Ulrike Ottinger (born 6 June 1942) is a German filmmaker and photographer.

Early life
In 1959 Ulrike Ottinger began studying at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter. Her mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ulrich Ottinger, was a painter.

From 1962 to 1968, Ottinger worked as a freelance artist in Paris and studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender among other studies. They participated in several exhibitions.

Film career
The films of Ottinger have been said to "reject or parody the conventions of art cinema and search for new ways to construct visual pleasure, creating various spectator positions usually neglected or marginalized by cinematic address". Her films include strong elements of stylization and fantasy, as well as ethnographic explorations.

In 1966 she wrote her first screenplay, entitled Die Mongolische Doppelschublade.

Ottinger returned to West Germany in 1969 and, in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Konstanz, founded the film club "Visuell", which she directed until 1972. She also headed a gallery and the associated "galeriepress”, where they edited works by contemporary artists.

During this time she met Tabea Blumenschein and , both of whom have been cast as lead actresses in her films since 1972. Ottinger developed her own bizarre surrealist film-style, which among other things, was marked by widespread abandonment of a linear plot and instead linger long in individual scenes, which in turn make überstarke and extravagant costumes of the imagination mostly female cast artfully to own collages were designed.

She directed and did stage design for Elfriede Jelinek's Clara S. at the Württembergisches Staatstheater in Stuttgart in 1983, and did the same for Jelinek's Begierde und Fahrerlaubnis in Graz in 1986. In 1989, her film Joan of Arc of Mongolia, with Delphine Seyrig who acted in many of her films, was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2003, Ottinger was selected for a solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Titled South East Passage, the work "is in three chapters - a travelogue of the artist's journey from southeast Poland to the Bulgarian shores of the Black Sea and a portrait of two coastal cities, Odessa and Istanbul". South East Passage was the first of a two-part series of exhibits exploring Eastern European video work.

On the occasion of the 2009 New York premiere of The Korean Wedding Chest, with Ottinger to be in attendance, The New York Times characterized the director as, "[d]uring the 1980s heyday of the New German Cinema, having constituted a one-woman avant-garde opposition to the sulky male melodramas of Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog, her films being long, discursive and wildly inventive."

Ottinger's films, with their preference for the Far Eastern formal language is visible, turned in the following decades, some unconventional documentaries about life in various Asian regions. Ottinger was to direct the horror-drama film Die Blutgräfin, based on the life of Elisabeth Bathory; however, the project has not been produced as of January 2015.

Other activities
Ottinger has also worked as a photographer, lithographer and painter. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Personal life
Ottinger has lived in Berlin since 1973. She has always been openly lesbian.

Filmography
1972: Laokoon & Söhne (Laocoön & Sons)
1973: Berlin-Fieber (Documentary film about the Happening Berlin-Fieber by Wolf Vostell)
1975:   (Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen)
1976: VOAEX (Documentary film about the making of Wolf Vostell sculpture VOAEX in Spain)
1978: Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin (Madame X: An Absolute Ruler)
1979: Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin)
1981: Freak Orlando
1984:  (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse)
1986: China. Die Künste – der Alltag (China. The Arts – the People)
1986: Sieben Frauen – Sieben Todsünden (Seven Women, Seven Sins)
1989: Joan of Arc of Mongolia
1990: Countdown
1992: Taiga
1997: Exil Shanghai (Exile Shanghai)
2002: Südostpassage  (Southeast Passage)
2004: Zwölf Stühle  (Twelve Chairs)
2007: Prater
2009: Still Moving (short)
2009: The Korean Wedding Chest
2011: Under Snow
2016: Chamisso's Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters
2020: Paris Calligrammes

Further reading

Primary literature
 Ulrike Ottinger. 'Ulrike Ottinger'. MNCARS, 2013.
 Ulrike Ottinger. 'Floating Food'. Walther König, 2011.
 Ulrike Ottinger. 'Image Archive'. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2006.

Secondary literature

 Laurence A. Rickels. 'Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema'. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
 Tanja Nusser. 'Von und zu anderen Ufern. Ulrike Ottingers filmische Reiseerzählungen'. Köln: Böhlau, 2002.

See also
 List of female film and television directors
 List of lesbian filmmakers
 List of LGBT-related films directed by women

References

External links
Official site
Ulrike Ottinger. Faculty profile at European Graduate School (Biography, filmography, and videos)

 Ulrike Ottinger - Nomad from the Lake Die Nomaden Vom See at Women Make Movies

1942 births
Living people
German documentary filmmakers
German feminists
Film people from Baden-Württemberg
Lesbian photographers
German LGBT film directors
Women documentary filmmakers
German lesbian artists
German LGBT photographers
People from Konstanz
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
Academic staff of European Graduate School
Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany


Events from the year 1542 in art.

Events
Painter Paul Lautensack is expelled from Nuremberg as a result of his Reformist fanaticism.

Works

Paintings

 Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng
 Titian
Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi
Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
 Bronzini – Crossing of the Red Sea
 Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist

Births
date unknown - Joris Hoefnagel. Flemish painter and engraver (died 1601)
probable
Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (died 1599)
Ambroise Dubois, Flemish painter of the second School of Fontainebleau (died 1614)
Felice Riccio, Italian painter (died 1605)
Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1617)
Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (died 1609)

Deaths
date unknown
Dosso Dossi, Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (born 1490)
Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist (born 1481)
Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
probable
Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italian ceramicist (born 1487)
Vasco Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born 1475)

Years of the 16th century in art


Dick Kimball (born c. 1935) is an American former diving champion and diving coach at the University of Michigan. He was the NCAA springboard champion in 1957 and the Professional World Diving champion in 1963. He coached the University of Michigan diving team from 1958 to 2002 and also coached the U.S. Olympic diving teams in 1964, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. He has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.

Competitive diving and trampolining
A native of Rochester, Minnesota, he was the Minnesota high school diving champion four straight years from 1952 to 1956. In 1956, Kimball helped lead the Rochester Rockets to the Minnesota AAU outdoor swimming championship. After graduating from high school, Kimball spent one year at the University of Oklahoma before transferring to Michigan. Kimball was a member of three NCAA champion swimming and diving teams at Michigan from 1957 to 1959. In 1957, he won the NCAA championships in both the one-meter and three-meter springboard events. Kimball's two first-place finishes accounted for 24 of Michigan's 69 points, and were the key to Michigan's 69–61 victory over Yale in the 1957 NCAA championship held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Associated Press reported: "Poised, acrobatic Dick Kimball of Michigan won both the low and high board events." Another account noted: Michigan stood at the top of national collegiate swimming teams today thanks to its divers, a great medley relay team and Yale's failure to qualify more men." Kimball received his bachelor's degree from U-M in 1959 and his master's degree in 1960.

While at Michigan, Kimball also competed on the gymnastics team under Coach Newt Loken and won the national trampoline title. He won the Professional World Diving championship in 1963. He also finished as the runnerup at the World Acrobatic Diving Championships.

Comedy and acrobatic diving shows
In the early 1960s, Kimball toured with Hobie Billingsley, also a Big Ten diving coach at the time, in a "comedy and acrobatic show" of diving. In 1960 and again in 1962, Billingsley and Kimball took time off from coaching to serve the U.S. State Department "as goodwill ambassadors" touring the world. They gave over 1,000 performances on their 1962 world tour and also appeared on television shows including Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, Sports Spectacular and You Asked For It. When Kimball and Billingsley performed at the 1962 Annual Swimming Carnival at Yale, The Bridgeport Post reported: "Two of the world's greatest divers – between them holders of scores of high board championships – will be among the host of talented performers . . .  They are Dick Kimball and Hobie Billingsley who have teamed together to form the world's foremost acrobatic and comedy diving team. . . . [Kimball] is regarded as the world's greatest acrobatic diver." A 1960 newspaper account said the Billingsley and Kimball show featured "high diving from atop a 30-foot tower, rhythmic swimming, fancy diving and comedy acts."

Diving coach

University of Michigan coach

He was the coach of the Michigan Wolverines diving team for 44 years from 1959 to 2002. Kimball's teams won seven Big Ten Conference championships and four NCAA championships. Four of Kimball's divers won Olympic gold medals: Bob Webster in 1960 and 1964, Micki King in 1972, Phil Boggs in 1976, and Mark Lenzi (1992). He also coached Dick Rydze to a silver medal in 1972 (Munich) and son Bruce Kimball to a silver medal in 1984 (Los Angeles).  In addition he coached Ron Merriott and Chris Seufert to bronze medals in 1984 (Los Angeles).  Many more divers were coached by Kimball to spots on the Olympic teams for The USA, England, Canada, Uruguay. Three others won individual NCAA championships: Matthew Chelich (1-meter in 1977; 3-meter in 1979); Ronald Merriott (3-meter in 1982), and Kent Ferguson (3-meter in 1984). The Wolverines also won two NCAA team diving championships under Kimball. He also coached three Big Ten Conference women's divers of the year: Diane Dudeck (1984), Mary Fishback (1988), and Carrie Zarse (1995).

Kimball was the first to put a spotting rig over a diving board. He developed many new dives, including many of the dives in today's optional list.  He also developed the technique in spotting called "tipping".  Over a very long career he has shared his techniques and ideas with anyone who wished to learn them.

Pioneer in training women at Michigan
In the years before Title IX, women were not permitted to compete in University of Michigan athletics, but Kimball circumvented the system in the 1960s to train two women, Micki King and Lani Loken (the daughter of U-M gymnastics coach Newt Loken), with the men's team. Kimball taught King and Loken to do a complete men's list off the women's tower. King recalled, “One of Coach Kimball's greatest lines was that he didn't coach men or women, he coached people. He taught me dives that no woman had ever done before. I pioneered those dives. Coach Kimball knew that we were a team of people.” King also recalled: "We used the women's pool at the CCRB. What was ironic was that the men were allowed to come into and use the women's pool but the women couldn't even come into the men's. What Kimball would do was sneak us through the back doors because the front door was right in front of the administrators. We used the spectator bathroom and used washcloths and the public sink as a shower. We thought we were lucky." King became the dominant woman diver in the United States under Kimball's coaching, winning ten national championships between 1965 and 1972.  Kimball coached women divers at the University of Michigan free for 17 years before Title IX because he felt women deserved the same opportunities as men to dive in college.

