbatical. "
A great deal of care went into what I was saying and how I was going to say it", he said of Gas-s-s-s. "The finished picture does not evidently make all these points. It discourages me and so for a little while I prefer to step away...Directing is very hard and very painful. Producing is easy. I can do it without really thinking about it." Corman did, however, go on to produce Boxcar Bertha for AIP.
Gas-s-s-s found a fresh audience on late night television in the 1980s. In 2005, it was issued on DVD as a Midnite Movies double feature with Wild in the Streets (1968), another AIP movie.
See also
List of American films of 1970
List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
References
External links
Gas-s-s-s at Grindhouse Database
Review of film at The New York Times
Review of film at The A.V. Club
Review of film at Variety
1970 films
1970s black comedy films
1970s science fiction comedy films
1970s comedy road movies
American black comedy films
American science fiction comedy films
American International Pictures films
American comedy road movies
American satirical films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Roger Corman
Films produced by Roger Corman
Films set in Texas
Films shot in New Mexico
Films shot in Texas
Fiction about God
American post-apocalyptic films
1970 comedy films
1970 drama films
Cultural depictions of Edgar Allan Poe
1970s American films |
5388833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello%20Bacciarelli | Marcello Bacciarelli | Marcello Bacciarelli (; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was a Polish-Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods.
Biography
He was born in Rome, and studied there under Marco Benefial. In 1750, with the recommendation of the architect Gaetano Chiaveri, Marcello was recruited to Dresden in Saxony, where he was employed by Elected King Augustus III of Poland. After the death of King Augustus, Marcello went to Vienna, and thence to Warsaw. In Dresden, he met Bernardo Bellotto and worked with this Italian painter throughout his life. He was recruited by King Stanisław II Augustus in 1766 to become the Director of the newly founded Royal Buildings and Estates.
In Dresden, he married Federicka Richter, a woman painter known for miniature portraits.
In Vienna, Marcello painted portraits of the imperial family. In Warsaw, he painted a set of portraits depicting nearly all Polish kings, from Bolesław I the Brave to the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław II Augustus who was also Bacciarelli's patron and admirer. He also made a portrait of Izabela Lubomirska in her wedding gown, that she commissioned years later after her marriage. Bacciarelli was also keen in painting culturally significant scenes from the history of Poland. Following the partitions of Poland and after Napoleon's rise to power he moved to the Duchy of Warsaw, a client state of the First French Empire and died in 1818.
A number of his paintings were painted for King Stanisław II Augustus of Poland and are in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. These include:
Strength, Reason, Belief, and Justice, in the Old Audience Chamber
The Flourishing of the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, and Trade on the ceiling of the Old Audience Chamber
Rebecca and Eleazar in the King's Bedroom
Esther and Ahasuerus in the King's Bedroom
During Bacciarelli's early years in Warsaw, the young Alexander Kucharsky began to train as a painter in his studio. Another notable pupil of Bacciarelli's was Kazimierz Wojniakowski.
Gallery
References
1731 births
1818 deaths
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian painters
Court painters of Polish kings
Polish nobility
Polish people of Italian descent
Burials at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw
Painters from Rome
Polish male painters |
5388838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang%20Jiangui | Jiang Jiangui | Jiang Jiangui (江簡珪) was an empress of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song. Her husband was Emperor Houfei of Liu Song (Liu Yu).
Jiang Jiangui came from a noble lineage, as her grandfather Jiang Zhiyuan (江智淵) was a famed, albeit not particularly powerful, official during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, but who died in fear in 463 after offending Emperor Xiaowu over the issue of the posthumous name for his favorite concubine Consort Yin. Jiang Jiangui's father Jiang Jiyun (江季筠) was a mid-low level official in the imperial administration as well, but died by 470, when Liu Yu's father Emperor Ming was selecting a wife for him, who was then crown prince. The superstitious Emperor Ming, however, was told by fortunetellers that despite—or perhaps because of—the Jiang clan's relative weakness at that point, that Jiang Jiangui was the appropriate choice. He therefore selected her to be his son's wife. Her age at that time is not known, but her husband was just seven years old.
