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17327845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Firefly%20%28operetta%29 | The Firefly (operetta) | The Firefly was the first operetta written by composer Rudolf Friml, with a libretto by Otto Harbach. The story concerns a young Italian girl, who is a street singer in New York. She disguises herself and serves as a cabin boy on a ship to Bermuda, where she falls in love. Complications arise, and eventually, she becomes a grand opera diva.
After tryouts at the Empire Theatre in Syracuse, New York beginning in October 1912, the operetta premiered on Broadway on December 2, 1912 at the Lyric Theatre, transferring after Christmas to the Casino Theatre. It was warmly received and ran for an encouraging 120 performances. The piece became one of the more frequently revived Friml works but was not given a complete recording until 2006. A 1937 MGM film version used most of the songs but had a new plot set in Spain during the time of Napoleon. It starred Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones.
Roles
Background and productions
One of the most popular theatrical forms in the early decades of the 20th century in America was the operetta, and its most famous composer was Irish-born Victor Herbert. It was announced in 1912 that Italian-born operetta diva Emma Trentini would be starring on Broadway in a new operetta by Herbert with lyricist Otto Harbach entitled The Firefly. Shortly before the writing of the operetta, Trentini appeared in a special performance of Herbert's Naughty Marietta conducted by Herbert himself. When Trentini refused to sing "Italian Street Song" for the encore, an enraged Herbert stormed out of the orchestra pit refusing any further work with Trentini. Arthur Hammerstein, the operetta's sponsor, frantically began to search for another composer. Not finding anyone who could compose as well as Herbert, Hammerstein settled on the almost unknown Friml because of his classical training. After a month of work, Friml produced the score for what would be his first theatrical success. The Firefly was followed by 32 more Friml operettas, but it remained one of his most popular.
After tryouts at the Empire Theatre in Syracuse, New York beginning on October 14, 1912, The Firefly opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2, 1912 to a warm reception by both the audience and the critics. The production moved to the Casino Theatre on December 30, where it ran until March 15, 1913. All told the production ran for 120 performances. Directed by Frederick G. Latham and conducted by Gaetano Merola, the operetta starred Trentini as Nina, Craig Campbell as Jack Travers, Irene Cassini as Antonio Columbo, Vera De Rosa as Sybil Vandare, Sammy Lee as Pietro, Audrey Maple as Geraldine Vandare, Ruby Norton as Suzette, Katherine Stewart as Mrs. Oglesby Vandare, Melville Stewart as John Thurston, Henry Vogel as Herr Franz, and George Williams as Correlli.
The 1937 MGM film version of the show, starring Jeanette MacDonald, added the song "The Donkey Serenade". After the film's release, this song has usually been added to revivals. In 1943 at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, Francia White starred as Nina. One of the more frequently revived Friml works, the first complete recording of the operetta was made by the Ohio Light Opera and released by Albany Records in 2006.
Synopsis
Act I
At a Hudson River pier in New York City around 1909, snobby Geraldine Van Dare appears, quarreling with her fiancé, Jack Travers. Her uncle's yacht is preparing to sail for Bermuda. Geraldine accuses Jack of flirting with a little Italian street singer. They board, and the young woman in question, Nina Corelli, arrives and recognizes her old friend Suzette, Geraldine's maid. Nina did wink at Jack, but it wasn't serious ("Love Is Like a Firefly"). She wants to escape from her drunken guardian, and learning that Bermuda is farther away than Coney Island, she begs Suzette to take her along, but in vain. Nina runs home and puts on her brother's clothes. Back at the ship, she tells Suzette her new identity: Antonio Columbo, a known pickpocket ("Giannina Mia"). Musician Franz, boarding the yacht, decides that he needs this voice for his choir. He asks that this "boy" be allowed to accompany them. As the gangplank is raised, Nina runs aboard.
Act II
"Antonio" is popular in Bermuda at the Van Dares' estate, but the boy reminds sulky Geraldine of the street singer. Meanwhile, Nina has now really fallen in love with Jack, who has offered her a job as a valet. John Thurston, Jack's uncle, comforts Geraldine. The police are seeking a thief, Antonio Columbo, regarding a robbery on the island, and so Nina reveals her true identity. Franz adopts Nina, and the two leave together.
Act III
Three years later, Jack's romance with Geraldine has subsided. Just as Franz arrives at the Van Dare's home in New York, with Nina, Jack visits on a courtesy call. Under Franz's skillful teaching, Nina has now become the great prima donna "Giannina". Jack realises that he loves her, and Nina reveals that she has always loved him.
Musical numbers
Act I
A Trip to Bermuda – Sybil Van Dare, Suzette, Pietro and Chorus
He Says Yes, She Says No! – Geraldine Van Dare, Jack Travers and Chorus
Call Me Uncle – John Thurston, Sybil and Chorus
Love Is Like a Firefly – Nina
Something – Suzette and Jenkins
Giannina (Mia) – Nina
Act II
(In) Sapphire Seas – Sybil and Ensemble
Tommy Atkins (On a Dress-Parade) (I Want to be a Jolly Soldier) – Nina and Ensemble
Sympathy – Geraldine and John
A Woman's Smile – Jack
De Trop – Jenkins, Pietro, Suzette and Chorus
We're Going to Make a Man of You – Nina, Herr Franz, Jack, John and Jenkins
The Beautiful Ship from Toyland – Franz and Male Chorus
When a Maid Comes Knocking at Your Heart – Nina, Jack and Franz
Act III
An American Beauty Rose – John and Ensemble
The Latest Thing from Paris – Pietro and Suzette
Kiss Me and 'Tis Day (The Dawn of Love) – Nina
References
External links
The Firefly vocal score
The Firefly at the Guide to Musical Theatre
English-language operettas
1912 musicals
1912 operas
Broadway musicals
Operas
Operas by Rudolf Friml
Libretti by Otto Harbach |
23571722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Munster%20Senior%20Hurling%20Championship%20Final | 2007 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final | The 2007 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was a Hurling match played on 8 July 2007 at Semple Stadium, Thurles, County Tipperary. It was contested by Limerick and Waterford. Waterford claimed their third Munster Championship of the decade, beating Limerick on a scoreline of 3-17 to 1-14, a 9-point winning margin. Overall, this was Waterford's eighth Munster Senior Hurling Championship.
Match details
References
Munster
Munster Senior Hurling Championship Finals
Hurling in County Limerick
Waterford GAA matches |
23571725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2H2Cl2O2 | C2H2Cl2O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C2H2Cl2O2}}
The molecular formula C2H2Cl2O2 (molar mass: 128.94 g/mol, exact mass: 127.9432 u) may refer to:
Chloromethyl chloroformate
Dichloroacetic acid |
17327849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu-iho | Chu-iho | Chu-iho is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20464914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly%20address%20of%20the%20president%20of%20the%20United%20States | Weekly address of the president of the United States | The weekly address of the president of the United States (also known as the Weekly (Radio) Address or Your Weekly Address) is the weekly speech by the president of the United States to the nation. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to deliver such radio addresses. Ronald Reagan revived the practice of delivering a weekly Saturday radio broadcast in 1982, and his successors all continued the practice until Donald Trump ceased doing so seventeen months into his term.
As the Internet became mainstream during the 1990s, the weekly address was made available on other media. George W. Bush introduced an audio podcast feed and Barack Obama introduced a weekly video address during his presidential transition period. Donald Trump continued the weekly video address for the first nine months of his administration, after which he ended the practice. He later released occasional "weekly" addresses before ceasing the tradition in June 2018.
Joe Biden revived the practice of making a weekly address in February 2021 in the form of “Weekly Conversations”, answering prepared questions or concerns from citizens. As vice president, Biden made weekly addresses on behalf of Barack Obama during the Obama administration.
History
Franklin D. Roosevelt first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The success of these presidential addresses encouraged their continuation by future presidents.
The practice of regularly scheduled addresses began in 1982 when President Ronald Reagan started delivering a radio broadcast every Saturday. Conservative journalist William A. Rusher, who publicly urged Reagan to begin the series of broadcasts, explicitly referred to the "fireside chats" and compared Reagan's communications skills to those of Roosevelt. During a sound check in preparation for his radio address of August 11, 1984, Reagan made the following comments in jest, which were later leaked to the general public: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
George H. W. Bush did not regularly record a weekly radio address; he recorded only a total of 18 addresses during his term in office, most toward the latter part. Bill Clinton regularly recorded a weekly radio address, often going over ten minutes with some speeches early in his term. George W. Bush was the first president to deliver the weekly radio address in English and Spanish, which he continued to throughout his presidency. Later, George W. Bush began to have his addresses posted as an audio podcast once that technology became popular.
Barack Obama used YouTube for regular video addresses as President-elect and since his inauguration the weekly addresses have continued on the White House website, the official White House YouTube channel, and networks such as C-SPAN, with the 24-hour cable news channels and network morning shows usually airing the full address only if the topic involves a breaking news event; short summaries of the address and the talking points within are otherwise edited and presented within regular news reports throughout each Saturday.
Until his final broadcast, Donald Trump continued to use the video address as his predecessor did. His weekly address also webcast on Facebook as a live stream, releasing the address on Fridays instead of Saturdays.
It has long become customary for the president's Weekly Radio Address to be followed by a response from the opposition party. When the president is a Democrat, the opposition's response is given by a Republican and vice versa. This response is not limited to only responding by the subject of the president's address, but may address other topics of political or social interest, a tribute to a figure who has died in the last week, a general patriotic message on holiday weekends (the latter two of which can also be part of the presidential address), or other concerns working through the Senate or House which have not yet been addressed by the executive branch. Despite the discontinuation of the president's weekly addresses, the Democrats still continued their weekly address through the remainder of the Trump administration.
A common complaint about the president's Weekly Radio Address pre-digital age (but remaining in the mainstream) is that only a few radio stations (mainly public radio and all-news radio outlets, a format very rare outside of major metropolitan areas) cover the very short broadcasts, they are not advertised publicly, and very few Americans are able to find address coverage on their local radio dial; Saturday mornings usually have brokered or paid programming carried on most commercial radio stations.
See also
Oval Office address
State of the Union
Weekly Democratic Address, the opposition response during a Republican presidency
Weekly Republican Address, the current opposition response during a Democratic presidency
References
External links
President Obama's Weekly Addresses
Transcripts of President G.W. Bush's Radio Addresses by date and topic
President G.W. Bush's Radio Address podcasts
Ronald Reagan's Presidential Radio Addresses from 1982 to 1989
George H.W. Bush's Presidential Radio Addresses from 1990 to 1992
Bill Clinton's Presidential Radio Addresses from 1993 to 2001
George W. Bush's Presidential Radio Addresses from 2001 to 2009
Barack Obama's Presidential Weekly Addresses from 2008 to 2017
Donald Trump's Presidential Weekly Addresses from 2017 to 2021
Corpus of Political Speeches Free access to political speeches by American and other politicians, developed by Hong Kong Baptist University Library
American radio programs
1929 radio programme debuts
United States presidential speeches |
23571732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arman%20%C4%B0nci | Arman İnci | Arman İnci (born February 4, 1991) is a Turkish-German actor.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
1991 births
German people of Turkish descent
German male film actors
German male child actors
Living people
German male television actors |
23571736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C6H4Cl2 | C6H4Cl2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C6H4Cl2}}
The molecular formula C6H4Cl2 (molar mass: 147.00 g/mol) may refer to:
1,2-Dichlorobenzene
1,3-Dichlorobenzene
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
Dichlorofulvenes
1,6-Dichloro-2,4-hexadiyne |
17327855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%20Beach%20Light | Plum Beach Light | Plum Beach Light (Lighthouse), built in 1899, is a sparkplug lighthouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
The lighthouse was built using pneumatic caisson engineering. A granite base was added in 1922. The light was deactivated in 1941 when the first Jamestown Bridge was built. The light became dilapidated until 1999 when the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse received ownership of the lighthouse. The lighthouse is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2003 the Plum Beach Lighthouse's exterior was completely restored and its beacon re-activated soon after; it is now licensed as a Coast Guard Private Aid to Navigation. The Friends of the Plum Beach Lighthouse designed, submitted and introduced an official License Plate to be distributed to any Rhode Island private passenger registration. The extremely popular plates have sold over 7000 sets since they were released in July 2010.
History
Lighthouse Construction
Construction started on Plum Beach Lighthouse in 1896. It was built using a pneumatic caisson. The lighthouse’s foundation was built on shore and towed to its present location and sunk to the bottom. Once the foundation settled on the bottom, the water was pumped out and filled with air. Workers went into it and dug the dirt at the bottom of the foundation. As they removed the dirt, the foundation sunk lower in to river bottom. A core sample taken during construction discovered a seven-foot layer of quicksand at the depth the foundation was going to bottom out. Construction was stopped because the foundation had to be heightened to get past the quicksand. This required additional funding. The foundation was covered with a wooden peaked roof. A red light was placed on the unfinished foundation in 1897. Congress appropriated $9,000 in 1898 to finish it. Work was restarted in April 1899 and was finished in June 1899. It was first lighted on July 1, 1898.
Abandonment and declining condition
The Jamestown Bridge was completed in 1940, and the lighthouse soon became obsolete. In 1941, The Coast Guard officially extinguished the light on 1 May 1941. Shortly after the lighthouse was put up for bid, with the Coast Guard giving preference to those willing to demolish or move the lighthouse within 90 days. When no bids were offered, the structure was abandoned. During the following period of disuse, the lighthouse's windows and doors disappeared, and pigeons claimed it as their home. Soon, a thick layer of guano covered the floors of the lighthouse, and was no longer safe for unprotected human contact. In 1971 and 1972, a University of Rhode Island professor and graduate student began making weekly visits to the lighthouse to conduct studies on the pigeons. To protect themselves from the guano, the URI experimenters wore masks and other protective clothing. In 1971, the professor and student discovered a natural population control system used by the pigeons, in which the birds abandoned approximately 40% of their eggs each year to keep the number of births each year nearly the same. The next year, the researchers removed 20% of the eggs, and the pigeons compensated by abandoning many fewer eggs.
Painting efforts and lawsuit
Little was done to protect the lighthouse until the mid 1970s when an attempt was made to paint the structure. Because of the amount of bird droppings in the building, the painting effort ceased after one of the workers became ill from the effects of the guano. After years of ownership squabbles between the Coast Guard and the State of Rhode Island, with neither side wanting to cover the maintenance costs, the dispute was finally settled when James Osborn, a painter who had worked at the lighthouse in the 1970s, sued the state in 1984 for $500,000 as compensation for a rare disease called histoplasmosis he contracted from all the dried guano in the lighthouse. In 1998, after much time the care spent bouncing back and forth between Rhode Island's Supreme and Superior Courts, the courts decided the state owned the structure, and the state paid Osborn $42,000 three months later.
Private ownership and restoration
In 1988, a private company attempted to purchase the lighthouse and move it to a Quincy, Massachusetts, condominium development, where they would convert it to a lighthouse history museum. When this plan was made public, Portsmouth, Rhode Island resident Shirley Silvia, organized the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, a nonprofit organization, with the purpose of purchasing the lighthouse, restoring it, and preserving it in its original condition and location. However, neither group was able to buy the structure due to the disputed ownership which had not yet been decided by courts. When the State of Rhode Island was given the deed to the property in 1999, they gave ownership to the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse. In a ceremony held at Plum Beach, the Friends' President and founder Shirley Silvia accepted the deed from DEM Director Jan Reitsma. Also in attendance were board members Dot and George Silva, and Friends vice-president Alda Kaye. In the same year, the Friends received a $500,000 grant to restore the tower under the Transportation Act for the 21st Century. In 2000, after visiting the site, the Newport Collaborative Architects gave an estimate of $955,000 to restore the entire exterior and interior of the lighthouse.
In October 2009, the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse received approval to offer license plates featuring an image of the lighthouse. Proceeds from the sale of the plates would be used to maintain the lighthouse, but an initial order of 900 plates was required. The Friends were able to surpass the minimum order in just eight weeks of sales, and since then over 10,000 have been sold. Revenue from the plates was used to repaint the lighthouse in 2010 and 2017.
List of keepers and assistants
Gallery
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island
Notes
External links
Lighthouse pics and info
Lighthouses in Washington County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Lighthouses completed in 1899
1899 establishments in Rhode Island
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island |
17327857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyangzan | Chyangzan | Chyangzan is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20464942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahsatch%2C%20Utah | Wahsatch, Utah | Wahsatch ( ) is a ghost town in Summit County, Utah, United States. It lies along I-80 at the northeastern end of Echo Canyon some east of Echo, and west of Evanston, Wyoming. Wahsatch was established as a railroad camp, later achieving local prominence in sheep ranching. It was inhabited from 1868 until the 1930s.