Olympic team coach
In 1964, Kimball was named coach of the U.S. Olympic diving team after Texas coach Henry Chapman suffered a heart attack. As the games got underway, Kimball said: "We have the strongest 3-meter team ever assembled, and apparently the strongest 10-meter squad. The United States has dominated Olympic diving more than any other sport and we will not lose that dominance this time." Kimball's prediction proved correct as the US team (including Michigan's Bob Webster) won three gold medals and 8 of 12 medals awarded in diving at the 1964 Olympics. He was also the coach of the U.S. Olympic diving teams in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. The U.S. team ended up boycotting the 1980 Games in Moscow, and the 1984 games in Los Angeles proved to be Kimball's proudest moment. The U.S. diving team again won 8 of 12 medals in diving at the 1984 Olympics, including two gold medals for Greg Louganis, a silver medal for Kimball's son, Bruce Kimball, and a bronze medal for Michigan diver, Ronald Merriott. In the 1988 Olympics diving competition, Louganis again won two gold medals, but the Chinese team collected six medals, one more than the U.S. team. The Chinese team won the medal count in the 1992 games as well, despite a gold medal for Kimball's pupil Mark Lenzi.

Retirement after 43 years as Michigan's coach
When Kimball retired in 2002, he was the last member of the U-M athletic staff who had been hired by athletic director Fritz Crisler. He said at the time, "Michigan has been a fantastic place for me. My whole life revolves around the University. It's been a great school, the people are tremendous and I've really enjoyed my experiences here." He also noted, "I'd keep coaching if it weren't for the recruiting and scheduling. It puts you on the road every day. Coaching is the fun part. It's all the other things that go along with it that make it difficult." Kimball said he still planned to run diving clinics, swim 1,000 yards, roller-blade and ice skate every day. Kimball  served as volunteer assistant diving coach for 8 years following his official retirement.

Other contributions
Kimball has served at the president American Diving Coaches Association, and has been a member of the US Diving Olympic Committee and the Rules Committee of US Diving.

Awards and honors
During fifty years as a diver and diving coach, Kimball received numerous honors and awards, including the following:
 In 1972, he received the "Mike Malone Memorial Award," given for outstanding contributions to diving by the national governing body of the sport, U.S. Diving.
 He was named the NCAA Men's Diving Coach of the Year in 1984 and the Women's Diving Coach of the Year in 1988.
 He received the Fred Cady Memorial award following the 1972, 1976 and 1992 Summer Olympic games for his "sincere dedication in achieving the ultimate in coaching the sport of diving."
 Kimball was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1985.
 In 2000, Kimball received the University of Michigan's Bob Ufer Award. Since 1981, the Ufer Award has been presented each year to a Letterwinners "M" Club member in recognition for his or her outstanding service to the University of Michigan Athletic Program.
 He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1985, and in 2002 he was awarded the Paragon Award by the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
 In 1986, he became the first diving coach to receive the Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).

Family
Kimball and his wife, Gail, have three children. Their son Bruce Kimball won a silver medal in the 10-meter platform event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Bruce was arrested for drunk driving and vehicular homicide prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics, sentenced to 17 years, and served five years in prison. Their son Jim Kimball is a drummer. Their daughter, Vicky Kimball, is the current head dive coach at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.

See also
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

References

External links

Legendary M diving coach Kimball retiring
Diving area named for Kimball

1935 births
Living people
American male divers
American diving coaches
Michigan Wolverines diving coaches
Michigan Wolverines men's divers
Michigan Wolverines men's gymnasts
Oklahoma Sooners men's divers
Sportspeople from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sportspeople from Rochester, Minnesota


Panagiouda (, Panagioúda) is a village on the east coast of Lesbos;  north of Mytilene.  As of 2011, Panagiouda had 906 inhabitants which were primarily fishermen.

History
The settlement was founded after an earthquake in 1867 forced many people from Afalonas to abandon their town and start anew.  The first forty houses were constructed in 1874.

Kalamiaris, at the north of Panagiouda, is the birthplace of Odysseas Elytis.  There is also the magnificent Panayoudha palm forest, which consists of Phoenix canariensis palms, and three flour tower houses of the early 20th century.

After the destruction of Minor Asia in 1924, 100 people immigrated to Panagiouda.

Etymology
The name of the village comes from the Holy Virgin (Panayia) church there.  It means "Small Holy Virgin".  The church had been constructed by the great local architect Arghiris Adhalis in 1896 and is dedicated to the Holy Virgin's birthday.

Travel
Mytilene National Airport is 12km (7.5 miles) from Panagiouda.

References

Populated places in Lesbos


Markus Münch (born 7 September 1972) is a German former footballer who played as a left-back or left midfielder. His professional career was mainly associated with Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Besiktas Istanbul and Panathinaikos. He is currently a racehorse trainer, owner and breeder based in Chantilly, France.

Career
Born in Nußloch, West Germany, Münch played as a youth for SV Sandhausen, before joining Bayern Munich as a 17-year-old in 1990. He made his debut for the club in March 1991, as a substitute for Christian Ziege in a European Cup match against FC Porto, and added two Bundesliga appearances under Jupp Heynckes before the end of the season as Bayern finished in second place.

Münch began to establish himself in the first team the following season – his first appearance came in October, after replacing Hans Pflügler in a 3–0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund. Eleven days later he scored his first goal, the second in the 90th minute in a 6–2 UEFA Cup loss against Danish B 1903. He played regularly during the second half of the season, finishing on fifteen league appearances in what was a disappointing season for Bayern – they finished in 10th place.

Over the next two seasons Münch made a similar number of appearances, helping Bayern to a Bundesliga title in 1993–94, before leaving at the end of the season in search of first-team football, signing for Bayer Leverkusen.

Münch was a regular first-team player for Leverkusen in the next two years, making over 60 appearances helping them reach the UEFA Cup semi-final in 1994–95, but the following year they were involved in a relegation battle, and were only saved through a legendary goal by Münch on the last day of the season, despite playing with a groin injury and already having planned a surgery weeks before. His 81st-minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw with 1. FC Kaiserslautern condemned Lautern to the drop instead. To this day, this goal is widely been acknowledged as one of the morst important goals in Bundesliga history.

In July 1996, Münch returned to Bayern Munich but the second spell at Bayern turned out to be similar to his first – he made eleven league appearances in 1996–97, winning a second Bundesliga title, but did not play at the beginning of the first half of the 1997–98 season, and left Bayern for a second time in January 1998, signing for relegation-threatened 1. FC Köln.

He made 13 appearances for Köln, scoring twice, but they were unable to avoid the drop, finishing 17th, and he left the club, signing for Genoa of Italy's Serie B. Genoa finished in 12th place in the 1998–99 season, and in summer 1999 Münch was on the move again, moving to Turkish club Beşiktaş, who were coached by former West Germany international Hans-Peter Briegel.

Münch spent two very successful years with Beşiktaş, scoring 6 goals and 22 assists while winning the Atatürk-Cup and finishing second and then fourth in the league, before returning to Germany to sign for Borussia Mönchengladbach, who had just been promoted back to the Bundesliga. He helped Gladbach establish themselves back at this level, finishing 12th in both of the next two seasons, before moving abroad again in 2003, to sign for Panathinaikos in Greece.

Münch's first season with Panathinaikos was hugely successful – they won the League and Cup, played in the group stage of the UEFA Cup and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Münch was voted as the League's best foreign player. He retired from football at the end of the following season, after a second place league finish.

Racehorse trainer
Münch became interested in horse racing when taking a half-share in the horse Basimah while still under contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach. After his retirement as a professional football player he decided to pursue a career in thoroughbred horseracing as a trainer, owner and breeder in 2010. He currently trains around 30 racehorses at Chantilly, France and was previously based in Mannheim and Frankfurt, Germany where he had some successful years early in his career, despite only starting with a small amount of horses, including the filly Intarsia, who won Münch's first „Listed race“ in 2010.

In 2016, following his move from Frankfurt to Chantilly, he had huge success training the self-bred three-year-old filly Spectre to win the Group Three Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte. She was ridden by French jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot, who was Spectre's rider for most races. This was Münch's first Group Race win in his trainer career. Spectre went on to make her Group One debut in the Poule D‘Essai des Pouliches at Deauville where she finished fifth only being beaten by 1 1/2 lengths to La Cressonniere. Spectre's three-year-old campaign was highly successful, as she finished third in the Prix Jean Prat and fourth in the Prix Jacques Le Marois, where she was only beaten by a nose to the high class filly Ervedya at third place but with Esoterique, Lightning Spear and Galileo Gold among the beaten horses. Spectre's best career performance came in early September, where she finished as a runner-up to Vadamos in the Group One Prix Du Moulin, while beating some high-class colts such as Zelzal and Zarak.

In early November, Spectre and Münch travelled to the Breeders Cup World Championships in Santa Anita, California to perform in the Breeders Cup Mile where she raced against the world's best racehorses over the distance of a mile or 8 furlongs. She was retired to stud after an impressive fourth place to Ribchester in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2017.

Münch's successful stakes performers include: Intarsia (2010), Spectre (2016,2017) and Reshabar (2021,2022).

During the early years of his career in horse racing, Münch was also associated with the german Preis der Diana winner Feodora (2014) and the Deutsches Derby runner up Palace Prince (2015).

Honours
Bayern Munich
 Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1996–97
 Bundesliga Runner-up: 1990-91, 1992-93
 DFB-Ligapokal: 1997

Panathinaikos
 Superleague Greece: 2003–04
 Greek Cup: 2003–04
Besiktas Istanbul

 Atatürk Cup: 2000

Individual
 Super League Greece Best Foreign Player: 2004
 Kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2002-2003
Horse Racing

 Prix Imprudence (Group 3): 2016

References

External links

1972 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
FC Bayern Munich footballers
FC Bayern Munich II players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Germany men's youth international footballers
1. FC Köln players
Genoa CFC players
Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Bundesliga players
Serie B players
Süper Lig players
Super League Greece players
German expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Münch


The Coastal Volcanic Belt (CVB) is a major Late Silurian volcanic belt extending from Massachusetts, United States, into southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. It is one of the largest bimodal volcanic provinces in world, ranging from basalts to rhyolites.

See also
Volcanism of Canada
Volcanism of Eastern Canada

External links
Maine's Volcanoes (Yes, Maine) Among World's Biggest

References

Volcanic belts
Geology of Maine
Geology of Massachusetts
Volcanism of New Brunswick
Volcanism of Maine
Volcanism of Massachusetts
Extinct volcanism
Silurian volcanism
Geography of Charlotte County, New Brunswick


The Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (short: Siemens Music Prize, ) is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts) on behalf of the  (Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation), established in 1972. The foundation was established by Ernst von Siemens (1903–1990) and promotes contemporary music. The prize honors a composer, performer, or musicologist who has made a distinguished contribution to the world of music. In addition to the main prize, other prizes are also given. The total prize money given is currently €3.5 million, with the winner of the main prize receiving €250,000. The prize is sometimes known as "the Nobel Prize of music".