Very little else is known about Jiang Jiangui. After she was married to Liu Yu, she carried the title of crown princess, and after Emperor Ming died and was succeeded by Liu Yu (as Emperor Houfei) in 472, he created her empress. After he was killed by his general Xiao Daocheng in 477, he was posthumously demoted to the title of Prince of Cangwu, and she was accordingly demoted to the title of Princess of Cangwu. It is not known when she died.
Liu Song empresses |
5388852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Russell%20%28artist%29 | Benjamin Russell (artist) | Benjamin Russell (October 16, 1804 – March 3, 1885) was an American artist best known for his accurate watercolors of whaling ships working in New England. Born to a wealthy family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Russell started drawing and painting in his late 30s, after a few years spent working as a cooper aboard a whaling ship.
Russell's depiction of perspective and depth are stiff and flat, and his images "were appreciated more for their accurate representation than their artistic value." However, most of his work is perfectly to scale, resembling control drawings, and Russell watercolours were some of the better views of the mid-19th-century American whaling industry, until photography became available in the 1850s.
Russell began making lithographs in 1848, and began teaching art in Rhode Island, after the American Civil War ended in 1865.
Image gallery
Further reading
Robert L. Carothers and John L. Marsh. The Whale and the Panorama. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Dec., 1971), pp. 319–328.
Kevin J. Avery. "Whaling Voyage Round the World": Russell and Purrington's Moving Panorama and Herman Melville's "Mighty Book." American Art Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 50–78.
Forbes, Allan. Whale Ships and Whaling Scenes as Portrayed by Benjamin Russell (1955)
References
External links
New Bedford Whaling Museum biography
1804 births
1885 deaths
19th-century American painters
American male painters
American printmakers
American art educators
American lithographers
19th-century American male artists |
5388855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasila%20Mwale | Tasila Mwale | Tasila Mwale (born c. 1984) is a Zambian singer-songwriter.
According to Mwale's own account, she started her singing career at an early age. She was an active member of the Scripture Union singing group at her school.
Tasila first came to the public eye when she won the Zambian version of the Pop Idol competition, 'MNet Idols Zambia'.
As an award for her performance, she signed a one record recording contract with Zambian music label Mondo Music Corporation. The result was her debut album Uchi (meaning "honey"). This album featured collaborations with several established Zambian musicians including Ballard Zulu, Joe Chibangu, and Black Muntu.
Soon after the release of her album, she announced that she would be taking time off her music career in order for her to return to school.
References
21st-century Zambian women singers
1984 births
Living people
Zambian evangelicals
People from Lusaka |
5388858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Rowsthorn%20%28businessman%29 | Peter Rowsthorn (businessman) | Peter Rowsthorn Snr is an Australian businessman. He is the former chairman of Toll Holdings, Australia's largest transport company. He and Paul Little bought the company in 1986. He is now the owner of Wadham Park and Woodside, a horse training facility and a stud farm respectively.
His elder son, Mark Rowsthorn, was chairman of Toll NZ and an executive director of Toll Holdings.
References
Australian businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Toll Group |
5388872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry%20%28The%20Edge%29 | Wizardry (The Edge) | Wizardry (also known as Spell of Destruction) is an adventure game with some action and role-playing elements, published by The Edge in 1985 for the Commodore 64. It was programmed by Steven T. Chapman (author of Quo Vadis) and the music was composed by Clever Music (Graham Jarvis and Rob Hartshorne) under the alias of Mike Alsop.
Reception
Zzap!64 were impressed by the game's graphics and sound but found the puzzles overly obscure. It was rated 71% overall. Commodore User 11/1985 gave 4.2 of 5 stars. Computer and Video Games 12/1985 rated the game 90 of 100. Eric Doyle of Your Commodore praised the game's graphics, music, and "engrossing and enjoyable" puzzle element. He gave it 7 out of 10 for originality, 8 out of 10 for both playability and value for money, and 9 out of 10 for graphics. German computer magazine Happy Computer 11/1986 gave 74 of 100.