History
Wahsatch was established in 1868 as a railroad construction camp, the first of many such camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the process of building the First transcontinental railroad. From 1868 to 1869 a population of hundreds dug the Echo tunnel through the Wasatch Mountains west of town. Wahsatch soon became a major supply station and railhead, with its own roundhouse, workshops, boarding houses, and warehouses. When the transcontinental railroad was finished in May 1869, a meal station for waiting passengers was constructed.
During the tunnel construction in 1868–1869, Wahsatch was known as a wild and lawless place. Laborers spent their wages immediately in tent saloons. Shootings were common, and there is even record of a lynching. Lacking a formal cemetery, the town buried its dead in makeshift hillside graves. This violent period was short-lived; in the early 1870s Wahsatch's development was outpaced by that of nearby Evanston, Wyoming, and the railroad moved most operations to Evanston. The population sharply dropped, and most of the buildings were demolished. Wahsatch became little more than a point for loading livestock.
Toward the end of the 19th century, Wahsatch enjoyed a minor rebirth as a location central to the area's growing sheep ranches. A number of new dwellings were built as ranchers and laborers began to gather here annually for sheep shearing season. In the spring of 1899 alone, an estimated of wool was sheared. In June 1903 it was reported that 489 carloads of sheep had arrived at Wahsatch from their winter range. The town grew enough to justify the building of a new school in 1910. In 1916 Wahsatch became the headquarters for the construction of a second railroad tunnel, bringing another temporary surge in population. The railroad built a new depot and section houses in the 1930s, but Wahsatch soon declined, along with the sheep industry. The town was abandoned in the 1930s.
The townsite on the north side of the highway is on railroad property, but the ruins on the south side are on a public road and can be accessed. Most visitors see little more than an old wooden sign reading Wahsatch alongside the tracks, but there are some remnants of railroad buildings and equipment.
See also
List of ghost towns in Utah
References
External links
Wahsatch at GhostTowns.com
Ghost towns in Utah
Ghost towns in Summit County, Utah
Populated places established in 1868
1868 establishments in Utah Territory |
17327865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice%20President%20of%20Russia | Vice President of Russia | The vice president of the Russian Federation (before 25 December 1991 – vice president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) was the first in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new president of Russia upon the death, resignation, or removal of the president. Additionally, the vice president would assume the presidential duties in case the president becomes incapable of carrying out the presidential duties.
Eligibility
According to the article 121-2 of the Russian Constitution of 1978, a citizen of Russia, no younger than 35 years old and no older than 65 years old, who is in possession of suffrage, may be elected vice president. The vice president shall not be people's deputy, or hold any other offices in state or public bodies as well as in businesses.
Election
The vice president was elected simultaneously with the president. A candidate for vice president was nominated by a candidate for president.
Duties
The vice president executed individual assignments on a commission of the president and acted for the president in his absence or in case when it would be impossible for the president to attend to his duties.
Abolishment
Following the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis the office was abolished. The position of the Prime Minister of Russia became the second-highest ranking public office, and in the event of the president's incapacitation, death or resignation, the prime minister would assume the presidential powers and duties as acting president. This was evidenced in the succession of then-prime minister Vladimir Putin to the presidential powers and duties after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, due to illness, on December 31, 1999.
List of people to hold the office
See also
President of Russia
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
Acting President of the Russian Federation
External links
Russian Constitution of 1978. Chapter 13-1: President of the Russian Federation
Government of Russia
Russia
Titles held only by one person |
6901375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shorthorn | The Shorthorn | The Shorthorn is the campus newspaper for the University of Texas at Arlington. It is published online daily with a print digest on Wednesday during the fall and spring semesters. During the summer, all content is published online since no print edition is produced.
The Shorthorn has been in print since 1919. It is a fully functional student-run publication. The newspaper has won many awards for excellence in college journalism including the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown award, the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors award, and the Texas Intercollegiate Press Sweepstakes award. The Shorthorn won the National Pacemaker Award in 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016 & 2015
The newspaper has been actively providing online content since 1997. In 2019, The Shorthorn celebrated its 100th anniversary, marking it as UT Arlington's oldest tradition. Reese Oxner served as editor in chief during its centennial year.
Notable staff alumni
Michael Ainsworth - Pulitzer prize-winning photographer
Tom Fox - Pulitzer prize-winning photographer
Brad Loper - Pulitzer prize-winning photographer
Michael Phillips - Noted historian
See also
List of college newspapers
References
External links
University of Texas at Arlington
Student newspapers published in Texas
Weekly newspapers published in Texas |
6901377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Rawlings | Bill Rawlings | William Ernest Rawlings (3 January 1896 – 25 September 1972) was an English footballer. A centre-forward, he scored more than 196 goals in 367 league games in a 15-year career.
He began his career with Southampton in 1918, who were elevated from the Southern League to the Football League in 1919. He finished as the club's top-scorer eight times in nine seasons from 1920–21 to 1927–28, helping the Saints to win the Third Division South title in 1921–22 and to reach the FA Cup semi-finals in 1925 and 1927. He also won himself two England caps in 1922, both of which were from British Home Championship games. He signed with Manchester United in March 1928, and moved on to Port Vale in November 1929. He picked up a serious ankle injury while with the Valiants, and moved onto Newport via New Milton the following year, before retiring in 1933.
Early life and war record
Rawlings was playing for hometown club Andover when he enlisted to fight in World War I in 1914, aged 18. He served with the Wessex Field Ambulance and was awarded the 1914 star.
Career
Southampton
Rawlings' career started in 1918 with an apprenticeship at Southampton, having impressed playing against their reserve team for his regiment two years previously. He turned professional in February 1919 and made his first-team debut against Swansea Town on 1 September. He quickly settled into the side, building a formidable attacking partnership with Arthur Dominy. He scored 19 goals in the Southern League in 1919–20. The Saints were then elected into the Football League, becoming founder members of the Third Division. He became the club's top scorer in 1920–21 with 22 goals, as Southampton were denied promotion despite finishing in second place. He hit 32 goals in 1921–22 to win himself attention at a national level, and to help his club win the Third Division South title. His intelligent play and deadly shooting earned him two England caps. He appeared against Wales and Scotland in the 1922 British Home Championship, achieving the rare distinction of being capped for England while playing for a third tier club.
In 1922–23, the Saints posted a respectable 11th-place finish in the Second Division, with Dominy finishing as top-scorer. Rawlings then returned to form and finished as the club's top-scorer for the third time in four seasons in 1923–24, when he found the net 21 times. Rawlings went on to remain as the club's top scorer for another four seasons, hitting 16 goals in 1924–25, 20 goals in 1925–26, 28 goals in 1926–27, and 21 goals in 1927–28. He also helped the club to reach the FA Cup semi-finals in 1927, and scored in what was a 2–1 defeat to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. He toured Canada with an XI picked by The Football Association in 1927. Nevertheless, he was transfer-listed by the club, though offers from Everton and Newcastle United were rejected. He scored a total of 193 goals in 364 appearances in league and cup competitions during his ten years at The Dell. His 193 goals places him third on the club's list of all-time goalscorers, behind Mick Channon and Matthew Le Tissier.
Manchester United
In March 1928, he signed for First Division side Manchester United for a fee of £4,000. He scored on his Old Trafford debut on 14 March; a 1–0 win over Everton. He hit a hat-trick on 7 April, in a 4–3 home win over Burnley, and finished the 1927–28 season with ten goals for the Red Devils. However, he was limited to six goals in 1928–29. He found all three goals of the 1929–30 campaign on 14 September, in a 3–2 win over Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park.
Later career
In November 1929, he moved to Port Vale, after the Valiants paid United a four-figure fee. Rawlings scored on his Vale debut in a 5–2 win over Accrington Stanley at The Old Recreation Ground on 9 November. He played a further five games before suffering a serious ankle injury on Christmas Day 1929, during a 2–1 home defeat by Stockport County. The "Valiants" went on to win the Third Division North title in 1929–30. He recovered to full fitness by the spring of 1930, but was unable to return to the first team and left for New Milton during the 1930–31 season. Later in 1930 he moved to Isle of Wight and played for Newport, where he was reunited with Dominy, winning the Hampshire Senior Cup in 1932.
Style of play
Rawlings was a centre-forward with strong heading and shooting skills.
Later life
Rawlings spent 25 years as a civil servant in the Admiralty, based in Wareham. He later ran the Glebe public house in Southampton.
Career statistics
Source:
Honours
Southampton
Football League Third Division South: 1921–22
Port Vale
Football League Third Division North: 1929–30
Newport
Hampshire Senior Cup: 1932
England
British Home Championship runner-up: 1922
References
1896 births
People from Andover, Hampshire
1972 deaths
English footballers
Association football forwards
England international footballers
Andover F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
New Milton Town F.C. players
Newport (IOW) F.C. players
Southern Football League players
English Football League players
British military personnel of World War I
20th-century British civil servants |
6901378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuidas%20kuningas%20kuu%20peale%20kippus | Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus | Kuidas kuningas Kuu peale kippus (How the King Wanted to Go to the Moon) is an album released in 2004 by No-Big-Silence and Kosmikud.
The singles are "Kuninga imekanad", "Sepa kahurikuul" and "Tisleri kastitorn".
This album is based on the 1976 TV musical Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus by Peeter Volkonski and Dagmar Normet.
Now, 28 years later Kosmikud and No-Big-Silence give the songs new energy. The original arrangement was done by the Estonian rock band Ruja (1971-1988).
Style
For many NBS fans this album may seem to sound very strange on first listen. The music can be considered to be a mash of Kosmikud's and No-Big-Silence's music. While "Vapper major annab au", "Sepa kahurikuul" and "Tisleri kastitorn" sound more like standard No-Big-Silence songs, the other tracks can be seen as NBS/Kosmikud mash-ups.
Track listing
"Kuninga imekanad" ("King's Wonder-chicken") – 2:31
"Vapper major annab au" ("Brave Major Salutes") – 1:25
"Tisleri imelind" ("Joiner's Wonderbird") – 3:52
"Sepa kahurikuul" ("Blacksmith's Cannonball") – 2:13
"Koka laul" ("Chef's Song") – 3:26
"Tisleri kastitorn" ("Joiner's Tower of Boxes") – 2:18
"Ehitame torni" ("We're Building a Tower") – 1:55
"Ei jaksa me" ("We Haven't Got the Strength") – 2:19
"Hei pinguta ja rassi" ("Hey Strive and Toil") – 13:18
The real length of "Hei pinguta ja rassi" is 2:14 and is followed by 7:55 of silence before a small clip of the band doing a recording session comes in at 9:29 which lasts for 3:50.
Personnel
No-Big-Silence
Cram – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9)
Kristo K – guitar (3); backing vocals (8); keyboards
Willem – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5, 7); backing vocals (8)
Kristo R – drums; backing vocals (8)
Kosmikud
Hainz - vocals (5, 8, 9)
Aleksander Vana - guitar
Kõmmari - bass
Others
Peeter Volkonski - vocals (6, 7, 9)
Hele Kõre - vocals (1, 5, 7, 8)
Peeter Malkov - flute (3)
DJ Sinda - DJing (4)
Notes
No-Big-Silence & Kosmikud featuring Peeter Volkonski and Hele Kõre.
Music by Peeter Volkonski, lyrics by Dagmar Normet, arranged by No-Big-Silence and Kosmikud.
Recorded at No-Big-Silence Studios winter 2003/2004.
Mastered by Kristo Kotkas.
Drawings by Aivar Juhanson, photos by Viktor Koshkin, design by Cram.
External links
Entry for the album in EstonianMetal.com
2004 albums
No-Big-Silence albums
Kosmikud albums
Estonian-language albums |
17327876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyingtaw | Chyingtaw | Chyingtaw is a village in north-eastern Burma. It is located in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17327892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyinhtaung | Chyinhtaung | Chyinhtaung is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6901384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s%20statement | Artist's statement | An artist's statement (or artist statement) is an artist's written description of their work. The brief text is for, and in support of, their own work to give the viewer understanding. As such it aims to inform, connect with an art context, and present the basis for the work; it is, therefore, didactic, descriptive, or reflective in nature.
Description
The artist's text intends to explain, justify, extend, and/or contextualize their body of work. It places, or attempts to place, the work in relationship to art history and theory, the art world and the times. Further, the statement serves to show that the artist is conscious of their intentions, aware of their practice and its position within art parameters and of the discourse surrounding it. Therefore, not only does it describe and place, but it indicates the level of the artist's own comprehension of their field and making. The artist statement serves as a "vital link of communication between you [the artist], and the rest of the world." Most people encounter a work of art through a reproduction first, and there are many elements that are not present within a reproduction. That is why it is imperative that the artist knows how to properly convey their work through their own words. What the artist writes in their statement may be integrated in wall text, handouts at an exhibition or a paragraph in a press release. Judgments will be made based both on the nature of the art, as well as the words that accompany it.
Artists often write a short (50-100 word) and/or a long (500-1000 word) version of the same statement, and they may maintain and revise these statements throughout their careers. They may be edited to suit the requirements of specific funding bodies, galleries or call-outs as part of the application process.
History
The writing of artists' statements is a comparatively recent phenomenon beginning in the 1990s. In some respects, the practice resembles the art manifesto and may derive in part from it. However, the artist's statement generally speaks for an individual rather than a collective, and is not strongly associated with polemic. Rather, a contemporary artist may be required to submit the statement in order to tender for commissions or apply for schools, residencies, jobs, awards, and other forms of institutional support, in justification of their submission.
In their 2008 survey of North American art schools and university art programs, Garrett-Petts and Nash found that nearly 90% teach the writing of artist statements as part of the curriculum; in addition, they found that,
Like prefaces, forewords, prologues, and introductions to literary works, the artist statement performs a vital if complex rhetorical role: when included in an exhibition proposal and sent to a curator, the artist statement usually provides a description of the work, some indication of the work's art historical and theoretical context, some background information about the artist and the artist's intentions, technical specifications – and, at the same time, it aims to persuade the reader of the artwork's value. When hung on a gallery wall, the statement (or "didactic") becomes an invitation, an explanation, and, often indirectly, an element of the installation itself.
As subject matter
On at least two occasions, artist's statements have been the subject of gallery exhibitions. The first exhibition of artists' statements, The Art of the Artist's Statement, was curated by Georgia Kotretsos and Maria Pashalidou at the Hellenic Museum, Chicago, in the spring of 2005. It featured the work of 14 artists invited to create artwork offering a visual commentary on the subject of artist statements. The second exhibition, Proximities: Artists' Statements and Their Works, was installed in the fall of 2005 at the Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia. Co-curated by W.F. Garrett-Petts and Rachel Nash, the exhibition asked nine contributing artists to respond to the topic of artists’ statements by taking one or more of their own artist's statements and working with the text(s) in a manner that documented, represented, and annotated the original work, creating a new work in the process. In 2013, Workshop Press published a collection of 123 artist statements by British painter Tom Palin. The statements spanned a period of 21 years and came with a foreword by Michael Belshaw.
Artist's statements have been the subject of a research project on the professional language of the contemporary art world by sociologist Alix Rule and artist David Levine. Presented in their 2012 article International Art English, published in the American art journal Triple Canopy, Levine & Rule collated and analysed thousands of gallery press releases, published by e-flux since 1999, in an attempt to dissect and understand the peculiar language of the professional art world. It has since become one of the most widely circulated pieces of online cultural criticism.
References
See also
Artwork title
External links
Detterer, Gabriele. Ed. Art Recollection: Artists' Interviews & Statements in the Nineties. Florence: Danilo Montanari, Exit, and Zona Archives Editori, 1997.
"Garrett-Petts, W.F. Literary Artists' Statements", Canadian Literature, No. 176 (Spring 2003): 111–114.
Garrett-Petts, W.F., and Rachel Nash, eds. Proximities: Artists' Statements and Their Works Kamloops, B.C.: Kamloops Art Gallery, 2005.
"Nash, Rachel, and W.F. Garrett-Petts, eds. Artists' Statements & the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, Open Letter. Thirteenth Series, No. 4, Strathroy, Canada, 2007.
Garrett-Petts, W.F., and Rachel Nash. "Re-Visioning the Visual: Making Artistic Inquiry Visible." Rhizomes 18 (Winter 2008). Spec. issue on "Imaging Place".
Statements
Business of visual arts |
17327899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawlamten | Gawlamten | Gawlamten is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6901391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyuta%20%28volcano%29 | Moyuta (volcano) | Moyuta is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It is located near the town of Moyuta in Santa Rosa Department, and is situated at the southern edge of the Jaltapagua fault. The volcano has an elevation of 1662 m and its summit is formed by three andesitic lava domes. The slopes of the volcano complex have numerous cinder cones. Small fumaroles can be seen on the northern and southern slopes, and hot springs are found at the north-eastern base of the volcano, as well as along rivers on south-eastern side. The volcano is covered with forest and coffee plantations.