Smaller awards are called "Förderpreis" (encouragement award). "Komponisten-Förderpreise" ("Composers' Prizes") are given to young composers for one of their works. "Förderprojekte" ("Grant-in-Aid Projects") support music festivals, concerts, musical institutions, and young musicians.

Main prize winners
Winners of the main prize were:

1974 – Benjamin Britten
1975 – Olivier Messiaen
1976 – Mstislav Rostropovich
1977 – Herbert von Karajan
1978 – Rudolf Serkin
1979 – Pierre Boulez
1980 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
1981 – Elliott Carter
1982 – Gidon Kremer
1983 – Witold Lutosławski
1984 – Yehudi Menuhin
1985 – Andrés Segovia
1986 – Karlheinz Stockhausen
1987 – Leonard Bernstein
1988 – Peter Schreier
1989 – Luciano Berio
1990 – Hans Werner Henze
1991 – Heinz Holliger
1992 – H. C. Robbins Landon
1993 – György Ligeti
1994 – Claudio Abbado
1995 – Sir Harrison Birtwistle
1996 – Maurizio Pollini
1997 – Helmut Lachenmann
1998 – György Kurtág
1999 – Arditti Quartet
2000 – Mauricio Kagel
2001 – Reinhold Brinkmann
2002 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2003 – Wolfgang Rihm
2004 – Alfred Brendel
2005 – Henri Dutilleux
2006 – Daniel Barenboim
2007 – Brian Ferneyhough
2008 – Anne-Sophie Mutter
2009 – Klaus Huber
2010 – Michael Gielen
2011 – Aribert Reimann
2012 – Friedrich Cerha
2013 – Mariss Jansons
2014 – Peter Gülke
2015 – Christoph Eschenbach
2016 – Per Nørgård
2017 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard
2018 – Beat Furrer
2019 – Rebecca Saunders
2020 – Tabea Zimmermann
2021 – Georges Aperghis
2022 – Olga Neuwirth
2023 – George Benjamin

Composers' Prize winners
Winners of the Composers' Prize (Förderpreis) were:

 1990 – Michael Jarrell and George Lopez
 1991 – Herbert Willi
 1992 – Beat Furrer and Benedict Mason
 1993 – Sylvia Fomina and Param Vir
 1994 – Hans-Jürgen von Bose, Marc-André Dalbavie and Luca Francesconi
 1995 – Gerd Kühr and Philippe Hurel
 1996 – Volker Nickel and Rebecca Saunders
 1997 – Moritz Eggert and Mauricio Sotelo
 1998 – Antoine Bonnet and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
 1999 – Thomas Adès and Olga Neuwirth
 2000 – Hanspeter Kyburz, Augusta Read Thomas and Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini
 2001 – Isabel Mundry, André Werner and José María Sánchez-Verdú
 2002 – Mark Andre, Jan Müller-Wieland and Charlotte Seither
 2003 – Chaya Czernowin, Christian Jost and Jörg Widmann
 2004 – Fabien Lévy, Johannes Maria Staud and Enno Poppe
 2005 – Sebastian Claren, Philipp Maintz and Michel van der Aa
 2006 – Jens Joneleit, Alexander Muno and Athanasia Tzanou
 2007 – Vykintas Baltakas and Markus Hechtle
 2008 – Dieter Ammann, Márton Illés and Wolfram Schurig
 2009 – Francesco Filidei, Miroslav Srnka and Lin Yang
 2010 – Pierluigi Billone, Arnulf Herrmann, Oliver Schneller
 2011 – Steven Daverson, Hèctor Parra, Hans Thomalla
 2012 – Luke Bedford, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, Ulrich Alexander Kreppein
 2013 – David Philip Hefti, Samy Moussa, Marko Nikodijevic
 2014 – Simone Movio, Brigitta Muntendorf, Luis Codera Puzo
 2015 – Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Mark Barden, Christian Mason
 2016 – Milica Djordjevic, David Hudry, Gordon Kampe
 2017 – , Simon Steen-Andersen, Lisa Streich
 2018 – , Timothy McCormack, Oriol Saladrigues
 2019 – Annesley Black, Ann Cleare, Mithatcan Öcal
 2020 – Catherine Lamb, Francesca Verunelli, Samir Amarouch
 2021 – , Mirela Ivičević, Yair Klartag
 2022 – Benjamin Attahir, Naomi Pinnock, Mikel Urquiza
 2023 – Sara Glojnarić, Alex Paxton, Eric Wubbels

References

Further reading

External links

German music awards
Classical music awards
Awards established in 1972


Dis/Location is the sixth studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three.  It was released on May 11, 2004 on DRT Entertainment.

The album's only single was "Without You Feels".

Track listing
All songs written by Jason Ross and Thomas Juliano, except where noted.

Personnel
 Jason Ross – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 Thomas Juliano – lead guitar, backing vocals
 Casey Daniel – bass
 Giti Khalsa – drums

Production
Producers – Jason Ross, Thomas Juliano, and Brian Paulson, except "Without You Feels" produced by Sylvia Massy, Jason Ross, and Thomas Juliano
Engineering – Brian Paulson, except "Without You Feels" engineered by Sylvia Massy
Mixing – Brian Paulson, except "Without You Feels" mixed by Sylvia Massy
Mastering – UE Nastasi
Art Direction – Lane Wurster
Graphic Design – Phillip Dwyer
Photography – Michael Traister, Martin Bennett, and Sam Mitcham

References

2004 albums
Albums produced by Brian Paulson
Seven Mary Three albums


Francesco Maria Mancini  (20 October 1606, Rome – 1672) was an Italian cardinal of the Mancini family.  He was made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VII, in reward for contributing to Alexander's election as pope.

Life
He was the son of Paolo, Signore Illustrissimo, and of the noblewoman Vittoria Capocci.  Made a deacon of Santi Vito e Modesto, then a cardinal in 1660, holding the titulus of San Matteo in Merulana. His older brother, Baron Lorenzo Mancini, married Geronima Mazzarini, the sister of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister to King Louis XIV of France. Upon Lorenzo's death in 1650, his widow took her family to France in the hope that her brother could arrange advantageous marriages for them. Lorenzo's five daughters became famous at the French court for their beauty and wit. They were known as the Mazarinettes. Later, one of his nieces, Marie, returned to Rome in 1661 and married Prince Lorenzo Colonna. She was followed by her sister, Hortense, in 1668. Hortense, who was fleeing her abusive husband, Charles de La Porte, duc de La Meilleraye, scandalized her uncle with her libertine ways.

References

Sources
This page is a translation of its Italian equivalent.

1606 births
1672 deaths
17th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Alexander VII
Mancini family


The Spokane Public Library and Spokane County Library District system provide the Spokane area with access to information and study space. Secondary education is provided by Spokane Public Schools with its six high schools, six middle schools, and thirty-four elementary schools. Public charter, private, and parochial schools offer more choices of study. Higher education in Spokane is served by the Community Colleges of Spokane system (Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College) and two private universities, Gonzaga University and Whitworth University as well as various trade and technical schools. The University District in Downtown Spokane is also host to branch locations of regional universities such as Washington State University Spokane and its medical school, the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total school enrollment in Spokane was 54,830 in 2011. Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 5,484 and elementary or high school enrollment was 30,548 children. College or graduate school enrollment was 18,798. As of 2011, 91.6 percent of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 29.2 percent had a bachelor's degree or higher.

Libraries

Serving the general educational needs of the local population are two public library districts, the Spokane Public Library (within city limits) and the Spokane County Library District. Founded in 1904 with funding from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the Spokane Public Library system comprises a downtown library overlooking the Spokane Falls and five branch libraries. Special collections focus on Inland Pacific Northwest history and include reference books, periodicals, maps, photographs, and other archival materials and government documents. The downtown Spokane Public Library branch located at 906 West Main has a collection size of 435,902 volumes and an annual circulation of 2,060,220 items per year. The first downtown library building, The Carnegie Building, still stands 5 blocks from the current Downtown library.

The libraries for the colleges and universities in Spokane include the Spokane Community College Library, Spokane Falls Community College Library, Gonzaga's Foley Center Library which has a collection size of 427,262 volumes and annual circulation of 48,889 items per year as well as their School of Law's Chastek Library and Whitworth's Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library which has a collection size of 220,568 and an annual circulation of 19,672.

Elementary and secondary education

Public school system

Spokane Public Schools (District No. 81) was organized in 1889, and is the largest public school system in Spokane, and the second-largest in the state, as of 2014, serving roughly 30,000 students in six high schools, six middle schools, and thirty-four elementary schools. Within Spokane Public Schools, there are two Washington State Charter School commission approved independent charter schools to provide alternative choices to traditional high schools, these are Innovation High School in the independent PRIDE Schools district and the Spokane International Academy.

In north Spokane, there is the Mead School District No. 354 which has two traditional high schools, Mead High School and Mt. Spokane High School. Other major public school districts in the Spokane area include the Central Valley School District (which contains Central Valley High School, University High School, and Ridgeline High School), West Valley School District (West Valley High School), and East Valley School District (East Valley High School) in Spokane Valley. Smaller districts in the surrounding area include the Cheney School District (Cheney High School), Deer Park School District (Deer Park High School), Freeman School District (Freeman High School), Liberty School District (Liberty High School), Medical Lake School District (Medical Lake High School), Nine Mile Falls School District (Lakeside High School), Orchard Prairie School District, and Riverside School District (Riverside High School).

Spokane area public high schools

Note:
This is not an exhaustive list. This is a selective list that is intended to focus on public high schools in school districts that have a presence in the city of Spokane and may include other major districts or high schools in the Spokane metropolitan area (Spokane County).
Enrollment figures as of April 2021.

Private education

A variety of private and parochial elementary and secondary schools augment the public school system. Among the parochial schools, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane manages ten such schools in and around the area, among them being Gonzaga Preparatory School. Other parochial schools in the Spokane metro area include Upper Columbia Academy, a boarding high school offering a Seventh-day Adventist education, located to the south in Spangle, and the Northwest Christian School, a non-denominational Kindergarten-12th grade school, to the north in Colbert. The Saint George's School in north Spokane is one of the only K-12 independent secular private preparatory schools in Spokane and offers an International Baccalaureate program of study.