References
External links
Zzap!64 review at gamebase64.com
1985 video games
Adventure games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
5388876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrespective | Disrespective | Discrespective is a New Zealand/Australian 3-disc ten-year anniversary compilation album of the Big Day Out music festival released in 2002.
Track listing
Disc one
"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
"Good Fortune" - PJ Harvey
"Where The Wild Roses Grow" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Human Behaviour" - Björk
"Generator" - Foo Fighters
"What's My Age Again?" - Blink-182
"Bottles to the Ground" - NOFX
"Your Are Not My Friend" - Frenzal Rhomb
"Pace It" - Magic Dirt
"Black Stick" - The Cruel Sea
"Caught By the Fuzz" - Supergrass
"Monty" - Spiderbait
"Happiness" - Regurgitator
"My Mind's Sedate" - Shihad
"Bullet" - Superheist
"Champion" - Grinspoon
"Greg! The Stop Sign" - TISM
"Go Go" - Ratcat
Disc two
"The Day You Come" - Powderfinger
"Special K" - Placebo
"Israel's Son" - Silverchair
"We're In This Together" - Nine Inch Nails
"Wild America" - Iggy Pop
"Jesus Built My Hotrod" - Ministry
"Links 2 3 4" - Rammstein
"Tribe" - Soulfly
"Chase The Dragon" - Beasts of Bourbon
"Soldiers" - You Am I
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" - Manic Street Preachers
"Soul Eater" - The Clouds
"D.C." - Died Pretty
"Stolen Car" - Beth Orton
"Yellow" - Coldplay
"Girl Trouble" - Violent Femmes
"Neva Mend" - Nokturn
Disc three
"Movin' Up" - Primal Scream
"Crystal" - New Order
"Red Alert" - Basement Jaxx
"The Rockafeller Skank" - Fatboy Slim
"Out of Control" - Chemical Brothers
"Breathe" - The Prodigy
"Television, The Drug of the Nation" - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
"For The Love of It" - Salmonella Dub
"Black Steel" - Tricky
"Brown Paper Bag" - Roni Size
"E-Ville" - sonicanimation
"Born Slippy .NUXX" - Underworld
Music festival compilation albums
Compilation albums by New Zealand artists
2002 live albums
2002 compilation albums |
5388916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Electronic%20Media%20Regulatory%20Authority | Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority | Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) () is an independent and constitutionally established federal institution responsible for regulating and issuing channel licenses for establishment of the mass media culture, print and electronic media.
Codified under the Article 19: Chapter I of the Constitution of Pakistan, it has jurisdiction to impose reasonable restrictions in the interest of the religion, the integrity, national security of Pakistan. Established on 1 March 2002, Pemra's principal objectives are to facilitate and regulate the private electronic mass-media industry and to improve the standards of information, education and entertainment.
Its constitutional mandate is to enlarge the choice available to the people of Pakistan including news, current affairs, religious knowledge, art and culture as well as science and technology. On 28 June 2018 after the Supreme Court's order, Saleem Baig was appointed as the Chairman of PEMRA
Constitutional status and definition
The constitutional freedom of speech and press are highlighted in the Constitution of Pakistan. Under the Article 19 and Article 19A of Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of Pakistan. The Constitution grants PEMRA following powers:
Improve the standards of information, education and entertainment.
Enlarge the choice available to the people of Pakistan in the media for news, current affairs, religious knowledge, art, culture, science, technology, economic development, social sector concerns, music, sports, drama and other subjects of public and national interest.
Facilitate the devolution of responsibility and power to the grass roots by improving the access of the people to mass media at the local and community level.
Ensure accountability, transparency and good governance by optimization in the free flow of information.