See also
List of volcanoes in Guatemala
References
Mountains of Guatemala
Volcano
Stratovolcanoes of Guatemala |
6901398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Heyer | Conrad Heyer | Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person to have ever been photographed.
Biography
Heyer was born in the village of Waldoboro, then known as "Broad Bay" and part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The settlement had been sacked and depopulated by Wabanaki attacks and resettled with German immigrants recruited from the Rhineland. Among these settlers were the parents of Conrad Heyer, who also may have been the first white child born in the settlement.
During the American Revolution, according to the New Market Press, Heyer fought for the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and participated in Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware before the Battle of Trenton in December 1776. He was discharged in December 1777. After the war, he returned to Waldoboro, where he made a living as a farmer until his death in 1856. He was buried with full military honors. However, Don Hagist wrote an article in The Journal of the American Revolution disputing that he crossed the Delaware with Washington because, according to Heyer's own pension deposition, he enlisted "about the middle of December AD 1775 ... I did actually serve said term of one year in the army ... The place of my discharge was on the North River at Fish Kilns and the time I received it about the middle of December AD 1777"; the crossing took place on the night of December 25–26, 1776.
In 1852, at the age of 103, Heyer posed for a daguerreotype portrait. He may therefore be the earliest-born person of whom a photograph taken while alive is known to exist. The claim is not without dispute, however; at least four others were photographed who may have been born earlier. These include a woman named Hannah Stilley Gorby, who may have been born in 1746; a shoemaker named John Adams, who claimed to be born in 1745; a Revolutionary War veteran named Baltus Stone, with a claim of 1744; and an enslaved man named Caesar who, according to the inscription on his marble tombstone, was born in 1737 and died in 1852 — which would mean he lived to be 115 years old.
References
18th-century American military personnel
1749 births
1856 deaths
American centenarians
Men centenarians
American people of German descent
Farmers from Maine
History of photography
Military personnel from Maine
People from Waldoboro, Maine
People of Maine in the American Revolution |
17327902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Clarke%20%28photographer%29 | Adrian Clarke (photographer) | Adrian Clarke is an English photographer. Originally trained and practising as a civil liberties lawyer, Clarke made the switch to photography in 2003.
His work is in a social realist style. His first major set of pictures was Framed, a series of pictures of subjects who had served long prison sentences for crimes they did not commit. Between 2004 and 2007 he worked in partnership with the County Durham Drug and Alcohol Action Team photographing a community of abusers of drugs and alcohol in the north east of England. The work was collected in a book, Gary's Friends, named after Gary Crooks, a reformed dealer who introduced him to friends and relatives. The work was published in September 2007 and was shown at the Durham Arts Festival in June 2008.
His most recent work is South Bank a series of portraits of residents of the area between Middlesbrough and Redcar and continues the themes explored in his earlier work. The work was displayed at the Python Gallery in Middlesbrough in May and June 2009.
Clarke was married to the writer Rachel Cusk. While Cusk has written and spoken publicly on their marriage in The Guardian and the BBC, Clarke has not spoken about their marital split.
Footnotes and references
External links
Official website
Photographers from Yorkshire
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
6901402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20St.%20Vrain | Jim St. Vrain | James Marcellin St. Vrain (June 6, 1871 – June 12, 1937), a native of Ralls County, Missouri, was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The left-hander played for the Chicago Orphans in 1902.
St. Vrain made his major league debut in a road game against the Cincinnati Reds at the Palace of the Fans (April 20, 1902). He pitched well, but the Orphans lost 2–1. His first major league win came against the New York Giants on May 9. He pitched a 5–0 complete game shutout in front of the home crowd at West Side Park.
St. Vrain pitched well during his only season but gave up a lot of unearned runs. He is also remembered for running the wrong way on the bases; although he was a left-handed pitcher, St. Vrain batted right-handed. One day, manager Frank Selee suggested he try batting left-handed, and upon making contact with the ball, St. Vrain was confused enough to run to third base (he was thrown out at first base).
In a total of 12 games, 11 starts, 10 complete games, and 95 innings pitched, he had 51 strikeouts and only 25 walks, and gave up just 22 earned runs. Though his record was 4–6, his earned run average was a sparkling 2.08.
St. Vrain died in Butte, Montana, in 1937.
References
External links
Retrosheet
SABR biography
1871 births
1937 deaths
Major League Baseball pitchers
Chicago Orphans players
Butte Smoke Eaters players
Tacoma Tigers players
Memphis Egyptians players
Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players
Seattle Siwashes players
Portland Giants players
Topeka White Sox players
St. Joseph Saints players
Baseball players from Missouri
People from Ralls County, Missouri |
6901406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somniosus | Somniosus | Somniosus is a widely distributed genus of deepwater dogfish sharks in the family Somniosidae. Several members of the genus are believed to attain lengths up to , thus ranking among the largest of sharks.
Species
Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939 (southern sleeper shark)
†Somniosus gonzalezi Welton & Goedert, 2016 – fossil, Oligocene
Somniosus longus Tanaka, 1912 (frog shark)
Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Greenland shark)
Somniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 (Pacific sleeper shark)
Somniosus rostratus A. Risso, 1827 (little sleeper shark)
Somniosus sp. A Not yet described (longnose sleeper shark)
See also
List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References
Extant Oligocene first appearances
Shark genera
Taxa named by Charles Alexandre Lesueur |
6901431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%2C%20Indiana | Friendship, Indiana | Friendship is an unincorporated community (village) in a scenic valley on State Road 62, (Chief White Eye Trail) Brown Township, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
There are multiple stories about how Friendship obtained its name, the following are a couple of stories.
Originally named Paul Town after Daniel F. Paul, an early settler who opened a general store in his residence. The village's mail was being sent to Ballstown in Ripley County, Indiana, the village was then renamed to Hart's Mill after the Harts, William, Robert, and Hiram. Using this name the village's mail was being sent to Hartsville, in Decatur County, IN. The townspeople then decided upon Friendship, after the “Friendship Lodge” The Masonic Lodge F.& A.M. #68 (smith p. 59).
On February 3, 1837, a post office named Harts Mill was established, with Hiram A. Hart as the first postmaster. On July 5, 1849, William Hart laid out the village, and establish the settlement's name for his family. On January 14, 1868, Friendship was the new name for the post office. WPA files state that the postmaster thought that the locals were quietly friendly, although others say it was so named because Friendship built the settlement.
Tourism and events
Twice a year, the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association holds major shoots in the community. During the months of June and September (2nd full weekend through the 3rd full weekend), to coincide with the NMLRA shoots, Friendship hosts Indiana's most distinctive open-air flea market event. Vendors from around the country, but especially from the "tri-state" area of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana participate. The flea market is in two sections, one in town and the other on the other side of the Walter Cline gun range.
Laughery Creek offers open access to kayaking, tubing, canoeing, and fishing (with Indiana fishing license).
The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA), established in 1933, offers camping, and shooting range (with membership). The NMLRA also owns the Rand House Museum in John Linsey Rand House.
Downtown Friendship is home to The Old Mill Campground and Flea Market. The Old Mill hosts a flea market and is used for camping in spring, summer, and fall.
Due to its position on the thirty mile drive from Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Rising Sun, Florence (IN), Vevay, and Madison, Friendship has become a common beginning and stopping points for motorcycle and ATV benefit rides.
Friendship is home to many historical buildings and organizations. The only remaining church in Friendship, The Bear Creek Baptist Church held the first service on July 2, 1818. Lot number seven in Friendship is the building and location of an earlier church, the building is now privately owned. This building was the Friendship Methodist Church, established in 1848, when this church dissolved the brick building was sold to St. Peter's Lutheran Church in 1877, and held services until 1931
The Methodist/Lutheran Church was also the school until a schoolhouse was built on lot number 32 (now a private residence). This brick building was the school until 1915, the town then constructed a new school building at the west end of town, the building is now apartments.
Friendship Grocery occupies an early 19th century building that has been a general store and part of Friendship, IN for generations.
On state road 62 between The Bear Creek Baptist Church and The Rand house the remains the stone pillar of an old swinging bridge across Laughery Creek.
On the west side of town, on Olean Road, is Friendship's Raccoon Creek Stone Arch Bridge, which was constructed in 1899, and is still in use today.
The Friendship State Bank, founded in 1912, still calls Friendship home, though the building has had multiple additions and renovations over the years, it still stands in the original location.
The Friendship Volunteer Fire Department established in 1914. Friendship housed the fire engine in a private residence until, 1946, when a new fire hall was built, additions and renovations were done in 1961 and in 1978. The Fire Department constructed a new fire hall, west of town on Cave Hill Road in 1993.
In 1921 Tim Corson and Edw. Westmeyer built the garage in Friendship on Main Street (state road 62). Today the garage is running in the same building as Mac's Auto Service.
Friendship Tavern and Restaurant established in 1932, though the business has exchanged hands many times, it is still operating on Main Street in Friendship.
Bruegge Auto Body, formerly Whitey's Auto Body, on Hamlin street, is operating in a historic building that housed many businesses over the years.
Carl Dyer Moccasins was established in the 1920s and relocated to Friendship in 1982, located with The Basket Man on Main Street next to The Bear Creek Baptist Church.
See also
Statue of Hope - Wilson Memorial, Friendship, Indiana; Thomas Wilson killed his brother in-law and the story goes that the "victim was buried on the hillside going to Dewberry, and had a large monument erected so that Wilson would have to view it if looking east from the large brick home (smith p. 63)." Many native residents remember the ruins of the monument which was pointing towards the Rand House. It is not believed by the local residents to have been a monument of the Statue of Hope.
References
Unincorporated communities in Ripley County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana
Populated places established in 1837 |
6901441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hult%20Healey | Hult Healey | Hult Healey was a make of kit cars in Sweden.
It all started when Mats Svanberg from Hult saw an Austin-Healey (100 or 3000) and fell in love with it. In the 1970s he bought one and in 1981 it was due for a renovation and he wanted to make a replica of the competition Austin-Healey, but without ruining his original car, so he decided to build a copy. He called in his friend Lennart Waerme to help him. The chassis was based on the original, but used engine, gearbox, front end and rear axle from a 1972 Volvo 142. To make this possible the car had to be made 14 cm wider than the original. The Hult Healey, as it was known, was first registered in the late summer of 1984. They also started to make kits based on their design. Up to 1990 they had made and sold 35 kit cars, and four complete cars.
In 1987 they made an update Mk2 model with a more racing design using a Volvo B23 engine giving . The body weighed just . Only three Mk2 Hult Healys were made.
References
Kit car manufacturers
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Sweden |
6901456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpsd | Gpsd | gpsd is a computer software program that collects data from a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and provides the data via an Internet Protocol (IP) network to potentially multiple client applications in a server-client application architecture. Gpsd may be run as a daemon to operate transparently as a background task of the server. The network interface provides a standardized data format for multiple concurrent client applications, such as Kismet or GPS navigation software.
Gpsd is commonly used on Unix-like operating systems. It is distributed as free software under the 3-clause BSD license.
Design
gpsd provides a TCP/IP service by binding to port 2947 by default. It communicates via that socket by accepting commands, and returning results. These commands use a JSON-based syntax and provide JSON responses. Multiple clients can access the service concurrently.
The application supports many types of GPS receivers with connections via serial ports, USB, and Bluetooth. Starting in 2009, gpsd also supports AIS receivers.
gpsd supports interfacing with the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server ntpd via shared memory to enable setting the host platform's time via the GPS clock.
Authors
gpsd was originally written by Remco Treffkorn with Derrick Brashear, then maintained by Russell Nelson. It is now maintained by Eric S. Raymond.
References
External links
Global Positioning System
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Python
Software using the BSD license |
17327910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellman%20%26%20Friedman | Hellman & Friedman | Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F) is an American private equity firm, founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman, that makes investments primarily through leveraged buyouts as well as growth capital investments. H&F has focused its efforts on several core target industries including media, financial services, professional services and information services. The firm tends to avoid asset intensive or other industrial businesses (e.g., manufacturing, chemicals, transportation). H&F is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and London.
History
Founding
Hellman & Friedman was founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman. Before H&F, Hellman was a founding partner of Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, which would later be renamed Matrix Management Company. Today, Matrix is among the most prominent venture capital firms in the U.S. Before that, Hellman worked in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, where he served as president as well as head of the Investment Banking Division and Chairman of Lehman Corporation. Tully Friedman was formerly a managing director at Salomon Brothers. In 1997, Friedman left the firm to found Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, a private equity firm also based in San Francisco.
Recent
As of 2011, H&F employed approximately 50 investment professionals, including 15 managing directors, 6 principals and 13 associates as well as senior advisors and general counsels. In August 2013, the firm acquired Canada's largest insurance broker, Hub International, for around $4.4 billion. In March 2014, the firm acquired Renaissance Learning, a firm providing assessment methods such as electronic tests that adapt questions in real time depending on how successfully the student is answering, for $1.1 billion in cash.
In February 2015, it was announced that Hellman & Friedman were putting together a takeover bid for used car company Auto Trader, which could amount to an offer of £2 billion. On May 18, 2017, Hellman & Friedman made a A$2.9 billion bid for Fairfax Media in Australia, starting a bidding war with TPG Group for the company.
In May 2016, H&F agreed to a deal to acquire the healthcare cost management company MultiPlan Inc. for about $7.5 billion.
In June 2018, it was announced that Hellman & Friedman were taking a controlling interest in the security monitoring company, SimpliSafe.
In February 2019, it was announced that Hellman & Friedman purchased Ultimate Software for $11 billion, an all-cash transaction. Ultimate Software has since been combined with Kronos Incorporated, and rolled into the brand Ultimate Kronos Group. In December 2019, Hellman & Friedman acquired AutoScout24, a European automotive digital marketplace, for 2.9 billion euros ($3.2 billion).
In 2020, Hellman & Friedman joined Diligent Corporation's Modern Leadership Initiative and pledged to create five new board roles among its portfolio companies for racially diverse candidates.
In July 2021, it was announced that Hellman & Friedman purchased At Home.
In November 2021, H&F and Bain Capital agreed to buy AthenaHealth for $17 Billion.
Notable holdings
A core element in H&F's strategy is investing in "growth" opportunities whether in an industry sector or a specific company. H&F invests in a variety of structures, frequently making minority investments with only limited controls. Additionally, H&F has taken a number of unconventional steps to finance and close transactions, including arranging and syndicating the financing for several investments including Getty Images and Goodman Global.
Since closing its sixth private equity fund in 2007, H&F has been active in making new investments:
DoubleClick
Goodman Global
Gartmore
Texas Genco
GCM Grosvenor
Nielsen Company
Nasdaq
Internet Brands
OpenLink
PPD
SSP Holdings
Web Reservations International (Hostelworld)
UKG
Investment funds
H&F invests through a series of private equity funds (structured as limited partnerships) and its investors include a variety of pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors:
1984 — Hellman & Friedman I
1991 — Hellman & Friedman II ($826 million)
1995 — Hellman & Friedman III ($1.5 billion)
2000 — Hellman & Friedman IV ($2.2 billion)
2004 — Hellman & Friedman V ($3.5 billion)
2007 — Hellman & Friedman VI ($8.4 billion)
2011 — Hellman & Friedman VII ($8.8 billion)
2014 — Hellman & Friedman VIII ($10.9 billion)
2018 — Hellman & Friedman IX ($16.5 billion)
2021 — Hellman & Friedman X ($24.4 billion)
Source: Preqin
See also
List of venture capital firms
References
External links
Hellman & Friedman: The Deal Journal PE Firm of the Quarter (WSJ.com, 2008)
Private equity firms of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Financial services companies established in 1984
Hellman family
AI based human capital management solutions |
6901481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20distribution%20system | Global distribution system | A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies. The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory (e.g. number of hotel rooms available, number of flight seats available, or number of cars available) from the service providers. Travel agencies traditionally relied on GDS for services, products and rates in order to provide travel-related services to the end consumers. Thus, a GDS can link services, rates and bookings consolidating products and services across all three travel sectors: i.e., airline reservations, hotel reservations, car rentals.
GDS is different from a computer reservations system, which is a reservation system used by the service providers (also known as vendors). Primary customers of GDS are travel agents (both online and office-based) who make reservations on various reservation systems run by the vendors. GDS holds no inventory; the inventory is held on the vendor's reservation system itself. A GDS system will have real-time link to the vendor's database. For example, when a travel agency requests a reservation on the service of a particular airline company, the GDS system routes the request to the appropriate airline's computer reservations system.