There are schools that exist to meet special needs and those that offer specialist education, such as Montessori schools, or an emphasis on a particular part of the curriculum. Private schools are subject to a state approval process. Examples include the Lilac Blind Foundation, Spokane Guild's School and Neuromuscular Center, and the Spokane Art School.

The Salish School of Spokane is a language preservation school that serves the Native American community of various tribal backgrounds and ancestry with language and cultural immersion experiences to increase intergenerational transmission of the endangered Salish language family in addition to traditional mentoring and academic support. The school offers a K-6 grade curriculum and plans to offer a secondary education.

Spokane area private secondary schools

Note:
This is not an exhaustive list. This is a selective list that intends to include private schools that provide instruction in part or fully for the high school grade levels 9-12 that are in the Spokane metropolitan area (Spokane County).
Enrollment figures as of April 2021.

Colleges and universities

Higher education institutions in Spokane include the private universities Gonzaga and Whitworth, and the public Community Colleges of Spokane system (Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College) as well as a variety of local branch campuses and technical institutes.

The Community Colleges of Spokane operate Spokane Community College (SCC), Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC), and the Institute for Extended Learning, which coordinates rural outreach, business and community training, adult literacy services, and Spokane County Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start. Spokane Community College began operations on September 16, 1963, on the site of the Spokane Technical and Vocational School (established in 1953) at Mission and Greene. During a period of growth, Spokane Community College built a second campus on Fort George Wright Drive (now Spokane Falls Community College), which the board of trustees decided to separate in 1970, creating two distinct entities. Both SCC and SFCC offer four-year bachelor of applied science degrees, SFCC in applied management and cybersecurity and SCC in respiratory therapy. As of 2020, the Community Colleges of Spokane serves approximately 20,000 students a year and offers over 120 degree programs.

Gonzaga University and Law School were founded by the Italian-born priest Joseph Cataldo and the Jesuits in 1887. Gonzaga offers 43 undergraduate degree programs, 26 master's degree programs, a doctoral program in educational leadership, and a Juris Doctor (law degree).  Gonzaga is one of three schools that offer a law degree in the state of Washington. The school has a total enrollment of about 7,700.

Whitworth was founded in Tacoma, Washington in 1890 and moved to its present location in 1914 following a generous land donation by railroad magnate Jay P. Graves and $100,000 in support from the community. The move alleviated persistent financial difficulties owing to competition with the College of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran Academy which were also located in Tacoma. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and had 2,500 students studying in 53 different undergraduate and degree programs as of 2011.

A variety of regional universities located elsewhere in the Inland Northwest have operations in Spokane's University District. The University District is the site of Washington State University Spokane (formerly the Riverpoint Campus); WSU Spokane is WSU's health sciences campus and houses the school's College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University is Washington's land grant university with its flagship campus located  south in Pullman. WSU Spokane shares the University District on the east end of downtown Spokane with some programs of Eastern Washington University (EWU), a regional comprehensive university with its main campus located  southwest of Spokane in nearby Cheney.

The University District serves as WSU Spokane's center for advanced graduate and professional studies and research in the health sciences and health professions. WSU Spokane programs focus on the health sciences, educational administration, and criminal justice. Among its research centers is the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center, that does controlled laboratory studies of sleep, wake, and work and the consequences of fatigue. A consortium of organizations and WSU operate the Spokane Teaching Health Center, a clinic where the medical residents and WSU students work in collaborative teams to serve low-income community members in need. The campus also has a Veterinary Specialty Teaching Clinic.

The University of Washington's Schools of Medicine and Dentistry had first-year and second-year medical students and first-year dental students at the Riverpoint Campus in partnership with both WSU and EWU as part of their WWAMI (medical) and RIDE (dental) programs, however the WWAMI relationship with WSU ended after WSU College of Medicine was created following the repeal of a law that disallowed a second public medical school in the state. The University of Washington has continued its medical education in Spokane by developing a relationship with Gonzaga. The University District is also home to Innovate Washington (formerly Sirti), a Washington state economic development agency that accelerates the development and growth of innovative technology companies.

Other schools in Spokane include the Inland Northwest Culinary Academy, Spokane Art School, and Great Northern University. The Inland Northwest Culinary Academy at Spokane Community College is an American Culinary Federation accredited program for training professional chefs. Great Northern University is a Christian school established in 2018 on the site of a vacated Moody Bible Institute branch campus which offers seven bachelor's degree programs which include: biblical and theological studies, communication, leadership studies, youth and family ministry, intercultural studies, linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Spokane area colleges and universities

Note: Enrollment figures include full-time and part-time undergraduate students and graduate students; the Niche website shows undergraduate and graduate enrollment numbers on different tabs on the institution's profile. Enrollment figures as of April 2021.

Defunct institutions
Defunct institutions that were located in or near Spokane include Spokane University, Spokane College, Spokane Junior College, and a campus of the University of Phoenix and ITT Tech, the People to People Student Ambassador Program, and MEAD Alternative High School.

See also

References

External links
National Center for Education Statistics: Spokane School District
Niche profile: Spokane School District
Spokane County Private Schools


KTHS may refer to:

 KTHS (AM), a radio station licensed to Berryville, Arkansas, United States
 KTHS-FM, a radio station licensed to Berryville, Arkansas, United States
 KAAY, a radio station originally licensed to Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
 KTHV, a television station licensed to Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
 Kerang Technical High School, Kerang, Victoria, Australia


KTLO may refer to:

 KTLO (AM), a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to serve Mountain Home, Arkansas, United States
 KTLO-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to serve Mountain Home, Arkansas
 KTLO-LD, a low-power television station (channel 29, virtual 46) licensed to serve Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States


White Denim is an American four-piece rock band from Austin, Texas, United States. Their music is influenced by dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures.

History
In March 2005, two bands, Parque Touch (Josh Block, James Petralli, Lucas Anderson) and Peach Train (Steve Terebecki), played a show together at Beerland in Austin, Texas. After the show Steve was asked to play bass for Parque Touch and the band became four, playing under the pseudonyms Byshop Massive (Lucas), Bop English (James), Nicholas Mallard (Josh), and Terry Beckins (Steve); however, in February 2006, Lucas moved to Russia and the resulting power trio changed its name to White Denim. The new line-up began playing the local Austin circuit while recording punk-infused, psychedelic blues-rock in Block's 1940s Spartan trailer.

In 2007, the band self-released its first EP entitled Let's Talk About It on 7" only, but later these tracks became available on iTunes. While on tour in 2007, the band recorded a nine-song "tour EP" entitled Workout Holiday, which was only sold at shows. Workout Holiday caught the ear of new netlabel RCRD LBL, and the band signed on to re-record three of the songs. These songs were exclusively released as the RCRD LBL EP, one MP3 track at a time over the course of the first few months of 2008.

Since these releases, the band has toured extensively, playing shows including SXSW and CMJ Music Marathon, and also received the award of "Best New Band" at the 2008 Austin Music Awards. In order to reach European listeners, the band signed to UK record label Full Time Hobby (home to The Hold Steady and Viva Voce) for an overseas release. The first release on Full Time Hobby was the single "Let's Talk About It" b/w "Darksided Computer Mouth". On June 23, 2008, the band released its debut album, the Workout Holiday LP, which consists of re-recorded songs from the band's first two self-released EPs along with some new tracks. The band later released two more singles in Europe from Workout Holiday: "All You Really Have To Do" b/w "DCWYW" and "Shake Shake Shake" b/w "All Truckers Roll".

Back in the U.S., White Denim released their debut U.S. full-length LP, entitled Exposion in late 2008. Originally sold during their Spring 2008 tour as a CD-R with the title 11 Songs, the album was made available in digital format from their official website on October 19, 2008. The band teamed up with Austin's Transmission Entertainment for the distribution of Exposion in the US; however, the two parted ways in mid-2009.

White Denim's third full-length album, Fits, was released via Full Time Hobby on June 22, 2009. The record was initially released in Europe only, but after signing their first US record deal with Downtown Records on July 10, the band release Fits on October 20, 2009. This album was also packaged with Exposion as a bonus disc, giving the band's second LP a proper US release.

In September 2010 White Denim announced the addition of second guitarist Austin Jenkins to the band's line-up. On September 23, 2010, the band self-released a collection of 12 tracks under the title Last Day of Summer. The release notes state "This record is something we made as a little summer retreat from our ongoing work on the third full length. Many of these tunes have been bouncing around since the formation of the band back in 06. We were super pumped to utilize a few fresh and casual musical approaches on this record.". It was initially available to download for free (with an option to make a donation) from the band's official website, but on December 5, 2011, it was released by Downtown Records on CD and LP.

On May 24, 2011, White Denim released their fourth studio album D on Downtown Records. The first leg of White Denim's For D tour started on May 23 in Sail Inn, Tempe.

In 2012, White Denim opened for Wilco on their Jan-Feb west coast tour and played at the 2012 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Outside Lands festival.

In 2015, James Petralli released his first solo album, Constant Bop, under his pseudonym, Bop English. Guitarist Austin Jenkins and drummer Josh Block left the band that summer to work on other projects - guitarist Jonathan Horne and drummer Jeffrey Olson filled their spots.

On 7 January 2016, White Denim announced that their new album, Stiff, would be released on 25 March 2016 via Downtown/Sony Red, with the track "Holda You (I'm Psycho)" shared on their SoundCloud. A second track, "Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)", was released on 1 February 2016. On
October 20, 2016, the song was used in the reveal trailer for the Nintendo Switch.

On May 9, 2018, the band announced their eighth full-length album, Performance, scheduled for release on August 28 via City Slang Records. The announcement was accompanied by the album's lead single, "Magazin," and followed by a second single, "It Might Get Dark," on June 12.

On March 29, 2019, the band released the follow-up to Performance, called Side Effects. Then, on October 29 of the same year, they released a live album, In Person.

On March 14, 2020, the group announced that they intended to write, record and release a new album by April 17 that year.

Members
James Petralli – vocals, guitar
Steve Terebecki - bass
Michael Hunter – keyboards
Cat Clemons - guitar
Matt Young - drums

Discography

 Workout Holiday (2008)
 Exposion (2008)
 Fits (2009)
 Last Day of Summer (2010)
 D (2011)
 Corsicana Lemonade (2013)
 Stiff (2016)
 Performance (2018)
 Side Effects (2019)
 World as a Waiting Room (2020)
 Crystal Bullets / King Tears (2021) - re-released in 2023 as Relaxed

References

External links
Official website
Spin Magazine, Interview: Artist of the Day, November 26, 2007.
La Blogotheque, Gig review: White Denim & the Hype, April 8, 2008.