Overview
The Authority is responsible for facilitating and regulating the establishment and operation of all private broadcast media and distribution services in Pakistan established for the purpose of international, national, provincial, district, and local or special target audiences
History
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) was promoted by the government as an open media policy reform and was fortified with strong regulatory teeth. The establishment of PEMRA was initiated in 2000, during President Musharraf's term; through the formation of the Regulatory Authority for Media Broadcast Organisations (RAMBO) which was mandated to improve standards of information, education and entertainment; expand the choice available to the people of Pakistan in the media for news, current affairs, religions knowledge, art, culture, science, technology, economic development, social sector concerns, music, sport, drama and other subjects of public and national interest; facilitate the devolution of responsibility and power to grass roots by improving the access to mass media at the local and community level; and lastly, to ensure accountability, transparency and good governance by optimising the free flow of information.
Many pro-democratic campaigners consider this four-point mandate to be a solid foundation supporting democracy processes and comprehensive media liberalisation. However, the general opinion among media practitioners is that PEMRA only acted as a licence issuing office that has implemented regulatory barriers for broadcasters. "It is a Bhatta (money extortion in Urdu) body that collects money from broadcasting operators in a legal way. Nothing more can be expected." notes media law activist and journalist Matiullah Jan.
The PEMRA laws were utilized by the Musharraf regime in his attempts to tame the media. Some stations were shut down and some were under severe harassments using these laws. The 12-member authority was dominated by bureaucrats and ex-police officers - a phenomenon that had been partly changed after the assumption of office by the present government. However, media activists are still not comfortable with the composition of the 12-member committee where they highlight the need of a greater representation from the media itself. "Regulation of the TV and Radio should be through the participation and representation of the stake holders. What must happen is the restructuring of the Board of PEMRA with independent eminent people. It is still full of bureaucrats and ex-policemen, so there you find lack of ownership." says Matiullah Jan.
PEMRA's leadership agree to that the institution needs to be more engaged with its stakeholders. "It's a combination of regulator and the stakeholders. Therefore, the chain is - Law/Regulator/Stakeholder," says Dr. Abdul Jabbar, the Executive Member of PEMRA.
However, the present government is under pressure to amend or repeal these laws. Many media practitioners confirmed that the harsh use of the PEMRA laws during the Musharraf regime had not occurred during the past years. The PEMRA board has been reconstituted to some extent and includes some media professionals. Furthermore, the government is making some attempts to reintroduce some democratic norms in its media regulation reform.
The Code of Conduct made by PEMRA has been subjected to criticism by the industry players and is now being reviewed by the government. The former Minister of Information has requested the Pakistani Broadcasters Association to draft a new Code of Conduct to replace the existing Code of Conduct of PEMRA.
Still, a somewhat top-down approach is taken from PEMRA authorities on this matter. Referring to the issue of Code of Conduct, Dr. Abdul Jabbar said that presently there are many Codes of Conduct, one by PFUJ, one by South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the broadcasters are in the process of formulating another. "The Government will not agree to any of these, most probably. But taking all these documents into account, the government will come up with a comprehensive document that can be acceptable to all stakeholders. Then everybody has the ownership". He continued: "PEMRA will function - it will not be silenced or nullified. We will be the regulatory body. But the stakeholders will have a say in the Code of Conduct. That's what we call self-regulation."
Chairman of the Authority
Mian Javed (Founding Chairman)
Mr. Iftikhar Rashid (2nd Chairman)
Mr. Mushtaq Malik (3rd Chairman)
Dr. Abdul Jabbar (Acting Chairman)
Mr. Rashid Ahmad (4th Chairman)
Mr. Pervaiz Rathore (Acting Chairman)
Mr. Kamaluddin Tipu (Acting Chairman)
Mr. Absar Alam (5th Chairman)
Mr. Muhammad Saleem Baig (6th Chairman)
See also
Censorship in Pakistan
Internet censorship in Pakistan
List of FM radio stations in Pakistan
List of Pakistani radio channels
List of television stations in Pakistan
References
External links
Communications authorities
Mass media complaints authorities
Entertainment rating organizations
Pakistan federal departments and agencies
Mass media in Pakistan
Broadcasting in Pakistan
Censorship in Pakistan
2002 establishments in Pakistan
Government agencies established in 2002
Consumer organisations in Pakistan
Regulatory authorities of Pakistan
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority |
5388928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah%20Patterson | Josiah Patterson | Josiah Patterson (April 14, 1837 – February 10, 1904) was a Confederate soldier, political figure, and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th District of Tennessee.