Example of a booking facilitation done by an airline GDS
A mirror image of the passenger name record (PNR) in the airline reservations system is maintained in the GDS system. If a passenger books an itinerary containing air segments of multiple airlines through a travel agency, the passenger name record in the GDS system would hold information on their entire itinerary, each airline they fly on would only have a portion of the itinerary that is relevant to them. This would contain flight segments on their own services and inbound and onward connecting flights (known as info segments) of other airlines in the itinerary. e.g. if a passenger books a journey from Amsterdam to London on KLM, London to New York on British Airways, New York to Frankfurt on Lufthansa through a travel agent and if the travel agent is connected to Amadeus GDS. The PNR in the Amadeus GDS would contain the full itinerary, the PNR in KLM would show the Amsterdam to London segment along with British Airways flight as an onward info segment. Likewise the PNR in the Lufthansa system would show the New York to Frankfurt segment with the British Airways flight as an arrival information segment. The PNR in British Airways system would show all three segments. One as a live segment and the other two as arrival and onward info segments.
Some GDS systems (primarily Amadeus CRS and SABRE) also have a dual use capability for hosting multiple computer reservations system, in such situations functionally the computer reservations system and the GDS partition of the system behave as if they were separate systems.
Future of GDS systems and companies
Global distribution systems in the travel industry originated from a traditional legacy business model that existed to inter-operate between airline vendors and travel agents. During the early days of computerized reservations systems flight ticket reservations were not possible without a GDS. As time progressed, many airline vendors (including budget and mainstream operators) have now adopted a strategy of 'direct selling' to their wholesale and retail customers (passengers). They invested heavily in their own reservations and direct-distribution channels and partner systems. This helps to minimize direct dependency on GDS systems to meet sales and revenue targets and allows for a more dynamic response to market needs. These technology advancements in this space facilitate an easier way to cross-sell to partner airlines and via travel agents, eliminating the dependency on a dedicated global GDS federating between systems. Also, multiple price comparison websites eliminate the need of dedicated GDS for point-in-time prices and inventory for both travel agents and end-customers. Hence some experts argue that these changes in business models may lead to complete phasing out of GDS in the Airline space by the year 2020. On the other hand, some travel professional experts demonstrate that GDS still continue to offer the flexibility and bulk buying capacities for airline consolidators to reach travel agents that individual airline systems are not able to provide customer segments with wider choices. Their argument is, individual airline distribution systems are not designed to interoperate with competitors systems.
Lufthansa Group announced in June 2015 that it was imposing an additional charge of €16 when booking through an external global distribution system rather than their own systems. They stated their choice was based upon that the costs of using external systems was several times higher than their own. Several other airlines including Air France–KLM and Emirates Airline also stated that they are following the development.
However, hotels and car rental industry continue to benefit from GDS, especially last-minute inventory disposal using GDS to bring additional operational revenue. GDS here is useful to facilitate global reach using existing network and low marginal costs when compared to online air travel bookings. Some GDS companies are also in the process of investing and establishing significant offshore capability in a move to reduce costs and improve their profit margins to serve their customer directly accommodating changing business models.
References
Travel technology
Business software
Airline tickets |
17327911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittitology | Hittitology | Hittitology is the study of the Hittites, an ancient Anatolian people that established an empire around Hattusa in the 2nd millennium BCE. It combines aspects of the archaeology, history, philology, and art history of the Hittite civilisation.
List of Hittitologists
A partial list of notable Hittite scholars includes:
Selim Adalı
Metin Alparslan
Trevor R. Bryce (born 1940)
Gary Beckman
Jeanny Vorys Canby
Yaşar Coşkun
Philo H. J. Houwink ten Cate (1930–2013)
Birgit Christiansen
Billie Jean Collins
Halet Çambel
Petra Goedegebuure
Albrecht Goetze (1897–1971)
Oliver Gurney (1911–2001)
Hans G. Güterbock (1908–2000)
Harry A. Hoffner (1934–2015)
Theo van den Hout
Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952)
Sara Kimball
Alwin Kloekhorst
J. G. Macqueen
Gregory McMahon
Craig Melchert
Jared L. Miller
Alice Mouton
Andreas Schachner
Daniel Schwemer
Itamar Singer (1946–2012)
Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952)
Piotr Taracha
Willemijn Waal
Kazuhiko Yoshida
Leonie Zuntz (1908–1942)
Lord Edwin E. Hitti
See also
History of the Hittites
Hittite language
Hittite grammar
Hittite phonology
Assyriology
Egyptology
References
Archaeological sub-disciplines |
17327915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness%2C%20Sadness%2C%20Gladness | Madness, Sadness, Gladness | Madness, Sadness, Gladness is Picture House's third studio album. It was released in 2003.
Track listing
Breathe
She
Pornstar
Everybody Loves My Girl
Lonely Like The Sun
Drink Talking
Gifted Child
Safe
Breaking In
Wishing On Stars
Keeping Mum (hidden track Of Course It Is)
2003 albums
Picturehouse (band) albums |
6901496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Edu-Ware%20products | Early Edu-Ware products | Most of the programs in Edu-Ware Services' initial product line, released in 1979 under the slogan "Unique software for the unique mind", were not typical of the intellectually challenging computer games and structured, pedagogically sound educational software for which the company would later become known. Quickly designed and programmed in Applesoft BASIC primarily by co-founder Sherwin Steffin, most of these text-based programs were dropped from Edu-Ware's catalog when the company began developing products featuring high-resolution graphics in 1981.
E.S.P.
E.S.P. is a game giving players the opportunity to find out whether they possess extrasensory perception. While displaying a constantly changing graphic design on the screen, the program briefly flashes emotionally charged words, randomly chosen from a word list, on the screen. The program then asks a series of questions to determine if the player's attitudes have been influenced by the subliminal messages. A file-builder is included to allow players to insert new words in the data base.
The program was offered in both a stand-alone disk version and a compendium, along with E.S.P. and Zintar, called Party-Pak I. However, Edu-Ware dropped the game from its product line by the time its August 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
Metri-Vert
Metri-Vert is an analytical program performing metric conversion calculations for length/distance, area, volume weight and temperature. The program features a display page storing up to twenty conversions for easy reading and recall.
Perception
Perception is a puzzle game consisting of three games designed to challenge and improve players' visual skills. The first involves using game paddles to draw lines matching those drawn by the computer. The second, based on a World War II test for spy candidates, tests players' power of observation by showing them only small glimpses of an abstract object as a narrow mask travels over it and then asking them to choose from among several objects what they had just seen. The third modules tests player's visual memory by requiring them to distinguish sizes of identical shapes. Players have control over the shape, display time, and presentation format.
Originally developed by Steffin before founding Edu-Ware, he wrote a second version of the program soon after establishing the publishing company. The program was offered as both a stand-alone versions, and in a compendium, along with Statistics and Compu-Read, called Edu-Pak I. Edu-Ware upgraded the program to high resolution graphics using its EWS3 graphics engine in 1982, renaming it Perception 3.0, which was featured in the company's catalogs until 1984.
Rescue
Rescue is a low-resolution graphics action game in which the player uses game paddles move his spaceship to intercept with a damaged ship randomly floating around the screen. The program was offered in both disk and cassette stand-alone versions, as well as in a compendium, along with War, called Rescue/War, but was dropped from Edu-Ware's catalog by 1980.
However, Edu-Ware dropped the game from its product line by the time its March 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
Statistics
Statistics is an analytical program performing many of the statistical calculations ordinarily found in FORTRAN driven SPSS programs of the time. Calculations performed by the program included mean, variance, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, normal distribution, Chi-square test, and T-Test.
The program was offered in both disk and cassette stand-alone versions, as well as in a compendium, along with Perception and Compu-Read, called Edu-Pak I.
Originally developed by Steffin before founding Edu-Ware, the company upgraded the program to high resolution graphics using its EWS3 graphics engine in 1982, renaming it Statistics 3.0, which was featured in the company's catalogs until 1984.
Story Teller
Story Teller is a word game in which players are asked to type in a series of names, animals, colors, phrases and other words with which the program constructs a story. Edu-Ware described it as being "more than just a mad-libs game" because it described and made use of all parts of speech.
Subliminal
Subliminal is a game testing whether players are influenced by subliminal messages. While the player is watching a constantly changing graphic design, the program quickly flashes an emotionally changed word on the screen. The player then answers a series of questions to determine whether his attitudes has been affected by the subliminal message. The program includes a file builder for modifying the data base from which the program randomly chooses the words to display.
The program was offered in both disk and cassette stand-alone versions, as well as in a compendium, along with Zintar, called Party-Pak I. However, Edu-Ware dropped the game from its product line by the time its August 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
Text File Editor
Text file editor is a program allowing users to create, combine or manipulate sequential text files. The program was advertised as useful for "unlocking the secrets" hidden in the files of Compu-Read, Network, Subliminal, and Zintar.
Unisolve
Unisolve: The Electronics Designer is an analytical program that calculates 24 equations encountered in engineering and design, including transmission line formulae, reactance, coil-winding models and modulation percentages.
War
War is a numeric strategy game occurring in ten rounds. In each round, the program would display a number on the screen and allow the player to type another number in response. The program would then use both numbers in a formula to determine the winner for that round, and the side that won the most number of rounds would win the game. The challenge for the player was to determine the formula the program was using to determine the winner in each round.
The program was offered in both disk and cassette stand-alone versions, as well as in a compendium, along with Rescue, called Rescue/War, but was dropped from Edu-Ware's product line by the time its March 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
Zintar
Zintar is a drinking game in which players are instructed by the computer (randomly) to "take hits" while watching a series of color and black & white graphics. A scoreboard kept track and designated the player who had been assigned the most hits as "The Mayor". It was Pederson's first Apple II program written strictly for fun; Sherwin Steffin supplied the graphics. Edu-Ware offered it for sale after being encouraged by an early mail order distributor. This controversial party game was advertised in Edu-Ware's catalogs as being banned by Apple II retailer Rainbow Computing. However, Edu-Ware dropped the game from its product line by the time its August 1, 1980 catalog was issued.
See also
Space (role-playing game series)
Compu-Read
References
Edu-Ware
Edu-Ware |
23571748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20European%20Athletics%20Championships | 2012 European Athletics Championships | The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012. This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years.
The decision to grant the games for Helsinki was made by the European Athletics Congress on 9 November 2009. Another city that showed interest in hosting the event was Nuremberg, Germany, however Helsinki was in pole position during the whole process. This was the third time that the city had hosted the event, 1971 and 1994 being the other occasions.
Due to 2012 being an Olympic year, there were no racewalking and marathon competitions.
Event schedule
Men's results
Track
Field
Women's results
Track
Field
Stripped medals
At the Championships 9 medals was stripped, 1 men and 8 women.
Medal table
Participating nations
(host)
In brackets: Squad size
Broadcasting
See also
List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals
References
External links
Organizing Committee official website
EAA Official website
EAA calendar
European Athletics Championships
European Championships
Athletics
International sports competitions in Helsinki
2012 in European sport
2012 in Finnish sport
June 2012 sports events in Europe
July 2012 sports events in Europe
2010s in Helsinki
Athletics in Helsinki |
17327923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar%20Point%20Light | Poplar Point Light | Poplar Point Light (Lighthouse), built in 1831, is an historic lighthouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It stands at the end of Poplar Point, marking the southern point of Wickford Harbor. The lighthouse was built in 1831 with a stone keeper's dwelling and wooden tower. The light was deactivated in 1882 and replaced by the Wickford Harbor Light. It was sold at auction in 1894 and has been altered by later owners. The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The tower is the oldest surviving wooden lighthouse tower in the United States, and the oldest in Rhode Island still standing at its original location.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island
References
Lighthouses completed in 1831
Houses completed in 1831
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Lighthouses in Washington County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island |
6901516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss%20Kiss%20Bang%20Bang%20%28book%29 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (book) | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) is Pauline Kael's second collection of reviews from 1965 through 1968, compiled from numerous magazines including The Atlantic, Holiday, The New Yorker, Life, Mademoiselle, The New Republic, McCall's, and Vogue. It features her review of The Sound of Music, which she notoriously dubbed "The Sound of Money," sparking outrage from loyal readers of McCall's. This is erroneously considered to be the reason why she was fired from her short-lived position as their film critic. The book also features a smaller collection of synopses (as opposed to full-length reviews) of little-known movies, some of which are also printed in Kael's 5001 Nights at the Movies.
In her note on the title which begins the book, Kael asserts that these words are "perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this." The title itself is a reference to the character of James Bond, who was often referred to as Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang in international markets; the original theme song for the 1965 Bond film Thunderball was to have had this title.
The book is now out-of-print in the United States, but is still published in the United Kingdom by the independent publishing company Marion Boyars Publishers.
Contents
The book is divided into five sections, titled:
I) Trends;
II) The Making of The Group;
III) Reviews, 1965-1967;
IV) Careers;
V) The Movie Past.
References
1968 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Little, Brown and Company books
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books |
23571750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Schuttinger | Andy Schuttinger | Andrew Schuttinger (July 13, 1892 – March 5, 1971) was an American jockey, trainer and owner in the sport of thoroughbred horse racing. A highly successful jockey, Andy Schuttinger won numerous important races including the Travers Stakes, Jockey Club Gold Cup, and what would become the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes. Among the many top horses he rode was Man o' War, as well as two-time American Champion Filly, Milkmaid, the 1914 American Horse of the Year and a Hall of Fame inductee, Roamer, and another Horse of the Year in 1917, Old Rosebud,
Trainer career
Schuttinger announced his retirement from riding on July 20, 1926, advising that he would immediately embark on a career as a trainer with W. T. Anderson's stable based at Saratoga Race Course. In September of the following year he took charge of the racing stable of James Butler, the prominent owner of Empire City Race Track. He remained with Butler until December 24, 1930, and on March 28, 1931, he took over the racing stable of Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Among the horses Schuttinger trained for Kilmer was the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame colt, Sun Beau. He later simultaneously trained horses for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Joseph M. Roebling.
Equally successful as a trainer as he had been as a jockey, Andy Schuttinger and his wife notably owned and raced horses he trained such as Pilate, Key Ring, Red Welt, Fortification, Fleetborough and probably their best runner, multiple stakes winner, Ferd.
Andy Schuttinger began winding down his racing operations in 1952 and retired from the business. He died in 1971 in Florida at age seventy-eight.
References
article on Man o' War and Andy Schuttinger winning the Travers stakes August 22, 1920 The New York Times
article titled 6 Riders of Previous Winners Of Preakness Watch Classic May 11, 1929 The New York Times
External links
1892 births
1971 deaths
American horse trainers
American jockeys
American racehorse owners and breeders
Sportspeople from Brooklyn |
23571773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krup%C3%A1%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Krupá (Kolín District) | Krupá is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Syneč is an administrative part of Krupá.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
6901519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Forgotten%20%281973%20film%29 | The Forgotten (1973 film) | The Forgotten (also known as Don't Look in the Basement and Death Ward #13) is a 1973 independent horror film directed by S. F. Brownrigg, written by Tim Pope and starring Bill McGhee, former Playboy model Rosie Holotik, and Annabelle Weenick (credited as Anne MacAdams) about homicidal patients at an insane asylum.
Plot
The film is set in Stephens Sanitarium, a secluded rural mental health institute whose chief doctor believes that the best way to deal with insanity is to allow the patients to freely act out their realities in the hopes that they will snap out of it, so to speak. The film begins with an elderly nurse in Stephens Sanitarium making her rounds. After a troubling incident in which a patient threatens her life, she decides to retire and goes out to visit the chief doctor, Dr. Stephens, to inform him of the decision. Unfortunately, in the process of therapy (which involves chopping wood with an axe), the crazed former magistrate, Oliver W. Cameron, known as Judge, accidentally lands the axe in Dr. Stephens' back, apparently killing him. The shaken nurse returns inside to finish packing, where she is attacked by Harriett, a patient who accuses her of stealing her "baby" (actually a plastic doll). The patient kills her by crushing her head in the nurse's suitcase.
The only remaining doctor appears to be Dr. Geraldine Masters, who is greeted by Charlotte Beale, a pretty young nurse who informs Dr. Masters that Dr. Stephens had hired her a week ago. Dr. Masters begrudgingly allows her to settle in. The young nurse meets the patients, including a lobotomized and childish man named Sam, who enjoys popsicles and his plastic toy boat, a nymphomaniac and schizophrenic named Allyson, an emotionally dependent woman named Jennifer, an octogenarian woman named Mrs. Callingham who spouts bizarre poetry and mistakes flowers in the garden to be her own children, a juvenile prankster named Danny, a shellshocked Sergeant who lost his mind after accidentally killing his men in Vietnam, and the crazed judge, who seems incapable of speaking in anything other than courtroom jargon and the repeated phrase "My name... is... Oliver... W... Cameron..."