Indie rock musical groups from Texas
Musical groups from Austin, Texas
Musical groups established in 2006
2006 establishments in Texas
Downtown Records artists
MapleMusic Recordings artists
City Slang artists
Full Time Hobby artists


KURM may refer to:

 KURM (AM), a radio station (790 AM) licensed to Rogers, Arkansas, United States
 KURM-FM, a radio station (100.3 FM) licensed to Gravette, Arkansas, United States


Annabelle's Wish is a 1997 American direct-to-video animated Christmas film that revolves around a young calf who aspires to learn to fly and become one of Santa Claus' reindeer. It is narrated by David Holt in the UK and American country singer Randy Travis in the US and stars voice actress Kath Soucie as the voice of Annabelle. Ralph Edwards Films released the film to video on October 21, 1997, followed by a television broadcast later that year on Fox.

Plot
Annabelle, a calf, is born on Christmas Eve in the rural farming community of Twobridge, Tennessee. Upon meeting Santa Claus, she becomes fascinated with reindeer and their ability to fly, and wishes to fly herself.

Having been granted the temporary ability to speak, she befriends farmer Charles Baker's grandson, Billy, who is mute from inhaling smoke from the barn fire that killed his parents. Billy's Aunt Agnes, the sister of Billy's late father, arrives from the city the next morning. Charles despises Agnes and the two get into an argument about Billy's well being, with Charles pointing out that Agnes didn't want custody of her nephew after his parents passed away, but she reconsidered, mostly in order to have a "perfect Christmas". Charles refuses to give up Billy, but Agnes threatens legal action against him. Meanwhile, Annabelle accidentally reveals her ability to speak, but her mother Star tells her that Billy cannot speak, therefore their secret is safe. They go sledding with Billy's friend Emily and accidentally crash into the fence of Gus Holder, the neighbor and former friend of Charles. Gus' sons Bucky and Buster, who commonly pick on Billy for his muteness, tell their father. Knowing that Charles cannot pay for the damages to the fence, Gus takes Annabelle until Charles can raise the money, which he does by selling an old music box that belonged to Billy's mother and his daughter, the late Sarah Baker. Annabelle enjoys the change of seasons with Billy and Emily.

Winter comes around and Bucky and Buster harass Emily and Billy one day after school. When the harassment becomes physical, Annabelle retaliates by knocking them down. The boys lie about the incident to their father who calls the sheriff, but he had received an eyewitness statement from the school bus driver. Gus sends his sons to their room and the sheriff talks to him about how his Ebenezer Scrooge-like behavior since his wife's passing has affected his sons. The sheriff also tells Gus that Charles had to sell his daughter's music box to an antique dealer in town in order to pay for both the damages to his fence and to get Annabelle back. Gus starts to feel guilty about what he did to both Charles and Billy after the sheriff reminds him about what it's like to lose a loved one.

Agnes' lawyer later finds a loophole that would grant her custody: Billy can only stay with her if he remains mute. When Agnes returns to Charles' farm to bring Billy back to her home, the animals push her car into a ditch to stall for time. As a result, she has to stay on the farm overnight on Christmas Eve. That night, Santa comes and Annabelle asks him to permanently give her Christmas voice to Billy. Touched by her selflessness, he agrees.

The next morning, Billy finds a present and upon opening it, magically gets his voice back. This renders Agnes' custody order void, allowing Billy to stay with Charles. Billy shows Annabelle his ability to speak, but is shocked to discover that she gave up her voice for him and that hearing him speak again was her true wish. Gus, Bucky, and Buster arrive and apologize for their behavior. Gus reveals that he bought the music box from the antique shop and gives it to Charles. Agnes and Gus become acquainted, and according to the narrator, they marry and Agnes becomes a step-mother to Gus's two sons.

Years later, Billy (who is revealed to have been the narrator all along) and Emily have grown up, gotten married, and now own the farm after Charles' retirement. Annabelle, having grown old and weary, gives up on her belief that she will ever fly. On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus arrives to fulfill her true wish (a wish from Billy) and she becomes a young reindeer and is given her voice back. She flies away at Santa's lead and bids Billy goodbye and a Merry Christmas.

Cast
 David Holt as the Narrator (UK)
 Randy Travis as Narrator (US)/adult Billy
 Kath Soucie as Annabelle (both young calf and adult reindeer)
 Hari Oziol as young Billy
 Jerry Van Dyke as Grandpa Charles Baker
 Cloris Leachman as Aunt Agnes
 Jim Varney as Gus Holder
 Charlie Cronin as Bucky Holder
 James Lafferty as Buster Holder
 Aria Curzon as young Emily
 Beth Nielsen Chapman as adult Emily
 Kay E. Kuter as Santa Claus
 Jennifer Darling as Star
 Rue McClanahan as Scarlett
 Jerry Houser as Slim
 Steve Mackall as Owliver
 Brian Cummings as Brewster
 Mary Kay Bergman and Tress MacNeille as the hens
 Jay Johnson as Ears
 Clancy Brown as the town sheriff and the lawyer
 Stu Rosen as Doc Taylor
 Tress MacNeille, Alison Krauss, and Frank Welker provided additional voices.

Music
The film's score was by Steve Dorff, who also wrote the film's songs with John Bettis and Travis. The songs were performed by Randy Travis, Alison Krauss, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Dolly Parton, Kevin Sharp, and Nanci Griffith.

Release
Annabelle's Wish was released by Ralph Edwards Productions on October 21, 1997, and was the first film created by Ralph Edwards Films to be released. The film later aired on Fox on November 30, 1997.

Reception
The special received mixed reviews from critics. Lynne Heffley of the Los Angeles Times praised Holt's Narration and Travis' score and songs, and the film's "gentle message of selfless love". Andrea Higbie of The New York Times referred to the character of Agnes as the film's version of Cruella de Vil, and wrote that the film would appeal to young viewers but that "its narcissistic dysfunction angle ("If Aunt Agnes doesn't love Billy, why does she want to take him away from Grandpa?") will leave them wishing for a villainess who simply has fur coats on her mind," in reference to de Vil.

When the film premiered on Fox, it was the highest-rated television program among children between the ages of two and five. Annabelle's Wish was also among the top-five best-selling videos during November and December 1997, and was Hallmark Home Entertainment's best-selling video as of January 1998. A portion of the video sale revenues were donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

See also
 List of Christmas films
 Santa Claus in film

References

External links

1997 direct-to-video films
1997 animated films
1990s Christmas films
Sonar Entertainment films
Animated Christmas films
Animated films about orphans
American Christmas films
Animated films about cattle
Animated films about deer and moose
Animated films about shapeshifting
Films scored by Steve Dorff
Films set in Tennessee
Country music films
American animated featurettes
American children's animated fantasy films
American direct-to-video films
Santa Claus's reindeer
Santa Claus in film
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
1990s children's animated films


KVOM may refer to:

 KVOM (AM), a radio station (800 AM) licensed to Morrilton, Arkansas, United States
 KVOM-FM, a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Morrilton, Arkansas, United States


Goran Šprem (born 6 July 1979) is a Croatian former handball player.

Šprem started his professional career with RK Zagreb in the late 1990s. He also spent a season with RK Medveščak Zagreb in 2001 and 2002, before returning to RK Zagreb for a second spell with the club between 2002 and 2004. He eventually left RK Zagreb for German side SG Flensburg-Handewitt in October 2004. He left Flensburg for a short spell with TuS Nettelstedt in February 2005, returning to the club in the summer of the same year and eventually spending a season with them. In the summer of 2006, he left Flensburg for a short spell with MT Melsungen, before joining his current club, HSG Nordhorn, in November 2006. He left Nordhorn in 2009.

Šprem is also a member of the Croatian national handball team, with whom he won gold medals at the 2003 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also won two silver medals with the Croatian national team at the World Men's Handball Championships in 2005 and 2009, and participated at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship, where Croatia finished fourth.

Since his retirement he's been a pundit on RTL Televizija.

Honours
Zagreb
Dukat Premier League
Winner (9): 1996-97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2010–11
Croatian Cup
Winner (8): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
EHF Champions League
Finalist (2): 1997-98, 1998-99

SG Flensburg-Handewitt
DHB-Pokal
Winner (1): 2005

HSG Nordhorn
EHF Cup
Winner (1): 2008

Individual
Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 2004

Orders
Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 2004

References

External links
European Competition

1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dubrovnik
Croatian male handball players
Olympic handball players for Croatia
Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Croatia in handball
RK Zagreb players
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball


KWCK may refer to:

 KWCK-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to serve Searcy, Arkansas, United States
 KSMD (AM), a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to serve Searcy, Arkansas, which held the call sign KWCK until 2014


KWRF may refer to:

 KWRF (AM), a radio station (860 AM) licensed to Warren, Arkansas, United States
 KWRF-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Warren, Arkansas, United States


Altrusa International, Inc (Altrusa) is an international non-profit organization focused on community service. It was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1917 by Dr. Alfred Durham as a chain of national clubs for business and professional women.

History
Altrusa International was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1917, originally as Altrusa Institute. During that time, a record number of women were going to work during World War I, and there was a need for women's civic organizations. Dr. Alfred Durham, a member of Kiwanis, began organizing clubs throughout Nashville, Louisville, Kentucky, and Dayton, Ohio, before he moved on to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he met Mamie L. Bass. Bass had served as the superintendent of the Women's Division of the United States Employment Services, and was a partner in her brother's architecture firm. She also assisted him in organizing a Rotary chapter in Indianapolis. While she admired Durham's Institute, Bass felt that Altrusa could serve a higher purpose. In June 1918, when Altrusa held its first convention in Indianapolis, Bass's vision became reality. The Altrusa Institute became a classified service organization for women.

Later, the Altrusa Institute was renamed as the National Association of Altrusa Clubs and adopted By-Laws that laid the groundwork for today's Altrusans. Soon after, Bass created the Principles of Altrusa which defined Altrusa as "a builder of women" and an organization based on merit and accomplishment. The Principles were officially adopted in 1921 along with a major club building effort. By 1922, Altrusa had 20 clubs.

In 1935, Altrusa became international when the first club in Mexico was organized. In 1937 its first convention outside the United States took place in Cuernavaca, Mexico.   Since that first step over US borders in 1935, Altrusa moved into Puerto Rico, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, India, Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, Great Britain, Bermuda, Canada, and New Zealand. In 1946, Altrusa sent its first representative to the United Nations.