Biography
Patterson was born in Morgan County, Alabama. He attended local schools and the Somerville Academy in Somerville, Alabama. He then studied law, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. He began his practice in Morgan County. He married Josephine Rice on December 22, 1859 in Morgan County, Alabama. They had three children, Malcolm Rice, Mary Louisa, and Ann Eliza.
Career
In September 1861, early in the American Civil War, Patterson enlisted in the Confederate Army. The following year, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Patterson was promoted through the ranks until he became a colonel and was assigned command of the 5th Alabama Cavalry Regiment. He served in Gen. Philip Dale Roddey's brigade for the remainder of the war, mostly in North Alabama. Surrendering with his regiment at the war's end in May 1865, Patterson returned home and resumed his law practice.
In January 1867, Patterson relocated to Florence, Alabama, and five years later moved to Memphis, Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.
Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1897. Patterson was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Gold Democrat. He continued his law practice in Memphis until he died.
Death
On February 10, 1904 (age 66 years, 302 days) Patterson died in Memphis. He is interred at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Patterson's son, Malcolm Rice Patterson (June 7, 1861 – March 8, 1935), served as governor of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911. His granddaughter, Virginia Foster Durr (August 6, 1903 – February 24, 1999), was a friend of Rosa Parks and active in the Civil Rights Movement.
References
External links
1837 births
1904 deaths
People from Morgan County, Alabama
Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
19th-century American politicians |
5388932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge%20to%20Africa%20Act | Pledge to Africa Act | The Pledge to Africa Act (the Act) (long title: An Act to amend the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act (The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada. It was Bill C-9 of the third session of the 37th Canadian Parliament. The legislation amends the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act to implement Canada's Access to Medicines Regime. It represented the first implementation of the TRIPS flexibilities declared in the August 30, 2003, General Council decision. Enacted in May 2004, it allows Canada to enact compulsory licenses to export essential medicines to countries without the capacity to manufacture their own. Other countries that have since enacted similar legislation include Norway and India.
Purpose
The purpose of the Act is to improve access to drugs for developing countries that lack the resources to manufacture the drugs and cannot afford to buy them at the usual market cost. The drugs that fight these diseases are expensive to create and manufacture and thus are usually unaffordable for those who need them the most.
The Pledge to Africa Act allows for the patents on these drugs to be overridden so that manufacturers can produce generic versions of the drug to sell in underdeveloped countries.
Criticisms
Some questions have been raised concerning the Act'''s efficacy, or lack thereof, at increasing the availability of pharmaceuticals in poor nations.Access to Drugs Initiative – History It took a full year from the time the bill was introduced to the time that it came into effect. Since the Act came into effect in 2005, only one drug has been manufactured and exported under the act. It has been suggested that this is because restrictions incorporated into the Act make it too difficult for generic drug companies to get permission to produce a generic and to export it to countries in need. The process for obtaining patent exemptions under the Act is quite costly, and the exemption must be renewed every two years. As such, it may not be economically viable for generic drug makers to apply for an exemption, or even if it is, the expense and mandated frequent renewals may tend to discourage generic makers from applying. Additionally, exporting pharmaceuticals under the Act to countries that are not part of the World Trade Organization's TRIPS agreement is made more difficult by further restrictions.
References and notes
See also
Canada's Access to Medicines Regime
Patent Act''
External links
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=2331620&file=4 — the full text of the Bill
http://www.camr-rcam.gc.ca/ — the Canadian government site for the Regime
http://www.aidslaw.ca/camr/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070209020526/http://www.law.utoronto.ca/accesstodrugs/
http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/c/canada/c9.html
Canadian federal legislation
Foreign relations of Canada
Canadian patent law
Pharmaceuticals policy
2004 in Canadian law
2004 in international relations
Health in Africa
2004 in Africa
37th Canadian Parliament |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.