Dr. Masters becomes disturbed when a telephone man comes to investigate the faulty phone system at the institution. Mrs. Callingham's tongue is ripped out of her mouth during her sleep, although Dr. Masters tells Charlotte that Mrs. Callingham did it to herself. The audience later discovers that Dr. Masters is actually a patient at the institute and that Dr. Stephens had allowed her to pretend to be a doctor. After he disobeys her, Dr. Masters burns the Sergeant's hand and murders Jennifer for stealing medicine. After a frantic conversation with Allyson, Charlotte discovers Dr. Masters' secret. Mrs. Callingham indicates to Charlotte that it was Masters who cut out her tongue, apparently to prevent the elderly woman from disclosing the secret. Charlotte then discovers the body of the telephone man in the kitchen closet, presumably murdered by Masters, to make sure he would not report the institution's situation to anyone on the outside. Allyson is distraught, as she thought the man was going to marry her, but she convinces herself that the man is still alive and drags his body to her room so she can have sex with it.
Charlotte realizes that her life is in grave danger, and she tries to escape. The judge informs her that they all know Masters is a patient, but they think Charlotte is also a patient. Charlotte finds that all the windows and doors have been boarded up by Masters, preventing an escape. Sam then leads Charlotte to the basement, where she is startled by a man grabbing her ankle and beats him to death with a toy boat. She realizes that it is Dr. Stephens, but not before finishing him off. At the direction of Masters, Sam leads Charlotte upstairs, apparently, so the judge can axe her to death. Sam thinks Charlotte murdered Dr. Stephens on purpose, so he helps restrain her. However, he has a flashback from his lobotomy (which Masters had assisted with) and lets Charlotte go. He then leaves the room as Masters cowers in a corner. As Sam leaves, the other inmates enter with weapons, and the judge brutally axes Masters to death. Sam is deeply disturbed, grabs the axe, and kills all the other inmates except Mrs. Callingham, who is not in the room. Charlotte is already outside, having been told of a secret exit in the basement by Sam. She wanders around outside as the camera goes back to Sam, who cries to himself while eating a popsicle and viewing the carnage.
Cast
Bill McGhee as Sam
Rosie Holotik as Nurse Charlotte Beale
Annabelle Weenick as Dr. Geraldine S. Masters (credited as Anne MacAdams)
Gene Ross as "Judge" Oliver W. Cameron
Camilla Carr as Harriett
Hugh Feagin as Sergeant Jaffee
Betty Chandler as Allyson King
Jessie Kirby as Danny
Jessie Lee Fulton as Jane St. Claire
Rhea MacAdams as Mrs. Callingham
Robert Dracup as Ray Daniels
Harryette Warren as Jennifer
Michael Harvey as Dr. Stephens
Release
Home media
The Forgotten was released for the first time on DVD by Vci Video on January 25, 2000. It was later released by BCI on January 22, 2002, as a part of its two-disk "Evil Places" movie pack. BCI would later re-release the film in 2004 and in 2005 in various multi-movie packs. The film was released five separate times in 2003 by Diamond Entertainment, Platinum Disc, Pop Flix, and Alpha Video respectively. In 2004, it was released twice by St. Clair Entertainment on February 24, and March 2. On October 25, and November 29 that same year, it was released by Elstree Hill Entertainment and HHO respectively. In 2005, Platinum Disk re-released the film three separate times as a part of various multi-film packs. That same year, it would also be released by Stax, Mill Creek Entertainment, Black Horse, and re-released by Diamond Entertainment. The following year saw the film's re-release by both Mill Creek and Vci, as a part of several multi-movie collections. Mill Creek would once again re-release the film in 2007, as a double-feature alongside Don't Open the Door! (1975). It was released both as a single feature by Video International in 2008 and as a part of a five-disk movie pack by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment in 2010. Echo Bridge would include the film the following year along with Madacy Home Video in several multi-film collections. In 2012, the film was released by Film Chest and re-released by Pop Flix on January 24, and April 10, respectively. Mill Creek re-released the film one more time in 2013, for their three-disk "American Horror Stories: 12 Movie Collection". In 2014 Film Chest re-released a digitally restored version of the film in November. Film Chest then released the film on December 16, the following month. In 2015, the film was released as a single feature by VFN and by Films Around The World Inc. On October 25, 2016 it was released by VCI and the following month by Film Detective. It was released for the first time on Blu-ray by Brink in a double-feature, alongside its sequel Don't Look in the Basement 2 (2015). 2018 saw the film's releases on both Blu-ray and DVD by Code Red and VCI.
Reception
Critical reception for The Forgotten has been mixed to negative.
Dave Sindelar on his film review website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings gave the film a mixed review. In his review on the film Sindelar criticized the film's premise, calling it "hard to swallow" and the unnecessary nastiness of film's climax. However, Sindelar also wrote, "Nonetheless, the characters are quite interesting, and the acting from the cast of unknowns is excellent for such a low-budget movie, and there are enough moments sprinkled throughout the movie that show a sense of real sadness and a sense of humanity that give a greater texture to the proceedings. Ultimately, the strong points make the movie work, and I can appreciate it well enough, even if it does remain in that realm of movies that are simply not much fun for me."
Rob Gonsalves from ‘’eFilmCritic.com’’ awarded the film one out of five stars, calling it “a grade-Z horror flick”.
Cavett Binion of AllMovie gave it a generally favorable review, writing, "somehow the intrinsic sleaziness generated by the threadbare production manages to lend it a remarkably suitable ambience."
TV Guide gave the film a positive review, writing, “Despite the overall cheapness of the production, director S.F. Brownrigg does manage to convey a sense of seedy claustrophobia during the depraved proceedings.” Almar Haflidason from BBC gave the film three out of five stars.
Legacy
Remake
In May 2008, a remake of the film was being planned by directors Alan Rowe Kelly and Anthony G. Sumner. Filming was scheduled for October 2008 in Indiana with a planned 2009 release, but this version never came to fruition.
In March 2017, former horror punk guitarist from the Misfits, Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, was put to star in Death Ward 13, a remake and continuation of Don't Look in the Basement, to be directed by Todd Nunes (All Through the House) and produced by The Readmond Company. The second planned remake has not yet come to fruition.
Sequel
In December 2013, a sequel titled Id: Don't Look in the Basement 2 was announced with Anthony Brownrigg, son of S.F. Brownrigg, directing. The film was shot in Texas in March/April 2014 and used several of the same locations from the original film. The sequel was eventually released in 2015.
References
External links
1973 films
1973 horror films
American psychological horror films
1970s psychological horror films
Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Films shot in Texas
Necrophilia in film
Video nasties
1970s English-language films
1970s American films |
17327928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple%2C%20Bailey%20County%2C%20Texas | Maple, Bailey County, Texas | Maple is an unincorporated community in Bailey County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 75 in 2000.
Geography
Maple is located along FM 596 in southern Bailey County, about southwest of Muleshoe, south of Lariat, north of Virginia City, and northwest of Lubbock.
History
Named for early settler Maple Wilson, the community was established during the early 1920s. At that time, local ranches were subdivided into farms. A post office opened in 1926. By 1940, Maple had a population of around 600 with six businesses. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, the community slowly declined. In 1980, around 130 people lived in Maple. That figure had fallen to 75 by 2000.
Maple has a post office with the zip code of 79344.
Education
Since July 1, 2002, public education in the community of Maple has been provided by the Sudan Independent School District, which is based in the Lamb County city of Sudan. Prior to that day, the Maple-based Three Way Independent School District served the community and surrounding areas. The Three Way District began operations in 1945 after the Maple school district consolidated into it.
References
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Unincorporated communities in Bailey County, Texas |
17327974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple%2C%20Red%20River%20County%2C%20Texas | Maple, Red River County, Texas | Maple is an unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas. It lies at an elevation of 377 feet (115 m).
References
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Unincorporated communities in Red River County, Texas |
6901537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volc%C3%A1n%20Santo%20Tom%C3%A1s | Volcán Santo Tomás | Volcán Santo Tomás is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It is also known as "Volcán Pecul", or as "Cerro Zunil" the name of its youngest and most prominent dome which was last active approximately 84,000 years ago (K-Ar dating).
Geothermal activity can be observed in the form of Solfataras and thermal springs which are located on the west of the ridge between Santo Tomás and Zunil.
See also
List of volcanoes in Guatemala
References
Santo Tomas
Santo Tomas
Volcano
Santo Tomas
Pleistocene stratovolcanoes |
6901546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Database%20Image | Portable Database Image | The Portable Database Image, also known as .pdi file, is a proprietary loss-less format designed for analytics, publishing and syndication of complex data. The .pdi format, generation process, and GUI, were invented by Dr. Reimar Hofmann and Dr. Michael Haft from Siemens AG Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
The .pdi footprint is typically 100 to 1000 times smaller than the footprint normally found in structured data files or database systems, and is rendered without any loss of detail. The word portable in the name derives from the idea that the smaller footprint allows a .pdi runs in the main memory of a user's’ computer without disk or network input/output (IO).
The .pdi is a digitally rights protected, encrypted data source that can be accessed by any ODBO (OLE DB for OLAP) compliant OLAP tool, including Microsoft Excel and the Panoratio's Explorer GUI.
The .pdi presents detailed discrete or binned data without pre-calculation or cardinality reduction. It allows for real-time correlation and relationship exploration of unrestricted bounds — throughout all dimensions. They (.pdi’s) have been tested in excess of 5,000 dimensions and 500 million rows of information, with query response times in the .1 to 8 second range.
Additionally, because of patented techniques used in .pdi generation, patterns found in the data are summarily exposed, allowing for instant predictive and descriptive data mining. Yield optimizations, segmentation, outcome optimizations and simulations are all dynamically supported by the .pdi format. Users are constantly presented with the most changed and most highly correlated dimensions affected in every query as discovered in the patterns of the historical data.
External links
Panoratio web site. Panoratio provides the PDI related software.
About PDI at computerworld.com
Journalism
Computer file formats |
23571774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamsu%20Bridge | Jamsu Bridge | The Jamsu Bridge crosses the Han River in South Korea and connects the districts of Yongsan-gu and Seocho-gu. The bridge was completed in 1976, and lies just meters above the waterline, allowing the bridge to submerge during periods of high rainfall. In 1982, Banpo Bridge was built on top of the Jamsu Bridge, creating a two-deck bridge.
References
Bridges in Seoul
Bridges completed in 1976
1976 establishments in South Korea
ko:반포대교#잠수교 |
6901569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreleased%20%28No-Big-Silence%20album%29 | Unreleased (No-Big-Silence album) | Unreleased is an album released in 2003 by an Estonian industrial metal band No-Big-Silence. It consists of previously unreleased songs and remixes.
Most of the songs on this CD were originally recorded for an album to be titled New Race which was to be released sometime between 1998 and 2000. But due to problems with their record company at the time, the band never released that album. In spite of this, an album was made and titled Unreleased.
The album also contains original versions of "Blowjob" and "Vamp-o-Drama" which were intended to be on the New Race album. But as that album was never released, the band decided to re-record the songs and put them on the following album, Successful, Bitch & Beautiful.
Track listing
"New Race [v.1]" – 3:11
"Blowjob" (original) – 4:20
"Machine of Pleasure" – 3:43
"Relief [v.2]" – 4:12
"Love Song" – 4:39
"Under My Skin" – 5:23
"Perfect Man" – 3:30
"New Race [v.2]" – 3:33
"Relief [electronic v.1]" – 3:54
"Good and Holy" – 4:48
"Nothing to Say" – 3:25
"Vamp-o-Drama" (original) – 3:49
"Relief [electronic v.2]" – 4:50
"New Race" (video) – 3:38
Personnel
Cram - vocals
Willem - bass, backing vocals, guitar
Kristo K - guitar, keyboards and programming, bass
Marko Atso - drums
External links
Unreleased
No-Big-Silence albums
2003 compilation albums |
23571776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krychnov | Krychnov | Krychnov is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Caputo | Ricardo Caputo | Ricardo Silvio Caputo (1949 – October 1, 1997) was an Argentine American serial killer during the 1970s who was known as "The Lady Killer". Caputo was born in 1949 in Mendoza, Argentina. In 1970, he moved to the United States and settled in New York City. According to his brother Alberto, Caputo was physically and sexually abused as a child.
Though he was not definitively linked to any murders after 1977, he remained a fugitive throughout the 1980s, and finally surrendered to police in 1994.
Incarcerated at Attica State Prison in New York, Caputo had a fatal heart attack in October 1997, at the age of 48.
Victims
Nathalie Brown, 19, Flower Hill, New York (1971) (he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial at the time, then escaped from Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Wards Island)
Judith Becker, 26, Yonkers, New York (1974)
Barbara Ann Taylor, 28, San Francisco (1975)
Laura Gomez, Mexico City (1977)
Suspected victims
Devon Green, 23, Los Angeles (1981) - Caputo became a suspect in Green's death when a former coworker of hers spotted him on a crime show and identified Caputo as having worked at a Los Angeles restaurant where Green was a chef. Already imprisoned at the time this information came to light in 1994, Caputo was neither charged with nor admitted to her murder.
Jacqueline Bernard, 64, New York City (1983) - Caputo was a suspect in this murder but was never charged. A friend of the victim's, Linda Wolfe, published a book called Love Me to Death in 1998 in which she conjected that Caputo was Bernard's killer.
See also
List of serial killers in the United States
References
1949 births
1971 murders in the United States
1997 deaths
20th-century criminals
American escapees
American people who died in prison custody
American serial killers
Argentine emigrants to the United States
Criminals from New York City
Criminals of the San Francisco Bay Area
Date of birth missing
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Male serial killers
People declared mentally unfit for court
People from Mendoza, Argentina
Prisoners who died in New York (state) detention
Serial killers who died in prison custody |
6901583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20New%20Best%20Friend | My New Best Friend | My New Best Friend was a hidden camera comedy game show that aired on Channel 4 from 8 August to 12 September 2003. It was hosted by Marc Wootton.
Format
The idea was a hidden camera show where a member of the public would enter into an agreement to be filmed for a whole weekend with the task of convincing their friends and family that a character being played by Marc Wootton was their new best friend. Their reward was a prize of £10,000. What made the game difficult was Marc's character constantly embarrassing them in front of their family and friends to extreme levels, but they had to agree and go along with everything he said. Marc Wootton's characters were chosen for different episodes to make them as different from the contestant as possible to make it difficult for their friends and family to be convinced.
Once they have made it through the weekend the cameras capture the moment where Marc gives them the money and leaves the scene. The contestant is left to explain to their friends and family that the whole situation was a TV game show to win £10,000.
Reception
In a retrospective review published in The Daily Telegraph in 2020, Tom Fordy declared the series to be "The most excruciating prank show ever made".
DVD release
The series is available as a bonus third disk for the DVD release of High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman, also starring Marc Wootton.
See also
Mein neuer Freund, German adaptation
My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, a similar show
References
External links
2000s British game shows
2003 British television series debuts
2003 British television series endings
Channel 4 comedy
Channel 4 game shows
Hidden camera television series
Television series by Banijay
Television series by Tiger Aspect Productions |
23571779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%99e%C4%8Dho%C5%99 | Křečhoř | Křečhoř is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Kamhajek and Kutlíře are administrative parts of Křečhoř.
Notable people
Gustav Frištenský (1879–1957), strongman and wrestler
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%A1ely | Kšely | Kšely is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libenice | Libenice | Libenice () is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Etymology
The name is derived from the personal name Ljuben, who was probably a local nobleman. The original name of the village was Ljubenice.
Geography
Libenice is located about southeast of Kolín, north of Kutná Hora and east of Prague. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the Central Elbe Table. The Hořanský Stream flows through the municipality.
History
Archaeological finds show that the area was populated by Celts during the Hallstatt and La Tène periods. At the Celtic settlement site between Libenice and Kaňk (a part of Kutná Hora), numerous ceramic finds from the 5th–1st century BC were discovered in 1981. In 1959, an elongated area north of the village was discovered with the grave of a 50-year-old woman buried with plenty of bronze jewelry and a two-metre long stone stele made of yellowish and ocher-colored mica migmatite with tourmaline, which probably indicates a Celtic sanctuary; recent findings in archeology tend to point to a rectangular earthwork. In 1993 roughly ten graves from the Celtic period were found near this site by grave robbers.
The first written mention of Libenice is from 1142 as the possession of the Cistercian Sedlec Abbey. In 1396, the monastery sold the Libenice manor to King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. The local fortress was built in 1401 at the latest. In 1422, King Sigismund pledged the property to Erkinger of Seinsheim. The subsequent pawn owners of the Libenice manor were Hanuš of Rychnov from 1437, and Hynek and Pavel of Zaloňov from 1440 to 1454.