By 1950, Altrusa had 266 clubs with 28,600 women executives and professional leaders as members.

In 1957, the organization had clubs in eight countries.  Its program for service for 1957–1959, based on a survey of clubs, focused on traffic safety, expanded services for older people, and the need for youth guidance to reduce delinquency.

In 1962, Altrusa International established the Altrusa International Foundation, which is dedicated to improving economic well-being and quality of life through a commitment to community services and literacy. In 1966, the organization began to look to America's youth as the future of Altrusa and established ASTRA service clubs. ASTRA encourages young people, ages 13 to 21, to participate in community service. Expanding on its commitment to youth, Altrusa adopted literacy as an ongoing area of service in 1977.

In 1963, Altrusa had over 500 clubs in ten countries. The 1963–1965 program called for expanded vocational services to youth and older workers, more international relations programs and projects, and increased efforts to conserve human resources at all ages.

The 1980s and 1990s brought changes to Altrusa. With the end of Communism, the former Soviet Union saw its first Altrusa clubs. Increasing its global outlook, Altrusa expanded projects beyond literacy and education by adopting a resolution to promote environmental concerns in 1989.

In 2011, the association launched a new branding and marketing campaign with the purpose of increasing Altrusa's image in the communities, and reaching out to an evolving membership.

Early presidents of Altrusa
Altrusa published a retrospective of its early years in 1933, and listed the following women as its first eleven national presidents:

 Mamie L. Bass (1917 to 1918)elev
 Morna Hickam (1918 to 1919)
 Bessie D. Moore (1919 to 1920)
 Mary M. Buehler (1921 to 1924; two terms)
 Anna H. Settle (1922 to 1923)
 Gillette Hayden (1924 to 1925)
 Amanda H. Heppner (1925 to 1927)
 Margaret R. Turner (1927 to 1928)
 Helen Johnston, (1928 to 1930)
 Elizabeth F. Gardner (1930 to 1931)
 Janette B. Briggs (1931 to 1933)

Current status
As of October 2017, Altrusa had around 8,000 members in 313 clubs from 13 countries, including Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It is an official observer to the United Nations, and an NGO with consultative status on the Roster of ECOSOC. At the end of October 2016, a new club was chartered in Bangalore, India. The International President was in attendance to present the charter, initiate the new members and install the board of directors. In July 2017 Altrusa International, Inc. celebrated its centennial year at its biennial convention in Nashville, Tennessee. It had a record attendance with around 700 attendees, almost 10% of the membership.

References

External links
Altrusa's website
Altrusa International, Inc. of Indianapolis Records
Altrusa International Records Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries (PDF)
Guide to Altrusa International of Lexington records, 1923-1995 housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center

International organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Chicago
Women's organizations based in the United States
Service organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1917
1917 establishments in Tennessee


KWYN may refer to:

 KWYN (AM), a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Wynne, Arkansas, United States
 KWYN-FM, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to Wynne, Arkansas


The 2004 United States Senate election in South Carolina  was held on November 2, 2004. Longtime incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings retired, and Republican U.S. Representative Jim DeMint won the open seat. DeMint was the first Republican to hold this Senate seat since 1879, and the first Republican to ever be popularly elected to the seat.

Democratic primary
South Carolina's status as a Republican stronghold led observers to speculate that Hollings retiring would lead to his seat being picked up by a Republican. Inez Tenenbaum, the South Carolina Superintendent of Education, would win the primary by a wide margin following the decision of many state Democrats to forgo a candidacy.

Candidates

Nominee

 Inez Tenenbaum, South Carolina Superintendent of Education

Eliminated in primary
 Ben Frasier, former congressional aide

Withdrew

 Bob Coble, mayor of Columbia (endorsed Tenenbaum)

Declined to run

 Jim Clyburn, U.S. Representative
 Hayne Hipp, businessman
 Fritz Hollings, incumbent U.S. Senator (retired)
 Darla Moore, investor
 Thomas L. Moore, state senator
 Alex Sanders, former president of the College of Charleston; nominee for U.S. Senate in 2002
 James E. Smith Jr., state representative
 John Spratt, U.S. Representative

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

 Jim DeMint, U.S. Representative

Defeated in primary
 David Beasley, former governor
 Charlie Condon, State Attorney General
 Orly Benny Davis, businesswoman
 Mark McBride, Mayor of Myrtle Beach
 Thomas Ravenel, businessman

Campaign
The Senate election two years earlier in 2002 did not have a primary election because the South Carolina Republicans were more preoccupied with the gubernatorial contest, despite having the first open senate seat in 40 years.  The retirement of Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings gave the Republicans an opportunity to pick up the seat and with no other interesting positions up for election in 2004, a crowded field developed in the Republican primary.  Furthermore, the Republicans were motivated by having President Bush at the top of the ticket enabling them to ride his coattails to victory.

Former Governor David Beasley, from the Pee Dee, entered the race and quickly emerged as the frontrunner because of his support from the evangelical voters.  However, during his term as governor from 1995 to 1999 he had greatly angered the electorate by proposing to remove the Confederate Naval Jack from the dome of the statehouse and by being against the adoption of a state lottery to provide for college scholarships. Both positions led to the loss of his re-election in 1998 and the issues continued to trouble him in the Senate race.

The battle for second place in the primary was between Upstate congressman, Jim DeMint, and Charleston developer Thomas Ravenel.  DeMint was able to squeak out a second-place finish because Charlie Condon, a former Attorney General of South Carolina, split the Lowcountry vote with Ravenel thus providing DeMint the margin he needed.  In addition, while many voters were attracted to the Ravenel campaign and felt that he had a future in politics, they believed that he should set his sights on a less high-profile office first before trying to become senator.  Resigned to defeat, Ravenel endorsed DeMint in the runoff election.

In the runoff election on June 22, 2004, DeMint scored a surprising victory over Beasley.  Ravenel's endorsement of DeMint proved crucial as the Lowcountry counties heavily went for the Representative from the Upstate.  Also, Beasley had burnt too many bridges while governor and was unable to increase his share of the vote in the runoff.

Polling

Results

General election

Candidates

Major
 Jim DeMint (R), U.S. Representative
 Inez Tenenbaum (D), South Carolina Superintendent of Education

Minor
 Tee Ferguson (United Citizens)
 Efia Nwangaza (Green)
 Rebekah E. Sutherland (Libertarian)
 Patrick Tyndall (Constitution)

DeMint entered the general election campaign severely weakened from the primary fight, having spent most of his campaign funds.  He stressed to the voters that he would follow conservative principles and provide an important Republican vote in the closely divided Senate.  Democrats fared poorly in statewide elections in South Carolina, so Tenenbaum tried to make the race about issues rather than party identification.

Tenenbaum attacked DeMint's support of the FairTax proposal because it would increase the sales tax by 23%.  The election victory by DeMint merely cemented South Carolina's shift to the Republican column as the best candidate the Democrats could offer was soundly defeated by the typical 10-point margin.

Predictions

Polling

Results

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 | colspan=6|*Nwangaza ran under the Independence Party in Aiken and Calhoun counties; her totals are combined.

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Abbeville (Largest city: Abbeville)
Georgetown (Largest city: Murrells Inlet)
Lancaster (Largest city: Lancaster)
Union (Largest city: Union)
Barnwell (Largest city: Barnwell)
Berkeley (Largest city: Goose Creek)
Cherokee (Largest city: Gaffney)
Dorchester (Largest city: North CHarleston)
Edgefield (Largest city: Edgefield)
Florence (Largest city: Florence)
Greenwood (Largest city: Greenwood)
Kershaw (Largest city: Cmaden)
Laurens (Largest city: Laurens)
Newberry (Largest city: Newberry)
Saluda (Largest city: Saluda)

See also
 2004 United States Senate elections
 List of United States senators from South Carolina

References

2004 South Carolina elections
2004
South Carolina


Ernst Krankemann (19 December 1895 – 28 July 1941) was an infamous Kapo in Auschwitz concentration camp.

A german common criminal, he was transferred into Auschwitz on 29 August 1940, after being sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder conviction. Although generally disliked amongst the SS, Krankemann had powerful supporters such as Karl Fritzsch, the camp's Lagerführer (camp leader and deputy of camp commandant Rudolf Hoess).

As a Kapo, Krankemann held great power over other inmates of Auschwitz, including the authority to murder. One infamous incident involved Krankemann ordering other inmates to pull a very heavy roller over a collapsed inmate, killing him.

On 28 July 1941, as part of the newly extended adult euthanasia Action 14f13, Krankemann was chosen along with around 500 other inmates to be taken by train to a converted mental hospital at Sonnenstein near Dresden. These were the first Auschwitz inmates to be gassed, although they were not gassed at Auschwitz itself. It has been claimed that Krankemann was lynched before reaching the mental  hospital.

References

1895 births
1941 deaths
German people convicted of murder
German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
German prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
German civilians killed in World War II
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Germany
People killed by gas chamber by Nazi Germany
Kapos (concentration camp)
Torturers
War criminals


MacNutt (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Churchbridge No. 211 and Census Division No. 5. The former District of Landestreu was renamed in 1909 to honour Thomas MacNutt, the area Member of the Legislative Assembly at the time. The village was settled between the late 1880s and the 1910s by immigrants of predominantly German origin.

History
MacNutt incorporated as a village on February 22, 1913.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, MacNutt had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of MacNutt recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Notable people
 Duane Rupp, hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, and Pittsburgh Penguins from 1963 to 1973.

See also

 List of communities in Saskatchewan
 Villages of Saskatchewan

References

Villages in Saskatchewan
Churchbridge No. 211, Saskatchewan
Division No. 5, Saskatchewan
Populated places established in 1880
1880 establishments in the Northwest Territories


KDBV (980 AM) was a radio station in Salinas, California, United States. It was owned by Centro Cristiano Vida Abundante and aired Spanish-language Christian programming from its Radio Vida Abundante service.

History
Allen C. Bigham, Jr., received a construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station to broadcast in Salinas on August 28, 1962. Bigham had previously been a disc jockey for KDON in Salinas under the name "Johnny Dark". Programming began on July 17, 1963, with Bigham itself as one of the air staff. The original call letters were KCTY, and the station called itself "The Sound of Your City".

The new radio station faced an existential threat just three years after signing on when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designated its license renewal for hearing for violations including an unauthorized transfer of control, illegal broadcast of a lottery, and falsifying logs. In late 1967, hearing examiner Basil Cooper proposed renewal of the license for a short term of one year and a $10,000 fine against KCTY, then its statutory maximum. Cooper admonished Bigham for his "cavalier attitude of assuming everything is all right [at the station] while he stayed in bed", with either him or his engineer at times being too lazy to sign the station on each day.

After the short-term license renewal was granted, Bigham sold KCTY to JECO, a company controlled by James E. Coyle, for $256,000. Coyle specialized in Spanish-language media and had been involved with two Spanish-language radio stations in the Los Angeles area—a good fit for KCTY, which had now become a Spanish-language station. Coyle grew the operation by buying the inoperative KERR-FM 103.9, which had been silent in 1973, and returning it to the air as KCTY-FM, which soon after became KRAY-FM. KCTY played more traditional music than the FM station, and it was also successful in the general market owing to the large Hispanic population in the area: in the fall of 1979, it was the second-rated station in the Arbitron market.

Both stations were hit in 1980 by a strike among disc jockeys that started when Frances Graciela Chávez, known on air as "Chela", was fired by management for allegedly hoarding some of KCTY-KRAY's record library. Six of nine DJs walked out, and finding replacements proved difficult. Even general manager Marty Kline, who was not a fluent Spanish speaker, was pressed into service to spin records on the late night shift. In an interview published in The Salinas Californian, Kline made negative comments about the United Farm Workers union that led to secretaries joining the walkout and a retraction of the statements.

Coyle sold ownership stakes in his broadcast interests to R & B Management Services and Robert L. Williams in the 1970s; by 1978, just Williams and Coyle were owners. Williams continued to own KCTY and KRAY, along with later startup KLXM, which were sold as a unit to Z Spanish Radio Network in 1999 for $4.5 million. Most of Z Spanish was purchased by Entravision Communications, but the Central California properties went to Wolfhouse Radio Group Inc., headed by Héctor Villalobos, in 2001 for $5.75 million; the call letters were changed to KDBV. Centro Cristiano Vida Abundante acquired the station in 2004.

The station went silent on August 2, 2022, due to repeated failure of its transmitter. The license was then surrendered on July 6, 2023, and cancelled by the FCC on July 7.

References

External links
FCC Station Search Details: DKDBV (Facility ID: 33755)
FCC History Cards for KDBV (covering 1961-1981 as KCTY)

DBV
Radio stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in California
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in California
Defunct radio stations in the United States
DBV
DBV
Salinas, California
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States


The maskarada  is an itinerant set of traditional dances, theatre acts and parades that takes place annually in different towns and villages across the Basque region of Soule, France (Zuberoa in Basque), during the time of carnival. It is generally referred to in the plural (maskaradak) as it is repeated across the region on the streets of villages (one day per village) over the span of a month or two in late winter through spring. The plays are performed by the villages' (usually younger) inhabitants, and the arrangements for each maskarada are the responsibility of each participating village. Sometimes, when two villages are very small, they will share arrangements together.

Though naturally the actors change from year to year, a friendly air of informality, formed of deep familiarity pervades throughout. The Maskaradak follow variations on very traditional themes that make use of time-honoured sets and age-old, immutable characters. A motley parade of musicians (atabal, ttun-ttun and xirula players), traditional dancers and assorted actors, villagers and visitors walk merrily along a route that meanders up and down the village's streets.

At particular points of the parade, the barrikadak take place, where the marchers stop in front of a stall put there by the villagers, and bestow on them a dance, sometimes even a song, this in exchange for snacks (biscuits, crisps, and the like), and refreshments (wine and liquor), which is then shared with bystanders. The process is repeated over and over, perhaps lasting all day, from early in the morning till afternoon (with a popular lunch somewhere in the middle), until the end of the final performance at the parade terminus – usually the village market place or Basque pelota court.

Maskaradas represent a genuine example of traditional popular carnival theatre struggling to survive, much in step with the modest revival of the Basque language. It's connected to pastoral in many aspects, such as recurrent fixed characters, a marked distinction in the group (e.g. the reds stand for the good, while the blacks represent the evil) or a rigid structuring and development. The language used by the actors remains bilingual Zuberoan Basque, for the most part, and Bearnais, despite some difficulties to hand either language over to new generations.

References

External links
Comprehensive explanation of the souletin mascarade, by the Basque Cultural Institute.
Maskaradak in Auñamendi Entziklopedia. Article in Spanish
Maskarada in the village Altzürükü (2009)

Basque music
Carnivals in France
Masks in Europe
Masquerade ceremonies
Soule
Indigenous music festivals


Midnight blue is a dark blue color.

Midnight blue may also refer to:

 Midnight Blue (TV series), a sexually themed TV show in New York City, hosted by Al Goldstein
 Midnight Blue (cheese) or Aura, a brand of blue cheese made by the Finnish company Valio
 Midnight Blue Belt, a dan rank belt in some Korean martial arts
 Midnight Blue, a 1997 film starring Damian Chapa

Music
 Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album)
 Midnight Blue (Graham Collier album)
 Midnight Blue (Love Streaming), a 2021 single album by B.I
 Midnight Blue (Louise Tucker album)
 "Midnight Blue" (Louise Tucker song)
 "Midnight Blue" (Lou Gramm song)
 "Midnight Blue" (Melissa Manchester song)
 Midnight Blue, an album by Twiggy
 "Midnight Blue", a song by Electric Light Orchestra from Discovery
 "Midnight Blue", a song by Enya, a B-side of the single "Wild Child"
 "Midnight Blue", a song by Alkaline Trio from their 2013 album My Shame Is True
 Midnight Blue, a 1980s melodic rock band featuring vocalist Doogie White


Richard Borg is a game designer who has designed many wargames.  In 2010, he was elected to the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame.

Games that Richard Borg has designed or co-designed include the following:
 Liar's Dice, 1993 Spiel des Jahres winner
2000 Battle Cry (2001 International Gamers Award winner for General Strategy, 2-Player category)
2000 Hera and Zeus (2001 International Gamers Award winner for General Strategy, 2-Player)
2001 Wyatt Earp with Mike Fitzgerald (2001 Meeples' Choice Award)
2004 Memoir '44 (2004 International Gamers Award winner for General Strategy, 2-Player category and The Wargamer 2004 Award for Excellence)
2006 BattleLore (First Edition) (2007 International Gamers Award winner for General Strategy, 2-Player)
2006 Commands & Colors: Ancients (2006 Origins Award winner for Historical Board Game of the Year)
2007 Stonehenge designed with prominent game designers Richard Garfield, Bruno Faidutti, James Ernest, and Mike Selinker.
2010 Commands & Colors: Napoleonics (2012 Games Magazine Best New Historical Simulation Game Winner)
2012 Samurai Battles (2013 Origins Awards, Best Historical Board Game Winner)

Games that he designed with award-winning game designer Alan R. Moon include Warriors, Gracias, and Wongar.

References

External links

Living people
Board game designers
1948 births


Mark Vinci is a saxophone player who has performed, toured, or recorded with Maria Schneider, Joe Lovano, Stefon Harris, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Zoot Sims, Benny Carter, Tommy Flanagan, Clark Terry, Mel Lewis, Michael Feinstein, Joe LaBarbera, and Gene Bertoncini.

Career
As a soloist he has toured Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and the United States where he has performed in such places as "One Step Down" and "The Nest" in Washington, D.C., "Catalina Bar and Grill" in Los Angeles, and "Birdland" in New York City.

Vinci played lead alto with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band conducted by Jon Faddis.  Vinci also played in the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and John Fedchock’s New York Big Band.  Vinci is also a featured soloist for many big bands in the USA and Europe, performing arrangements of his songs and original compositions.

In addition, Vinci is a veteran of Woody Herman and Gerry Mulligan big bands. He has performed at festivals such as North Sea, Kool, Montreaux, Monterey and Nice.

Recording career
Vinci has recorded on many noteworthy record labels, such as Bluenote, Capitol, Concord, Telarc, Sony, and Enja.

Albums
Across Your Dreams (1996, Telarc Records)
As I Think About You (1997, IRIS Records)
Grand Slam (1995, IRIS Records)
Interplay

References

American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Living people
21st-century American saxophonists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)


David Leavitt (born 1961) is an American novelist.

David Leavitt may also refer to:

David Leavitt (banker) (1791–1879), New York City banker for whom Chicago's Leavitt Street is named
David Leavitt (artist) (fl. from 2010), also known as Davey Detail, a member of the CYRCLE collective


Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of children's literature.

Fosdick once remarked that: "Boys don't like fine literature. What they want is adventure, and the more of it you can get in two-hundred-fifty pages of manuscript, the better fellow you are." Fosdick served up a lot of adventure in such popular book series as the Gunboat Series, the Rocky Mountain Series, the Roughing It Series, the Sportsman's Club Series, and The Steel Horse, or the Rambles of a Bicycle.

He was "Uncle Charlie" to famed liberal Baptist minister, Harry Emerson Fosdick, whose writings reflected fondly on the time spent as a boy visiting Fosdick at his home in Westfield, New York.

Fosdick married Sarah Elizabeth Stoddard in 1873, and they spent most of their married life in Westfield. They are buried beside each other in the Westfield Cemetery.