In 1498 King Vladislaus II of Hungary mortgaged Libenice to Bohuš Kostka of Postupice, then the village often changed owners, who were mostly lower aristocrats. From 1540 to 1589, it was owned by the Libenický of Vrchoviště family. In 1593, Emperor Rudolf II acquired Libenice and joined it to the Kolín estate. Apart from 1611 to 1616, Libenice remained part of the Kolín estate until the abolition of the patrimonial administration in 1848. In 1778, the Libenice yard was abolished and parceled out.
In 1801, a public school was opened in Libenice. It was closed in 1965. From 1862, there was also a private Protestant school, but it was closed in 1921 due to insufficient number of students.
After the abolition of patrimonial rule, Libenice, together with Grunta, formed a municipality in the Kolín District. On 1 January 1992, Grunta separated from Libenice and formed a sovereign municipality.
Demographics
Transport
The state road I/38 from Kutná Hora to Kolín runs north of the village.
Sights
The most valuable building is the remnant of a Renaissance fortress. The fortress from the end of the 14th century was rebuilt by Jan Libenický of Vrchoviště in 1574. The fortress burned down in 1643. The three-winged building was then reconstructed and used as an outbuilding.
The Evangelical church was built on the western outskirts in 1826–1827. Near the church is the evangelical cemetery with Libenice Oak. This protected common oak was planted around 1824, is high and has a trunk circumference of .
There is a menhir in the village common that is a replica of the stele found in the archeological site. It was created by local artist at the end of the 20th century.
References
External links
Villages in Kolín District |
23571785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libod%C5%99ice | Libodřice | Libodřice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipec%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Lipec (Kolín District) | Lipec is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Resources%20Conservation%20Board | Energy Resources Conservation Board | The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) was an independent, quasi-judicial agency of the Government of Alberta. It regulated the safe, responsible, and efficient development of Alberta's energy resources: oil, natural gas, oil sands, coal, and pipelines. Led by eight Board members, the ERCB's team of engineers, geologists, technicians, economists, and other professionals served Albertans from thirteen locations across the province.
The ERCB's mission was to ensure that the discovery, development, and delivery of Alberta's energy resources took place in a manner that was fair, responsible and in the public interest.
The ERCB adjudicated and regulated matters related to energy within Alberta to ensure that the development, transportation, and monitoring of the province's energy resources were in the public interest. The Board provided this assurance of the public interest through its activities in the application and hearing process, regulation, monitoring, and surveillance and enforcement.
The information and knowledge responsibility of the Board included the collection, storage, analysis, appraisal, dissemination and stakeholder awareness of information. Open access to information developed awareness, understanding and responsible behavior and allowed the Board and stakeholders to make informed decisions about energy and utility matters. This responsibility would result in the Board discharging its advisory role with respect to matters under the jurisdiction of the Board.
The Government of Alberta owns about 80% of the province's mineral rights, such as oil, natural gas, coal, and the oil sands. In other words, most resources are owned by the people of Alberta through their government. While private companies can develop these resources, the ERCB was authorized by the government to protect the public's interest relating to the discovery, development, and delivery of these resources. Regulation was needed so that non-renewable resources were produced in a safe, responsible, and efficient manner, without waste.
The ERCB also ensured that everyone affected by development had a chance to be heard. When conflicts regarding development remained unresolved between companies and landowners, the ERCB worked to settle the issues in a fair and balanced manner.
In 1996, the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) joined the ERCB. AGS assisted the ERCB by providing data, information, knowledge and advice about the geology of Alberta.
History
Alberta's first energy regulatory body was created in 1938. A succession of agencies led to the new ERCB being established 1 January 2008, as a result of the realignment of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) into the ERCB and the Alberta Utilities Commission. The ERCB also includes the Alberta Geological Survey.
In October 2008, ERCB was named one of Alberta's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal.
Alberta Energy Regulator
Alberta Energy Regulator is a corporation created by the Responsible Energy Development Act passed on 10 December 2012 and proclaimed on 17 June 2013, in the Alberta Legislature, operating at arm's length from the Government of Alberta, under an appointed board of directors headed by Chair, Gerry Protti and CEO Jim Ellis, appointed by Energy Minister Ken Hughes. On 17 June 2013, all regulatory functions previously carried out by the Energy Resources Conservation Board were taken over by the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Alberta Energy Regulator is "100 per cent funded by industry and is authorized to collect funds through an administrative fee levied on oil and gas wells, oil sands mines, and coal mines. The industry-funded model is commonly used by regulatory agencies from various sectors across North America." AER has "an annual budget of more than $165 million, more than "1000 staff working in 13 locations across Alberta." Alberta Energy Regulator "regulates approximately - 181,000 active wells, 27,800 oil facilities and 20,000 gas facilities, and 405,000 kilometres (km) of pipelines." AER also "considers some 36 800 applications for energy development every year."
In December 2012, the Responsible Energy Development Act passed in the Alberta Legislature. Alberta Energy Regulator is mandated under the Act, to direct and oversee "the orderly transition from the Energy Resources Conservation Act to the Responsible Energy Development Act. Under this act, the newly formed Alberta Energy Regulator, will "bring together the regulatory functions from the Energy Resources Conservation Board and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development into a one-stop shop." The Alberta Energy Regulator is now "responsible for all projects from application to reclamation." They will respond to project proponents, landowners and industry regarding energy regulations in Alberta. The Alberta Energy Regulator was phased in during June 2013. Responsible Energy Development Act gave the Alberta Energy Regulator "the authority to administer the Public Lands Act, the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and the Water Act, with regards to energy development." The Alberta Energy Regulator will enforce environmental laws and issue environmental and water permits, responsibilities formerly the mandate of Alberta Environment.
Gerry Protti, appointed by Energy Minister Ken Hughes, on 18 June 2013, as chair of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), that will regulate oil, gas and coal development in Alberta, was a former executive with Encana, the founding president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and spent many years as lobbyist for the Energy Policy Institute of Canada. Jim Ellis, a former deputy minister in environment and energy, was appointed as CEO by the Lieutenant Governor
in Council.
In the past the Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment conducted investigations differently. Alberta Surface Rights Group, the United Landowners of Alberta, First Nations, farmers and ranchers have expressed concerns about the streamlining of regulatory processes that may benefit oil and gas industries at their expense.
According to their brochure the Alberta Energy Regulator "ensures the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of hydrocarbon resources over their entire life cycle. This includes allocating and conserving water resources, managing public lands, and protecting the environment while providing economic benefits for all Albertans."
Scope
The ERCB regulated the safe, responsible, and efficient development of oil, natural gas, oil sands, and coal, and as well as the pipelines to move the resources to market.
Regulation was done through two core functions: adjudication and regulation, and information and knowledge. ERCB approval must have been given at almost every step of an energy project's life.
Governance
To maintain its autonomous structure, the ERCB answered directly to the Executive Council (Cabinet) of Alberta through the Minister of Energy, but it made its formal decisions independently in accordance with the six statutes it administers.
Organization structure
The ERCB was led by a Board of eight people: a Chairman and Board Members. Supporting the Chairman and Board Members was the Executive Committee, and approximately 900 staff who worked in eight main branches:
Applications
This branch, made up of three groups, provided a streamlined approach to processing some 40 000 energy development applications each year. The Facilities Group handled project reviews, audits, and approvals related to new or modified oil and gas facilities, such as wells, pipelines, batteries, and gas plants. The Resource Group dealt with applications and issues related to development and conservation projects for oil, gas, and coal. The Business Operations and Development Group managed the coordination of administrative support, approvals development, planning, objections, and hearings.
Field surveillance and operations
This branch provided technical and operational expertise in the development, application, and enforcement of regulatory requirements for conventional and nonconventional resources. The branch ensured that oil and gas operations are conducted in a safe and responsible manner through incident response, resource conservation, protection of the environment, and industry liability management. Operating from Field Centres across Alberta, field staff inspected construction, operation, and abandonment operations at oil, gas, and oil sands facilities and respond to emergencies and public concerns on a 24-hour basis.
Corporate support
This branch incorporated several groups. Human Resources provides services and programs to ensure that a competent and committed workforce was in place to achieve ERCB goals and objectives. The Communications Group developed strategic communication, consultation strategies and delivers related media, Web site, and document services to keep staff and stakeholders informed about ERCB activities. Administrative Services provided building, library, and printing services.
Finance
This branch provided revenue and expenditure management and administration of the industry funding levy. In addition, staff coordinated the preparation of the ERCB's three-year business plan and performance reporting.
Information and systems services
This branch was responsible for ERCB information systems, support, and technological infrastructure, with a focus on new ways to deliver electronic commerce. Another core area was the collection and dissemination of energy resource information, including oil and gas production. This information was also used to determine provincial royalties, well records, regulatory publications, maps, and various energy databases.
Law
This branch provided a wide range of legal advice and services to the organization, with a focus on procedural fairness and objectivity. Its responsibilities included application and regulatory policy, hearings, proceedings, related internal and external consultations, and the formulation of energy regulations and legislation. The branch administered intervener funding and led a key advisory committee that advises the Board on decisions and policy matters.
Geology, environmental science, and economics
This branch maintained an integrated and current inventory of Alberta's subsurface energy, mineral, and other resources in a geological framework. It provided knowledge, advice, and forecasts about the states of earth-energy resource development in the context of Alberta's environment, economy, and society. The branch also developed and supported regulatory processes and best practices to conserve earth-energy resources, maintains environmental quality, assures public safety, and guides informed risk taking in regulatory and policy decisions.
Oil Sands
The Oil Sands Branch had overall responsibility for how the ERCB regulated oil sands activities in Alberta. The branch comprised the Mineable Oil Sands Group, which looked after oil sands developments that use mining recovery technology as well as bitumen upgrading, and the In Situ Oil Sands Group, which focused on developments using recovery technology involving subsurface or in situ recovery methods. Collaborating with other ERCB branches, the Oil Sands Branch took the lead on processing applications, conducting surveillance and enforcement of approved projects, and carrying out geological assessments as they apply to the oil sands.
In their 2012 report ECRB cautioned that oil sands operators failed to convert their tailings ponds into deposits suitable for reclamation in a timely fashion, as proposed in their project applications. "The volume of fluid tailings, and the area required to hold fluid tailings, continued to grow, and the reclamation of tailings ponds was further delayed." ECRB follows the industry wide directive, Directive 074, the first of its kind, which sets out the "industry-wide requirements for tailings management," requiring "operators to commit resources to research, develop, and implement fluid tailings reduction technologies and to commit to tailings management and progressive reclamation as operational priorities that are integrated with mine planning and bitumen production activities." The Government of Alberta is setting up a Tailings Management Framework to complement and expand Directive 074's policies to "ensure that fluid fine tailings are reclaimed as quickly as possible and that current inventories are reduced."
On 12 June 2013 the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo after many days of heavy rain, declared a state of emergency. The flood conditions lasted from June 10–18, 2013. It was the first of many communities to do so in Alberta during the 2013 floods. Wood Buffalo authorities organised evacuations from some areas and placed others in boil water advisories as local waterways, such as the Hangingstone River, rose to dangerously high levels.
Energy applications
An application was a request by a company for ERCB approval—in the form of a licence, order, permit, or approval—for an energy project. Most energy-related projects require ERCB approval. Each year tens of thousands of applications were reviewed and approved by the ERCB.
The ERCB also played a vital environmental protection role by reviewing flaring permits, oilfield waste disposal facilities, drilling waste practices, and emergency response plans.
ERCB approval for a facility or project was considered to be routine if an application was complete, there were no landowner objections, and the company applying had met all technical, safety, public consultation, and environmental requirements. The turnaround time for a complete and well-prepared routine application could be as short as one day.
Some projects required input from other government departments. The ERCB passed such applications to Alberta Environment, which handles distribution to other departments. This "one-window" approach meant that applicants did not have to go to each government department for individual review and approval. The general rule was that each government department checks that a specific proposal meets its own regulations and standards and then forwards any deficiencies or concerns to the ERCB via Alberta Environment.
Nonroutine applications took more time—weeks, or even months—to process if there were landowner objections, community and environmental concerns, or objections from competing companies. Objections to applications may also have been resolved through facilitation, mediation, or negotiated settlements approved by the Board. However, any unresolved matter or objection related to an application may have proceeded to an ERCB hearing.
Major publications
ERCB. 2011-06. "ST98-2011 Alberta’s Energy Reserves 2010 and Supply/Demand Outlook 2011–2020"
ERCB. 2011-04. "Big Reserves, Big Responsibility: Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands"
ERCB. 2009. "Directive 074: Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands Mining Schemes."
ERCB. 2008. "Directive 073: Requirements for Inspection and Compliance of Oil Sands Mining and Processing Plant Operations in the Oil Sands Mining Area."
Hearings
An ERCB hearing was a formal process that provided an important opportunity for different points of view about an energy project to be aired in a fair and orderly forum. A hearing allowed for an open, public testing of technical, environmental, social, and economic evidence from those involved. The process ensured that all relevant arguments for and against the energy facility project are heard.
ERCB hearings were held when the ERCB received an objection from a person who may have been directly and adversely affected by a proposed project. Applications filed may have created community concern or a need for more information; however, these matters were often settled through an Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) process. When matters were settled through ADR or there were no public concerns and objections, there was no need for a hearing. The Board would also dismiss objections if the person does not appear to be directly or adversely affected.
The ERCB mailed a Notice of Hearing to inform people and organizations affected by an application about the hearing. The Notice of Hearing may have been published in daily and/or weekly newspapers.
Hearing notices were available on the ERCB Web site. Companies involved in large projects usually held an open house to explain their proposed project, answer citizens' questions, and address the community's concerns.
The Notice of Hearing provided interested parties with the following information:
date, time, and location of the hearing,
application number and nature of the application,
a contact for the company that filed the application,
ERCB information,
the due date for filing objections or interventions, and
a statement that all material relating to the proceeding is subject to Alberta's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation.
An ERCB hearing followed a formal process to ensure that everyone had a say:
Opening Remarks: The panel chair explains the purpose of the hearing and introduces the members of the panel and all ERCB staff in the room. Then participants in the hearing register an appearance, coming forward and introducing themselves.
Preliminary Matters: Procedural and legal matters are presented, such as adjournment requests or the scheduling of a specific witness at a particular time.
Applicant (Application): The applicant presents its case and may question its own witnesses. Then interveners, ERCB staff, and the Board panel may cross-examine those witnesses. Once cross-examinations are complete, the applicant may question the witnesses again to clarify any issues that arose.
Interveners: Interveners next present their cases in the same order they registered. After the intervener gives direct evidence, the lawyer for the applicant may cross-examine, followed by the other interveners who wish to cross-examine. ERCB staff and panel members may then cross-examine the intervener. Following cross-examination, the intervener is entitled to clarify any matters that arose.
Rebuttal Evidence by Applicant: Once the above process is complete with all the interveners and their witnesses, the applicant may submit additional evidence to address new points raised by interveners' evidence.
Final Argument or Summation: Participants may provide an explanation of what are the important aspects of the issues involved and what decisions they feel the panel should make. The applicant may respond to interveners' arguments.
Closing of Hearing: The panel chair announces the hearing is completed and that the decision of the panel and the reasons for it will be given at a later date.
Notes
References
External links
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Alberta Geological Survey Website
Alberta government departments and agencies
Organizations based in Edmonton
Energy regulatory authorities
Regulators of Canada |
23571789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%C5%A1any | Lošany | Lošany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Lošánky is an administrative part of Lošany.
Notable people
Josef Mašín (1896–1942), resistance fighter
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malotice | Malotice | Malotice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Lhotky is an administrative part of Malotice.
Gallery
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masojedy | Masojedy | Masojedy is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrzky | Mrzky | Mrzky is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topspin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Topspin (disambiguation) | In sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving.
Topspin or Top Spin may also refer to:
Top Spin (film), a 2014 documentary on Olympic athletes
Top Spin (ride), a thrill ride developed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik
Top Spin (video game), a 2003 tennis video game
Topspin (Transformers), several robot superhero characters in the Transformers robot superhero franchise.
Topspin (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant
Topspin Media, a marketing and e-commerce software platform for artists
Topspin Communications, a computer networking company acquired by Cisco Systems
See also
Spintop
Tailspin (disambiguation)
Topspinner (disambiguation) |
23571801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebovidy%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Nebovidy (Kolín District) | Nebovidy is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Hluboký Důl is an administrative part of Nebovidy.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%9Bm%C4%8Dice%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Němčice (Kolín District) | Němčice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1%20Ves%20I | Nová Ves I | Nová Ves I is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.
The Roman numeral in the name serves to distinguish it from the nearby village of the same name, Nová Ves II within the Rostoklaty municipality.