Works Include
 The Gun-boat Series
 “Frank, the Young Naturalist”, 1864
 “Frank on a Gun-boat”, 1864
 “Frank Before Vicksburg”, 1864
 “Frank in the Woods”, 1865
 “Frank on the Lower Mississippi”, 1867
 “Frank on the Prairie”,  1869
 The Rocky Mountain Series
 “Frank in the Mountains”, 1864
 “Frank Among the Rancheros”, 1865
 “Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho”, 1868
 The Boy Trapper Series
 “The Buried Treasure, or, Old Jordan's Haunt”, 1877
 "The Boy Trapper, or, How Dave Filled the Order", 1878
 “The Mail Carrier”, 1879
 The War Series
 “True To His Colors” 1889
 “Rodney The Partisan” 1891
 "Rodney, The Overseer", 1892
 “Marcy The Blockade Runner” 1891
 "Marcy The Refuge"
 "Sailor Jack, The Trader", 1893
 The Houseboat Series
 "The Mystery of Lost River Canyon", 1896
 "The Young Game Warden", 1896
 Roughing It Series
 "George in Camp, or, Life on the Plains", 1868
 “George at the Wheel, or, Life in the Pilot-house”, 1881
 “George at the Fort, or, Life Among the Soldiers”, 1882
 The Sportsmen Club Series
 “The Sportsman's Club: In the Saddle “, 1873
 “The Sportsman's Club Afloat”, 1874
 “The Sportsman's Club Among the Trappers”, 1874
 The Go-Ahead Series
 "No Moss, or, The Career of a Rolling Stone", 1868
 "Go-ahead, or, The Fisher-boy's Motto", 1868
 "Tom Newcombe, or, The Boy of Bad Habits", 1896
 Afloat and Ashore Series
 “A Rebellion in Dixie”, 1897
 "A Sailor in Spite of Himself", 1898?
 Frank Nelson Series
 “Snowed Up, or, The Sportsman’s Club in the Mountains”,  1876
 “Frank Nelson in the Forecastle, or, the Sportsman's Club Among the Whalers”,  1876
 “The Boy Traders, or, The Sportsman Club Among the Boers", 1877
 Rod and Gun Series
 "Don Gordon's Shooting Box", 1883
 “The Young Wild-fowlers”, 1885
 “Rod and Gun Club”, 1883
 Non-series books
 “Elam Storm, The Wolfer, or, The Lost Nugget", 1895
 “Joe Wayring at Home, or, The Adventures of a Fly-rod”, 1886
 "Our Fellows, or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons", 1872
 “The Steel Horse, or, The Rambles of a Bicycle”, 1888
 “A Struggle for a Fortune” 1902
 “Two Ways of Becoming a Hunter” 1892
 “Julian Mortmer, A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune", 1887?
 “Oscar in Africa” 1882, 1894
 “The Camp in the Foot-Hills”, 1893
 “Guy Harris, The Runaway”, 1887
 "A Ten Ton Cutter", 1897
 "Carl the Trailer", 1899
 "The First Capture, or, Hauling Down the Flag of England", 1900?
 "The Haunted Mine", 1915?
 "The Missing Pocketbook, or, Tom Mason's Luck", 1895
 "The Pony Express Rider", 1898?
 "Snagged and Sunk, or, The Adventures of a Canvas Canoe", 1888
 "The White Beaver", 1899?
 "Winged Arrow's Medicine, or, The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny", 1901?
 "The Camp in the Foothills, or, Oscar on Horseback", 1893
 "Five Hundred Days in Rebel Prisons", 1887?

References

External links

American children's writers
1842 births
1915 deaths
People from Randolph, New York
People from Westfield, New York


The following is a list of CDs and DVDs by Blue Man Group. It includes all Blue Man Group limited editions and out-of-print releases.

CD
Albums
Audio (1999) (RIAA: Gold)
The Complex (2003)
Three (2016)

Singles/EPs
Mandelgroove (2000)
Complex Sampler Single (2003)
Current (2003)
The Grinch Sampler CD (2003)
I Feel Love (2004) (Features "I Feel Love" music video)
Chicago Practice (2005)
Boston Roll (2005)
Las Vegas 4 Song Sampler (2005)
Live at the Venetian – Las Vegas (2006)
Last Train to Trancentral (Blue Man Group EP) (2006)
Canta Conmigo (2007) (Deluxe Edition in 2008)
How to Be a Megastar Live! (2008)
Shake Your Euphemism (2012)

DVD
Audio (DVD-Audio format, containing Surround Sound 5.1 mix)
Blue Man Group DVD Premium (Promo 2001 DVD)
The Complex Rock Tour Live (RIAA: 4x Platinum)
Complex 5.1 (Surround Sound 5.1)
Scoring Reel (Scoring DVD from 2004)
Canta Conmigo (5.1 Surround Sound)
Venetian DVD (First show at the Venetian, promotion only)
I Feel Love (Rare Venus Hum DVD Featuring Blue Man Group)
Inside the Tube (from PBS) (Only in 2006)
Instrument Guide (Included in Toyquest Instrument)
Complex Box Set (Box Set of The Complex)
Live in Orlando (Rare sampler DVD of a performance of BMG's Orlando show)
Roof Dwellers Welcome ( Part of a premium welcome package on the Roof Dwellers Blue Man Group site.
How to Be a Megastar Live!

VHS
Audio Video: The Making of Blue Man Group's Debut Album

12" and promotional singles
I Feel Love
The Current
Sing Along
Drumbone
Time to Play

iTunes exclusives
Live at The Venetian – Las Vegas
Last Train to Trancentral (EP)
Rods and Cones

Limited Editions
Sing Along EP featuring Dave Matthews
Las Vegas 4 Song Sampler
Complex Sampler Single
Scoring Reel
Venetian DVD
Inside the Tube
Blue Man Group DVD Premium
Boston Roll
Chicago Practice
Mandelgroove
Orlando Theatre Sampler
Audio Video: The Making of Blue Man Group's Debut Album

Music videos
PVC IV
Mandelgroove
Cat Video
Modern Plumbing
Sing Along
The Current
Exhibit 13
Drum Finale Throwdown
Light Suits
I Feel Love
Rock and Go
Rods and Cones
Canta Conmigo (Original Mix)
Canta Conmigo (Funky Junction)

References

Discographies of American artists
Pop music group discographies


This is a list of the members of the 18th Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland.  These Senators were elected or appointed in 1987, after the 1987 general election and served until the close of poll for the 19th Seanad in 1989.

Composition of the 18th Seanad
There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the Vocational panels, 6 elected by the Universities and 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach.

The following table shows the composition by party when the 18th Seanad first met on 25 April 1987.

List of senators

Changes

See also
Members of the 25th Dáil
Government of the 25th Dáil

References

External links

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Pomme C is the fourth studio album recorded by the French singer and songwriter Calogero. It was released on 12 March 2007 and achieved great success.

All lyrics were written by Zazie, who has already worked with Calogero on previous albums. The music was composed by Calogero, but he was helped by his brother Gioacchino for "Pomme C". The album was recorded in Italy, in Pergolato (Tuscany), in a house. Parts of the recording were also made in Belgium and France.

For him, this album is not that of the maturity nor the continuity of the previous album, 3 : it marked the beginning of a new musical style. The album was released in a simple and a collector editions on March 12, 2007, but also in a slidepack edition on February 27, 2008. The three singles released from this album were only available digitally in France, and as CD singles in Belgium (Wallonia).

Track listing
All writing by Zazie, all music by Calogero except where noted.

1 Hidden track

+ Bonus :
 "Le Saut de l'Ange" (video)

Charts and sales

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2007 albums
Calogero (singer) albums


KWRU (1300 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Fresno, California.  The station broadcasts a Punjabi language radio format of music, news and talk.  It is owned by Punjabi American Media LLC. Most California Sikhs /Punjabi  live in the north and Central Valley, where they've had a presence for more than 100 years. "Central California is probably the most densely populated Sikh/Punjabi community.
KWRU carries the Punjabi Radio USA network, based in San Jose, California and heard in about a dozen West Coast cities.

History
The station first signed on in October 1947.  Through the 1960s and 70s, it was KYNO, a popular Top 40 outlet, owned by Gene Chenault and programmed by Bill Drake, pioneers in the "Boss Radio" sound that sparked Top 40 stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and other cities.

In 1980 the station was sold to Spanish Catholic Radio of Fresno, offering Spanish-language religious programming.

KWRU formerly aired programming from Radio Vida Abundante, a Spanish-language Evangelical Christian network.  The station was owned by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC.  Multicultural Broadcasting, owned by Arthur Liu of New York City, sold the station to Punjabi American Media in September 2016.

References

External links
FCC History Cards for KWRU
Punjabi Radio USA
Punjabi Radio USA Facebook Page

WRU
WRU
Mass media in Fresno, California
Mass media in Fresno County, California
Mass media in Merced County, California
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in California


"Midnight Blue" is a song by American rock singer-songwriter Lou Gramm, issued as a 7" single in the United States in January 1987 by Atlantic Records. It was the lead-off single from Gramm's debut album, Ready or Not, released in February 1987. An extended remix of the song was available as a 12" single.

Reception

In a contemporary review, Cash Box praised the single as being "riveting" and "triumphant."  Bret Adams has described "Midnight Blue" as "a terrific pop/rock song" on AllMusic. He has claimed that "despite its hit status, it's one of the decade's truly underappreciated singles". Stephen Thomas Erlewine, while reviewing the Foreigner retrospective collection Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology (2000), has called the song "the last great single of the album-rock era".

The single peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent five weeks on the top of the Mainstream Rock chart, starting on 14 February 1987. "Midnight Blue" has remained Gramm's highest-charting solo hit to date.

Track listing

Personnel
 Lou Gramm – vocals; producer
 Eddie Martinez – lead guitar
 Bruce Turgon – rhythm guitars
 Stanley Sheldon – bass guitar
 Phil Ashley – keyboards, programming
 Ben Gramm – drums
 Mark Rivera – backing vocals
 Sherryl Marshall – backing vocals
 Cookie Watkins – backing vocals

Technical personnel
 Pat Moran – producer, engineer
 Ted Jensen – mastering engineer (at Sterling Sound, New York)
 Timothy White – cover photography
 Bob Defrin – art direction

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
 List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of 1987

References

1987 debut singles
1987 songs
Atlantic Records singles
Song recordings produced by Pat Moran
Songs written by Bruce Turgon
Songs written by Lou Gramm


The Willing Muse is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Century in August 1907.

Plot summary
Kenneth is leaving the fictional town of Olympia, Ohio and moving to New York City with his bethrothed Bertha. Before leaving for Paris, his friend Philip warns Bertha that Kenneth may not like the hurly-burly that she is trying to impose on him. However, they do get married. Philip comes back sometime later; Bertha has become very successful, whilst Kenneth has stopped writing. Philip is then to go to China for work; Kenneth is sad to hear from Harrison that Olympia is not the quiet town that it used to be, and muses that China must be quiet. Later, as Philip is on his way back to New York from Canton, he reads a letter from Harrison saying Kenneth has disappeared. Back in America, he meets with Harrison and tells him he saw their friend in China. The two men vow not to say it to anybody and remain trustworthy to their friend, who evidently needed to get away.

Characters
Kenneth Gray, a writer. He has written two books, Charles de Montpensier and The Wood of Ronsard
Bertha Torrence, Kenneth's wife, a successful writer.
Harrison, a music critic. He went to college with Kenneth and Philip.
Philip, the narrator, a writer. He went to college with Kenneth and Harrison.

References

External links
Full Text at the Willa Cather Archive

1907 short stories
Short stories by Willa Cather
Works originally published in The Century Magazine


KXBX may refer to:

 KXBX (AM), a radio station (1270 AM) licensed to Lakeport, California, United States
 KXBX-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to Lakeport, California, United States