Administrative parts
The village of Ohrada is an administrative part of Nová Ves I.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oha%C5%99e | Ohaře | Ohaře is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%A1inka | Pašinka | Pašinka is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Notable people
Václav Radimský (1867–1946), painter; died here
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey%20Farmhouse%2C%20Montacute | Abbey Farmhouse, Montacute | Abbey Farmhouse is a detached house in Montacute, Somerset, England, which incorporates the gateway of the medieval Montacute Priory. It was built in the 16th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
After the dissolution of the monasteries the property became a farmhouse, but by 1633 it was 'almost desolate'. By 1782 it was a revitalised farm, remaining part of the Phelips estate until 1918.
There are of walled gardens, which have been laid out since 1963.
A long-distance public footpath, the Monarch's Way runs along the course of a Roman (or earlier) trackway immediately in front of the building. This path leads to Ham Hill Country Park via fields and woodland
See also
List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset
References
Buildings and structures completed in the 16th century
Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset
Grade I listed houses in Somerset
16th-century architecture in England
Farmhouses in England |
23571817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%88ov-P%C5%99edhrad%C3%AD | Pňov-Předhradí | Pňov-Předhradí is a municipality in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The municipality is made up of villages of Pňov, Předhradí and Klipec.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%20Copa%20Libertadores | 1967 Copa Libertadores | The 1967 Copa Libertadores de América was the eighth edition of the Copa Libertadores, and which involved 20 club teams from South American nations.
The tournament was divided into three rounds; the first group stage, the second group stage, and the final. The tournament was won by Racing of Argentina who beat Nacional of Uruguay.
Qualified teams
First round
Nineteen teams were drawn into two groups of six and one group of seven. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away. The top two teams in each group advanced to the Second round. Peñarol, the title holders, had a bye to the next round.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Source:
Semifinals
There was one group of four teams and one of three. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away. The top team in each group advanced to the Final.
Group 1
Racing and Universitario finished level on points, and Racing won a play-off 2-1
Group 2
Finals
Goalscorers
The top goalscorer in the tournament was Norberto Raffo of Racing Club, who scored 14 goals.
References
1
Copa Libertadores seasons |
23571820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polepy%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Polepy (Kolín District) | Polepy is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Gallery
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poln%C3%AD%20Chr%C4%8Dice | Polní Chrčice | Polní Chrčice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATCvet%20code%20QI04 | ATCvet code QI04 |
QI04A Sheep
QI04AA Inactivated viral vaccines
QI04AA01 Louping ill virus
QI04AA02 Bluetongue virus
QI04AB Inactivated bacterial vaccines (including mycoplasma, toxoid and chlamydia)
QI04AB01 Clostridium
QI04AB02 Pasteurella
QI04AB03 Bacteroides
QI04AB04 Escherichia
QI04AB05 Clostridium + pasteurella
QI04AB06 Chlamydia
QI04AB08 Erysipelothrix
QI04AB09 Mycobacterium
QI04AB10 Staphylococcus
QI04AC Inactivated bacterial vaccines and antisera
Empty group
QI04AD Live viral vaccines
QI04AD01 Orf virus/contagious pustular dermatitis
QI04AE Live bacterial vaccines
QI04AE01 Chlamydia
QI04AE02 Listeria
QI04AE03 Mycobacterium
QI04AF Live bacterial and viral vaccines
Empty group
QI04AG Live and inactivated bacterial vaccines
Empty group
QI04AH Live and inactivated viral vaccines
Empty group
QI04AI Live viral and inactivated bacterial vaccines
Empty group
QI04AJ Live and inactivated viral and bacterial vaccines
Empty group
QI04AK Inactivated viral and live bacterial vaccines
Empty group
QI04AL Inactivated viral and inactivated bacterial vaccines
Empty group
QI04AM Antisera, immunoglobulin preparations, and antitoxins
QI04AM01 Pasteurella antiserum
QI04AM02 Clostridium antiserum
QI04AN Live parasitic vaccines
QI04AN01 Toxoplasma
QI04AO Inactivated parasitic vaccines
Empty group
QI04AP Live fungal vaccines
Empty group
QI04AQ Inactivated fungal vaccines
Empty group
QI04AR In vivo diagnostic preparations
Empty group
QI04AS Allergens
Empty group
QI04AT Colostrum preparations and substitutes
Empty group
QI04AU Other live vaccines
Empty group
QI04AV Other inactivated vaccines
Empty group
QI04AX Other immunologicals
Empty group
QI04X Ovidae, others
Empty group
Notes
References
I04 |
6901589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Spanish%20motorcycle%20Grand%20Prix | 2006 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix | The 2006 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the first race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 March 2006 at the Jerez circuit.
MotoGP classification
250 cc classification
125 cc classification
Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.
Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
Spain
Motorcycle Grand Prix |
23571827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poln%C3%AD%20Vod%C4%9Brady | Polní Voděrady | Polní Voděrady is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
It is located about southwest of Kolín and east of Prague.
History
The first written mention of Polní Voděrady is from 1088, when it was owned by the Vyšehrad Chapter.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C5%99%C3%AD%C4%8Dany | Poříčany | Poříčany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,500 inhabitants.
In popular culture
Some scenes of the movie Hostel (2005) were filmed in the municipality.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shack%20%28Young%20novel%29 | The Shack (Young novel) | The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P. Young that was published in 2007.
The novel was self-published but became a USA Today bestseller, having sold 1 million copies as of June 8, 2008. It was the No. 1 paperback trade fiction seller on The New York Times Best Seller list from June 2008 to early 2010, in a publishing partnership with Hachette Book Group USA's FaithWords imprint (Hodder & Stoughton in the UK). In 2009 it was awarded the "Diamond Award" for sales of over 10 million copies by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.
The title of the book is a metaphor for "the house you build out of your own pain", as Young explained in a telephone interview. He also told radio host talk show Drew Marshall that The Shack "is a metaphor for the places you get stuck, you get hurt, you get damaged ... where shame or hurt is centered."
Plot
The novel is set in the American Northwest. The main character is Mackenzie Allen Phillips, a father of five called "Mack" by his family and friends. Four years prior to the main events of the story, Mack takes three of his children on a camping trip to Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon, stopping at Multnomah Falls on the way. Two of his children are playing in a canoe when it flips and almost drowns Mack's son. Mack is able to save his son by rushing into the water and freeing him from the canoe's webbing but unintentionally leaves his youngest daughter Missy alone at their campsite. After Mack returns, he sees that Missy is missing. The police are called, and the family discovers that Missy has been abducted and murdered by a serial killer known as the "Little Ladykiller". The police find an abandoned shack in the woods where Missy was taken: Her bloodied clothing is found, but her body is not located. Mack's life sinks into what he calls, "The Great Sadness".
As the novel begins, Mack receives a note in his mailbox from "Papa", saying that he would like to meet with Mack that coming weekend at the shack. Mack is puzzled by the note—he has had no relationship with his abusive father since he left home at age 13. He suspects that the note may be from God, whom his wife Nan lovingly refers to as "Papa".
Mack's family leaves to visit relatives and he goes alone to the shack, unsure of what he will see there. He arrives and initially finds nothing, but as he is leaving, the shack and its surroundings are supernaturally transformed into a lush and inviting scene. He enters the shack and encounters manifestations of the three persons of the Trinity. God the Father takes the form of an African American woman who calls herself Elousia and Papa; Jesus is a Middle Eastern carpenter; and the Holy Spirit physically manifests as an Asian woman named Sarayu.
The bulk of the book narrates Mack's conversations with Papa, Jesus, and Sarayu as he comes to terms with Missy's death and his relationship with the three of them. Mack also has various experiences with each of them. Mack walks across a lake with Jesus, sees an image of his (earthly) father in Heaven with Sarayu, and has a conversation with Sophia, the personification of God's wisdom. At the end of his visit, Mack goes on a hike with Papa, now appearing as an older Native American male, who shows him where Missy's body was left in a cave.
After spending the weekend at the shack, Mack leaves and is so preoccupied with his joyous thoughts that he is nearly killed in an automobile accident. During recovery he realizes that he did not in fact spend the weekend at the shack, but that his accident occurred on the same day that he arrived at the shack. He also leads the police to the cave that Papa revealed, and they find Missy's body still lying there. With the help of forensic evidence discovered at the scene, the Little Ladykiller is arrested and put on trial.
Publication
Young originally wrote The Shack as a Christmas gift for his six children with no apparent intention of publishing it. After letting several friends read the book he was urged to publish it for the general public. In 2006, Young worked with Wayne Jacobsen, Brad Cummings (both former pastors from Los Angeles) and Bobby Downes (filmmaker) to bring the book to publication after a period of sixteen months and four rewrites. They had no success with either religious or secular publishers, so they formed Windblown Media for the purpose of publishing the book. The Shack achieved its No. 1 best selling success via word-of-mouth and with the help of a USD$300.00 website; it is often reported that nothing else had been spent on marketing up to September 2007. Additional startup funds were supplied by Brad Cummings, president of Windblown Media, who spent the maximum credit limit on 12 personal credit cards in order to publish the book.
Reception
The Shack went largely unnoticed for over a year after its initial publication, but suddenly became a very popular seller in mid-2008, when it debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times paperback fiction best seller list on June 8. Its success was the result of a "word-of-mouth, church-to-church, blog-to-blog campaign" by Young, Jacobsen and Cummings in churches and Christian-themed radio, websites, and blogs.
The Shack had over 10 million copies in print, and had been at No. 1 on The New York Times best seller list for 70 weeks. The Shack was also released in hardcover, and translated into Spanish as . In June 2009 a German translation with the title (The Hut – a Weekend with God) was released. It was also translated into Croatian as and became very popular in Croatia and also in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book was also translated into Polish as and published in 2009. There were re-editions in 2011 and 2017 due to its popularity.
However, former Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll criticized The Shack, saying that "it misrepresents God" and called William P. Young "a heretic". Evangelical author Chuck Colson wrote a review, called "Stay Out of The Shack", in which he criticizes the attribution of "silly lines" to characters representing the three Persons of the Trinity, and the author's "low view of scripture". R. Albert Mohler Jr. called The Shack "deeply troubling" on his radio show, saying that it "includes undiluted heresy". Apologists author Norman Geisler and William C. Roach published a critique in 2012 detailing their 14 points of theological disagreement with the book (including "unorthodox", "false", "classic heresy", "non-rational", "psychologically helpful ... doctrinally harmful", and "very dangerous").
Pastor Sean Cole of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sterling, Colorado, offered yet another critique appearing in Pulpit and Pen. He provides six major arguments against the content of the book and Young's portrayal of the Trinity, and offers them as major problems.
Theologian Randal Rauser has written a generally sympathetic guide to The Shack in his companion volume Finding God in the Shack (Paternoster, 2009). In the book Rauser responds to many of the objections raised by critics such as Colson and Mohler. Brad Robison, a psychiatrist and family therapist who used The Shack in his practice, wrote The Shack Study Guide (Windblown Media, 2016) to assist his patients on their healing journey. It is co-authored by William P. Young. Wayne Jacobsen, one of Young's early collaborators, wrote a detailed response to several common points of criticism. His column "Is The Shack Heresy?" was published online by Windblown Media.
Legal dispute
In July 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that The Shack had "spawned a tangle of lawsuits over royalties and even the book's authorship". Young said that he was owed $8 million in royalties, Jacobsen and Cummings filed a suit against Young, Young asked the court to dismiss or stay the claims, and Jacobsen and Cummings responded. Hachette, the commercial publisher involved, asked the court to determine to whom it should pay royalties from the book. On January 10, 2011, the court declared that it had been advised that the case between Young et al. and Jacobsen et al. "has been settled or is in the process of being settled" and the case was dismissed.
Film adaptation
A film adaptation of The Shack, directed by Stuart Hazeldine and starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, and Tim McGraw, was released on March 3, 2017, to negative critical reviews. Audience response was more positive.
References in other works
The Shack was referred to by Stephen King in his 2010 title, Full Dark, No Stars, which is a compilation of four novellas. In the final novella, A Good Marriage, the protagonist recalls that her husband recommended she read The Shack and he said the novel was "a life-changer".
It is also cited in the introduction to Richard Rohr and Mike Morrell's The Divine Dance for encouraging people thinking about the Trinity again.
References
External links
Interview with William P. Young by broadcaster Sheridan Voysey
2007 American novels
2007 Canadian novels
Self-published books
American Christian novels
American novels adapted into films
Novels set in Oregon
Canadian novels adapted into films
Fiction about God
2007 debut novels
FaithWords books |
23571831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nip | Nip | Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent and origin. The word Nip is an abbreviation from Nippon (日本), the Japanese name for Japan.
History
The earliest recorded occurrence of the slur seems to be in the Time magazine of 5 January 1942 where "three Nip pilots" was mentioned. The American, British, and Australian entry of the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II heightened the use of racial slurs against the Japanese, such as Jap and Nip. The word Nip became a frequently-used slang word amongst the British Armed Forces. The 1942 Royal Air Force journal made numerous references to the Japanese as Nips, even making puns such as "there's a nip in the air" This phrase was later re-used for Hirohito's visit to the UK in 1971 by the satirical magazine Private Eye.
As part of American wartime propaganda, caricatures and slurs (including Nip) against the Japanese diffused into entertainment, such as exemplified by the Warner Bros. cartoon Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944). In General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War (1949), George Kenney made racial statements about the Japanese, remarking for example that "Nips are just vermin to be exterminated".
In a manner to evoke further anti-Japanese agitation, a Seattle Star editorial titled "It's Time to do Some Thinking On Nips' Return" from December 14, 1944, discussed the citizenship rights of Japanese-Americans and framed their return to American society as a problem.
On 16 November 2018, the abbreviation for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems was changed from NIPS to NeurIPS in large part due to its perceived connotation with the slur.
See also
Jap
References
Anti-Japanese sentiment
Asian-American issues
Anti–East Asian slurs
Japan–United Kingdom relations
Japan–United States relations
English words |
23571835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H6Cl2O3 | C8H6Cl2O3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H6Cl2O3}}
The molecular formula C8H6Cl2O3 (molar mass: 221.03 g/mol) may refer to:
Dicamba, an herbicide
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), an herbicide
Molecular formulas |
23571838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99ehvozd%C3%AD | Přehvozdí | Přehvozdí is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99istoupim | Přistoupim | Přistoupim is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
History
The first written mention of Přistoupim is in a document that originated between 1140 and 1148.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Marr%20guest%20musician%20recordings | Johnny Marr guest musician recordings | Musician Johnny Marr, formerly with The Smiths, The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The Cribs and now playing solo, has appeared as a guest musician on the recordings of numerous other musicians. Sometimes he has appeared as a songwriter only and not a guest musician with some of the musicians listed below.
Everything But The Girl
Everything but the Girl (1984)
Billy Bragg
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (1986)
Don't Try This at Home (1991)
Bloke on Bloke (1997)
Reaching to the Converted (1999)
Bryan Ferry
Bête Noire (1987)
Avonmore (2014)
Talking Heads
Naked (1988)
Sandie Shaw
Hello Angel (1988)
Kirsty MacColl
Kite (1989)
Electric Landlady (1991)
Titanic Days (1993)
The Pretenders
Packed! (1990)
Pet Shop Boys
Behaviour (1990)
Bilingual (1996)
Release (2002)
Yes (2009)
Banderas
Ripe (1991)
Moodswings
Moodfood (1992)
Horizontal (2002)
Stex
Spiritual Dance (1992)
K-Klass
Universal (1993)
Electrafixion
Burned (1995)
M People
Fresco (1997)
Marion
The Program (1998)
Beck
Midnite Vultures (1999)
Tom Jones
Reload (1999)
The Cult
Rare Cult (2000)
Bert Jansch
Crimson Moon (2000)
On The Edge Of A Dream (2017)
At The BBC (2022)
Twenty Four Hours
This Is Urbanite.Co.Uk (2001)
Oasis
Heathen Chemistry (2002)
Beth Orton
Daybreaker (2002)
The Charlatans
Live It Like You Love It (2002)
Different Days (2017)
Pearl Jam
Feb 23 03#10 Perth (2003)
Quando Quango
Pigs + Battleships (2003)
Lisa Germano
Lullaby for Liquid Pig (2003)
In the Maybe World (2006)
Tweaker
2 a.m. Wakeup Call (2004)
Haven
All for a Reason (2004)
Jane Birkin
Fictions (2006)
Transit Kings
Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God (2006)
Crowded House
Time On Earth (2007)
Girls Aloud
Out of Control (2008)
John Frusciante
The Empyrean (2009)
Robyn Hitchcock
Propellor Time (2010)
Shufflemania (2022)
Edwyn Collins
Losing Sleep (2010)
Hans Zimmer
Inception: Music from the Motion Picture (2010)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014)
Freeheld Soundtrack (2015)
Live In Prague (2017)
No Time to Die: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2021)
Pajama Club
Pajama Club (2011)
Malka Spigel
Every Day Is Like the First Day (2012)
Andrew Loog Oldham
Rolling Stones Songbook Vol. 2 (2013)
Tim Wheeler
Lost Domain (2014)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Chasing Yesterday (2015)
Who Built the Moon? (2017)
Chris Spedding
Joyland (2015)
Blondie
Pollinator (2017)
A Certain Ratio
ACR:BOX (2019)
Drake
Care Package (2019)
The Avalanches
We Will Always Love You (2020)
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg (2022)
Rock music discographies
Discographies of British artists |
6901590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Edward%20Snyder | J. Edward Snyder | Rear Adm. J. Edward Snyder, USN (Ret.) (October 23, 1924 – November 4, 2007) was notable as the captain of the battleship USS New Jersey during that ship's deployment to the Vietnam War in 1968. Considered by those serving on the New Jersey to be a "sailor's captain," Captain Snyder was able to motivate his men through his more relaxed shipboard policies.
Snyder was also known for his wry sense of humor. While deployed off Vietnam, the USS New Jersey encountered a small US Navy ship. Fearing that the unidentified vessel was a North Vietnamese gunboat, the commanding officer of the smaller ship flashed a message to the New Jersey using its signal lamp, ordering the battleship to identify itself or be fired upon. In response, Snyder ordered that the largest signal lamp aboard be used to identify the ship and relay the message, replete with pun, "OPEN FIRE WHEN READY. FEAR GOD. DREADNOUGHT."
Snyder also sought to cultivate a wider sense of mission. He brought ground troops aboard the New Jersey for weekend liberty, earning the ship the nickname "The New Jersey Hilton." Told to stop the "unauthorized public relations stunt" by DoD, Snyder sternly responded, noting that he had notified the Pentagon, and that it was no stunt. Instead, it was meant to give the ground troops a respite from the war, and remind his men why they were providing gunfire support. He finished his message by disparaging the Pentagon as "Disneyland East," and stating that he had no idea what was going on there, but couldn't care less.
Captain Snyder died on Sunday, November 4, 2007, from pancreatic cancer.
Awards and decorations
References
United States Navy officers
1924 births
2007 deaths
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Order (Vietnam) |
23571842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99i%C5%A1imasy | Přišimasy | Přišimasy is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Horka and Skřivany are administrative parts of Přišimasy.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17328086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conimicut%20Light | Conimicut Light | Conimicut Light, built in 1883, is a historic sparkplug lighthouse in Warwick, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The lighthouse is said to be in "relatively good condition."
The lighthouse was built in 1883 using pneumatic caisson engineering. The light replaced an earlier 1868 light. Conimicut Lighthouse was automated in the 1960s and was one of the last acetylene gas powered lights to switch to electricity. The City of Warwick acquired the light in 2004. Initially the city planned to restore the lighthouse, but a federal grant for this purpose failed to come through. Subsequently, the city is considering various plans, including leasing it to a tourism company to be converted into a bed-and-breakfast inn.
This location marks the mouth of the Providence River as it empties into Narragansett Bay.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island
Notes
References and links
Lighthouse pics and info
America's Atlantic Coast Lighthouses, Kenneth Kochel, 1996
Northeast Lights: Lighthouses and Lightships, Rhode Island to Cape May, New Jersey, Robert Bachand, 1989.
Gallery
Lighthouses completed in 1883
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Warwick, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Rhode Island
Transportation buildings and structures in Kent County, Rhode Island |
23571845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radim%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Radim (Kolín District) | Radim is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2HCl2F3 | C2HCl2F3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C2HCl2F3}}
The molecular formula C2HCl2F3 (molar mass: 152.93 g/mol, exact mass: 151.9407 u) may refer to:
2,2-Dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane
1,2-Dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane |
17328098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%20a%20Girl%20in%20It | Put a Girl in It | "Put a Girl in It" is a song co-written by singer Rhett Akins along with Dallas Davidson and Ben Hayslip, who are collectively known as The Peach Pickers, and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in May 2008 as the third single from their album Cowboy Town. It reached number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Content
The song is an up-tempo accompanied by electric guitar. Its lyrics tell of various situations that, according to the narrator, are "nothing" until "you put a girl in it".
Critical reception
Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a B rating. He said that it is "a pandering attempt to wrangle as much female adulation as possible from the predominantly female country music listening demographic." But he also added that "the song is ultimately fun and Ronnie Dunn’s vocal performance is admirably strong."
Chart performance
"Put a Girl in It" debuted at number 48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of May 10, 2008. Twenty-five of the radio stations monitored by Billboard added this song, boosting it to number 37 the next week, and it became the most added song of that week.
Year-end charts
References
2008 singles
Brooks & Dunn songs
Songs written by The Peach Pickers
Song recordings produced by Tony Brown (record producer)
Arista Nashville singles
Music videos directed by Wes Edwards
2007 songs |
23571850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom%20%28disambiguation%29 | Shalom (disambiguation) | Shalom is the Hebrew word for hello, goodbye, and peace, and is a Hebrew given name.
Shalom, Sholom, or Sholem may also refer to:
Media
Shalom (film), a 1973 film by director Yaky Yosha
Shalom (TV channel), an Indian religious channel
Shalom TV, an American Jewish television channel
Şalom, a Jewish weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey
Shalom, the season premiere of NCIS (season 4)
Shabbat Shalom (NCIS), a season 10 episode of NCIS
Shalom (album), an album by The Rabbis' Sons
Shalom (band), a 1990s Czech synth-pop band
Shalom in the Home, an American reality tv show on TLC in 2006-07
People
As a surname
Silvan Shalom (born 1958), Israeli politician
Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes (born 1958), Israeli heiress and talk-show host, wife of Silvan Shalom
Stephen Shalom, American professor
As a given name
Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Yiddish author
Sholem Asch (1880–1957), Yiddish author
Shalom Auslander (born 1970), American author
Shalom Carmy (born 1948), American rabbi and scholar
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and posek
Shalom Hanoch (born 1946), Israeli rock musician
Shalom Harlow (born 1973), Canadian model and actress
Shalom Luani (born 1994), American football player
Sholom Schwadron (1912–1997), Israeli rabbi known as the "Maggid of Jerusalem"
Sholom Mordechai Schwadron (1835–1911), Ukrainian rabbi and posek known as the Maharsham
Sholom Schwartzbard (1886–1938), Bessarabian poet, assassin of Symon Petliura
Shalom Shachna (died 1558), rabbi and Talmudist
Shalom Charly "Papi" Turgeman (born 1970), Israeli basketball player
Organizations
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
Brit Shalom (political organization)
Gush Shalom
Hevel Shalom
Neve Shalom
Shalom Sesame
Neve Shalom Synagogue in İstanbul, Turkey
Shalom Park in Charlotte, North Carolina and Denver, Colorado
Shalom Meir Tower in Tel Aviv
Shalom International School in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California
Shalom, a shipping company based in Peru
Space
SHALOM (satellite), a join satellite mission between the Israeli Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency
Other uses
SS Shalom, an ocean liner operated by Zim Lines, Israel 1964–1967
See also
Beth Shalom (disambiguation)
Jewish greetings
Salaam (disambiguation)
Scholem
Shalom aleichem (disambiguation)
Salome (disambiguation)
Salam (disambiguation)
Salma (disambiguation) |
6901601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna%20Beach%20Fire%20Department | Laguna Beach Fire Department | The Laguna Beach Fire Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Laguna Beach, California.
Stations & Apparatus
References
Fire departments in California
Laguna Beach, California
Emergency services in Orange County, California |
23571851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovesnice%20I | Radovesnice I | Radovesnice I is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
The Roman numeral in the name serves to distinguish it from the nearby municipality of the same name, Radovesnice II.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
6901630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony%20Kill%20Falls | Stony Kill Falls | Stony Kill Falls is the site of one of many access points to the Delaware Aqueduct. It is located in the town of Wawarsing, on the northwestern edge of the Minnewaska Preserve on land acquired in 2001 by the State of New York, The Open Space Institute and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference from Napanoch Sand and Gravel Company that once owned the land. Long a little known back entrance into the Minnewaska Preserve, utilized by curiosity seekers and more experienced mountaineers, as a more convenient access point to Stony Kill Falls. The area only provides access to Stony Kill Falls, no other trails are allowed to be accessed from this area. Parking is limited, no parking is permitted on town roads please respect the neighbors and stay off private property.
Hiking guide
From the parking area walk East along a gravel woods road into an open clearing. On the left and right views begin to open. Steep cliffs are visible on the left and right as you continue further along the path. The higher section of the clearing features the fenced in shaft, a deep water valve, running hundreds of feet below the earth to the Delaware Aqueduct, one of the major sources of water for New York City. On the right is an aging helipad, possible utilized as a quick access point for repairs to the Aqueduct. Continuing along the woods road the path dips down into an expansive gravel pit. Care is needed in this area as the shale is loose and sure footing is not guaranteed. Cast iron bars and solid chunks of limestone, shale, and granite litter the area. There are steep embankments all along the left side of the gravel pit. Closer inspection of the gaps in the embankment find a view nearly 60 feet down to the bed of the Stony Kill Creek. Use caution as the embankment becomes very thin and should not be walked upon, especially in wet weather as it is slowly falling into the Stony Kill and the gravel pit.
Technical information
Stony Kill Falls is 87 feet high and one of the highest in the Minnewaska Preserve. Leaving the base of the falls and returning to the main trail the path ascends the side of the valley slowly gaining elevation. As it nears the top there is a 30-foot cascade near the side of the trail. Linking up with the Stony Kill Carriage Way at 1550 feet, the trail angles due west to the top of Stony Kill Falls. Views are expansive from the top of the falls, looking East, one can view the Stony Creek and Rondout Valleys. On a clear day there are views as far as Sullivan County.
Other information to consider:
Use caution when exploring this area. Ice on the falls, especially the top is common throughout the fall, winter, and into late spring.
There are no facilities here including bathrooms and trash service. Please carry out what you carry in, practice leave no trace ethics, and bring out any trash that you find.
Be very careful parking and turning around on this road as it is very narrow with a steep decline on the left side.
Waterfalls of New York (state)
Landforms of Ulster County, New York
Plunge waterfalls |
17328100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachie%20Munro | Lachie Munro | Lachlan Hamish Munro (born 27 November 1986) is a New Zealand professional rugby union player. Munro is a versatile player and he is capable of covering every position in the backline.
Munro attended Auckland Grammar School. In 2007 Munro played for the New Zealand 7s side and also the New Zealand under 21s side. He also played for Auckland in the National Provincial Championship. 2008, Munro moved north and notably played for the Northland union.
Munro was the leading points scorer for the 2010 ITM Cup with 172 points from 6 tries, 32 conversions and 26 penalties in 13 matches.
Munro appeared for the Blues in the 2009 and 2010 Super 14, travelling directly to many games despite not being selected in the initial Blues squads. Munro debuted against the Sharks in 2009. Munro was selected for the Blues full squad for the first time for 2011, and remained a squad member in 2012.
He then left New Zealand to join French Top 14 team CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde for the 2012–13 season where he played a few games. He decided to move to Pro D2 team LOU Rugby for the 2013–2014 season, where he was the team's main goal kicker.
For the 2015–2016 season, Munro joined French Rugby Pro D2 team Béziers. He joined Provence Rugby in 2018.
External links
Blues Profile
Auckland Rugby Union – Lachie Munro
Itsrugby profile
1986 births
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
Living people
New Zealand rugby union players
Rugby union players from Auckland
Auckland rugby union players
Blues (Super Rugby) players
Northland rugby union players
Lyon OU players
Union Bordeaux Bègles players
AS Béziers Hérault players
Rugby union fullbacks
New Zealand expatriate rugby union players
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate rugby union players in France |
23571852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20Roosevelt | To Roosevelt | "A Roosevelt" (To Roosevelt) is a poem by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. The poem was written by Darío in January 1904 in Málaga, Spain. It is a reaction to the involvement of the United States during the Separation of Panama from Colombia.
References
External links
Nicaraguan literature
Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt
1904 poems |
17328104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol | Dabhol | Dabhol (Marathi pronunciation: [d̪aːbʱoɭ]), also known as Dabul, is a small seaport town in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in India. It is located on the northern and southern sides of the Vashishthi river that later flows by Chiplun town. The Dabhol LNG power plant that had been set up by Enron is located on the southern side of Dabhol, between the villages of Veldur and Ranavi.
History
The Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin/Athanasius Nikitin, who visited India (1468-1474) found Dabhol as a large town and extensive seaport. The horses from Mysore, Arabia, Khorasan and Nighostan were brought here for trade. This was the place which had links with all major ports from India to Ethiopia.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, Dabul was an opulent Muslim trade centre, first under the Bahmani, later under the Badar sultans of Bijapur. As the port with most convenient access to the Bahmani sultanate's capital at Bidar, Dabul's fortunes ascended quickly with that dynasty. At its height, it was arguably the most important port between Chaul and Goa.
It was exactly the prominence of Dabul as a Muslim trade centre and port that led it to be bombarded, sacked and razed by a Portuguese expeditionary force (Battle of Dabul) under Francisco de Almeida in December, 1508, in a prelude to the famous Battle of Diu. Although the city's fort was not taken, it was only the first of several times, in the course of the next few decades, that the Portuguese tried to destroy Dabul. By the time of the last recorded attack, in 1571, the Governor of Dabhul was Khwaja Ali Shirazi. The battle led to killing 150 men at Dabhol.
The break-up of the Bahmani state into several smaller Deccan sultanates had accelerated Dabul's decline. As new capitals for these statelets were erected, Dabul's geographic position was no longer as fortuitous as it had been before, and alternative, more convenient ports were cultivated. In the course of the 16th century, a lot of commerce was redirected away from Dabul and towards the rising new port of Rajapur further south.
The Dabhol port boasts of centuries old history. Dabhol was of great importance in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It used to be the principal port of South Konkan region, carrying on trade with ports in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. During 13th to 15th centuries this port was ruled by the Bahamani dynasty and was known as Mustafabad. Later on it was Hamjabad and then it was Dabhol.
Dabul was conquered by Shivaji around 1660 and annexed to the new Maratha kingdom.
Notes
Sources
Dames, M.L. (1918) "Introduction" in An Account Of The Countries Bordering On The Indian Ocean And Their Inhabitants, Vol. 1 (Engl. transl. of Livro de Duarte de Barbosa), 2005 reprint, New Delhi: Asian Education Services.
Nairne, A.K. (1873), "Musalman Remains in the South Konkan", The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 2, p. 278-83 article
External links
Read about Dabhol in 'ऐतिहासिक दाभोळ: वर्तमान व भविष्य (Historic Dabhol: Present and Future)' book by Anna Shirgaonkar - a Konkani historian.
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Career
Born in Banbury, Singleton played for Banbury United, Coventry City, Bradford City, West Bromwich Albion, Northampton Town, Walsall, Worcester City and Aylesbury United.
He also played for England Youth.
References
1963 births
Living people
English footballers
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Coventry City F.C. players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
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History
Ballard himself was inspired by the then-new phenomenon of "media politicians" and in his preface to the 1990 edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, explained:
A bookseller who sold the pamphlet was charged with obscenity. In 1970, the pamphlet was added as an appendix to Doubleday's first American edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, which was destroyed prior to release.
At the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, a copy furnished with the seal of the Republican Party was distributed by ex-Situationists to the convention delegates. According to Ballard, it was accepted for what it resembled: a psychological position paper on the candidate's subliminal appeal, commissioned by a think tank.
Quotes
Patients were provided with assembly kit photographs of sexual partners during intercourse. In each case Reagan's face was super imposed upon the original partner. Vaginal intercourse with "Reagan" proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2% of subjects.
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See also
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Ronald Reagan in music
References
1968 short stories
Pamphlets
Political books
Psychology books
Books about Ronald Reagan
Short stories by J. G. Ballard
Cultural depictions of Ronald Reagan
Sexual attraction
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The Roman numeral in the name serves to distinguish it from the nearby municipality of the same name, Radovesnice I.
Administrative parts
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References
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Fatwas
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In March 2008, al-Barrak issued a fatwa that two writers for the newspaper Al Riyadh, Abdullah bin Bejad al-Otaibi and Yousef Aba al-Khail, should be tried for apostasy for their "heretical articles" regarding the categorization of "unbelievers" and put to death if they did not repent.
References
1930s births
Living people
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Fatwas
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The name
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History
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External links
SMJK San Min School Portal
Schools in Perak
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Administrative parts
Villages of Sedlov and Těšínky are administrative parts of Ratboř.
Notable people
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Music
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Brainwashed (George Harrison album), 2002, or the title song
Brainwashed (While She Sleeps album), 2015, or the title song
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"Brainwash", a song by Rick Danko from his 1977 eponymous debut album, Rick Danko
"Brainwashed", a song by Iced Earth from their 1995 album Burnt Offerings
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Administrative parts
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References
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